Monday, September 17, 2007

MoveOn: From Betray-Us and Distrust Bush to Rudy/Rudia.


Hello, Rudy
Well, Hello Rudia.
It's so nice to be back home where you belong
From Raw Story:
The war over the war continues this week.
MoveOn.org, the controversial anti-war group that Republicans bashed for its ad targeting Gen. David Petraeus, is hitting back against one of its harshest critics, Rudy Giuliani.
The former New York mayor has criticized his most prominent potential Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, for not distancing herself from MoveOn's "General Betray Us?" ad that ran in last Monday's New York Times. And he purchased his own ad in the Times last week responding to MoveOn.
In a new advertisement the group hopes will air soon in Iowa, MoveOn accuses Giuliani of "going AWOL" when he was picked to advise the president on his Iraq strategy, and the liberal group says the former mayor has betrayed voters' trust.
Giuliani, who is a top candidate to snag the Republican presidential nomination, was tapped to serve on the Iraq Study Group, but he was later booted from the panel when he failed to show up for meetings, choosing instead to collect six-figure speaking fees, the group alleges.
Newsday reported that Giuliani quit the group after behind admonished for failing to attend meetings -- instead appearing for paid public speeches. But Giuliani insisted his decision to withdraw from the group stemmed from his desire not to politicize its findings because he was considering a presidential run.
“It seemed to me that it should be apolitical,” Mr. Giuliani said when asked in December 2006 about his decision, according to the New York Times.

http://rawstory.com//news/2007/MoveOn_accuses_Rudy_of_valuing_money_0917.html

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why would Rudia/Rudy do volunteer stuff, well with the exception of the drag queen gig, but he enjoys that so much, but really why not get paid to speak instead of volunteer?

airJackie said...

What you see is what you get with Rudy. No need to try and understand him. He got in office fighting the Mafia then got rich by protecting the Mafia. Millions of dollars that was to be given to the 9/11 firefighters and policeman went to the Mafia and Rudy. Even the NY Governor at the time made the rules so hard no one qualified for help. Many have questioned where did the money go well it went with the Mafia, Rudy and the Governor. Notice both left office and took the stolen money with them.