Interesting tidbit

[Son of Norway]

to me, anyways. Rudy Giulliani, while campaigning in Alabama was asked what a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread cost.

"A gallon of milk is probably about a $1.50, a loaf of bread about a $1.25, $1.30," he said.



What a perfectly revealing question! Brilliant!

Yeah, he understands the working folk. Dumb jack ass. However, I bet every person running, regardless of party, is studying up on the cost of staple items these days.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18053711/

[Dakotaranger]

Shoot, being close to the broke part of life, I don't have a clue what a gallon of milk is. I pay $.84 for a loaf at the bread outlet store because I'm cheap. I don't know what the average loaf of bread costs at a grocery store.

You might as well ask him what the difference is between .223 Remington and 5.56 NATO, it doesn't really mean anything.

What does mean something is how Mayor Guilliani used the constitution as a weapon against the citizenry rather than the limit on government the Founders intended.

[eric_t12]

Originally Posted by Dakotaranger

What does mean something is how Mayor Guilliani used the constitution as a weapon against the citizenry rather than the limit on government the Founders intended.

+1,000,000

[FrankRizzoXD40]

That's pretty bad.

I'm still more upset about his positions regarding gun control and abortion.

He won't get my vote.

Frank

[Mark S.]

Most of them probably don't know what a gallon of gasoline costs, either.

[PackerfanXD]

Originally Posted by FrankRizzoXD40

He won't get my vote.

Nor mine.

[jdavionic]

Originally Posted by PackerfanXD

Nor mine.

+ another. I cannot stand the guy. The way that he dances on gun control is repulsive. It's not even so much the stance itself...it's how he addresses it.

In a nutshell, he says that crime was his number 1 priority and he inherited the stringent gun control ban. So he didn't bother addressing it because he was focused on solving crime rate problems. What does that tell me? First, he believes that lifting the ban would have been detrimental to the crime rate. Secondly, our 2A rights are low on his priority list and he's willing to sacrifice them to address other issues that he deems a higher priority.

He's a friggin weasel politician like the other DC scum. He's incapable of saying the flat out truth and would rather dance & squirm to dodge exposing his real beliefs. He can piss up a rope as far as I'm concerned. He will never get my vote.

[deepdiver]

Originally Posted by Son of Norway

to me, anyways. Rudy Giulliani, while campaigning in Alabama was asked what a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread cost.

"A gallon of milk is probably about a $1.50, a loaf of bread about a $1.25, $1.30," he said.



What a perfectly revealing question! Brilliant!

Yeah, he understands the working folk. Dumb jack ass. However, I bet every person running, regardless of party, is studying up on the cost of staple items these days.

Well, it wasn't so much a brilliant question as much as a "gotcha" question when it first became a staple question in presidential elections nearly 20 years ago. IIRC, it was first used as a GOTCHA question against VP Bush in the 1988 presidential campaign. It was a really loaded question at that point because he had spent most of the last 15 years as an ambassador (they don't shop for their own food) and then as VP (they don't shop for their own food either) so he had not a clue.

There is nothing brilliant about it anymore even though the media disengeniously, especially in that article, report it like it has some significance and take a swipe at Bush 41 in the process. Congressional and Presidential candidates are typically given the price of a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread in their daily breifings. Hillary Clinton probably hasn't shopped for her own food in over 20 years, but I'll guarantee when she is asked she'll know the answer. They all should know the answer, not because it has any meaning about anything, but rather they typically practice it as it is always asked now several times during the campaign.

I have no idea what bread and milk cost. Not because I am wealthy or someone shops for me, but because when I need it, I just buy it. Need is different than want and I pay what it costs because you need it and need it, and it isn't a number I carry around in my head with me. My father probably can't tell you the cost of those items either. My mother does the food shopping 99% of the time and has for 40 years. If he ever goes and gets either of those items he is like me, he needs them so he gets them and there is no reason to waste brain power remembering the price for later. It is a meaningless question that some journalist thought was clever to show how out of touch republicans are with the "working man" (another phrase that is made up and meaningless as everyone I know who is really really wealthy worked their butts of to get that way).

[Dhunter55]

The price of a gallon of milk is just about the same price as a gallon of gas these days. Too bad we can't run off of milk. Cows are way better than refineries but still produce the same waste as what we're being fed by our politicians.