Monday, 29 October 2007

Reasons not to vote for selected US Presidential candidates #5


The latest in an occasional series of posts looking at the moronic things Presidential candidates have said and done that would, you would hope, disqualify them from contention for the biggest job in politics.

This week it's Rudy Giuliani, speaking in 1994, on his definition of freedom:

"...freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do."

(Hat tip: Michael Weiss.)

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// posted by Mr Eugenides on 29.10.07
Comments:
Hey, don't knock medieval scholastic theology.

# posted by Anonymous Tom : 29 October 2007 23:11
 
Wha... ? This post's nearly a day old and nobody's said "Freedom is slavery" yet?

We're slipping, fellow commenters.

# posted by Anonymous Sam Duncan : 30 October 2007 12:36
 
If you had lived under David Dinkins reign of terror in New York in the early '90's you would have found those words to be sweet.

# posted by Blogger Sunscreen : 30 October 2007 12:37
 
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