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FourScore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-08-07 09:30 PM
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American Mob: Bush's Guns, Goons and GHOULiani In The Wings
American Mob: Bush's Guns, Goons and GHOULiani In The Wings
by Linda Milazzo

Life was easy for George W. Bush. Fortunately so. As an unspectacular man, his only gift was his privilege. Without it, he would never have risen to the top. He's no John Edwards, who rose from poverty to a successful law career, and on to the US Senate. He's no Obama, who taught Constitutional Law, and went on to the US Senate. Absent his privilege, life would have been much different for incurious, obsessive, less-than-average George.

Aside from his incurious nature, compulsions and recklessness, what's most sad about Bush is his lack of compassion. He's loyal - but just to his famiglie (families) - his blood family, and the non-blood enablers around him. He's simplistic, self-righteous and rigid. Even in matters of life and death, he lacks an inner-compassionate guide. He's a mobster. A sociopath. He lies, cheats and uses any means to achieve his goals - dismissive of the cost.

As Governor, Bush holds the all time record for executions. In six years, 152 men and women died on his command. As Texas executioner, he was prolific. As America's executioner, he's genocidal. Since becoming president, hundreds of thousands have died on his command. Like any 'capo' (mob head), he merely orders the killing. Consistent with his lifetime, others do it for him. He didn't depress the syringes in Texas. He doesn't depress the triggers in Afghanistan and Iraq. Like every capo (mob head), he just calls the shots. He's the 'capo di tutti capi' (the boss of all bosses) of America's mob - the Bush American government...

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...As the reign of George W. Bush draws to a tragic end, I believe Giuliani is Bush's desired replacement. They are the most alike. Giuliani - or GHOULiani as I prefer to say - has a mobster mentality. He has a capo brain. I know his type quite well. He wasn't a mayor, he was a Don. He's obsessed with power, and decidedly more dangerous than Bush. While some may call him the 9/11 candidate, he is more accurately the tyrannical candidate. While some may say he quashed organized crime in New York, he more accurately used his own crime mentality to subvert an organization that stood in his way. An organization he knew very well.

To put it mildly, Rudolph Giuliani is Michael Corleone in Fredo's body. He's suited for the Baddabing - not for the West Wing. With a Giuliani presidency, the heavy hand of America would bash in the heads of the world. 'Picciotti' would be everywhere. 'Caporegimi' would be everywhere. Bernie Keriks would be everywhere. Every general would kiss his hand. Every Legislator would live in fear. Americans would relinquish their freedoms, and dictatorship would prevail...

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_linda_mi_071008_american_mob_3a_bush_s.htm

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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-08-07 09:32 PM
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1. Well do you think everyone is adequately worn down to a nub, so they
can finish us off?
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-08-07 09:45 PM
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2. A shame to see the Italian Mafia-don stereotype used to bash Rudy.
Plenty of reasons to dislike him, without having to stoop to using his ethnicity against him. No better than if the RW was using "fried-chicken and watermelon" imagery against Obama.
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FourScore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-08-07 10:17 PM
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3. Did you even read the article?
Edited on Mon Oct-08-07 10:22 PM by whereismyparty
Most of the article is about Bush and his administration and comparing that to the mafia. There is not an ounce of italian blood in Bush's body I don't think. The analogy she is making is based on power, not ethnicity. Since Giuliani is the repulican fore-runner, she ends it with him and her same mafia-esque analogy.

She is clearly speaking about the people in power and comparing them to the mafia. Giuliani just happens to one of those in power.

BTW, the author is also Italian-American.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-08-07 10:47 PM
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4. Well, I'm Italian-American too, and I've seen that comparison of Rudy to mobsters
more than a few times--it's too easy to resist, I guess. Just because she's Italian-American, and just because Rudy maybe isn't her main focus in the article, doesn't excuse her. I hate the Mormon bashing that goes on with Romney, too. Too bad a Jew isn't running, or someone could start making greedy banker and lawyer references. It's all wrong, no matter who does it.
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FourScore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-08-07 11:04 PM
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5. You are right that ethnic -bashing is wrong.
No question about that.

I'm gonna say this (although I think you could win this argument hand-down): I still don't think that was what the author was doing, at least not directly. If the fore-runner were Romney and she continued with her mafia analogy on him, would that have been okay?

I have not seen any Rudy-Mafia comparisons, but you are probably right that they are out there. The fact that I haven't seen them doesn't mean anything.

Still, and I'm really just asking...when Chris Rock makes a "black" joke, is that not totally different from someone of another race doing it? Or if the comedian Mencia does a segment on the Mexicans crossing the border (which he once did and was circulated on the internet), isn't that totally different from some white guy living in Boise doing it? I think there is a difference if she is italian-american or not. Just my opinion.

Still, you make a valid point, wienerdoggie. I'm not arguing with you...more pondering the whole thing...
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-08-07 11:18 PM
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6. I think if it's humor, from one member of a race or community poking
(usually) affectionate fun at the rest of the group, it's pretty benign. Comedians are able to use stereotypes for humorous material simply because there usually IS a grain of truth to at least some of them--that's why it's funny in a taboo way, but it's also disarming. Kind of weird for an Italian to perpetuate the Italian/mafia thing on another Italian without at least trying to be humorous or entertaining--she was very serious in her comparison. It's kind of like blacks complaining that Obama doesn't act "black enough" (like Al Sharpton did, a few months back)--why create problems or perpetuate bad connotations within your own ethnicity, even if you're opposed to the candidate in question? I'm not terribly offended or anything by the article, just pointing out how easy it is to slip into stereotypes--journalists, especially, should be more careful.
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