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Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani speaks during a campaign rally with first responders at the North Spartanburg Fire Department Wednesday.

New York Times: Stepping to the Plate, Giuliani Is Seeing Only Softballs

In a swing through South Carolina this week, Rudolph W. Giuliani chose to campaign at a fire house, which is a little like Derek Jeter meeting with Yankees fans — a most unlikely forum for hostility, or even much skepticism.

Instead of the sometimes barbed give-and-take endured by the other candidates, Mr. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, fielded a few questions from the firefighters and police officers who gathered to hear him here. The questions, which began with comments like, “Being in your presence here is just unbelievable,” stuck almost entirely to issues on which Mr. Giuliani is most comfortable, like airport security and border control.

So, now New York Times reporter RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and the editors of the New York Times wish to direct the Mayor in campaign strategy and tell him how to stump for votes.

After all, Hizzoner is only leading in just about every major national poll – but he is only getting softball questions and events?

Oh Please…….

This is Not true and the New York Times knows it. Flap does know because he was in the same room as Perez-Penna a few weeks ago when the questions were asked of the Mayor.
Remember when Perez-Pena crticized Rudy over his campaign song by The Clash?

Flap wonders if he was in Florida today when Rudy campaigned. Let’s look at some of the quotes of the Floridians who greeted Giuliani:

Giuliani briefly chatted with people at the Lox Around The Clock restaurant but did not share his views on issues. Still, some people said he was the best candidate.

“I am a Democrat but I’d vote for him,” said Maxwell Lizza III, a postman who had just finish his shift delivering mail.

Some snowbirds from the Northeast eating a 5 p.m. dinner praised Giuliani for reducing crime in New York and cleaning up the once-neglected Times Square.

“He is one of the greatest mayors ever,” said Susan Grogins, having soup with her husband, Mike, a Democrat.

“I told him he had my vote and my family’s, including my husband’s,” she said.

Sorry New York Times, we all know you wish to sabotage the Giuliani campaign – but it ain’t working.

But, you will try, won’t you?

And what did you write about Barack Obama when he refused to debate Hillary and the other Democrats in Nevada yesterday?

How do you spell BIAS?

Republican presidential hopeful, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, center, autographs books after holding a campaign rally with first responders at the North Spartanburg Fire Department Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007, in Spartanburg, S.C.

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Presidential candidate and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani stumps for Charlie Crist in a Nov. 5, 2006 stop in Miami. Crist was elected Governor of Florida.

Newsday: Giuliani at home with New Yorkers during Florida campaign stop

If it wasn’t for the 77-degree temperatures, Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign swing through here Thursday could have been confused for a hometown stop.

The former New York mayor and Republican candidate was greeted by a crowd of about 150 people outside a Jewish deli, and most were either New York transplants or snowbirds wintering in Palm Beach County. Many rushed toward his car when he arrived at Lox Around the Clock and greeted him with thick New York accents.

Well, no matter where these folks are registered to vote, they will get a chance to vote for Rudy on February 5, 2008 since Florida and New York will have their presidential primary on this day.

That is ……if they are registered with the GOP.

What the Mayor hopes is they get a chance to vote for him again in November.

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Cox & Forkum: La-La Land

FOX News: Hillary Clinton, Obama in Hot Exchange Over Hollywood Heavyweight’s Comments.

The war of words between leading 2008 Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama spread Wednesday night, after the campaigns had earlier exchanged heated words when Clinton suggested Obama return funds to Hollywood bigwig David Geffen, who insulted her in a newspaper article.

“We aren’t going to get in the middle of a disagreement between the Clintons and someone who was once one of their biggest supporters. It is ironic that the Clintons had no problem with David Geffen when was raising them $18 million and sleeping at their invitation in the Lincoln bedroom,” Obama campaign communications director Robert Gibbs said in a statement that was e-mailed to the news media. …

Geffen, a former “Friend of Bill,” co-hosted a star-studded, $1.3 million fundraiser for Obama on Tuesday night in Beverly Hills with Hollywood heavyweights Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg.

Among the 300 contributors who forked over $2,300 each were George Clooney, Barbra Streisand, Jennifer Aniston, Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy and Morgan Freeman. Also in attendance were Dixie Chick Natalie Maines and director Ron Howard.

Geffen became a former FOB in 2001 after Bill Clinton refused to pardon Leonard Peltier, a Chippewa Indian convicted of killing two FBI agents in a 1977 shootout on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. …

Geffen is apparently still holding a grudge against the Clintons. In remarks to New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd that appeared in Wednesday’s edition, the music producer suggested that the Clintons have had their day and it’s time for new blood in the White House. …

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Thanks Hillary for reinvigorating and helping fund my campaign.

Sincerely,

Your friend Barack

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How do you count to 50?

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Datamar Inc. (Via The Hedgehog Report): California Republican Candidates Statewide Survey

San Diego – A poll released today by Datamar Inc., based on a comprehensive predictive model of “likely” voters, based on election cycles and other factors, shows that former Mayor of New York City Rudi Giuliani has the strongest support, 40.9%, of Republican voters.

Second placed candidate Senator John McCain of Arizona received 17.4%, less than one-half of Giuliani’s total. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney came in third with 10.5% of the respondents vote.

Is there any wonder why Arnold did not endorse McCain yesterday or did he?

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AP: Report Says Nuclear Work Ongoing in Iran

Iran has expanded its uranium enrichment program instead of complying with a U.N. Security Council ultimatum to freeze it, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Thursday in a finding that clears the way for harsher sanctions against Tehran.

“Iran has not suspended its enrichment-related activities,” the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report.

Although its information was based on material available to it as of Feb. 17, a senior U.N. official familiar with Iran’s nuclear file, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the issue, suggested the IAEA’s conclusion remained valid as of Thursday.

The IAEA detailed recent activities showing Tehran expanding its enrichment efforts – setting up hundreds of uranium-spinning centrifuges in an underground hall and bringing nearly 9 tons of the gaseous feedstock into the facility in preparation for enrichment. It added that Iranian officials had informed the agency that they would expand their centrifuge installations to have thousands of them ready by May.

The conclusion – while widely expected – was important because it could serve as the trigger for the council to start deliberating on new sanctions meant to punish Tehran for its intransigence over its nuclear program.

Will the United States and Israwl wait for another round of United Nation’s deliberations on sanctions?

Perhaps….allow Iran to build more centrifuges to provide more targets…..

Stay tuned……

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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.

Politico: The Video Wars Reach Rudy

Somebody apparently thought that McCain and Romney were having too much fun with dueling YouTube appearances and decided to get Rudy in the act. So, voila, now appears “Rudy in the Raw.” The point, apparently, is to portray the “old” Rudy, before he became the beloved America’s Mayor. You know, irascible and irritable. The clip, to me at least, portrays him as less nasty than it does cranky.

Martin must be having a slow news day.

The video shows a Mayor attempting to lead New York City.

Cranky or mean spirited?

No Way…..

Perhaps tough or no nonsense…….

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