Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani paid a visit to a Romney campaign office in Conshohocken Monday, and used the opportunity to rip President Barack Obama on his handling of the Hurricane Sandy aftermath and the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Guiliani told a crowd of about 80 supporters and campaign workers that upon hearing of the attack on the consulate, Obama decided to send in CIA operatives, who were then delayed at an airport for three hours.
"What do you think a President McCain, or a President Romney, or a President Reagan would have done?" Giuliani asked. "Sent in the Marines immediately. I don't care if it embarrasses the Libyan government, all I care about is saving American lives."
According to the Wall Street Journal, a CIA team tasked with supplying additional security to a separate CIA facility in Benghazi was delayed at a Tripoli airport due to logistical disagreements between the two countries. However, the article reported that an original CIA team had evacuated all American officials from the consulate within about 50 minutes, but did criticize that response time.
Giuliani also blasted Obama for his handling of Hurricane Sandy, saying that the president has done little to ensure proper supplies are reaching heavily-damaged areas in New Jersey and New York after meeting with N.J. Governor Chris Christie.
"Barack Obama, our excuse for a leader, a campaigner-in-chief, comes in, gets all this praise, Chris Christie pats him on the back," Giuliani said. "Then he goes off to Las Vegas and puts his commander-in-chief jacket on and struts around. Meanwhile, people don't have any water, don't have any heat, electricity, or gasoline."
Giuliani said the problem should be solved by flying in water and trucking in gasoline to the area, and said FEMA was failing in those responsibilities.
"I understand he has every right to go campaign…but he can't leave behind a FEMA that abandons New York. He can't leave behind an effort that's worse than Katrina," Giuliani said.
However, Governor Christie praised FEMA for its efforts last week, saying that "cooperation has been great with FEMA here on the ground," CNN reported.
More recently, in a piece titled "FEMA Fuel AWOL for Sandy Survivors," Huffington Post reporter David Wood said that fuel supplies were scarce in parts of New York and New Jersey, despite FEMA arranging for 24 million gallons of fuel for the recovery effort and sending in 230 fuel trucks as of Sunday.
Giuliani was joined at the get-out-the-vote event by actor Jon Voight, former Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich, former Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman, and former Eagles tight-end Chad Lewis.
Voight drew applause for a closing monologue from the play Camelot, praising the memories of a once great city, which he compared to Reagan's Shining City on a Hill speech.
"It reminds me of what's going on now," Voight said, referring to his opinion that the country is declining. "Unless we do something about it."
First, the unemployment rate ticked up to 7.9% and the year-to-date monthly average of 157,000 payroll jobs is barely enough to keep up with population growth -- much less make up for the 8 million jobs lost during the Great Recession. Second, the so-called real unemployment rate (U6) remains elevated at 14.6%, albeit down from 14.7% the prior month. Similarly, the labor participation rate is at 63.8%, up from its multi-decade low but still incredibly weak. Third, average hourly earnings fell a penny in October and average hours worked fell to 34.4 from 34.5 in September. Stagnant wages means "we're not generating income," Reinhart says. "That's a problem in terms of the durability of an economic expansion, which is usually fueled by consumption. To get consumption you've got to generate income." Also, just look at your checkbook. We are paying a lot more for everything now than we did in 2008. The price of gas has doubled. At the same time, wages have gone down, and that's if you're lucky to have a job. In 2008, 25 banks went out of business. In 2012, 48 banks have gone out of business. Almost double the amount. Does that sound like recovery to you? Don't believe the Obama lies!! Romney/Ryan 2012
Rudy G, you are an F'n moron.
Queue it up at 46 seconds and watch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcZr0UtLgkI Jeep CEO: "Jeep production will not be moved from the United States to China" http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-30/chrysler-ceo-reiterates-jeep-suv-production-will-remain-in-u-s-.html Now if anybody tries to tell you that Romney is not lying to you to sneak his way into office, there is your proof that he is lying. I can't break it down any more simply for people. Romney is a deceptive used car sales man. He will tell you whatever he thinks will get him what he wants. He tells the base that he is a extreme conservative and makes all the promises that the fringe extreme wants and then turns to the voters and says that he is a bi-partisan. These are not mutually inclusive positions. He is lying to somebody. Are you ready to risk if he is lying to you?
We need to end the two party stranglehold and take back our country. Vote Green. Vote Jill Stein.
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Mayor Guiliani is accurate with everything he has said. Also, why did they unions refuse help from out-of-state electric workers who were non union. I've been listening to them on the radio today. Insane. The unions have way too much power. I have relative that still have no electricity, etc., and some with no homes.