Guiliani Rocks

[UsaPride]

Can anyone link me to Rudy's speech? I missed the entire day of the convention and didnt see a lick of it. I'd love to at least read what he wrote!!

Many thanks if you can find it!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,130680,00.html
Here's video of some speeches. THere's a part 1 and 2 of Rudy, and Part 1 and 2 of McCain. I can't find transcripts, but here ya go, lol!~

 

[lilcountriegal]

Thanks Tammie!!!!!!!!!!

 

[5stringJeff]

McCain's speech was great, in that he showed that even with the differences in their philosophies, McCain is still 110% behind Bush.

Guiliani's speech was one of the best I've seen for years. I had never heard him speak before but I felt like we were best buddies listening to him talk.

Great speeches... if the rest of the convention is this good Kerry might as well quit now.

 

[Bonnie]

Now was that a speech or what? I love that story about the Construction worker.

He was quite spectacular!!!!

 

[Bonnie]

Both McCain and Guiliani knocked it out of the ballpark last night. There is no doubt in my mind that if Guiliani would have run for the Senate against Hillary, we would not have a Senator Clinton today. Can you believe the liberal media saying the Republicans have no up and coming talent? We have plenty! At least enough to keep the White House well into this century.

Well you never know things have a way of coming back around

 

[CSM]

The speech:

NEW YORK, Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The following are remarks by The
Honorable Rudy Giuliani, Former Mayor of the City of New York, as prepared for
delivery at the 2004 Republican National Convention:

Welcome to the capital of the World.
New York was the first capital of our great nation. It was here in 1789 in
lower Manhattan that George Washington took the oath of office as the first
President of the United States.
It was here in 2001 in lower Manhattan that President George W. Bush stood
amid the fallen towers of the World Trade Center and said to the barbaric
terrorists who attacked us, "They will hear from us."
They have heard from us!
They heard from us in Afghanistan and we removed the Taliban.
They heard from us in Iraq and we ended Saddam Hussein's reign of terror.
They heard from us in Libya and without firing a shot Qadhafi abandoned
weapons of mass destruction.
They are hearing from us in nations that are now more reluctant to sponsor
terrorists.
So long as George Bush is President, is there any doubt they will continue
to hear from us until we defeat global terrorism.
We owe that much and more to those loved ones and heroes we lost on
September 11th.
The families of some of those we lost on September 11th are here with us.
To them, and all those families affected by September 11th, we recognize the
sacrifices your loved ones and you have made. You are in our prayers and we
are in your debt.
This is the first Republican Convention ever held in New York City.
It makes a statement that New York City and America are open for business and
stronger than ever.
We're not going to let the threat of terrorism stop us from leading our
lives.
From the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, to President George
W. Bush our party's great contribution is to expand freedom in our own land
and all over the world.
And our party is at its best when it makes certain that we have a powerful
national defense in a still very dangerous world.
I don't believe we're right about everything and Democrats are wrong about
everything.
Neither party has a monopoly on virtue.
But I do believe that there are times in our history when our ideas are
more necessary and important for what we are facing.
There are times when leadership is the most important.
On September 11, this city and our nation faced the worst attack in our
history.
On that day, we had to confront reality. For me, standing below the north
tower and looking up and seeing the flames of hell and then realizing that I
was actually seeing a man - a human being - jumping from the 101st or 102nd
floor drove home to me that we were facing something beyond anything we had
ever faced before.
We had to concentrate all of our energy, faith and hope to get through
those first hours and days. And I will always remember that moment as we
escaped the building we were trapped in at 75 Barclay Street and realized that
things outside might be even worse than they were inside the building.
We did the best we could to communicate a message of calm and hope, as we
stood on the pavement seeing a massive cloud rushing through the cavernous
streets of lower Manhattan.
Our people were so brave in their response.
At the time, we believed we would be attacked many more times that day and
in the days that followed. Spontaneously, I grabbed the arm of then Police
Commissioner Bernard Kerik and said to Bernie, "Thank God George Bush is our
President."
And I say it again tonight, "Thank God George Bush is our President."
On September 11, George W. Bush had been President less than eight months.
This new President, Vice President, and new administration were faced with the
worst crisis in our history.
President Bush's response in keeping us unified and in turning the ship of
state around from being solely on defense against terrorism to being on
offense as well and for his holding us together.
For that and then his determined effort to defeat global terrorism, no
matter what happens in this election, President George W. Bush already has
earned a place in our history as a great American President.
But let's not wait for history to present the correct view of our
President. Let us write our own history.
We need George Bush now more than ever.
The horror, the shock and the devastation of those attacks on the World
Trade Center, the Pentagon and over the skies of Pennsylvania lifted a cloud
from our eyes.
We stood face to face with those people and forces who hijacked not just
airplanes but a religion and turned it into a creed of terrorism dedicated to
eradicating us and our way of life.
Terrorism did not start on September 11, 2001. It had been festering for
many years.
And the world had created a response to it that allowed it to succeed.
The attack on the Israeli team at the Munich Olympics was in 1972. And the
pattern had already begun.
The three surviving terrorists were arrested and within two months
released by the German government.
Action like this became the rule, not the exception.
Terrorists came to learn they could attack and often not face consequences.
In 1985, terrorists attacked the Achille Lauro and murdered an American
citizen who was in a wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer.
They marked him for murder solely because he was Jewish.
Some of those terrorist were released and some of the remaining terrorists
allowed to escape by the Italian government because of fear of reprisals.
So terrorists learned they could intimidate the world community and too
often the response, particularly in Europe, was "accommodation, appeasement
and compromise."
And worse the terrorists also learned that their cause would be taken more
seriously, almost in direct proportion to the barbarity of the attack.
Terrorist acts became a ticket to the international bargaining table.
How else to explain Yasser Arafat winning the Nobel Peace Prize when he
was supporting a terrorist plague in the Middle East that undermined any
chance of peace?
Before September 11, we were living with an unrealistic view of the world
much like our observing Europe appease Hitler or trying to accommodate
ourselves to peaceful co-existence with the Soviet Union through mutually
assured destruction.
President Bush decided that we could no longer be just on defense against
global terrorism but we must also be on offense.
On September 20, 2001, President Bush stood before a joint session of
Congress, a still grieving and shocked nation and a confused world and he did
change the direction of our ship of state.
He dedicated America under his leadership to destroying global terrorism.
The President announced the Bush Doctrine when he said: "Our war on terror
begins with Al Qaeda, but it does not end there.
It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been
found, stopped and defeated.
"Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists."
And since September 11th President Bush has remained rock solid.
It doesn't matter how he is demonized.
It doesn't matter what the media does to ridicule him or misinterpret him
or defeat him.
They ridiculed Winston Churchill. They belittled Ronald Reagan.
But like President Bush, they were optimists; leaders must be optimists.
Their vision was beyond the present and set on a future of real peace and true
freedom.
Some call it stubbornness. I call it principled leadership.
President Bush has the courage of his convictions.
In choosing a President, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat,
a conservative or liberal.
We choose a leader.
And in times of danger, as we are now in, Americans should put leadership
at the core of their decision.
There are many qualities that make a great leader but having strong
beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is
the most important characteristic of a great leader.
Winston Churchill saw the dangers of Hitler while his opponents
characterized him as a war-mongering gadfly.
Ronald Reagan saw and described the Soviet Union as "the evil empire"
while world opinion accepted it as inevitable and belittled Ronald Reagan's
intelligence.
President Bush sees world terrorism for the evil that it is.
John Kerry has no such clear, precise and consistent vision.
This is not a personal criticism of John Kerry.
I respect him for his service to our nation.
But it is important to see the contrast in approach between the two men;
President Bush, a leader who is willing to stick with difficult decisions even
as public opinion shifts, and John Kerry, whose record in elected office
suggests a man who changes his position often even on important issues.
When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, John Kerry voted against the
Persian Gulf War. Later he said he actually supported the war.
Then in 2002, as he was calculating his run for President, he voted for
the war in Iraq.
And then just 9 months later, he voted against an $87 billion supplemental
budget to fund the war and support our troops.
He even, at one point, declared himself an anti-war candidate. Now, he
says he's pro-war. At this rate, with 64 days left, he still has time to
change his position at least three or four more times.
My point about John Kerry being inconsistent is best described in his own
words when he said, "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted
against it."
Maybe this explains John Edwards' need for two Americas - - one where John
Kerry can vote for something and another where he can vote against the same
thing.
Yes, people in public office at times do change their minds, I've done
that, or they realize they are wrong or circumstances change.
But John Kerry has made it the rule to change his position, rather than
the exception. In October, 2003, he told an Arab-American Institute in Detroit
that a security barrier separating Israel from the Palestinian Territories was
a "barrier to peace."
A few months later, he took exactly the opposite position. In an interview
with the Jerusalem Post he said, "Israel's security fence is a legitimate act
of self defense."
The contrasts are dramatic. They involve very different views of how to
deal with terrorism. President Bush will make certain that we are combatting
terrorism at the source, beyond our shores, so we can reduce the risk of
having to confront it in the streets of New York.
John Kerry's record of inconsistent positions on combatting terrorism
gives us no confidence he'll pursue such a determined course.
President Bush will not allow countries that appear to have ignored the
lessons of history and failed for over thirty years to stand up to terrorists,
to dissuade us from what is necessary for our defense.
He will not let them set our agenda. Under President Bush, America will
lead rather than follow.
John Kerry's claim that certain foreign leaders who opposed our removal of
Saddam Hussein prefer him, raises the risk that he would accommodate his
position to their viewpoint.
It would hardly be the first time he changed his position on matters of
war and peace.
I remember the days following September 11th when we were no longer
Democrats or Republicans, but Americans determined to do all we could to help
the victims, to rebuild our city and nation and to disable our enemies.
I remember President Bush coming here on September 14, 2001 and lifting
the morale of our rescue workers by talking with them and embracing them and
staying with them much longer than originally planned.
In fact, if you promise to keep it just between us so I don't get in
trouble it was my opinion that the Secret Service was concerned about the
President remaining so long in that area.
With buildings still unstable, with fires raging below ground of 2000
degrees or more, there was good reason for concern.
Well the President remained there and talked to everyone, the
firefighters, the police officers, the healthcare workers, the clergy, but the
people who spent the most time with him were our construction workers.
Now New York construction workers are very special people. I'm sure this
is true all over but I know the ones here the best. They were real heroes
along with many others that day, volunteering immediately. And they're big,
real big. Their arms are bigger than my legs and their opinions are even
bigger than their arms.
Now each one of them would engage the President and I imagine like his
cabinet give him advice. They were advising him in their own words on exactly
what he should do with the terrorists. Of course I can't repeat their exact
language.
But one of them really went into great detail and upon conclusion of his
remarks President Bush said in a rather loud voice, "I agree."
At this point the guy just beamed and all his buddies turned toward him in
amazement.
The guy just lost it.
So he reached over, embraced the President and began hugging him
enthusiastically.
A Secret Service agent standing next to me looked at the President and the
guy and instead of extracting the President from this bear hug, he turned
toward me and put his finger in my face and said, "If this guy hurts the
President, Giuliani you're finished."
Meekly, and this is the moral of the story, I responded, "but it would be
out of love."
I also remember the heart wrenching visit President Bush made to the
families of our firefighters and police officers at the Javits Center.
I remember receiving all the help, assistance and support from the
President and even more than we asked.
For that I will be eternally grateful to President Bush.
And I remember the support being bi-partisan and actually standing hand in
hand Republicans and Democrats, here in New York and all over the nation.
During a Boston Red Sox game there was a sign held up saying Boston loves
New York.
I saw a Chicago police officer sent here by Mayor Daley directing traffic
in Manhattan.
I'm not sure where he sent the cars, they are probably still riding around
the Bronx, but it was very reassuring to know how much support we had.
And as we look beyond this election - and elections do accentuate
differences - let's make sure we rekindle that spirit that we are one - one
America - united to end the threat of global terrorism.
Certainly President Bush will keep us focused on that goal. When
President Bush announced his commitment to ending global terrorism, he
understood - - I understood, we all understood - - it was critical to remove
the pillars of support for the global terrorist movement.
In any plan to destroy global terrorism, removing Saddam Hussein needed to
be accomplished.
Frankly, I believed then and I believe now that Saddam Hussein, who
supported global terrorism, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of his own
people, permitted horrific atrocities against women, and used weapons of mass
destruction, was himself a weapon of mass destruction.
But the reasons for removing Saddam Hussein were based on issues even
broader than just the presence of weapons of mass destruction.
To liberate people, give them a chance for accountable, decent government
and rid the world of a pillar of support for global terrorism is something for
which all those involved from President Bush to the brave men and women of our
armed forces should be proud.
President Bush has also focused on the correct long-term answer for the
violence and hatred emerging from the Middle East. The hatred and anger in
the Middle East arises from the lack of accountable governments.
Rather than trying to grant more freedom, create more income, improve
education and basic health care, these governments deflect their own failures
by pointing to America and Israel and other external scapegoats.
But blaming these scapegoats does not improve the life of a single person
in the Arab world. It does not relieve the plight of even one woman in Iran.
It does not give a decent living to a single soul in Syria. It certainly
does not stop the slaughter of African Christians in the Sudan.
The changes necessary in the Middle East involve encouraging accountable,
lawful governments that can be role models.
This has also been an important part of the Bush Doctrine and the
President's vision for the future.
Have faith in the power of freedom.
People who live in freedom always prevail over people who live in
oppression. That's the story of the Old Testament. That's the story of World
War II and the Cold War.
That's the story of the firefighters and police officers and rescue
workers who courageously saved thousands of lives on September 11, 2001.
President Bush is the leader we need for the next four years because he
sees beyond today and tomorrow. He has a vision of a peaceful Middle East
and, therefore, a safer world. We will see an end to global terrorism. I can
see it. I believe it. I know it will happen.
It may seem a long way off. It may even seem idealistic.
But it may not be as far away and idealistic as it seems.
Look how quickly the Berlin Wall was torn down, the Iron Curtain ripped
open and the Soviet Union disintegrated because of the power of the pent-up
demand for freedom.
When it catches hold there is nothing more powerful than freedom. Give it
some hope, and it will overwhelm dictators, and even defeat terrorists. That
is what we have done and must continue to do in Iraq.
That is what the Republican Party does best - when we are at our best, we
extend freedom.
It's our mission. And it's the long-term answer to ending global
terrorism. Governments that are free and accountable.
We have won many battles - at home and abroad - but as President Bush told
us on September 20, 2001 it will take a long-term determined effort to
prevail.
The war on terrorism will not be won in a single battle. There will be no
dramatic surrender. There will be no crumbling of a massive wall.
But we will know it. We'll know it as accountable governments continue to
develop in countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq.
We'll know it as terrorist attacks throughout the world decrease and then
end.
And then, God willing, we'll all be able on a future anniversary of
September 11th.
To say to our fallen brothers and sisters. To our heroes of the worst
attack in our history and to our heroes who have sacrificed their lives in the
war on terror.
We will say to them we have done all that we could with our lives that
were spared to make your sacrifices build a world of real peace and true
freedom.
We will make certain in the words of President Bush that they have heard
from us.
That they have heard from us a message of peace through free, accountable,
lawful and decent governments giving people hope for a future for themselves
and their children.
God bless each one we have lost, here and abroad, and their families.
God bless all those defending our freedom.
God bless America.

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[insein]

I just wish they would have held his speech for a primetime spot when the networks were going to carry it. Instead we blew our best speech on Cable channels. Arnold will still draw the audience, but i doubt his speech will be as effective and to the point as Rudy's was.

 

[nakedemperor]

I can just hear the liberals kibitzing tomorrow - they're going to say that the only reason the Republicans chose NYC is because they wanted to "use" 9-11.

Do you think they would have chosen NYC if 9/11 had not happened?

 

[JIHADTHIS]

Do you think they would have chosen NYC if 9/11 had not happened?

NYC lobbied both parties to hold their conventions here, the DNC stated they would only hold it here if the republicans didn't.

 

[Annie]

NYC lobbied both parties to hold their conventions here, the DNC stated they would only hold it here if the republicans didn't.

Right you are Jihadthis, both parties were lobbied, while NYC was in shambles. RNC said, "Yes." DNC said, "Yes, if RNC not here." They went to Boston. Truth to tell, if the terrorists strike, Boston is as likely a site as NYC. Just makes DNC look petty.