Giuliani law firm drops ties to Venezuela's Citgo

Melanie Hillis, a spokeswoman for the Houston-based law firm of Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, said political considerations didn’t figure into the decision to sever ties.

Howzat?!

"The breakup had nothing to do with Giuliani's campaign for the Republican nomination for President". Am I supposed to believe that??
This Mr. Giuliani has a closet full of skeletons.

St. Barack writing letters on behalf of Tony Rezko's development company is so much worse than this right Johnny D. Spin away my friend.

Giuliani should have insisted that the firm sever ties with Citgo long ago.

Now pressure should be put on the Kennedy's to follow suit.

First off, S. Sherman nobody, but nobody tells the Kennedys what to do. There's right, wrong and the Kennedy way. At least Rudy "G" has done something right !

More doo-doo droppings onto the 9/11 hero myth that is Rudy Gigoloiani.

Beverly Hillbilly Jethro, I won't excuse Guiliani's law firm but this seems like something out of nothing. However, since you brought up Rezko and Obama, isn't Rezko under indictment and hasn't Obama profited quite well from his relations with that criminal, Mr. Rezko?

China is ready willing and able to take the 1.5 million barrels per day we send to the US. Your wish will soon may become a reality.

Hope Giuliani becomes the next president of the US so that Israel's zionist who run your country today and responsible for 911 (Rudy included) will finish the job of sending the US to hell!

Bravo Rudy. Hey neo-nutters even the sane hate Chavez...so suck it!!!

Palomudowhacko,

Chavez can go drink his oil and you can spoon feed it to hime like the child he is.

Republican voters don't like candidates who are associated with foreign dictators such as Hugo Chavez. Democrats embrace friends of Chavez and Castro such as "Sicko" Moore. That is one of the differences between the 2 parties.

Now that they made enough money, these Mafioso can afford to turn their interests in Venezuela over to one of their subsidiaries in order not to bruise Giuliano's reputation for being clean, wholesome, pure, and the kinda guy we all want to be the leader of this country. As for Obama, why do you clowns keep accusing him of being guilty by association?

Dooogieeee!!!!! I didn't think I ever would say this: Nice response to Palomudo! Couldn't have said it any better myself!

Palomudo,
Hope Giuliani becomes the next president of the US so that Israel's zionist who run your country today and responsible for 911 (Rudy included) will finish the job of sending the US to hell!

Another lefty tells us what he really thinks!

Omudo,

The "pal" is missing because someone so full of hate has no friends.

Sherm.

See above.

Kenny,
The "pal" is missing because someone so full of hate has no friends.

He can go to one of the leftwing blogs like democraticunderground.com and he will find A LOT of friends.

SS Sherman, just like your GOP hero, Benedict Joe Lieberman, you want to take out all the Arab countries because they disagree with your religious beliefs, right?

Typical mouthbreathing Neonut!

Sherm,

It's one thing for an outsider to hate America, another for a citizen to speak up. It's disconcerting to see one of the latter be somewhat supportive of the anti-semitism and anti-American sentiment of the former. Whatever point you were trying to make is tainted.

Kenny,
t's one thing for an outsider to hate America, another for a citizen to speak up. It's disconcerting to see one of the latter be somewhat supportive of the anti-semitism and anti-American sentiment of the former.

I don't know what that means. I was merely saying that one can go to any of the prominent leftwing blogs and see that kind of anti-Semitic garbage all day long.

Sherm,

"Omudo" appears to be from Venezuela, and based on his anti-American, anti-semitic rant, needs no further instruction or help from you. You seem easily misguided.

As for left-wing websites, what's your interest? You're clearly not enlightened or progressive. Nazis, skinheads, and fascists and others espousing anti-semitism and racial hate are usually associated with your beloved Right. And don't waste my time with your overdone argument trying to prove the rule with exceptions that you've dug up in all of that spare time of yours.

Well spoken Kenny B.!

Ignore SS Sherman he's just a rightwing racist troll looking to spread fear and hate to the masses while pretending to be persecuted himself.

His is how the Neocon "brain" works, scare people into thinking that your guys will save the masses from the unknown fear that is actually fear itsself.

Kenny Bunkport, can we agree that elements of the Far Right and Far Left are anti-Semetic? There is one difference, though: Skinheads, Nazis, etc. are not mainstream conservatives or Republicans. Putting Omudo aside, in recent months I have seen lots of Lefties post anti-Semetic comments in the Swamp. While extreme, those Lefties are more mainstream on your side of the fence than the Skinheads or Nazis are on my side of the fence.

John D,

Go far enough to the extreme left or the extreme right, and one crosses over -- it's a continuum. Example: Castro's rise from socialism/communism, but eventually using repression and worse from fascism to maintain control. Chavez may soon have to do the same and we see signs of it in his shutting down of media.

As far as anti-semitism and the left, it's important to make the distinction between anti-Israeli policies, and being anti-Jewish, which, during its 5500 year existence, has already been the most persecuted and maligned religion in history. Blurring those issues does a tremendous disservice.

But Kenny, there have been lots of posts from your side of the fence about Jews being behind 9/11, or Jews are the cause of 9/11 and terrorism because of their existence with the state of Israel. Or that Israel should no longer exist to end Arab terrorism.

And I am not a rubber-stamping Zionist. In my life, there have been plenty of times I have been highly critical of Israeli policies and actions. About three ago I was exceptionally critical of their actions when they had Arafat held up in Bethlehem, I believe. But, I also recognize that they are a democracy, and a country and people that has had endured much in the way of terrorism and I can understand some of their actions and responses.
I agree there can be a blurring as you state, but in recent years more on the side of the Left have become anti-Semetic, whether it's aimed at Israel or not, and some of that is lead by your buddy, Jimmy Carter, who I think has gone completely off his rocker and is an anti-Semite.

Kenny,
As far as anti-semitism and the left, it's important to make the distinction between anti-Israeli policies, and being anti-Jewish

So you admit that the left is anti-Israel?

John D,

You have no idea where my fence is, or how tall it is.

I don't think you should put so much stock in labels, Hate is hate and is not a mere left or right issue for your finger pointing.

Sherm,

See my comments to John D, and work on those leaps of quasi-logic.

Kenny. Kenny, Kenny. I am agreeing with you, just pointing out the fact that the Left has been spewing anti-Jewish venom for a few years now and that some of that venom has become mainstream within the Left, lead by Jimmy Carter's anti-Semitism, which has cost him a good number of staff people lately. Sorry, if this bothers you, but it is the truth.

"Republican voters don't like candidates who are associated with foreign dictators such as Hugo Chavez."

Republican voters like candidates who are associated with foriegn dictators such as King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, and General Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan.

If what you've dug up is so distasteful, why are you repeating it over and over?

John E's Father writes:
the Left has been spewing anti-Jewish venom for a few years now and that some of that venom has become mainstream within the Left

I agree with you but I just wonder if Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan are considered mainstream left or far left.

S. Sherman,

Let's hear you establish your boan fides?

Who the hell are you to pass judgement on Cindy Sheehan?

All cluck, no action?

Posted by John E's father June 25, 2007 8:28 AM

Nice trick Little Johnny D'tard, are you so embarressed by your own posts now that you can't even sign your name to them?

Are you also involved in the "hate" business with Shermie, you know, blowing up anything or anyone who is Arab and disagreeing with your religious beliefs?

funny how many people criticize chavez and the reforms engendered in venezuela...

do u know anything about it? i doubt it...

it's easy to call him a dictator... but can u justify it? was he not elected with over 60% of the vote in both elections? was he not challenged twice in national referendums called for by the venezuelan right wing? did he not survive both of these referendum votes overwhelmingly...

i mean, hate him if u want to... hate the venezuelan people if u want to...

but STFU whe it comes to calling him a dictator... he is not... he is the president of venezuela, elected fairly by his people...

and the u.s. tried to depose him with force in a miltary coup backed by rctv and other right wing media sleaze machines...

it was reveresed when millions came out into the streets to defend their constitution...

what a great day that was!! like when reno sent in the police to rescue that cuban boy from his kidnappers... WOW what a great day that was... and to see the anti-castro cuban sleazebags shrieking was such joyous music to my heart...

anti-semitism?

u filthy lying piece of *&#t... u jewish? bush's family did business with the nazis straight through wwii, to the point where the us federal gov't had to confiscate their assets under trading with the enemy provisions...

all of a sudden it is the left that is anti-semitic!! lol!!??! it that isn't classic orwellian 1984 spin --

if u want to be a vile slug be my guest... but u come on here talking crazy about who is anti-semitic?

i hope i get the chance to put my hands on u one day...

the left wing is largely jewish u idiot!! always has been, always will be...

ONE PROUD LEFT WING JEW

looks like wwiii is coming, the fascists are on the rise again...

the only thing the christian right supports israel for is to see it destroyed to usher in their rapture BS

it pains my heart to see jews and nazis rolling around in bed together, and i never would have thought it was possible...

but it is happening more and more... take super hawk nazi jew michael savage... heard him on the radio one day say that the civil rights movement in america is a plot to deprive white folks of their birthright!! wow!!

remember that while it saddens me to see 30% of jews vote for a nazi like bush, that is still 70% who voted against him...

it is like some karl rovian strategy to speak and present as if jews are with bush... yes some disgusting slimy jews are prominent in the neo-con movement... but the majority of jews see them for the filth that they are...

don't believe the hype...

if u removed blacks, latinos, and jews from the equation, this would be a hard core nazi country already (with millions of decent folks trapped behind the shutters)... try to imagine what these elections would look like without liberal minorities...

patrick buchanon would be the liberal candidate...

Seth writes:
ONE PROUD LEFT WING JEW

I am one Jew who abandoned the left because he could no longer feel proud there.

How do you feel about Cindy Sheehan claiming that her son died for Israel?

Oh Weird Johnny E., that post by your "daddy" was an accident.

Anyway, only one post was meant to be that way, which was in response to your post as my "analyst."

By the way, Weird, Demented Johnny E., you of all people are the last to post as someone else. Me and the LIBune have tons of posts by you -- even under my name!!!

Sherman, i haven't heard a blanket statement by her like that... but maybe i missed it...

if her assertion, is that her son died for israel to the exlusion of the oil interests and neo-cons in america... i would think she was somewhat misguided... if however, along with the neo-cons, and those who they sycophantically serve, she want to make clear that israel's interests weigh dispropotionately on american foreign policy... i'd have to say she's right on...

and again, this new spin that has emerged of labelling any anti-israeli criticism as anti-semitic smacks of rove or some other such evil...

when it comes to israel, i have, what i would call, a balanced perspective... i support them in many things, and criticize in many things... it is a nation... this has nothing to do with how i feel as a jew... i was raised to be proud of my heritage, and i am proud...

personally i am very very un religious... all but a small few of the 'great' jews of history, those who contributed something ot mankind have been secular jews...

religious fundamentalists have added nothing good to life on this earth... nothing. never. not fundamentalist jews, not fundamentalist christians, not fundamentalist muslims...

u should watch 'the power of nightmares' -- i tmay shed some light on who your new friends are...

look, israel is a democracy in the middle east, maybe i'm an idiot for questioning their policies... so be it -- call me on it... call me a dumbass-- just don't dare call me anti-semitic unless u hear me say something like that...

israel ook a turn for the worse when it adandoned the politics of the left... i'm talking domestic politics, the kibbutzim, etc...

not until revisionist zionism replaced labor zionism in the 1970's did things change on a fundamental level...

and it makes sense... because jews are people like anyone else... we are just as suseptible to being a greedy bastard who will interpret reality so as to fit pre-conceived notions as anyone else...

one generation forgets the struggles of the generation that passed...

corporate greed, and the privileges that come from wealth are all that guides modern society... morality is all but defunct...

if a jew acts like a fascist, i won't call him a kike, i'll call him a fascist...

if the shoe fits, wear it...

Seth,
You never heard about it? Read about it here:

http://judicial-inc.biz/cindy_sheehan_Israel.htm

Read what your buddies on the left are saying.

Seth, don't buy into Sherman's crap.

He's a racist and he hates all Arab's, he's also pro-Iraq/Iran war only because they have different religious beliefs than he does.

They guy has "Angry Republican Loser" written all over him.

john E--

if one of these ppl said it was daytime, i would KNOW it was night -- EVEN if i could see the sun...

ok sherm-

i read it... it says exactly what i thought... that it is a neo-Con/PNAC agenda...

ooooooh... she criticized israel!! omg, we should burn her at the stake now...

and remember, after wwii most jews went to palestine because that was the only place to go... if somehow the religious nuts could have been told to stfu, and israel was set up in madagascar instead it would be a different world... the jewish people would have a homeland of their own... but NO! it had to be jerusalem, because god said it is ours... but we didn't have the strength to take it for ourselves, the christian world had to give it to us...

and just for the record, i'm not giving the arabs a free pass here... for one thing the arab states largely sided with nazi germany, so i'm not, and they shouldn't be surprised that, guess what? u lose something after the war when u back the wrong side... to this day they act like wwii never happened...

i don't ike fundamentalists of any stripe... if i could push a button and have every fundamentalist of every persuasion just drop off the side of the world i would be mashing it and jumping up and down on it, and fianlly sitting on it, lest it ever come up again...

and the fact remains that iran, for example, had democratic elections in the 1950's... women had the right to vote... but because the right wingers couldn't abide by a third-world nation controlling its own assets, we (the CIA) had Mossadeq assasinated, and replaced with a murderous thug (the Shah)... THIS is what led to the Islamification of iran... because we cant control our greedy right wingers, the whole country is reaping a whirlwind...

a jew, whether american or israeli, or whatever, who chooses to ally himself with the neo-Cons or PNAC is a foul piece of sh*t in my opinion, just like anyone else who does...

like i said above, if i see a jewish fascist, i'm gonna call him a fascist...

are we, as jews, different than anyone else sherman?? are we human beings or not? why can't u get it thru your head that some of us are evil? some of us are wonderful... some of us are just bland...

the neo-Cons and PNAC are hell-bent on destroying democracy in america... they admit it... not on mainstream media, but among themselves...

i read your article... u willing to look at something i suggest?? post your comments here, good or bad...

take a look at this BBC documentary:

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares