{"id":13468,"date":"2007-11-03T14:55:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T18:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/13468.html"},"modified":"2007-11-03T14:55:18","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T18:55:18","slug":"giuliani-struggles-to-keep-his-story-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/giuliani-struggles-to-keep-his-story-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Giuliani struggles to keep his story straight"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the oddities of the presidential campaign this week has been the tit-for-tat<\/a> between Joe Biden and Rudy Giuliani. Biden, struggling badly in the race, seems to have settled on hammering Giuliani as a new campaign strategy. Giuliani, ostensibly the GOP frontrunner, seems to believe every challenge deserves a rapid response.<\/p>\n

The result has been surprisingly entertaining. I’ll concede that Biden is far from my favorite Democratic hopeful, but he’s certainly helping himself and the party by looking past the Democratic top tier and directing his attention at the former NYC mayor.<\/p>\n

Ordinarily, you’d expect the GOP leader to ignore a struggling second-tier Dem, but Giuliani is swinging wildly at Biden. So wildly, in fact, that he’s making himself appear pretty foolish.<\/p>\n

Here’s Giuliani<\/a> questioning Biden’s foreign-policy experience.<\/p>\n

“It’s one thing to speak about what you want or even pass laws about it. It’s another thing to actually do it. Foreign policy experience<\/b> to me means being an ambassador, being in the state department.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here’s Giuliani<\/a>, a few hours later, saying the opposite about Biden.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t mention foreign policy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The irony, of course, is that Giuliani has about as thin a foreign-policy resume as any major presidential candidate in the modern era. Biden, meanwhile, is the chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and has decades<\/i> of experience on these issues. Why Giuliani thinks this is a fight he wants to have is a reminder that this guy is a buffoon of legendary proportions.<\/p>\n

As for Biden, he’ll probably never get a realistic shot at the Democratic top tier, but the more he makes Giuliani look ridiculous, the better off he’ll be as a candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the oddities of the presidential campaign this week has been the tit-for-tat between Joe Biden and Rudy Giuliani. Biden, struggling badly in the race, seems to have settled on hammering Giuliani as a new campaign strategy. Giuliani, ostensibly the GOP frontrunner, seems to believe every challenge deserves a rapid response. The result has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}