Two weeks ago Rudy Giuliani told Barbara Walters that if he became
president, his wife Judith would sit in on cabinet meetings.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/29/politics/main2625228.shtml?source=RSSattr=Politics_2625228

The next day, he "clarified" his position, releasing a statement which
according to the Associated Press "sought to play down his own remarks
and suggested any discussion of a policy role for his wife was merely
prompted by Walters' questioning."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Giuliani-Wife.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

And then Rudy got snippy.
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_092170628.html


The former New York City mayor is fending off increased media scrutiny
of his third wife -- the former Judith Nathan.

Rudy is now asking the media to back off.

"Attack me all you want," Giuliani said.

"There's plenty to attack me about. Please do it. But maybe, you know,
show a little decency."


Oh, don't worry Rudy - we'll attack you all we want.

But as for showing a little decency, well, perhaps Mrs. Giuliani could
have showed a little decency when her job involved demonstrating
surgical staplers on live dogs.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04022007/news/regionalnews/judis_job_with__pup_killer_firm_regionalnews_dan_mangan.htm

What do you think?


Judith Giuliani once demonstrated surgical products for a
controversial medical-supply company that used dogs - which were later
killed - in operations whose only purpose was to sell equipment to
doctors, The Post has learned.

"It was a horribly cruel, outrageous program," Friends of Animals
President Priscilla Feral said about the demonstrations of medical
staplers on dogs conducted by U.S. Surgical Corp. employees during
Giuliani's tenure there in the late 1970s.

Feral said U.S. Surgical's demonstrations on hundreds of dogs each
year through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s were done to boost sales, not
for medical research or testing.

The dogs were "either put to death following the sales demonstrations
because they can't re cover from them, or they die during them," Feral
said.


Incidentally, it appears that a history of killing dogs appears to be
something of a prerequisite for those participating in GOP
presidential campaigns this year.

In a somewhat related story, it was revealed last week that John
McCain has hired Fred Malek to be his national finance co-chair.

Malek's resume includes advising Scooter Libby,
http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/000808.html counting Jews
for Richard Nixon,
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?bid=3&pid=181707 and, er,
killing, skinning, gutting and barbecuing a stray dog on a spit.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/10/AR2006031001843.html

I'm not kidding.


By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/

Harry