April 25, 2007

The Democratic Response to Giuliani, Confirms Giuliani’s View

Yesterday Giuiliani said the things Conservatives and Liberatarians have been hoping to hear a presidential candidate say.

"If any Republican is elected president - - and I think obviously I would be the best at this - - we will remain on offense and will anticipate what (the terrorists) will do and try to stop them before they do it," Giuliani said.

The former New York City mayor, currently leading in all national polls for the Republican nomination for president, said Tuesday night that America would ultimately defeat terrorism no matter which party gains the White House.

"But the question is how long will it take and how many casualties will we have?" Giuliani said. "If we are on defense (with a Democratic president,) we will have more losses and it will go on longer."

"I listen a little to the Democrats and if one of them gets elected, we are going on defense," Giuliani continued. "We will wave the white flag on Iraq. We will cut back on the Patriot Act, electronic surveillance, interrogation and we will be back to our pre-Sept. 11 attitude of defense."

He added: "The Democrats do not understand the full nature and scope of the terrorist war against us."

Today the Democrats responded, and their response confirms Giuliani's views.

"Rudy Giuliani today has taken the politics of fear to a new low and I believe Americans are ready to reject those kind of politics," Obama, an Illinois senator, said in a statement.

Calling a policy of taking the fight to the enemy, mere "politics", is precisely to bury your head in the sand, confirming Giuliani's view that "The Democrats do not understand the full nature and scope of the terrorist war against us."

Obama calls Rudy's statement the politics of fear, when it is more aptly called the politics of courage - the courage to oppose our enemies - in the words of the great playwright, "to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them." Obama has conflated courage with fear. By calling Giuliani's policy of remaining on offense, "the politics of fear," Obama is confirming Giuliani's statement that Democrats will play the game on defense, and will not remain on offense.

Obama's statement continues (same link as above):

"The threat we face is real, and deserves better than to be the punch line of another political attack," he said.

Here Obama says that the policy of remaining on offense is a punch line, as if of a joke, confirming Giuliani's statement that the Dems do not take seriously the need to remain on offense. The joke is that the Democrats say they are serving our country's interests by going on defense and giving the terrorists a free hand to attack us. (And the joke has gone on long enough.)

Hillary's response also makes Giuliani's point (same link):

Clinton, a New York senator, said the last six years of the Bush administration have showed "political rhetoric won't do anything to quell those threats. And that America is ready for a change."

Clinton says Giuliani's policy of taking the fight to the enemy is mere "rhetoric" - just as Obama says it is mere "politics." GWB's policies have killed and captured thousands of terrorists. This is not "rhetoric," this is action, action that has brought the fight successfully to those who want to perpetrate more 9-11's on this country. But the Dems are so far from wanting to implement such action themselves, that they can only consider it as if it were "rhetoric."

Hillary's statement continues (same link) :

"We have to protect our country from terrorism -- it shouldn't be a Democratic fight or a Republican fight," she said in a statement.

Hillary uses the language of defense: "protect." Again she has confirmed Giuliani's statement that the Democrats would abandon the offensive game, would cease taking actions to oppose the enemy, and would play the game on defense, giving the enemy a free hand to mount more 9-11's.

And her statement that "it shouldn't be a Democratic fight or a Republican fight," implying that Democrats would like to cooperate with Republicans for our nation's safety, is hypocritical in light of Congressional Democrats' current efforts to end financing for our troops and force another Vietnam on the American people.

"Pelosi Won't Attend Petraeus Briefing." A shocking move on her part.  Instead she talked to him for 30 minutes on the phone. She's seeking to force another Vietnam on the American people, and she can't be bothered to meet with the commander of our forces on the ground in Iraq. It's abominable.

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