After spending nearly $60 million to discover that his 9/11 magic carpet just didn't quite have the power to carry him into the White House, ...

Greg, you keep writing like this and I'm apt to go from crush to falling for you - that's beautiful, mang!

Rudy was already a bit confused about some of the distinctions and categories at play here, poor fellow.

Confused, huh? Are you accusing Rudy of being old?!

Joe Biden on Guilani:

"A noun, a verb, and 9/11."

You know, I remember thinking a few years back that a McCain/Giuliani ticket would be unstoppable. Whoops.

Ahh, the smell of GOP desperation.

I don't think any of this 911 hysteria has the same resonance as it did in 2004, or even to a lesser extent 2006. The American public has overwhelmingly rejected the associations between 911 and Iraq and view them as distinctly different issues. Therefore, people don't see a candidate who advocates withdrawal of our forces from Iraq as being weak on the larger question of the GWOT.

In fact, Obama has advocated very, very hawkish positions on the pursuit of Al Qaeda and its senior leadership, up to and including the usurpation of sovereignty of a foreign government if actionable intelligence arises. This is not the cautious John Kerry approach at all, and any emerging connections between Kerry's campaign and Obama's need to be quickly, and thoroughly squelched.

What seems to have been given short shrift lately is the news that Bush has tasked the intelligence services and military with finding Bin Laden and taking him out. This begs the question of what the hell he's being doing for the last seven years regarding our arch nemesis.

Totally OT, but is anyone else pleasantly surprised that Obama's only behind by 12 in KY? I would have guessed he'd be behind by at least 3x that much.

Ah Rudi, you magnificent, perpetually bloated, heaving, fetid gas-bag. Great to have you back! Now suit up, and get in there for Lieberman...

Anybody notice the McFuddle campaign just doesn't want to deal w/ economy, education or other critical issues and Iraq doesn't seem to work for him as well or so I guess they want to go back to 911...McFuddle just looks like he is getting angrier and madder all the time...

Isn't it great when mendacious adulterers team up?

Will the MSM please vet Rudy! and see how his "authority" adds up.

How about Bush at the "ranch", Summer 2001, to the worried CIA agent who warned of AQ's plans to attack:
"OK, you covered your ass. You can go now."
And Rudy's insistence on putting the command center in WTC 7
Now, there's some Sept. 10 thinkin'.

This'll work great for McCain, 'cause everybody loves Rudy! Rudy for McCain VeePee!

The last 7 years have surely shown us that the Republicans have very successful policies - foreign and domestic. I know John Voigt will vote for whoever Rudy favors. But me?

Not so much.

Here is the post 9/11 stupidity that McCain wants to perpetuate:

Militants found recruits among Guantanamo's wrongly detained

JOHN McCAIN HAS A GEORGE W. BUSH MINDSET

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/v-print/story/38779.html

Excerpt: use link to read the full report.

U.S. troops detained him in 2002, although he had no clear ties to the Taliban or al Qaida. By the time Farouq was released from Guantanamo the next year, however — after more than 12 months of what he described as abuse and humiliation at the hands of American soldiers — he'd made connections to high-level militants.

In fact, he'd become a Taliban leader. When the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency released a stack of 20 "most wanted" playing cards in 2006 identifying militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan — with Osama bin Laden at the top — Farouq was 16 cards into the deck.

A McClatchy investigation found that instead of confining terrorists, Guantanamo often produced more of them by rounding up common criminals, conscripts, low-level foot soldiers and men with no allegiance to radical Islam — thus inspiring a deep hatred of the United States in them — and then housing them in cells next to radical Islamists.

The radicals were quick to exploit the flaws in the U.S. detention system.

Soldiers, guards or interrogators at the U.S. bases at Bagram or Kandahar in Afghanistan had abused many of the detainees, and they arrived at Guantanamo enraged at America.

The Taliban and al Qaida leaders in the cells around them were ready to preach their firebrand interpretation of Islam and the need to wage jihad, Islamic holy war, against the West. Guantanamo became a school for jihad, complete with a council of elders who issued fatwas, binding religious instructions, to the other detainees.

Obama Hits Back At McCain!

Obama told reporters that the Republicans have no "standing to suggest that they've learned a lot of lessons from 9-11."

He said they "helped to engineer the distraction of the war in Iraq at a time when we could have pinned down the people who actually committed 9-11." He said Osama bin Laden is still at large in part because of their failed strategies.

link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080617/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_obama_6

Can someone provide a link to the recent poll on Kentucky cited above by CT Voter? I'd be curious to see it myself.

Give Rudy credit. At least he got rid of the Sept. 10 comb-over.

Don't forget Tim McVeigh -- arrested, tried, convicted, executed.

What is the difference between treating something as a law enforcement matter and it being a clear and present danger?

Those 2 things are not mutually exclusive. Seems to me going after terrorists rather than some phantomless war on terror with no identity until an some claims credit for a horrific act, is far more valid.

No different from going after any organized nefarious activity..you go after the players what else is there to do.

Going after those players involves law enforcement so it sounds like Rudy doesn't know wha the hell he is speaking about or either he is being a hypocrite.

As I recall, he treated cleaning up NYC as a legal enforcement activity and it worked! He went after the bums and grafitti artists and folks who were terrorizing the city as a matter of enforcing the law and it worked.

Rudy is blowing smoke.

Note the slippery reference to his fear that "the Democrats want to take a step back to the failed policies that treated terrorism solely as a law enforcement matter rather than a clear and present danger." I'm sorry Rudy, whose policies were those? Bill Clinton's? You mean the Bill Clinton who you guys sneered "Wag the Dog" at when he tried to take out Bin Laden during that critical impeachment for committing the Abominable Crime Against Nature? That would be the Clinton Administration that put together the bombing plan against the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan implemented by GWB after 9/11? Are you referring to the Democrats who decided it was wrong to start a war at the end of an administration and hand it off to the next, but who turned that plan over to Bush with an urgent recommendation he implement it?

Gosh, I'm sure you're not talking about the guy who, when the CIA interrupted his month long vacation at his dude ranch to brief him on the "Bin Ladin Determined to Attack America" memo, churlishly told the briefer "Okay, you've covered your ass now."

You corrupt, fatuous, self-important, self-absorbed, self-aggrandizing walking hemorrhoid.

What a sorry f*&k. Go back to screwing women on NYCs dime.

"Will 2008 be the last 9/11 election...? Maybe not, especially if we are treated to a new, "new Pearl Harbor:"

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/13/9596/

Who could resist the momentum in the fear generated by a new "terror" attack? You?

Large steel framed buildings don't just completely "fall down" after an hour long fire. Once, highly unlikely. Twice, impossible.