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In Contempt (11/6/07): Giuliani on Waterboarding

November 6th, 2007 (12:17 am)
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Today I go back to picking on Giuliani. When it comes to loathsome, craven jackasses, the Republican field is truly an embarrassment of riches, but Rudy and Mitt "Double Guantanamo" Romney lead the pack.

Admittedly, like other easily-duped leftoids, I have a soft spot for John McCain. He has a sense of humor. He's on the record against torture - in fact, without the equivocations of a current Democratic frontrunner. He trusts the scientific validity of evolution*. He has co-sponsored cap-and-trade legislation to reduce pollution, a plan popular among the three top Democratic contenders for President. He lent his name to well-intentioned, if practically ignored campaign finance reform. He supports stem-cell research. He fights to reduce wasteful military spending... er, except for that trillion dollar sinkhole in the Middle East.

Which brings me to the reason I could never support the dude. Baghdad market square gaffes aside, the Senator gets mad eye loony on the subject of Iran. He drank some neocon kool aid and still hasn't come down. Plus he'd slash and burn social spending, appoint more activist conservative judges and padlock abortion clinics.

Okay, three more reasons. Still, politically he's only slightly to the right of Senator Clinton. Which says more about her than about him, I reckon.

*Yes, it's pathetic to even list that as a brownie point.

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Posted by: ((Anonymous))
Posted at: November 6th, 2007 09:52 am (UTC)
Rojo sez:

Not to question your cartoonist's prerogatives, but representationally speaking, I would have shoved a fucking ragged broken broomstick up his rectum... And then maybe shot him, 41 times.

Having grown up just outside of NYC during the Giuliani tenure, I can say that he's the scariest possibility for Prez I can imagine (and I'm no fan of the leading Dems).

The fact that he's actually running, rather successfully, on the brutality of the NYC police dept. is a sad statement on the state of the nation.

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Posted by: ((Anonymous))
Posted at: November 6th, 2007 10:03 am (UTC)
Rojo also sez:

I'm also curious as to your claim that "he fights to reduce wasteful military spending." He, of course, has never been in any official position to do such, but I'm not even aware of when he has rhetorically done so. Are we talking Rumsfeldian technology-based, leaner, meaner imperialism (e.g. the "Revolution in Military Affairs")--'cuz we all know how well that's turned out--or something else?

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Posted by: mooreroom ([info]nevikmoore)
Posted at: November 6th, 2007 04:28 pm (UTC)
Re: Rojo also sez:

I have seen McCain in interviews, especially during his first run for Prez, criticize wasteful Pentagon spending on unnecessary equipment and weapons.

About the Rumsfeldian leaner military, I am not sure what his opinions were. McCain was very critical of Rumsfeld during the early years of the war and had argued that there were not enough troops or planning for the post-invasion scenario - which suggests to me that McCain may not be a fan of a "leaner, meaner" military. I have read of few military folks, active or inactive like McCain, who do.

Granted, we shouldn't have invaded at all, and the argument about troop deployments seems pretty moot to me.

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Posted by: ((Anonymous))
Posted at: November 6th, 2007 04:37 pm (UTC)
Rojo misread

Oh, I misread. For some reason, probably because I read the post somewhat into my cups last night, I thought you meant Giuliani was against wasteful military spending. That just struck me as totally off the wall.

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Posted by: Walkings ([info]unrendered)
Posted at: November 6th, 2007 03:58 pm (UTC)
 laugh

I was just talking to some folks about Guiliani, and how we had hoped he would become the republican nominee because then the Dems would win without trouble.

But then how we realized that he might actually win, and how badly bad bad that would be.

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Posted by: ((Anonymous))
Posted at: November 6th, 2007 05:43 pm (UTC)
Rojo sez:

My father told me that he wished the same about Reagan once upon a time...

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