"Rudy showed something magical on 9/11." —Chris Matthews

[Placebo]

"Isn't that the kind of person we want as president in 2008?"

:puke:

[goclark]

1. Yep, Tweety's off his meds again nt

[eShirl]

2. Chris got a new Man Crush

it'd be awwww cute if it were anyone else

[Kurovski]

11. Rudy is "magically delicious."

[DemBones DemBones]

31. Please tell me Tweety didn't actually use those words about Rudy.

I don't want to :puke:

[Kurovski]

35. Hehe. No. I'm quoting the leprechaun who shills for that cereal

which can also make one puke.

It's too early in Tweety's relationship with Rudy to have tasted him yet.

[Cosmocat]

43. WHAT is with him ...

and this ... As noted, the man crush on Bushco, now on Guiliani ...

[Dover]

3. Yeah...look at all the MIHOP evidence he helped to make disappear! n/t

[blm]

15. Bingo.

.

[Flarney]

17. We must move forward, not look back at silly things like "physical evidence"

sike... how they got away with removal and destruction of crime scene evidence like that I will never know...from the "crime of the century," and done right under our noses, no less.

I always wonder about the possible or probable link between their seemingly irrational desire to destroy the evidence quickly and the fact that they declared the (cancerous) air at ground zero safe to breath so quickly after 911.

Giuliani stinks.

[maxsolomon]

4. um, NO

not much "magic" in someone doing their job.

[Webster Green]

5. Did Tweety happen to mention what it was?

I'm curious now.:eyes:

[PresidentObama]

6. Matthews isn't worth listening too.

:puke:

[mtnsnake]

7. Rudy is one of the most overrated potential presidential candidates ever.

It's borderline disgusting how he got cannonized just for doing his job....as if no other mayor would've held his city together after the 9/11 attacks. Plenty of mayors would've responded just as well or better as that arrogant asshole.

[grytpype]

8. We are all SICK of 9/11!

We are ready to move on. We've had a 9/11 president since 9/11, and we're absolutely sick of it.

[ClassWarrior]

9. He could get arrested if he did that in Times Square.

:rofl:

NGU.

[oldtime dfl_er]

10. repeat after me...

We want a reality-based president. Not faith-based, not magic-based. Reality based. Thank you.

[kenny blankenship]

12. the ability to grandstand and prevent professionals from doing their jobs?

[redqueen]

13. aahaahahahaahahahahah!

is he kidding?!

:rofl:

[PresidentObama]

14. Unfortunately he isn't.

:crazy:

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Define "magical" and then how it applies to St. Rudy. n/t

[PresidentObama]

18. Maybe he can pull rabbits out of his hat n/t

[Hekate]

37. Rabbits out of his what?!

:rofl:


Hekate

[berner59]

22. There is no way he'd be elected...

No one wants a Prez with a lisp...but then who would of thought a Prez with no brain could win?

The repubs have a bad line-up...and they know it...

[AndyTiedye]

27. Really? What Democrat Can Beat Him?

[ccpup]

19. when I think of 9/11

(and, living in Greenwich Village, I was within breathing distance of the noxious fumes and the hordes of dazed, dusty people stumbling away from downtown), I think of Rudy running like a girl down the street, a look of sheer terror on his face. And I want that for President?

[AX10]

20. He handled a press conference. That's all.

Look DUer's, get out of your delusional state. Chuck Hagel may oppose the War, but he is still a right wing Repug and Chris Matthews is still a Republican at heart, who doesn't like women and loves tax cuts.

[patrice]

21. Just what this country needs: more Magical Thinking.

Just keep on believing and It will come true.

And if It doesn't come true, it's because you don't believe strongly enough. Failure is your fault, because you are weak.

[rurallib]

23. When Rudy says "Pull" a building it disappears --- MAGIC!

[zulchzulu]

24. Some nice dirt on Rudy and the 911 Myth

http://dailygotham.com/blog/paul/giulianis_9_11_myth_begins_to_take_on_water

...and...

http://dailygotham.com/blog/paul/swiftboating_rudy_guiliani

...and...

http://www.skyscrapersafety.org/html/article_20040520.html

On September 10, 2001, Rudy was pretty much in the tank with bad poll numbers....

[Catherine Vincent]

25. And what was that, Chris?

No magicians please!

[Connie_Corleone]

26. What the hell did he do but what he's supposed to do as mayor?!

He walked around. He gave press conferences and updates. He tried to calm the city. He was visible when idiot boy was running away on Air Force One.

Isn't that what a mayor is supposed to do?

What's the big deal?

[hatrack]

28. Uh, no, Tweety, he didn't. He stuck around and did his job . . .

But of course, given the low standards set for "professional responsibility" that day by the Littlest President, it's not like there was a huge hurdle for him to clear.

[VOX]

29. Yes, magic! Rudy "disappeared" his comb-over with that FDNY cap! (n/t)

[oasis]

30. lol

good one. :rofl:

[Dinger]

32. Put Your Guesses Here As To What That "Something Special" Was:

His thingie?
His 9-11 butt tatoo?
His . . .

[TankLV]

33. No - he just did is BASIC job - which is more to say about the OTHER repukes than him...

he did NOTHING remarkable. Period.

He did his job. Nothing more, but nothing less, for a change...

[DemBones DemBones]

34. As mayor of New York, it would have been

helpful if he'd had the common sense to ask himself "Is it healthy for people to be breathing in all this stuff? Shouldn't all the workers at Ground Zero wear masks? Shouldn't we evacuate people who live in the area?"

You don't have to be a health professional to know that breathing in air you can see is not good for you, that inhaling smoke is not good for you, etc. I can see not thinking about this on 9/11 and for a couple of days after, but it should have occurred to Rudy after the initial shock.

A week or two ago, I saw on the news that a firefighter had died as a result of his exposure at Ground Zero. I'm afraid there will be many more deaths associated with 9/11.

We now know the EPA was told to STFU about the lousy air quality so people wouldn't panic, and that's criminal. But if Rudy were a real hero he'd have found out the truth and told it and protected his people.

[Hekate]

36. Oh, Tweety, you've got a crush on a pol again. Rudy only did what * should have done

It wasn't so much "magical" as it was astonishing by comparison with the absent Cowardly Lyin'.

Tweety genuinely makes me laugh sometimes -- he's cute when he twitters that way at politicians he admires.

Hekate

[HuffleClaw]

38. he's at least half right

rudy did do a stellar job on 911 however the same cannot be said for the rest of his political career.

[Coaster City]

39. He did make his connections to Bernard Kerik disappear

Do a google search on Bernard Kerik. Rudy made this guy. Father of Frankenstein bears no burden?

[xxqqqzme]

40. I heard someone say, after rudy announced

BFD - he did what any mayor would have done if their city had been attacked.

[Placebo]

42. yup

since when is just doing your job (and not really all that well it turns out in retrospect) "magical"?

[Doctor_J]

41. Tweety said the same thing about Smirk

how's that going?

[demo dutch]

44. Let's just wait until his ex-wives start talking!! If it's Rudy vs Hilary

both sides will turn it into a mud bath!

[Lefty48197]

45. Just what exactly DID Rudy do post-9/11 that was so heroic?

For years, I've been listening to Republicans tell me what a great hero he was. What the hell did he do? Walk around the rubble and shake his fists at al Qaeda?

[zanne]

46. Rudy just happened to be there on 9/11.

Joe Schmoe with a bullhorn could've shown something "magical" at that time.

[Disturbed]

48. American love heroes so they create them and then

tear them down real soon afterwards.

[saltpoint]

47. Yep. He showed that a man with prostate cancer can stand on a heap of

rubble and scream platitudes through a bullhorn.

I'm no fan of da mayor and I like him less with each passing day.