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Giuliani Impersonates Hillary, Says Bill Clinton Had Head in the Sand
November 03, 2007 12:13 PM
ABC News' Jan Simmonds reports: With an Elvis impersonator crooning just two floors below him, Rudy Giuliani, R-N.Y., took aim on Friday at both Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Speaking at a town hall in Berlin, New Hampshire, Giuliani first set his sights on Hillary Clinton and used humor to answer a question about Clinton's much analyzed debate response on whether she supported a plan to grant driver's licenses to illegal aliens in New York state.
"Oh gee I can't figure out what to think," said Giuliani satirizing Clinton.
"Don't pick on me by asking that question. That's a gotcha question. Do not pick on me for asking that question. Now let me see what I think…. Let me see… First put up your hands and tell me what you think. Then I'll tell you what I think. Are you for it or against it? Ok, you're not gonna tell me. So I'm for it, for it. I am against it. I'm for it and against it. And I wanna be your president."
After having his fun, the former New York City Mayor got serious.
"Okay, all kidding aside, I am against it," he said. "It's a terrible mistake. You don't give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants."
Giuliani did acknowledge that he at least could respect Barack Obama, D-Ill., who said he supported the license plan.
"I at least respect somebody who answers the question and I watched that debate the other night and Hillary Clinton could not answer the question," Giuliani said. "It was like double talk. This and this and this."
"If you can't take a position on driver's licenses, what the heck are you gonna do about war and peace, and difficult decisions in crisis?" he added returning his attention to the Democratic frontrunner.
Giuliani was not done with the Clintons though. Next to draw the former mayor's ire was the former president, Bill Clinton, whom Giuliani took umbrage with over how he cut the military and intelligence agencies' budgets while he was in the White House.
"What Bill Clinton did to you in the 1990's most Americans don't even know. They don't even know the worst thing that he did," said Giuliani.
"The worst thing that he did was not any of the stuff that got all the attention and sometimes exaggeration and who knows what. The worst thing he did was to cut our military and intelligence budgets. That is the worst thing he did."
Noting that Clinton "slashed" both the agencies' budgets, Giuliani charged that the former president had his "head in the sand."
"And now as I said, I don't pretend that he (Clinton) could predict September the 11th. People are not prophets, even presidents," said Giuliani. "But he did have his head in the sand. He was cutting those military budgets and intelligence budgets while Islamic terrorists were killing Americans."
"Over 500 before September 11th. The first attack on America was not September 11th, it was 1993. And then Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, and then Kenya, and then Tanzania, and then the attack on the USS Cole, to which we didn't even respond. So let's not go back to that."
Ending his Clinton focus, Giuliani noted, "Hillary Clinton really wants to take you in reverse to the 1990's. She thought things were wonderful in the 1990's and there was only one thing missing in the 1990's and it was the socialized medicine she couldn't do for us. So now she wants to take us back to the 1990's and give us the socialized medicine too. Let's not let her do that."
November 3, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (76)
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"cobra towers" ??
I wonder if they were across the street from the Khobar Towers?
Posted by: anon | Nov 3, 2007 1:02:32 PM
Rudy is an %&$! I hope Hillary kicks his butt in the general.
Go Hillary!
Posted by: Mark | Nov 3, 2007 1:41:23 PM
He may be an %&$, but everything he said about the Clintons is true.
Posted by: Linda | Nov 3, 2007 1:53:19 PM
Rudy Gulliani is an idiot. He's done NOTHING to deserve a presidency aside from the fact that he "happened" to be mayor of a large city during a crisis. . His family can't even stand him. If he's the best the GOP can put forth this election, then we'll certainly have a democratic president in 2008.
Posted by: Scott | Nov 3, 2007 2:22:51 PM
So far I have not been impressed by the top tier candidates based on polls, because on the key issues of the day, I find their proposed policies mediocre in thinking and shallow along party politics. They are what I call Neisen Rating candidates. Now they have gone into a phase where they are attacking one another in order to obfuscate.
Posted by: threeriverscrossing | Nov 3, 2007 2:24:00 PM
Guiltyani is great at running other people down, but that's all !
Posted by: kenny | Nov 3, 2007 2:24:06 PM
Don't try to pretend that Hillary didn't bomb in that debate. Maybe she needs some coaching so she can, oh I don't know, give a solid answer on her stance.
Posted by: DisdainLady | Nov 3, 2007 2:29:40 PM
Rudy will destroy Hillary in the general.
Posted by: Scott | Nov 3, 2007 2:35:11 PM
Things people should know about Rudolph Giuliani: A Spanish company, Cintra-Zachry, is already building the North American SuperCorridor highway through the middle of our country, and they're going to get the tolls. Rodolph Giuliani's law firm, Bracewell & Giuliani represents that Spanish company. Another Giuliani business, Giuliani Capitol Advisors was once a partner of Cintra-Zachry, and actually owned the rights to collect tolls from the Indiana and Chicago sections of the SuperCorridor before Giuliani sold that interest recently to an Australian company called Macquarie. Bracewell & Giuliani represents some of the biggest multi-national oil, utility infrastructure and financial corporations both in the U.S. and abroad. With that have come the connections that Giuliani has been able to tap into for campaign donations, essential for his Presidential bid, not only in Texas but nationwide, as he has become the consummate NWO globalist. Particularly unnerving, given Giuliani's personal experience on 9/11, is his defense of open borders at any cost while condoning the NAFTA Superhighway Corridor and by extension the North American Union, without the consent of the U.S. Congress or the will of the American people. We should have seen it coming when Mayor Giuliani enacted Special Order 40 in 1994, ordering NYC law enforcement officers to stop checking the immigration status of suspects caught violating the Law. Vote for a REAL AMERICAN. Vote for Ron Paul.
Posted by: Mike | Nov 3, 2007 2:36:19 PM
This Thompson supporter agrees with Giuliani. There's plenty to mock where the Clinton's are concerned.
Posted by: denn034 | Nov 3, 2007 3:14:46 PM
What a classless idiot. Doesn't he realize the American people are looking for a change from the small-minded, mean-spririted, divisive leadership we currently suffer from? Last November's election should have been a wake-up call, but apparantly Rudy was asleep.
Posted by: miss jane2 | Nov 3, 2007 3:23:47 PM
Notice that everyone calling Rudy an "%$&" is not arguing what he said. They're just mad he said it.
Posted by: Jon King | Nov 3, 2007 3:25:10 PM
THE NEXT TIME A SOMEONE MENTIONS ONE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIATES ABOUT BEING A MEMBER OF CFR(COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS), ELIMINATION THE U.N. ALLIANCE(REMEMBER BUSH BASICALLY TOLD THEM "PISS OFF" BY IGNORING THEIR CONCERNS WITH INVADING IRAQ), ELIMANATING THE FEDERAL RESERVE(DID RON PAUL TELL YOU THEY CREATED TO REGULATE THE BANKING INSTITUTIONS!, SHAME ON HIM!)
AND NAFTA SUPERHIGHWAY CORRIDOR OR WHY 9/11 HAPPENDED IN THE FIRST PLACE AND THEN SAY VOTE FOR RON PAUL! THEN YOU WONDER WHY RON PAUL IS HAVING PROBLEMS CATCHING WITH EVERYBODY ELSE AND YES THAT INCLUDES AMERICANS TOO!
Posted by: James | Nov 3, 2007 3:27:41 PM
What a joke, honestly! There's NO REAL DIFFERENCE between Giuliani and the Clintons -- one look at their respective records on policy and the issues will more than adequately corroborate that fact! Hillary, shut up and go away! And Rudy, try ONCE uttering even the BRIEFEST sentence without the words "nine" and "eleven" in it!
Posted by: TheDreaming1 | Nov 3, 2007 3:29:02 PM
Hillary will never give a straight answer to any question-- Rudy simply called her on it.
Posted by: dks0442 | Nov 3, 2007 4:41:49 PM
Giulani can't even be a good father, disowned by both his adult son and daughter, Now just how would he be a good president ? He's vowed at least not to part with his wife in front of God, his priest who married him, and his wife. He broke those Vows at least 3 times we know of. This serial adulterer somehow makes a good president ??? This is the best GOP hypocrites have to offer ? God bless America !!!
Posted by: art funk | Nov 3, 2007 4:51:47 PM
any of the democrats will blast giuliani in the general election... he's bush II (the sequel)... i have heard him talk many times and know none of his policies
Posted by: earthnotflat | Nov 3, 2007 5:02:21 PM
When the Democrats feel threatened they resort to name calling and lame excuses to justify their socialist neo-hippie agenda. Really, speaking as an ex-democrat, the adolescent agruments from the left are truly pathetic and hypocritical.
Posted by: Tobias2012 | Nov 3, 2007 5:16:39 PM
The Demo shills are mobilized and out in force with 500 word responses.
Hillary holds no positions on things until she has tested the waters. There is no backbone to the woman.
Posted by: Gordon Clarke | Nov 3, 2007 5:58:15 PM
Hillary takes us back not just through the 90's, but back a hundred years when women typically resolved themselves to being trapped in a marriage to a philandering husband in order to maintain their position in life. She is not a role model today.
Posted by: polly | Nov 3, 2007 6:06:37 PM
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