Rudy’s a hit with GOP delegates
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“You’re hiring someone to do a job, an important job that involves the safety of you and your family,” Giuliani said as he stood before a video backdrop of the Manhattan skyline.
Giuliani brought convention delegates to their feet several times with his critique of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
Steven Alfasi and Wayne Baden of Tuckahoe used baseball analogies to describe the former mayor’s speech.
“Tonight, Rudy was Babe Ruth at the plate,” Alfasi told GNS. “That wasn’t a home run, it was a … grand slam.”
Said Baden: “He knocked this one out of the ballpark. He was fabulous, just fabulous.”
Delegates laughed as Giuliani painted a stark contrast between McCain, who spent nearly six years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and more than 20 years in the Senate and Obama, a first-term senator who spent his early years as a community organizer.
“John McCain can face the enemy,” Giuliani said. “He can win and bring victory to this county.”
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Excellent speeches by Rudy and Sarah Palin. They showed Obama to be the wannabe emperor (or Messiah) with no clothes—but still with those phony Roman columns borrowed from the old set of Ben-Hur.
I also think Huckabee was good, and that Romney was fair.
Nice mixed metaphor-cum-simile, Jiminy—although it might better be described as “color” or “imagery.” In any case, your words are effective. And right-on.
You and I are kindred souls.
Only thing missing from our GOP Convention: a powerful Black American speaker—someone such as Jim Coleman, a really admirable guy with a great, compelling All-America story to tell. (His family has been in the United States longer than yours or mine.) Or the dynamic woman, a physician from NY, who in 1976 seconded Reagan’s nomination in the most exciting national convention in our lifetimes, at Kansas City.
rudi must have been wearing a nice shade of republican lipstick and i sure he had a picture of bernie on his dress
Rudy was fabulous…he had the convention rocking
he pointed to Obama’s flip floping on the capital
of jerusalem, on the russian invasion of georgia
he noted that Obama had zero experience running
anything..not a business, not a government,
not a military unit, nothing..nada
being president requires experience in decision making
Obama voted present 130 times in the illinois
state legislature..that means he avoided making
up his mind 130 times..as rudy pointed out there
is no such thing as present when you are president
to keep the country safe…to fight global islamic
terrorist threats and to let the world know
that the US is still the beacon for democracy for
all who are oppressed
Tim, Steele (I forget his first name) spoke well last night. But the cable nets talked over it. But PBS carried his speech.
Fox must have lost a lot of viewers last night because Hannity and Colmes talked over the speeches of both Romney and Huckabee. The others aired them without interruption. Bad move by Fox.