Comments on: Lunch at the Drake Diner with Rudi http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:59:54 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: MarkH http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/#comment-1173050 MarkH Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:52:12 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/#comment-1173050 <p>If anybody wins the first couple of Repub primaries then Rudy is completely burnt toast (if he isn’t already).</p> <p>The only way Rudy gets another chance is if all the others crash & burn. That also the only reason McCain is getting another look.</p> If anybody wins the first couple of Repub primaries then Rudy is completely burnt toast (if he isn’t already).

The only way Rudy gets another chance is if all the others crash & burn. That also the only reason McCain is getting another look.

]]> By: DennisQ http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/#comment-1172255 DennisQ Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:35:40 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/#comment-1172255 <p>The firefighters aren’t squawking about the radios - that’s a made-up issue. They’re mad because Rudy took them off the pile after the gold was found. It’s a legitimate gripe, because it implies that dead firemen are just garbage. </p> <p>It’s true that firefighters are astonishingly brave, but they are also full of their own legend. Bill Feehan was simply not up to the job of running a terror-response agency in the 21st Century. Rudy is careful not to engage the substance of the issue, because the firefighters themselves won’t stand public scrutiny. FDNY is an all-male group of white guys who commute into the city from the suburbs. The radio issue is their own damn fault, and they know it. If they want to slug it out politically with Giuliani, they are going to lose.</p> The firefighters aren’t squawking about the radios – that’s a made-up issue. They’re mad because Rudy took them off the pile after the gold was found. It’s a legitimate gripe, because it implies that dead firemen are just garbage.

It’s true that firefighters are astonishingly brave, but they are also full of their own legend. Bill Feehan was simply not up to the job of running a terror-response agency in the 21st Century. Rudy is careful not to engage the substance of the issue, because the firefighters themselves won’t stand public scrutiny. FDNY is an all-male group of white guys who commute into the city from the suburbs. The radio issue is their own damn fault, and they know it. If they want to slug it out politically with Giuliani, they are going to lose.

]]> By: newspaperbrat http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/#comment-1172197 newspaperbrat Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:06:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/#comment-1172197 <p>Just to be clear I did not mean my former comment to be a negative dig at the candidate - honestly. He is likely exhausted & needs some sleep.</p> Just to be clear I did not mean my former comment to be a negative dig at the candidate – honestly. He is likely exhausted & needs some sleep.

]]> By: newspaperbrat http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/#comment-1172190 newspaperbrat Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:03:16 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/#comment-1172190 <p>Have been watching Obama live (CSPAN) in Iowa for the last hour or so - am surprised at how inarticulate he has been throughout the appearance and especially the question and answer wrap up.</p> Have been watching Obama live (CSPAN) in Iowa for the last hour or so – am surprised at how inarticulate he has been throughout the appearance and especially the question and answer wrap up.

]]> By: Mommybrain http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/#comment-1172188 Mommybrain Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:48:54 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/#comment-1172188 <p>Hey, don’t discount lady-bears, they are are most ferocious! Sprout came within spittin’ distance of one a couple of years ago, in the front yard of our old house (it’s one reason we moved, he wouldn’t go outside anymore). If I had known at the moment that she had 2 cubs stashed in the deodar cedar out back, I would have had a full-on heart attack instead of a just a panic attack. :) It wasn’t a grizzly, “only” a black bear.</p> Hey, don’t discount lady-bears, they are are most ferocious! Sprout came within spittin’ distance of one a couple of years ago, in the front yard of our old house (it’s one reason we moved, he wouldn’t go outside anymore). If I had known at the moment that she had 2 cubs stashed in the deodar cedar out back, I would have had a full-on heart attack instead of a just a panic attack. :) It wasn’t a grizzly, “only” a black bear.

]]> By: Eureka Springs http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/#comment-1172187 Eureka Springs Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:47:31 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/#comment-1172187 <blockquote><p>I woulda stayed on topic, but come on, “Rudi is a PUTZ” ??? that’s news ???</p></blockquote> <p>It’s news worth repeating, yes.</p>

I woulda stayed on topic, but come on, “Rudi is a PUTZ” ??? that’s news ???

It’s news worth repeating, yes.

]]> By: freepatriot http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/#comment-1172186 freepatriot Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:43:13 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/#comment-1172186 <p>well, if you guys call that “weather”</p> <p>hrmmmp</p> <p>how could it be the “Best” weather</p> <p>I never see it on the Weather Channel</p> <p>I’m thinking your definition of “Best” weather is a little different than mine</p> <p>I like it when the wind is whipping around 100 miles per hour, and shit is blowing all over the place … in Florida</p> <p>cept for snow and floods, California doesn’t have much “Interesting” weather, much less the “Best” weather</p> <p><em><br /> I woulda stayed on topic, but come on, “Rudi is a PUTZ” ??? that’s news ???</em></p> well, if you guys call that “weather”

hrmmmp

how could it be the “Best” weather

I never see it on the Weather Channel

I’m thinking your definition of “Best” weather is a little different than mine

I like it when the wind is whipping around 100 miles per hour, and shit is blowing all over the place … in Florida

cept for snow and floods, California doesn’t have much “Interesting” weather, much less the “Best” weather


I woulda stayed on topic, but come on, “Rudi is a PUTZ” ??? that’s news ???

]]> By: TeddySanFran http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/#comment-1172185 TeddySanFran Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:41:32 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/#comment-1172185 <p><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/03/BAGHPPJD6Q1.DTL" rel="nofollow">more here</a></p> <p>I took the photo (please don’t tell anyone my avatar is a lady-bear! Although, having just finished reading The Golden Compass, my understanding of avatars and respect for bears is at an all-time high….)</p> more here

I took the photo (please don’t tell anyone my avatar is a lady-bear! Although, having just finished reading The Golden Compass, my understanding of avatars and respect for bears is at an all-time high….)

]]> By: newtonusr http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/#comment-1172184 newtonusr Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:39:05 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/#comment-1172184 <blockquote><p>Rudy was not a micro-manager…</p></blockquote> <p>To say the least, unless it comes to feathering his own nest.<br /> And he claimed to have a very hands-on approach to disaster planning, so… which is it?</p>

Rudy was not a micro-manager…

To say the least, unless it comes to feathering his own nest.
And he claimed to have a very hands-on approach to disaster planning, so… which is it?

]]> By: TeddySanFran http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/#comment-1172183 TeddySanFran Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:39:02 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/lunch-at-the-drake-diner-with-rudi/#comment-1172183 <p><em>Preparedness for terrorism</em> is the issue the firefighters are talking about: non-interoperable radios, personally designating the WTC as the NYC CTU center, and not holding any drills at all despite being elected in the wake of the first WTC bombing. If your platform is <em>terror preparedness</em>, getting everything <strong>wrong</strong> about<em> terror preparednes</em>s up until 9/11 — well, it sucks to be Rudi.</p> <p>Making obscene amounts of money off of terror preparedness from shady clients you won’t reveal — well, it still sucks to be Rudi.</p> <p>Firefighters are heroes and truth-tellers. No one cares who the fire chief was; Rudi sez he saved NYC. The firefighters say he caused all the problems. </p> <p>Who you gonna believe?</p> Preparedness for terrorism is the issue the firefighters are talking about: non-interoperable radios, personally designating the WTC as the NYC CTU center, and not holding any drills at all despite being elected in the wake of the first WTC bombing. If your platform is terror preparedness, getting everything wrong about terror preparedness up until 9/11 — well, it sucks to be Rudi.

Making obscene amounts of money off of terror preparedness from shady clients you won’t reveal — well, it still sucks to be Rudi.

Firefighters are heroes and truth-tellers. No one cares who the fire chief was; Rudi sez he saved NYC. The firefighters say he caused all the problems.

Who you gonna believe?

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