From The New York Daily News, 10/7/07:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/10/07/2007-10-07_no_matter_what_the_question_is_rudy_says.html
No matter what the question is, Rudy says 9/11
BY HELEN KENNEDY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
For Rudy Giuliani, 9/11 is the answer.
To almost anything, it seems.
After all, it's why America fell in love with him on that darkest of
days, when the mayor was the only person on TV reassuring the nation.
It's why he's the Republican front-runner for President.
"For me, every day is an anniversary of Sept. 11," he said in Florida
last month.
Giuliani wastes no opportunity to bring up 9/11 on the campaign trail.
Sometimes, it looks like a stretch.
Here is "Jeopardy, the Giuliani Edition," where 9/11 is always the
answer, but the questions may surprise you:
WHY DID YOU FLIP ON GUN CONTROL?
"There are some major intervening events - Sept. 11 - which cast
somewhat of a different light on the Second Amendment."
- Giuliani's September speech to the NRA
WHY DID YOU INTERRUPT THAT SPEECH TO TAKE A CALL FROM JUDI?
"Since Sept. 11, most of the time when we get on a plane we talk to
each other and just reaffirm the fact that we love each other"
- September interview with CBN News
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF BUILDING A FENCE ON THE BORDER?
"I support security at the borders. I think security is enormously
important in the post-Sept. 11 period. I think we have to know who's
coming into this country."
February interview with Fox News
WHAT'S WITH THAT FLAG ON YOUR LAPEL?
"Each time I wear it, it reminds me of Sept. 11."
- July rally in Wilmington, Del.
SHOULD THERE BE FEDERAL FUNDING FOR AIDS DRUGS?
"I don't want to promise you the federal government will take over the
role. My general experience has been that the federal government works
best when it helps and assists and encourages and sets guidelines on a
state-by-state, locality-by-locality basis. It's no different from the
way I look at homeland security. Maybe having been mayor of the city,
I know that your first defense against terrorist attack is that local
police station, or that local firehouse."
- July rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
ARE YOU RELIGIOUS?
"I need God's help for everything, and I probably feel that the most
when I'm in crisis and under pressure, like Sept. 11, when I was
dealing with prostate cancer, or when I'm trying to explain death to
people."
- September interview with CBN News.
HOW ABOUT THOSE DEMOCRATS?
"They do not seem to get the fact that there are people - terrorists
in this world, really dangerous people - that want to come here and
kill us. That in fact they did come here and kill us."
- May interview with Fox News
SO, UM, WHAT ABOUT YOUR MESSY PERSONAL LIFE?
"You can judge me on my public record. I've had a long one. I've had
an intense one. I've been under enormous pressure, took over a city
that was the crime capital of America, had to handle the city at the
very end, when it was part of the worst attack on America."
- May interview with Fox News
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZT WRONG!
$9.11 was the answer a couple of Giuliani volunteers in California
came up with as a suggested contribution for a fund- raising party.
Giuliani said, "I think they made a mistake."
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Makes one stop and think, doesn't it. Where would Gouliani be if he
didn't have 9/11 to kick around?
Harry
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