My apolitical hubby watched a little of the repuke debate...says Rudi 9/11i is mafia

[greenbriar]

he doesn't even know him

doesn't know where he was from

doesn't pay attention



just said ...Wow...when did the mob start running for president

:)

[Didereaux]

1. Ghoulie, like Sinatra is a wannabee and likes to rub shoulders with them, and grease his hair.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. He absolutely reeks of it. I have always said so.

That's why he was supposedly able to "clean it up" as a DA. They were all his buddies, so they helped him put on a good show.

[Bozita]

3. Could it be that occasionally the uninformed are well-informed?

[greenbriar]

4. maybe so

he also got really angry with ALL of them on the health care issue

he has athsma and severe food allergies

[Bozita]

5. Edwards was just on CSPAN live. It was a town hall where healthcare was topic one.

You could turn him into an Edwards advocate with a single viewing.

[Oilwellian]

6. Your husband may appreciate this latest video I did....

Rudy stars as the goon. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSgF5IiXlZ0

[Bozita]

9. That's terrific! It deserves its own thread.

[Oilwellian]

19. Thanks...

I put it in the political videos forum. :D

[greenbriar]

11. too good

thanks

[Warren Stupidity]

7. Well he is Italian

so for lots of people, that is enough to make him mobbed up. On the other hand if you google giuliani mafia connections you will find pages of crap that is hard to ignore. Certainly his buddy Kerik is some sort of gangster. What is indisputable is that in fact Giuliani has family ties into the new york mob. That in itself doesn't convict Rudy of course.

[greenbriar]

10. he didn't know he was italian either

he just said he looked and acted and sounded like the mob



also didn't like his lisp...but thats another story

[Warren Stupidity]

12. Giuliani? He didn't know what his name was?

It ain't a huge leap to figure out he is Italian.

[AlCzervik]

13. my husband is italian and when someone finds out for the first time

the inevitable mob jokes always follow.

[nonconformist]

16. I'm Italian... Sicilian, even (oh my!).....

I've heard mob jokes my entire LIFE.

[AlCzervik]

18. my husbands family is also from Sicily, oh yeah, those jokes get old fast.

and to add to it the city we both grew up in was full of suspected mob members.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE6DC1F31F934A15750C0A966958260

Medford mass.

[greenbriar]

14. no

he didn't know who he was

like I said he Does NOT pay any attention


doesn't even know repukes from Dems...


he trusts that I do enough research and will vote for whomever best represents our family and our extended family and typically follows my lead


he HATES politics

[SheilaT]

8. That's interesting.

I've often noticed that the best insights come from someone who has no clue about the topic/person/issue/ whatever.

[Fading Captain]

15. DU propogrates anti-Italian stereotypes?

No fan of Mayor of 9-11, but sheesh.

[greenbriar]

17. he didn't know he was italian

he does not pay attention..

he just sat down to eat and I had the debate on

just spoken out of the blue..

no racist stereo type intended

[Fading Captain]

21. You don't have to know someone is Italian

to know they are Italian.

If I looked at a guy who was Mexican, but didn't know he was Mexican, and said he looked like a drug dealer ...

See my point?

[greenbriar]

22. you overestimate my hubby

he is not like that...


but whatever

[Oilwellian]

20. Giuliani has actual ties to the mob

Not because he's Italian, but because he's corrupt. There's an Irish mob, Russian mob, Turkish mob...their ethnicity is not attacked...their corruption is.

[Fading Captain]

23. And how would you know that, looking at him?

You wouldn't.

You see someone who looks Italian.

You don't realize he's Italian, but he has facial characteristics of what the movies portray as a mob guy -- Italian.

[Dorian Gray]

24. I'm surprised that he wouldn't know who Rudy was.

But, as despicable as his current policies are, he's been very involved in the prosecution of the mafia in NYC. (Or had been.)

His connections with Bernie Kerrick, however, are not so rosy.

[greenbriar]

25. as I said. He is NOT involved in politics...usually he stays FAR away

he is content in his own little world of paintball and computer stuff.

he leaves the politics to me and resents the time I spend on it....


I was surprised at him staying in the room while I was watching the debate. he could only stomach about 5 minutes of the repukes...


I tried to get him to watch the Dems because I really think he would like what JE had to say, but he HATES politics

[Dorian Gray]

26. I guess being a NYer

it's impossible for me to not know who Guiliani is, but he was on the news A LOT following 9-11. If you were awake, you saw him. Not even about politics.

Maybe it wasn't that way in other parts of the country, but it was in the North East.