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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)
Mon Apr 30, 2012, 10:28 PM Apr 2012

Romney/Giuliani: Now Who's Politicizing 9/11?

President Obama's been taking a lot of flack -- even from Arianna Huffington! -- for his campaign's new Osama bin Laden anniversary ad, which offers up a Bill Clinton-narrated account of Obama's lonely decision to order SEAL Team 6 in a year ago, and then raises questions about whether Mitt Romney would have done the same.

A statement from two Romney advisors said they were "saddened" to see "the president of the United States politicize that event." Obama's 2008 opponent, John McCain, called it "a cheap political attack ad."

So it seems fair to point out that when it comes to politicizing 9/11 it's hard to beat Rudy Giuliani, who will be at Romney's side on the one-year anniversary of bin Laden's death. Giuliani and the presumptive GOP nominee plan to appear at a plainly political event Tuesday complete with New York firefighters as props. The former New York mayor was justly praised for his leadership on 9/11 and immediately afterwards. But over the ensuing ten years he and his campaign grew so brazen, in political ads and speeches, about referring to his performance that day that the satirical Onion once published an article saying that Giuliani planned "to run for president of 9/11."

http://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2012/04/romneygiuliani-now-whos-politi.php


So how do you expect this dog and pony show endorsement will pan out tomorrow?
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Giuliani and Romney will exclude President Obama's responsibility for OBL's death and place it at GWB's feet
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Romney will claim that it was really Rudy who pulled the trigger on OBL
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Romney and Rudy will say that PBO REALLY wanted to apologize to OBL, but they both forced his hand in killing him
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Rudy and Romney will introduce a living OBL and claim that PBO had lied about killing him
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Rudy will claim that the President wanted America to be attacked so he could kill OBL and use it to get reelected
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Rudy will announce that he's changing his name to "Mr. 9/11"
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Everything that they say will result in gut-busting laughter
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Rudy will claim that killing OBL was actually his call as the former mayor of NYC and not the President's
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A stray dog will piss on the both of them
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Other shit. (Please Explain)
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