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Despite the fact that no one should listen to polls anymore (I mean, seriously, didn't we learn this in 2004? We really needed to be schooled on their serious failings by New Hampshire 2008?), this one made me laugh: Rudy might not even win New York. People seem surprised by this. I'm not. There is a huge misconception across the country that New Yorkers revere Rudy Giuliani. Actually, most of them loathe him. We liked him for about two weeks right after September 11th, and then before that there was that time he was in drag on SNL; people thought that was pretty funny. But yeah, we know firsthand that he's a bitter, petty megalomaniac. He can talk about 9/11 all he wants, but that doesn't change the fact that the firefighters hate him. A LOT. His kids hate him, too -- because he dumped their mom on television without telling her first. He's a real class act. Also, if he gets more than 10 or 11 black votes in the entire state, I would be STUNNED. (That's among black Republicans, of course, of which there are about 37.) I'm personally amused that he's running as the foreign policy candidate, when he has absolutely no actual experience in anything foreign policy-related except shouting about terrorism for the past 7 years. Hell, the guy couldn't even be bothered to show up for Iraq Study Group meetings. His main foreign policy adviser is apparently Norman Podhoretz, who is, seriously, still cranky about détente and the fact that Allen Ginsberg blew marijuana smoke in his face once in 1947. But, hey, if you want a president who will totally smote the terrorist squeegee men, Rudy's your guy. Otherwise, New York Republicans are gonna throw the vote to McCain, and Rudy's going to look like an even bigger schmuck than he usually does. Which takes some doing.

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If I hear him talk One More Time about how steadfast and resolute and decisive he was after 9/11, I'm going to backhand him.

The best was when he said people shouldn't pick on Hillary for crying because after 9/11 he TOTALLY cried all the time. At funerals and stuff. 9/11!

"there's only three things he mentions in a sentence-a noun, a verb, and 9/11. there's nothing else!"

best quote EVER from joe biden.

And, according to SNL, Giuliani's response to that was, 'Joe Biden sucks 9/11."

hahaha. that's really pretty much on the same level as his actual reply, which was "senator biden has never run anything but his mouth." awesome. i love politics!

By the way, are you feeling any better? Sick for MacWorld=NO FUN.

Still sick, and hoping that the antibiotics make it all go away. If this doesn't work and I'm still feeling bad in a week, the doctor floated the idea of walking pneumonia. Which I absolutely cannot do right now, so I vetoed it. She didn't seem to think that would work, but I'm giving it a shot anyway.

I've always liked that particular approach to health care. "You have a broken toe." "No."

Rudy is a douche. I'm all the way over here in Portland and I know this. :)

plus, we all know that hyoun is way hotter in drag than rudy could ever be!