This year, at the annual 9/11 commemoration ceremony in New York City, former Mayor Rudy Guiliani is scheduled to speak. Some people though are very unhappy about this:
-“I think it’s disgraceful that he’s going to be there,” said James Riches, a deputy fire chief who lost his son Jimmy in the attacks, and who said that he faulted Mr. Giuliani as not giving firefighters the proper equipment before or after the attacks. “It’s a photo-op for him.”
-Sally Regenhard, whose son, Christian, a firefighter, was killed in the World Trade Center attack, said: “I’m still very shocked and I’m very, very upset, for two reasons. Number one, the majority of firefighters and their families have made it clear how they feel about Mayor Giuliani. The second reason is that it’s totally unorthodox to have someone running for major elected office in the United States to have a forum like this.”
I must agree with the above sentiments. Rudy Guiliani has no place reading at the ceremonies. It is indeed nothing but a photo-op for him, a chance for him to make people remember his supposed heroic efforts on 9/11. Firefighters and policeman do not want the former mayor there. They were there on 9/11 and say Guiliani had left the FDNY and NYPD completely un-prepared for such an event. They also criticize his recovery efforts, stating that Guiliani used the tragedy to further his political career. The most disturbing piece of information that the firefighters present is the fact that Rudy called off the search for the remains of their lost friends as soon as he had found a vault with silver and gold in it that he had been looking for. Coincidence?....one would think not. Perhaps my favorite quote about Guiliani's "legacy" is when a New Yorker was asked by a conservative radio personality: "do you support Rudy Guiliani for president?" The man responded "no." He was then asked, "Why not, you're a New Yorker, you know what he did on 9/11" In reply, the New Yorker said, "Thats exactly why I don't support him, I am a New Yorker, I know what really happened"
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Larry Craig: A new day, a new scandal....for the GOP
Larry Craig is a Republican Senator from Idaho and like Mark Foley, David Vitter, and others, Craig exemplifies the hypocrisy of the Republican Party. Craig, an outspoken critic of gay rights, had voted against civil unions for homosexuals, against gays serving in the military, against a bill that would stop discrimination against gays in the workplace. He has run on high moral values and preaches the conservative issues, even going as far as calling President Clinton, "a naughty boy" in 1999:
"Bad boy Bill Clinton, your a naughty boy, the American people already know Bill Clinton is a bad boy, a naughty boy, I speak for the people of my state who probably even think Bill Clinton is a nasty, bad, naughty boy".
Wow, I must admit that statement is the gayest thing in politics I have ever heard, but in all seriousness, if your wondering what hypocrisy on Larry Craig's part I'm referring to, its the fact that he plead guilty to "lewd conduct" in a men's restroom in a Minneapolis airport. Here's a report from an undercover policeman who was in the stall in the bathroom trying to catch people like Sen. Craig, as the bathroom is apparently a public place where homosexuals go for homosexual activity:
"At 1216 hours, Craig tapped his right foot. I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct. Craig tapped his toes several times and moves his foot closer to my foot.... The presence of others did not seem to deter Craig as he moved his right foot so that it touched the side of my left foot which was within my stall area. Craig then proceeded to swipe his hand under the stall divider several times." Craig then handed the undercover officer his business card and said, "What do you think about that?"
As I stated, Craig plead guilty to disorderly conduct, but now says that all this was a lie, a misunderstanding, and he blames, get this, gay people and the newspaper that broke the story, The Idaho Statesman. My only question is can hypocrisy go any further for the Republican Party? Craig is the second man this summer, after Republican Louisiana Senator David Vitter, to be involved in a sex scandal. While I do believe what is a person's personal life, should stay a private, when someone runs a campaign on his conservative values, in this case that involves being anti-gay, that candidate brings his private life into the public. If your going to run on your conservative family values, fine, but then you need to show that you embody those values. I'm hoping that Americans are realizing that the Republicans are not the good, ethical, squeaky clean, family value candidates they portray themselves to be. They are hypocrites who lie to the public to get elected and hopefully in '08, America will send them a message loud and clear and not re-elect them----showing them that no politician is going to get away with lying anymore!
"Bad boy Bill Clinton, your a naughty boy, the American people already know Bill Clinton is a bad boy, a naughty boy, I speak for the people of my state who probably even think Bill Clinton is a nasty, bad, naughty boy".
Wow, I must admit that statement is the gayest thing in politics I have ever heard, but in all seriousness, if your wondering what hypocrisy on Larry Craig's part I'm referring to, its the fact that he plead guilty to "lewd conduct" in a men's restroom in a Minneapolis airport. Here's a report from an undercover policeman who was in the stall in the bathroom trying to catch people like Sen. Craig, as the bathroom is apparently a public place where homosexuals go for homosexual activity:
"At 1216 hours, Craig tapped his right foot. I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct. Craig tapped his toes several times and moves his foot closer to my foot.... The presence of others did not seem to deter Craig as he moved his right foot so that it touched the side of my left foot which was within my stall area. Craig then proceeded to swipe his hand under the stall divider several times." Craig then handed the undercover officer his business card and said, "What do you think about that?"
As I stated, Craig plead guilty to disorderly conduct, but now says that all this was a lie, a misunderstanding, and he blames, get this, gay people and the newspaper that broke the story, The Idaho Statesman. My only question is can hypocrisy go any further for the Republican Party? Craig is the second man this summer, after Republican Louisiana Senator David Vitter, to be involved in a sex scandal. While I do believe what is a person's personal life, should stay a private, when someone runs a campaign on his conservative values, in this case that involves being anti-gay, that candidate brings his private life into the public. If your going to run on your conservative family values, fine, but then you need to show that you embody those values. I'm hoping that Americans are realizing that the Republicans are not the good, ethical, squeaky clean, family value candidates they portray themselves to be. They are hypocrites who lie to the public to get elected and hopefully in '08, America will send them a message loud and clear and not re-elect them----showing them that no politician is going to get away with lying anymore!
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