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2007-10-17 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tipper 2007-10-17 10:55|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Nothing I haven't heard before.
Tough weekend, Mo? Decide to mail one in?

Posted by tu3031 2007-10-17 11:19|| 2007-10-17 11:19|| Front Page Top

#2 I wish the headline read: Thompson roughs up Arabs. Not to be.

I was reading Jim Geraghty's "Campaign Spot" over at NR. Geraghty was reporting on Thompson's appearance before the same group (Repub. Jewish Coalition). I gleam Thompson was not overly inspiring.

Thompson did make mention of the "terror masters" in Damascus and Tehran (very good), but spoke of "friendly Arab states" (huh?). A lady in the audience called him on that point: name some, she asked.

Thompson responded by naming Jordan. And then mentioned Saudi Arabia. Thompson advised we have "significant difficulties" with SA (true), the USA and SA are "interdependent" (true), but that SA "is NOT an enemy" (false).

I'd like to have seen Thompson at least mention the SA financed spread of Whahabbi ideology and funding of terrorists like AQ.

I'm not an advisor to Thompson but I'd like to see the phrase "friendly Abrab states" dropped from his vocabulary. Use the term islamo-fascism more often, provide a program to undermine the spread of Whahabbism and state for the record that on his watch Iran will not be permitted to get a nuke.

Posted by Mark Z">Mark Z 2007-10-17 12:04|| 2007-10-17 12:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Back before TimesSelect put MoDo behind a firewall where she belongs, there was a kerfuffle about MoDo editing quotes to change their meaning, a maneuver that came to be known as "Dowdification." "Best of the Web" had a running item called "Eponymous Dowdification" in which readers Dowdified Dowd.

Now that TimesSelect has fallen--alas!--the field is open for Dowd to be dowdified again. Here's my attempt:

I dont know if youve noticed this about the Democratic debates, . . . but . . . They . . . want to offend . . . America.

I watched . . . Obama . . . put his cellphone on vibrate.

Posted by Mike 2007-10-17 12:15|| 2007-10-17 12:15|| Front Page Top

#4 But Rudy seems out of the Republican mainstream on even giving lip-service to Palestinian aspirations. He has no patience for buttering up the Arabs, or the Republican mens club attitude represented by Saudi-loving Bush senior and James Baker that has always favored a more even-handed policy in the Middle East.

Even though he has been closer to Israel than his dad, at least W. held the Saudi crown princes hand in Crawford...Rudy would probably only take the hand of an Arab leader to throw him down a ravine, or a wadi.

Actually, if I was running the Rudy campaign, I'd print up flyers and post quotations from this screed on the official website. ~~BoZo~~ ~~DoDo~~ MoDo and the rest of her fifth-column media colleagues are too arrogant and stupid to realize that the things they loathe about Rudy (or anybody else to the right of Fidel Castro, for that matter) are what those of us who live and work out here in the real "reality-based community" admire the most.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2007-10-17 14:43|| 2007-10-17 14:43|| Front Page Top

#5 I dont know if youve noticed this about the Democratic debates, Rudy Giuliani said, but they never use the word Islamic terrorist. Ever.

KAPOW! Right in the chops. Good shot, Rudy. Our political elite's abject refusal to name the enemy is nothing but betrayal and treason of the American people.

The Freedom Centers terrorism awareness program is urging college students to stage sit-ins outside the offices of womens studies departments to protest the silence of feminists over the oppression of women in Islam and to distribute pamphlets on Islamo-Fascism. Their titles include The Islamic Mein Kampf, Why Israel is the Victim and Jimmy Carters War Against the Jews.

One stirred hornet's nest, coming right up! Fit hits shan, tape at 11:00.

I understand when I say Islamic terrorism, Im not offending all of Islam. Im not offending all of the Arab world.

Wrongo, Rudy old boy. You are "offending all of the Arab world" and they desperately need it. Those who are not offended are not "true" Muslims. No actual Muslim would countenance their jihadist struggle being called "terrorism". The simple fact remains that Islam is terrorism and terrorism is Islam. Period.

We need to isolate the terror-funding theocrats in every way possible, he told the Jewish hawks, during a rant on Iran. And we must end direct and indirect investment until they change their course.

WOW! An American politician actually said that? Actually identified Islamic theocracy as the vile bullshit it truly is? That one stance alone cancels out a huge number of other character flaws right then and there.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-17 15:10|| 2007-10-17 15:10|| Front Page Top

#6 I understand when I say Islamic terrorism, Im not offending all of Islam. Im not offending all of the Arab world. Im offending exactly who I want to offend and making it clear to them that we stand against them.

Rudy, I think you are pissing them all off. You piss one off and you piss them all off. They are always pissed off. that's their nature. Don't worry about it. It's O.K. Screw P.C. It is one of the worst things to plague the West.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-10-17 18:42|| 2007-10-17 18:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Welcome to Rudy's world, guys. I've been pushing Rudy for years because he is first, right, and in your face. He treats American voters like people, and illegals and enemies and phalking liberals like phalking illegal enemies.
Rudy's world is black and white. A few months ago Rudy was quoted as saying that illegal aliens have not committed a crime. Apparently, it is not a crime to cross the border. It's that simple. Using someone else's SS # ? A crime. Driving without a license ? A crime. Using a false identity ? A crime. But walking around Arizona looking for a drink of water is acceptable.
Just go home before dark.

Posted by wxjames 2007-10-17 19:01|| 2007-10-17 19:01|| Front Page Top

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