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columnist: Kipper Mathews

Topic: Presidential Campaign 2008
Hope For America

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Giuliani gives Hope for America and steps down from his bid for The White House.

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by Kipper Mathews
(Libertarian)
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Rudy Giuliani gave Hope for America today by with-drawling his bid for The White House. The news created a sigh of relief heard across the country by many Americans who feared that he actually stood a chance of becoming the next President.

Rudy Giuliani the ex-mayor of New York City established himself as "The Tough-on-Crime Mayor" and staged a war on the poor crime-ridden inner-city neighborhoods. Stating that "...80% of all crime is committed by young black males," he authorized the random search of all citizens to find illegal weapons. Cries of excessive force and police brutality soon followed and became nationally publicized when an incident involving a bound, defenseless and incarcerated suspect that was tortured and sodomized with a mop handle by police. Followed by another incident in which an unarmed man standing on his porch was riddled with 19 bullets fired by 4 nonuniform police officers one night as he reached to get his wallet. (0ver 40 shots were fired). Rudy hailed the acquittal of the officers involved and the resident- barred jury by saying " It fills me with profound respect for being an American and for living in a country that has a trial by jury." He also compared the NYC police to "civil rights workers" and called protests "anti-police prejudice," likening them to "racial bigotry or Antisemitism." Rudy Giuliani also made headlines with his involvement with his corruption indicted Police Commissioner and friend Bernard Kerik.

Rudy did have a following of loyal supporters that thought his stand on abortion and gay rights would pull him through, but his one state statagy failed and he is calling it quits.

Fortunately with this news...the field narrows and the candidate that has been labeled as "The Underdog," Ron Paul moves up another notch. Maybe there is.... Hope for America.

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Published: Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Last modified: Tuesday, March 4, 2008

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