Re: Who is your ideal candidate for 08?
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As for Giuliani, qoute me the questions he avoided answering.
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I don't know what questions he avoided answering, I didn't watch the debate, I already know who I am voting for. But why does that matter anyways? I thought he doesn't avoid questions or give BS answers?
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And he DID live through the 9/11 attacks, he wasn't just in his office, sipping a cafe late'. He was on the ground, telling people where to go for help - he was being a leader and he helped to inspire us all, that's what a leader is supposed to do. He helped New Yorkers get over that tragedy.
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Again, from wiki:
Some family members of 9/11 victims have openly criticized Giuliani for the significant communication failures that occurred on that day, believing that the lack of working walkie-talkies put the lives of first responders in significant danger. In December 2006, Sally Regenhard, mother of firefighter Christian Regenhard who died on September 11, and co-founder of the Skyscraper Safety Campaign, vowed to expose the truths of Giuliani's actions on 9/11 before 2008, stating, "I can't see why any 9/11 family member who knows the truth about the failures of the Giuliani administration . . . would not be outraged."[116]
By April of 2007 it was reported that Giuliani had been forced to limit his appearances in New York City due to the increasing protests by family members of 9/11 victims, particularly police, fire and other emergency workers.
A May 14, 2007 New York Times article, "Ground Zero Illness Clouding Giuliani's Legacy," gave the interpretation that thousands of workers at Ground Zero have become sick and that "many regard Mr. Giuliani's triumph of leadership as having come with a human cost." The article reported that Giuiliani seized control of the cleanup of Ground Zero, taking control away from experienced federal agencies, such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He instead handed over responsibility to the "largely unknown" city Department of Design and Contruction. Documents indicate that the Giuliani administration never enforced federal requirements requiring the wearing of respirators. Concurrently, the administration threatened companies with dismissal if cleanup work slowed.[124]
Again, how does "living through 9/11 (which what, like 7-8 million people did) make you a "hero" and an expert on foreign policy? Just because he got some good photo ops of him walking around on the streets looking busy when the towers were on fire? Apparently his "heroic" leadership has caused illness and death amoung thousands of his constituents.
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