GIULIANI WAFFLING ON WOMENS' RIGHT TO CHOOSE
He CLAIMS he is pro-choice, but being a closet right-winger, this
autocratic
hypocrite is preparing to sabotage womens' rights via Supreme Court
appointments if he is elected.
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New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Mario Cuomo, who was supposed to be President once, was talking about the
current presidential race yesterday and how he thinks it will eventually
play
out, in both parties.
"It should be about clarity and solutions and practicality and ideas and
real
vision," he said. "But unfortunately, it will probably come down to the
things it usually does, which means money and charisma and mistakes and
bull---t."
Already there is plenty of everything to go around, starting with the
money
Hillary Clinton has raised, enough to finance the 2007 Yankees. Sen.
Barack
Obama, who gave the best speech any Democrat has given since Cuomo gave
his
keynote address at the 1984 convention in San Francisco, beats everybody
in
the field on charisma, and he has only been in the race since Saturday.
That is when Obama stood up in Springfield, Ill., and looked younger and
more
exciting than anybody running against him, more exciting than anybody to
come
to the game in years.
"Pure, glorious rhetoric," Mario Cuomo said, "about hope and aspiration.
Just
lacking specifics." The former governor of New York laughed then and said,
"Hopefully, those will come later."
So Barack Obama is in now. Hillary Clinton is in. When Rudy Giuliani
finally
joins the race that is another star, and a second from New York, to make
the
next year as interesting as any we have ever had in presidential politics.
But on the same day that Obama made his announcement, there were more
stories
in the newspapers about Giuliani and a stance on abortion that is no
longer
a
stance - that implies something stationary - but rather is turning into a
dance number from "A Chorus Line."
Because when you sift through the nuance of what he is really saying these
days, a man who was once a pro-choice candidate for mayor of New York,
what
he is really saying to the red-state Republican base - and to the insanely
ambitious powerbrokers of the religious right - goes something like this:
"I am in favor of a woman's right to choose but, don't worry, my plan is
to
appoint enough judges to eventually take that right away from them."
So if Mario Cuomo is right, and this really is another race that will come
down to money and charisma and mistakes and bull---t, Giuliani comes out
of
the blocks a huge winner on the last part, before he is even a formal
candidate.
If and when he runs, Giuliani runs on those first few days after Sept. 11,
runs on the sincere hope that people will believe he is the only mayor who
could have brought New York City back, or cleaned up crime in the city the
way he did. He also runs on something else: that he is tougher and more
independent than anybody in the whole world.
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[Note - Giuliani took credit for far more than he personally accomplished.
Crime was dropping nationwide due to changing demographics, better
policing,
and other factors. Giuliani encouraged and defended brutal rogue cops and
Draconian police-state tactics, resulting in the unnecessary deaths and
torture of innocent citizens.]
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But if he comes to this already bowing and scraping in front of the
religious
right, in front of a party where more than 70% of evangelical Christians
voted for George Bush last time, if he is already finding ways to
genuflect
in front of the likes of the Rev. James Dobson, then he is the opposite of
what people giving him these big poll numbers think he is.
Here is Giuliani talking about abortion with Sean Hannity a week and a
half
ago:
"I believe in a woman's right to choose. I think you have to ultimately
not
put a woman in jail for that, and I think ultimately you have to leave
that
to a disagreement of conscience and you have to respect the choice that
somebody makes.
"So what do I say to conservatives, because then, you know, you want to
look
at, well, okay, what can we look to that is similar to the way we think? I
think the appointment of judges that I would make would be very similar
to,
if not exactly the same as, the last two [Supreme Court] judges that were
appointed."
The last part is the code. Giuliani says he is in favor of a woman's right
to
choose. He sup****ts the current law on abortion, which means he sup****ts
Roe
vs. Wade. But only until he can get guys in there and get the law changed.
He
wouldn't last five minutes of a New York campaign trying to fade everybody
this way. You can't run one way because you want to be mayor of New York
and
another when you want to be President.
This was a Republican mayor who wasn't afraid to sup****t Cuomo, a
Democrat,
in a governor's race once, a mayor who thought he was big enough in those
weeks after Sept. 11 to talk about extending his term until the state
Legislature told him to forget it, a mayor always willing to fight with
anybody who got in his way, because he always thought he was right and
everybody else was wrong.
You ask Cuomo now if Giuliani can win and he says, "How can you say he
can't?
He's ahead in most polls already, and that's just for being Rudy."
Those people think he plants his feet and you can't move him. Watch him
move
on abortion these days. If he is going to do this thing, do it right. Not
be
one more guy who rolls over for the religious right. We've got one of
those
in the White House already.
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Though sworn to uphold our Constitution, by the end of 2002 the courts had
found Giuliani in violation of the First Amendment TWENTY SEVEN TIMES.
Mayor
David Dinkins, his predecessor in office, bravely stated that Giuliani is
" -
a bully, mean-spirited, and he rules through fear and intimidation." New
York's previous mayor, Ed Koch, has said that Giuliani " - uses the levers
of
power to punish." Former schools Chancellor Rudy Crew, a one-time pal of
Giuliani, stated: "There's something very deeply pathological about Rudy's
humanity - - He was barren, completely emotionally barren, on the issue of
race." Giuliani's vile racism has even been acknowledged by his successor,
Mayor Bloomberg: "You forget that every single decision [in the Giuliani
administration], everybody, every story, everything was always couched in
terms of race" - quoted in the November 4, 2003 Daily News from Vanity
Fair
magazine.
Among the many hypocrisies and arrogant abuses of power by "mayor
morality"
was the assignment, at taxpayer expense, of several NYPD detectives as
round-the-clock bodyguards for his MISTRESS.
But the tyrant's own words say it best:
" - FREEDOM IS NOT A CONCEPT IN WHICH PEOPLE CAN DO ANYTHING
THEY WANT, BE ANYTHING THEY CAN BE. FREEDOM IS ABOUT AUTHORITY.
FREEDOM IS ABOUT THE WILLINGNESS OF EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING
TO CEDE TO LAWFUL AUTHORITY A GREAT DEAL OF DISCRETION ABOUT
WHAT YOU DO AND HOW YOU DO IT."
- Mayor Giuliani, quoted in the New York Times, March 17, 1994.
"State authority must provide for peace and order, and peace and order in
turn must conversely make possible the existence of state authority.
Within
these two poles all life must now revolve...Ideas of 'freedom,' mostly of
a
misunderstood nature, inject themselves into the state conceptions of
these
circles." - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf.
Berlin, Monday, Aug. 20, 1934 -- Eighty-nine and nine-tenths percent of
the
German voters endorsed in yesterday's plebiscite Chancellor Hitler's
assumption of greater power than has ever been possessed by any other
ruler
in modern times. Nearly 10 per cent indicated their disapproval. The
result
was expected.
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