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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani charted this morning on CNN that President "ignored national security" in his State of the Union address last night.

Giuliani (R) said Obama "didn't talk about the Christmas almost-bomber," even though Obama did. He said the president didn't use the word "Islamic terrorism," though Obama used the word "terrorist" twice and "terrorism" once.

Giuliani's interpretation of the amount of time devoted to national security may be accurate - the economy took up two-thirds of the speech - but Obama definitely mentioned it. (Here's a flashback to Giuliani saying earlier this month that the nation had no terrorist attacking during the George W. Bush presidency.)

Today Giuliani said Obama's lack of security talk was comparable to Franklin Roosevelt giving a State of the Union during World War II "not mentioning Nazism and not mentioning the war."

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January 28, 2010 11:00 AM   

giuliani aka Mr. 9/11, your 15 minutes are over.

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January 28, 2010 11:03 AM   

This just in, Rudy Giuliani convinced that Rudy Giuliani doesn't exist because President Obama isn't talking about him.

TheWeekinRebuke.com

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January 28, 2010 11:06 AM   

Giuliani blows everything. Especially the big GOP elephant weenie.

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January 28, 2010 11:07 AM   

He didn't mention Elmer Fudd, either. Shut up, Rudy.

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January 28, 2010 11:09 AM    in reply to Sailormarlowe

Wait a second. Did I just agree with Sailormarlowe?

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January 28, 2010 11:42 AM    in reply to Sailormarlowe

And Elmer's on my teevee everyday anymore.

Is Obama tonedeaf to the concerns of Animated Americans?

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January 28, 2010 12:06 PM    in reply to howie

Okay, you owe me a new monitor and a bottle of Lysol cleaner to tackle these coffee stains....

Good one!

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January 28, 2010 11:12 AM   

The Republicans had a HOLD ON THE TSA NOMINEE FOR MONTHS YET TEY TALK ABOUT BEING CONCERNED ABOUT OUR SECURITY WHEN THE VERY PERON WHO WAS TO HEAD UP TAS WAS BLOCKED

FINALL TWO DAYS AGO THE GUY REMOVED HIS NAME FROM THE LIST BECAUSE OF THE "REPULICANS PLAYING POLITICS WITH HIS NOMINATION"

IF THEY WERE SO CONCERNED ABOUT THE UNDERWARE BOMER WHY WOULDN'T THEY LET THE TAS NOMINEE, THE VERY PERSON WHO WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR OVERALL AIRPORT SECURITY IN THE U.S. NOMINATION UP FOR A VOTE

REPUBLICANS SAID THAT THE WERE HOLDNG IT UP BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THE NOMINEE WOULD LET THE TSA BECOME PART OF A UNION AND THEY DIDN'T WANT THAT, ?


ARE YOU KIDDING ME?????


SO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY CHOSE UNION CONCERN OVER OUR SECURITY

SO EVERY TIME THEY SAY SECURITY EVERY DEMOCRAT AND AMERICAN CITIZEN AND THE MEDIA COMPLETELY REFUSED TO REPORT ON THIS UNTIL THE TAS NOMINEE STEPPED DOWN

WHY IS IT THAT WHEN THE REPUBLICANS ARE BLOCKING JUST LIKE THEY DID EVERY NOMINEE THE PRESIDENT PUT FORTH

KATHLEEN SABILEUS NOMINATION WAS BLOCKED UNTIL WE HAD A PROBLEM

JANET NAPOLITANO WAS BLOCKED UNTIL WE HAD A PROBLEM WITH HOMELOAND SECURITY

AND THE LIST GOES ON AND ON

BLOCKING NOMINEES HAS TO BECOME PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND WE MUST DEMAND IT

REPUBLICANS ARE TALKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF THEIR MOUTHS

THEY RUN TO THE CAMERS AND BASH THE DEMS YET HOLD THEIR NOMINEES UP BLOCK THEM WHILE LYING TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT BEING CONCERNED ABOUT THE VERY AREAS OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR WHICH THEY ARE BLOCKING NOMINEES


NOW THAT THE TAS NOMINEES HAS STEPPED DOWN OUR SECURITY IS IN SERIOUS TROUBLE MORE THAN BEFORE BECAUSE NOW THE PESIDENT HAS TO START THE PROCESS ALL OVER AGAIN

WHILE REPUBLICANS RUN TO THE PUBLIC AND COMPLAIN ABOUT SECURTY

SO MR. GIULIANI IF THE REPUBLICANS ARE SO CONCERNED ABOUT OUR SERCURITY AND THE UNDERWARE BOMER

WHY DID THE REPUBLICANS BLOCK THE NOMINATION OF THE TSA NOMINEE THE VERY GUY WHO'S JOBE IT WOULD BE TO PROTECT US FROM THIS TYPE OF SECURITY RISK?

EVERY BLOCKED NOMINEE MUST BE MADE PUBLIC BECAUSE REPUBLICANS ARE LYING TO THE TV CAMERAS AND CRITIZING THEE AREAS OF GOVERNMENT WHILE HOLDING THESE NOMINEES UP

NOT ONE NOMINEE HAS PASSED WITHOUT BEING BLOCKED


IT'S TIME TO FOCUS ON THE LIES AND THE BLOCKING HE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS DOING WHILE THEY LIE TO OUR FACE.

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January 28, 2010 11:35 AM    in reply to jana47

If you keep your coffee away from your next keyboard, it will be less likely to spill and you will have fewer problems with the Caps Lock key...

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January 28, 2010 1:09 PM    in reply to ondioline

It's a way of getting out frustration. I think it's okay to vent. No problem jana. Its okay

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January 28, 2010 1:19 PM    in reply to lousgirl84

It's also a way to get people to skip your message entirely. Presumably that's not the intent.

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January 28, 2010 1:26 PM    in reply to lousgirl84

guest4000 is spot on... It's definitely okay to vent. And if you'd like to vent in all caps and be the only person who reads what you write, there's a better solution: open an email, VENT AWAY, and save to your drafts folder... But presumably, some percentage of the people who log into a website and comment on an article do so to exchange ideas. And if that's the goal, it's better to vent in lowercase...

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January 28, 2010 2:24 PM    in reply to ondioline

There are posters who are not as computer savvy as ondioline. Then there are people who care about the content of the post not whether it is in UPPER or lower case. Or there are people who agree with the post so no negative comments are necessary.

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January 28, 2010 2:31 PM    in reply to benny 4 facts

The point is: messages in all upper case are difficult to read. So when one is long, as jana's is, people tend to skip over it, because the quality of messages in all upper case is usually not worth the additional effort to read it. (Add to that the many misspelled words, and the perceived quality level goes down even further.)

Bottom line: if you really want people to read and respond to your messages with something besides STOP SHOUTING AT ME, don't use CapsLock.

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January 28, 2010 2:31 PM    in reply to benny 4 facts

There are people who are stupid. There are people who think stupid screaming ranters deserve attention.

There are lots of people. What is your point?

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January 28, 2010 5:31 PM    in reply to benny 4 facts

Hey benny: Take your asshat off. This has nothing to do with being "computer savvy". I learned to type on a typewriter. Do you remember typewriters? I do. Just like I remember how to use "Shift" and "Caps Lock". Just like I remember to put my socks on before I put my shoes on... I remember because I learned. I learned because somebody told me. If nobody told me, I might not know any better. But I do. Because somebody told me. It's 2010. Very few people who aren't trying to be obnoxious type in all caps. I'm assuming you have access to a mirror, so you should know obnoxious when you see it by now...

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January 29, 2010 2:43 PM    in reply to ondioline

You so don't impress me!!! Oh I'm sorry--YOU SO DON'T IMPRESS ME!!!!!

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January 28, 2010 12:10 PM    in reply to jana47

"Brevity is the soul of wit": Alexander Pope

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January 28, 2010 2:20 PM    in reply to Sailormarlowe

That is a Shakespeare quote there, good buddy!

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January 28, 2010 2:26 PM    in reply to ABrod

"Brevity is the soul of lingerie" Dorothy Parker

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January 28, 2010 11:15 AM   

He is just following the Republican line: The Democrats didn't reach out across to them at all on HCR, The budget deficit only began after Obama took office, and we're all for compromise as long as you agree with us and drop everything you want because we're in the middle.

They don't live in the fact based world.

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January 28, 2010 11:16 AM   

Who is Rudy Giuliani?

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January 28, 2010 5:37 PM    in reply to jogartrago

This reminded me of Pedro Martinez asking "Who is Karim Garcia?".

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January 28, 2010 11:18 AM   

Rudy knows he can get away with saying whatever he wants because he knows that anyone who actually listens to him didn't watch the speech last nite and wouldn't know the difference. Pretty sure he hadn't watched it either, instead got his talking points from clips off FOX.

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January 28, 2010 11:19 AM   

Rudy is possibly the most irrelevant member of the Republican party! Even worse than Michael Steele!

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January 28, 2010 11:21 AM   

Rudy hasn't made any sense at all in the last year. The fault for his bloopers lies not with him, but with whoever booked him. This is truly a man to be pitied, not rerided. Seriously, any outrage at Rudy's comments need to be directed at the show that put him on.

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January 28, 2010 11:21 AM   

Okay I get it..."A noun, a verb and 9/11!" Someone send this android back to the scrap heap!

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January 28, 2010 11:22 AM   

Did anyone on CNN correct him? (I'm afraid I know the answer to that question, but I ask nevertheless.) Why do network hosts let their guests tell the most blatant lies without calling them out? It's not being "non-partisan" or "objective" to simply let a guest lie repeatedly without challenge, it is participating in the dissemination of falsehoods. Hosts who don't call guests out on their lies are accomplices to their falsehoods.

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January 28, 2010 12:15 PM    in reply to Pete Bilderback

That's exactly my thought as I read this. Is journalism dead in this country?

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January 28, 2010 12:27 PM    in reply to paultaiwan2003

Yes. Another simple answer to a...

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January 28, 2010 1:11 PM    in reply to paultaiwan2003

Yes, yes, yes, yes. Can't you tell. It has been going downhill for a long long time. Let us start with Ronald Reagan shall we. Unfortunately it has graduated to the level of pure gossip. Pathetic.

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January 28, 2010 2:33 PM    in reply to lousgirl84

Even since Jimmy Olsen was a cub reporter....
I grew up in Venice. How's it holding uop these days? xxoo

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January 28, 2010 12:43 PM    in reply to Pete Bilderback

You give them too much credit by assuming they know a lie when they hear it. You can't correct something unless you've gone to the trouble to inform yourself of what is actually correct. Lazy so-and-sos.

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January 28, 2010 1:52 PM    in reply to Pete Bilderback

Because they don't know anything and therefore don't know when they're being lied to. And, evidently, there's no one who can use teh Google and whisper the real facts into their ears through those earpiece things they all wear.

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January 28, 2010 11:24 AM   

The terrorists should have Rudy on retainer because his lies further their interests.

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January 28, 2010 11:25 AM   

Reality? Rudy will tell you which reality to believe.

Like the "reality" that he wasn't screwing Dame Judith while he was still married to Donna Hanover.
Or the "reality" that his son does talk to him.
Or the "reality" that he was a great and beloved mayor even before the half wits in the Midwest elected him "America's mayor" for the simple act of doing his fucking job on 9/11.

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January 28, 2010 11:26 AM   

Rudy doesn't care if Obama says terrorism. It's clear that what he wanted him to say "Islamic terrorism." He treats it as a single word--islamicterrorism!

This is a sad no-true-scotsman attack on Obama, and it exposes the bigotry in Guiliani's views. It's not important that we're fighting terrorism, he wants to make sure that we are fighting islamicterrorism! To him it doesn't matter that Islamic terrorists are a subset of all terrorists, they are the only ones he's concerned about.

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January 28, 2010 2:37 PM    in reply to Reece

Because if we fight terrorism in general, then we'd have to go after some of the wingnuts supporting the Republican Party.

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January 28, 2010 11:29 AM   

If he'd "9/11" just "9/11" shut the "9/11" F*ck up "9/11" for a moment "9/11" maybe he'd "9/11" hear what the "9/11" of us hear. "9/11"

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January 28, 2010 11:29 AM   

But it's true! In the clips you compare, Obama never said "terrorism," just like Rudy claimed- he only said "terrorist"! What do you think this is, that old game show where you were allowed to come up with a form of the word instead of the actual answer? (What was that, $25,000 pyramid?)

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January 28, 2010 11:30 AM   

the "9/11" / the rest "9/11"


"9/11"

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January 28, 2010 2:29 PM    in reply to Voltaire

I've got your 9/11....do you have mine?

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January 28, 2010 11:43 AM   

In my opinion, the real story here is that politicians and others are given carte blanche to say anything they want on news shows without correction or even much comment from their interviewers.

This time it's FoxNews, but it's really not different elsewhere.

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January 28, 2010 1:32 PM    in reply to jerrybrowndem

Just FYI, this was CNN.

I really don't understand how sensible people at any media outlet could believe Rudy is credible.

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January 28, 2010 1:37 PM    in reply to jerrybrowndem

Just FYI, this was CNN.

I really don't understand how sensible people at any media outlet could believe Rudy is credible.

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January 28, 2010 11:54 AM   

Obama may have spoken the word "terrorist," but he did not say "Islamic Terrorism." So, you see, he's not serious about defending the fatherland.

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January 28, 2010 2:35 PM    in reply to barnacle

He never said the word "Islamic terrorism."

The fact that it is two words is not germane.

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January 28, 2010 11:59 AM   

Did that vampire forget who was mayor at the time of 9/11?
Who put his emergency command center in the WTC after the first bombing attempt? That we had a Republican President, House, Senate
and a Repub Governor and Mayor in NY? Guess he did, the shitheel.

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January 28, 2010 12:09 PM   

I think the governor needs a checkup...either he's hard of hearing or in the early stages of Alzheimers

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January 28, 2010 12:11 PM    in reply to jillsusan

sorry, meant the Mayor, not the Governor.

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January 28, 2010 12:10 PM   

sorry, I meant the Mayor, not the Governor!

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January 28, 2010 12:21 PM   

Good ole Rudy, at it again, I see. Trying to see how quickly he can
history, how far he can go, and if the enemy (liberal media) will buy
it. Rudy knows full well the President mentioned terrorism, and the
croth-failed bomber. Rudy needs the President to take his noun, verb,
islamic-terrorist verbal torrets strategiy for his to become relevant for
2012. Sorry Rudy, not gonna happen!!!

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January 28, 2010 12:44 PM   

If only he'd run for President himself, he could solve all of our problems with those pesky terrorists. Oh wait...for the 2008 election, he only had the stomach for the Florida primary, got crushed and slithered away. He's pathetic.

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January 28, 2010 12:47 PM   

I don't mind so much that Rudy doesn't seem to know what he is talking about, or care. I expect that from him. What does bother me is that the media is still reaching out to these clowns for serious commentary.

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January 28, 2010 12:51 PM   


A complete tool.

Always was.

I predicted (smug self congradulatory mode in full effect) that he was stink as a presidential candidate.

But his suckdum as such surprised even me.

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January 28, 2010 12:52 PM   

Huh, leave it to Rudy to get both of his "facts" wrong. A search of FDR's SOTU speeches during war-time era reveal two SOTUs with zero Nazi references. The number of references per year are shown below.

I didn't count war-time references, because all speeches were fully occupied by war efforts. Of course, that was then and this is now: Our current war efforts are relative skirmishes compared to the country's full engagement with WWII efforts. By Rudy's measure, Obama should have minimized discussion of the economy and jobs, and give the time to Iraq and Afghanistan...both of which have finite timelines anyway.

1941: Nazi=0
1942: Nazi=5
1943: Nazi=3
1944: Nazi=0
1945: Nazi=9

Index to the speeches can be found here: http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/P/fr32/index.htm

Sheesh, why am I doing this fact-finding for free? Doesn't CNN pay people to do this kind of work?

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January 28, 2010 2:44 PM    in reply to sawgrass

Hey, they had all of their fact-checkers busy on Obama's speech. Nobody left over to fact-check anybody else, I guess.

(The first thing CNN did after the speech and the Republican response was over was to turn to the fact checking. Forget analysis of the overall themes, tone, etc. -- let's get into the nitpicking first!)

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January 28, 2010 1:02 PM   

2010 Teabag Convention: Nazi=158

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January 28, 2010 1:11 PM   

Well, he's at least partially right. It "would be like" that FDR scenario...if any of the complaints he mentioned were actually valid.

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January 28, 2010 1:12 PM   

Republicans really suck! They're nothing but a bunch of scared little girls who frequently warmonger while, draft dodging themselves with no problem sending other people's children off to die! Drop your lady parts and tough guy rhetoric! It's stupid!

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January 28, 2010 1:42 PM    in reply to roxsteady

Yeah!

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January 28, 2010 1:44 PM   

Wouldn't it be nice if there were a news organization that took pride in the facts? At the very least, come back at the end of each day with a list of the inaccuracies perpetrated by their guests every day. It would probably get huge ratings.

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January 28, 2010 1:54 PM   

I'll play too Rudy . .

OKAYYYY, THIS IS LIKE you and your girlfriend Judiiiieeee playing 'let's make believe we're married' and you forgetting to introduce her to your wife and kids sleeping under in another wing at Gracie Mansion . .

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January 28, 2010 1:59 PM   

All I can figure is that Rudy had decided what he was going to say about the SOTU beforehand, and stuck to his script.

Or maybe he just dozed off and didn't hear the whole thing.

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January 28, 2010 2:21 PM    in reply to jimson


Actually, he probably took a cell phone call.

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January 28, 2010 2:05 PM   

He was in the bathroom eating popcorn.

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January 28, 2010 4:56 PM    in reply to BaileyWu

Thinking wistfully about his comb-over.

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January 28, 2010 4:52 PM   

Rudy,
"Islamic terrorism" is not a word. It is two words. Obama said the word terrorism or terrorsits more times than delegates Rudy won in the '08 Repugnant Party Primary.

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May 23, 2010 2:42 PM   

Rudy doesn't care if Obama says terrorism. It's clear that what he wanted him to say "Islamic terrorism." He treats it as a single word--islamicterrorism!

This is a sad no-true-scotsman attack on Obama, and it exposes the bigotry in Guiliani's views. It's not important that we're fighting terrorism, he wants to make sure that we are fighting islamicterrorism! To him it doesn't matter that Islamic terrorists are a subset of all terrorists, they are the only ones he's concerned about.

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