Experience is what got us in this mess. Wisdom is what we really need

This is rich coming from him. He completely mismanaged and destroyed his chances of being the nominee, though he was the front turner by far, by his lack of JUDGEMENT or he would be/should be the nominee now. Loser!

The lesson: Judgment trumps old and outdated experience.

More proof of what a pathetic wretch Giuliani is.

obama went to Afghanistan and Iraq so that he can show the soldiers how to play basketball.Wow some foreign policy experience he is trying to get,playing basketball and eating.Hillary supporter still.

Isn't this the same guy who disciplined police officers who shoot an unarmed man over 50 times by suspending them for a week. Can't wait to see what happens if he's in office. If it wasn't for 911, would we even listen to Gulliani?

Giuliani…………. inexperience how long were you a candidate in the Primaries… putting all you eggs in a basket in Florida sounds familiar

why is my comment :"awaiting moderation" twelve hours later?

Wow – could Giuliani be any more idiotic? He would be much better off at this point to be silent and go out to pasture. He ruined NY, he killed thousands of Fireman and the living ones hate his guts. Why does CNN report this stuff. The clown is a nobody and no one listens to Bush, Giuliani, or your inside loser Glenny Beck.

Rudy Giuliani talking about Senator Obama's experience in world affairs is like me trying to coach the space shuttle astronauts on re-entry procedures. This isn't news it is merely petty rhetoric.

Stupid is as stupid does. Obama is ahead of the game and they can't stand it. The more he is attacked the more credible he becomes.

I know this guy aint talking about anyones inexperience in foreign affairs.

Seriously, I think Rudy really put his foot in it this time for anybody who's really paying attention.
Obama is inexperienced because this is the "first time" he's traveled the world? Are you kidding? As many, many right-wing e-mails point out, Obama lived for several of his formative years overseas – in a majority Muslim nation. Who better to understand our neighbors overseas than somebody who played alongside them as an innocent child, who did not know or care that they were the "enemy" because of their geography and beliefs?
As the piece indicates, Obama has also traveled abroad to many nations as an adult, including visits to many of our European allies and to Iraq. The very thing Rudy, McCain and Co. are using their right-wing smear artists to paint false pictures of Obama is one of the things that shows this entire statement to be false. All aboard the Double-Talk Express, indeed!

shut up idiot you never been anywhere out side of new york, all you trying to do is to kiss Mccain a*ss, and trying to be relevant.

"“I think if you look at Senator McCain's record on Iraq – you don't fail to elect him president. He was right about Iraq when almost everybody else was wrong."

I think someone supporting Obama could make this claim more credibly (and it is often made). He's got to supply more explanation of how this might be the case. I have the feeling he's just saying this so that people might begin to repeat it as the storyline.

It's not working Rudy!

Only a looser can talk like that
without any doubt the American people know that Giuliani + Bush+ Mcsame= economic failure
We have faith in the futur of our country
No Bush, no MCsame, no war, No looser…..at all
Obaama for president

Why does Mcain and his surrogates like Juliani get so desperate when Obama is doing the right thing? It is becuase they did not expect Obama could actually be so good and experienced in the things that they themselves have always thought they have a monopoly over…just listen to Julaini'swords…Americans are very smart people and they see through what the Republicans are up to. America make your choice…come November 4th…Go Obama08.

This from a man who thought he himself was experienced enough to be president after being Mayor of New York?

And regarding experience, I don't see too many people calling for McCain to put the very experienced Dick Cheney on the ticket.

Inexperience….who made the biggest blunder in strategising for primaries…hmmm…that would be Guiliani

McCain may have travelled more than Obama, and it's what we expect. McCain has been a Senator for umpteen years, duh!

But McCain is confusing Sunnis and Shiites, and calling two countries by what they went by when they were ONE country.

They've been two countries, Czech Republic and Slovakia, for over 11 years.

I think McCain is a little senile or once he has something in his head that's what he sticks with. He reminds me of an old dog that can't be taught new tricks.

Why is this news? Guiliani ran officially the worst campaign in history, so he has no room to talk.

Perhaps CNN is anxious to avoid mentioning the Iraqi PM backing Obama's plan? That's a considerable endorsement for a guy with "no experience".

I thought Obama was the "PEACE CANDIDATE"—-why is he now pushing for a stepped up war in Afghanistan? Who is he pandering to on this one?

Obama,is inexperianced.Its like a teenager runing for the highest office in the world.At least with McCain he has age which in turn=experiance. Obama,will never understand the mind of the military, it takes a military mind to understand this. And I should know I'm a 28 year old veteran. McCain 2008 a true man of change! All action and little talk is what America needs! Maybe I'm on the wrong track here? I could be clinging to guns and religan?

Is Rudy going through divorce again?

Guilliani is a old has been that was largely ignored by his own party. The right thinks that he is an adulterer and the left thinks that he will do better as a Viagra spokesperson.

Are you flipping kidding me? Is this doofus really speaking out about anyones inexperience? Well I am truly offended. Yes he was the mayor during the 911 catastrophe. However, if that had not happened, he would probably go down in history as a mediocre to not-so-good mayor. He, along with others trailing behind McCain, fail to realize that it does not matter how much experience you have when it comes to politics. People change. Society changes. The world changes. If you are stuck in a certain mindframe and unable to look outside of your 'box' of experience, nothing can ever get better for America.

What a moron rudy is. You would think that at a ballgame he could talk ball. But he talks bull. Mc cain was not the best when he was running and now he is the best. Do not understand these political figures that lie thru their teeth. Guess that is why they are smiling.
I am waiting for the vp nomination to be announced. Then that will be my pick. I was talking to a strong republican and asked what if john took Powell. OH I would vote for him to be president right now. I said what if Obama took powell . Oh but he wouldn't and I said but what if he did, his comment was but he wouldn't. Kept going on like this. He would not answer this. So powell was ok as a gop but no answer if a dem. Maybe this country has to elect a minority to get back to a country as we knew it . Yhis country has fallen so far backwards it is a dangerous time for the US. Washington has not done what they should be doing. Both gop and Dem. Can we start over with a whole new slate?

Rudy Giuliani should keep his awkward statements to himself. His failure to run a proper campaign comes directly from his inexperience. Rudy and John McCain could learn a lesson from Obama and from those millions of people who are supporting Barack. Kissing up to McCain at this point is fuddy-duddy and the GOP is in for a long summer and fall election.

Oh Giuliani, the ultimate armchair politicians.

And as the failed leader of what had to be one of the worst and most ineffectual campaigns for the Presidential nomination in recent history, Rudy knows about inexperience….

Obama will surely flip-flop again upon his return. Now he's pushing to step up the war in Afghanistan—this should delight his anti-war base.

Age does not always begat wisdom…Look at what is happening now..America and Iran are having sit downs…who was the 1st to say he was going to be doing this? Not Old Man McCain thats for sure…What Obama lacks in life experience he makes up for with tempered savy and bravado.

Obama 08

Giuliani who? Look who's talking. Obviously Sen. Obama has more experience than Giuliani, and apparently so does McCain. Is Giuliani still waiting in Florida for the votes to come in? Talking about inexperience.

Obama 08!

Giuliani's comments are symbolic of why America will decidedly elect the 'so-called' inexperienced senator; Barack Obama. You do not talk down on a person with the intelligence that senator Obama posesses without yourself looking stupid. Giuliani is the one that expected Americans to crawl on their feet and elect him because you guys called him the American Mayor. However, Florida had a different name for him a moron. Obama did not need to support the troop surge in Iraq because he was right from day one that George Bush was conducting a war that should never haven waged or authorized. For people like myself it was an illegal war and Americans have been paying dearly for it. So it is refreshing to see a candidate for the presidency of United States who gives the rest of the world a real hope that America will not be running wild overthrowing regimes that it disaggrees with. Talk to your enemies and your stature will not be deminished. We are glad here in Canada that we did not have Stephen Harper as our prime mister when Bush was starting his illegal war on Iraq.

WHAT EXPERIENCE DO YOU HAVE LEAVING YOUR WIFE FOR A 20YR OLD.

What a dork!

Victory? It is a ridiculous premise. This "war" never should have been authorized in the first place – hundreds of thousands of innocent people have been killed in a country that was not involved with al Queda. So how does won claim a victory in these circumstances?
Even the white house now believes diplomacy with Iran is a good thing. Just what is Giuliani thinking? Guess it hits a chord to talk tough int he town most affected. But get the facts straight first – strikes me to do otherwise is a real testament to poor judgement, Mr. Mayor

If Giuliani thinks Obama is inexperienced he should look at himself, he sure made a mess of his run for president, talk about inexperience, he is the dumbest fool around.

I forgot,,, Rudy, you are saying that he was right about everything about iraq etc… That was Barack Obama, You seem to switch names in your memos, or you don't pay attention. You go to the beach and have some mojitos with John together. Leave serious things for the pros.

Obama keeps making promises but then doesn't follow through. He said over and over he would debate McCain anytime, anywhere. Now he won't.

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Thats right, Rudy, you had tons of experience before your ridiculously poor attempt at at running for president!

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And Guiliani is…in his own eyes…this Great Fearless Leader that did so well in the GOP primaries and is a what??!! A Cross Dresser??!!! Oh yeah…his words hold a lot of weight!! Guiliani is noting more than another rich Fat Cat that sees to his own greed and ego. Again…the answer to the GOP'S lack of leadership, is to spread the logic of…Well….at least you know what we are!!!! And we should vote for McBush because he's such a well balanced individual??!! Doesn't have a out of control temper? Doesn't make lewd remarks about a women raped by a gorilla by making this hidious joke in public? Doesn't have memory lapses? ETC…ETC…ETC..

Rudy Giu91an1? Who's that?

Wow!!! The Good Old Boys Club at it again. It's surprising that Obama's ideas are being implemented by the current administration. I wonder how McSame and his side kicks feel about this. If McSame is so brilliant, why is the present administration not listening…

Yes, he showed his excellent knowledge of the world when he wanted to install the missiles in Czechoslovakia. Twice,
Sen. McCain, go to some nice beach and take it easy. Relax and have fun, man!

WHO REALLY CARES WHAT RUDY THINKS?

PLEASE REPORT SOME REAL NEWS!

We don't need Giuliani to tell us of Obama's inexperience. A m,an who ignored the entire nation and went to sit down in Florida hoping to win the republican primary to be the party's nominee is absolutely, grossly inexperienced. He remains the most disappointing politician I have ever known. A politician with the biggest idea on how not to win an election.

Giuliani wishes he was in Obama's place. Idiot!!

Gulliani, your two faced phrases will never work anymore, look what happened to you in Florida during the elections….you cannot be trusted anymore…you are your own enemy….

Oh please let this lead to another smackdown by Joe Biden. Rudy "Noun, Verb, and 9-11″ Giuliani has no business talking about "experience."

A comment? Like – how would you know, Rudy? You don't know anything outside of NYC; we just saw how much you don't know.

In that case they should elect my travel agent who has been to over 100 countries, Republican politicians need to grow up, they have messed up, no chance of giving them another 4 years to mess up.

Inexperience like you running for President, or inexperience like you cheating on your wife or inexperience like you not providing the NYPD and NYFD with the equipment needed to communicate in and around the World Trade Center after the first attack. Yeah, perhaps Rudy, you are not a very good person to be making this call.

If McSame has so much experience, why is he flip flopping on all those policy positions? He may have the edge on experience but that kind of experience we sure don't need. No Thanks McBush!!

Giuliani??? Who?!?!?!?? You are out of the political picture, buddy. No one cares what you think.

As a New Yorker all i can think is … what a moron. Guiliani will say anything to curry favor. I hope McCain picks him to be his vp, so we can have a couple of soulless old corpses trotting out the sorry old Be Afraid! lines. Keep it up, boys.

This from a man who also has no foreign policy experience. He has a lot of room to talk. He was the major of New York City and never held national office. Also he couldn't even run a campaign. Yea, he is a person I trust to how what is going on in the world.

1) Rudy is totally irrelevant.
2) Where had GW Bush been before he became president
3)John McAin't does not know the name of the countries or who lives there

Who cares what Giuliani thinks. Lets be honest, his failed presidential run was an inexperienced JOKE.

Please! Okay, McCain has so much "experience" regarding foreign affairs, but does not seem to have a clue or CONCERN about the economy! I'm so sick of the same argument by John McCain and his fellow Republicans.

Obama for President

(CNN) – Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday Barack Obama’s overseas visit is only serving to highlight the candidate’s inexperience in world affairs…..It was an UNJUST WAR ,Lots of lives were lost …….Mr Obama voted against the WAR …Giuliani with that CHESHIRE CAT GRIN will say any thing and guess what you are not on the short list for VP

OBAMA 08/2012
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Giuliani is a buffoon. Everyone in New York City hates him and he has less than zero credibility, especially after is ridiculously inept presidential campaign. If McCain needs this guy to be his surrogate, McCain's in worse shape than I thought.

Wow, John McCain…20 or 30 years of "experience" travelling around the world at taxpayer expense…and what exactly has he accomplished with all that important travel "experiencxe" that we've been paying for all these years?

In fact, what "leadership" has McCain actually shown on anything, with any material relevence at all for the average Joe, in his quarter century of cashing taxpayer-funded checks as Senator?

It's obvious that Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's comments only serve to highlight that John McCain is just another old-time, do-nothing politician that's lived his life with his snout buried deeply in the public trough without much of anything to show for all the taxpayer dollars we've spent on him.

Since he hasn't shown any actual "leadership" in Government after all these years, at his advanced age, then why on earth would anyone expect him to magically become some kind of "leader" now?

As a nation, we've had more than enough of empty-suited Senators and Representatives like John McCain who never actually accomplish anything of relevence to the lives of the citizens who are paying their bills.

Thanks, Rudy, for helping clarify that point about your boy John McCain.

Hey IDIOTS for the repubs! THE SURGE HAS NOT SUCCEEDED!!!! Look at the bigger picture dummies.

Experience does not make a great president! Bush had expericence, he even had more expericence after the firtst 4 years. Look, what has he done for us, for this country!

We need new ideas, we need changes, we need some one who is just like Obama. I think He is the one!

Do I care what horror Juliani says? He is an idiot anyway…

Guiliani is a slime ball like the rest of the Republican's are

Why is it newsworthy every time someone insignicant and irrelevant attacks Obama? If Rudy Guiliani was as great as the media makes him out to be he would have easily beat John McCain who ran a very uninspiring Republican primary race.

Giuliana is the master planner…ala presidential candidate race. He has no room to talk. If experience is any measure then why is the Bush administration is doing exactly what Obama said. Horizon = time table.

B.S. reeks so pervasively with the Repubicans they can't tell what is fact or fiction. Democratic or Republican ideology.

Republicans will lose in the biggest way. Let's recap: rolling black outs co Enron, Katrina, Iraq War, Banking and mortgage issues. All we need now is to attack Iran.

McCain was wrong on Iraq in the beginning and continues to be wrong! You, Mr. Giuliani should work on fixing your marriage or ex-marriage relationships.

McCain has no judgement whatsoever. His only solution to international issues is to "bomb, bomb, bomb," spend hundreds of billions of dollars that we don't have, borrow money from China, ship our jobs overseas and flush the U.S. economy down the toilet.

McCain's and Bush's so called experience brought us the current situation. Nice attempt…but no thanks.

…and Ron Mueller says that Senator Obama shows the kind of leadership America needs.

My opinion is just as good as Mr. Giuliani's who did nothing in the primary until Florida, came in third, and dropped out less than three weeks later.

CNN, if you're going print opinions at least use your space to quote people whose opinions we value and have a successful background in nation economy and foriegn policy experience. Mr. Giuliani has neither.

Het Rudi…maybe that is why you are not the nominee. Your judgement is way off.

If we had left Iraq as Obama wanted to, the country would have had a chance to make their own future. It may have fallen into violence but at least they would have been fighting the war themselves instead of having us do it for them. And in the mean time we would have had alot more money and alot more troops to fix the major problems with Afghanistan. And regardless of what John McCain, George Bush, and Rudy Guliani want you to believe, the real war against terrorism is centered on Afghanistan and Pakistan and have nothing to do with Iraq.

I hear about the media bias towards Obama. Then I read blogs like this one on CNN about something McCain is doing. True he went to Iraq and places but if I'm not mistaken, he chose to go under secrecy for secruity reasons. Now who in their right mind cares about this dude at a baseball park? What the heck??!!

yeah, he's really showing his inexperience, that's why every aspect of his foreign policy was validated this week, and mccain had to play catch-up

Last time I checked, Giulliani grew up in NYC, went to undegrad in NYC, got his law degree in NYC, practiced law in NYC and after a stint in Washington DC returned to become Mayor of NYC.

Meanwhile, Obama grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia, went to college in California and NYC, worked in Chicago, travelled to Kenya and then went to Law School in Cambridge, MA. Oh yeah, and his major in college was Foreign Relations. Furthermore, if Obama has been in NYC while Giuliani was mayor, he would have been working on the streets of the outer boroughs to help those that Giuliana was displacing.

McCain should choose better surrogates to attack Obama's worldliness. Come on. Really?

Obama's only over seas because McCain double dog dared him to go. BO only does things when backed into a corner (e.g. kick Wrigiht under the bus, admit the surge is working, etc., etc.).

Experience does not guarantee good judgment. McCain's "humorous" ditty "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" provides pretty good evidence that McCain's vaunted experience has not produced an individual who is qualified to be president.

???

The point is?

he milked it as much as Bush did.
Even Republicans saw through it.

Man, I wish *somebody* would define what "victory" means in Iraq. When measured against the diminished standing of the US in the world and the breaking of the worlds finest military, any "victory" in Iraq is Pyrrhic at best. And this is what McCain wants to defend?

"He has been going there for 20-30 years. He knows the world. He understands the world.”

His perceptions and understaning of the world of the world are out of date and therefore not relevant to this time.

Hillary tried to play the inexperience card…..Look at how well that worked out.

I find it very funny that he is speaking as if McCain hasn't make more mistakes talking about this "world" and its cultures than I have fingers. That is just this election season. So I guess what equates to is that to have experience is that you go there but are able to be ignorant about the things that make up the world.

In the long history of our country not one of president elect had experience before taken office..not even vice president. As for as experience in world affair unless you been secretary of state with broad latude by your president a person has no foriegn experience. It is an on the job training job an only can be graded after your term is over.

As if Mr. "Nooun-Verb-9/11″ knows ANYTHING! Nothing like catcalls from the cheap seats… Giuliani, you just like to hear yourself talk. Well, we don't. SHUT UP!

you've got to be friggin' kidding me!! hey rudy, you forgot to mention 9/11.

Rumsfeld had experience. Cheney had experience. What did that get us? 4,000 dead, 30,000 wounded and $700 billion dollars wasted.

The G-man would make a great VP candidate on McSame's ticket. Goodness knows that is as close as he is getting to the White House till Barack invites him for that crow dinner.

Okay Don Giuliani, I will only say let's compare your campaign run and his campaign run. Who's campaign is still running? Now, will you please go somewhere and sit it down, thanks.

I am curious why CNN believes anything Giuliani has to say is newsworthy.

Is Rudy still runing???

During the interplay with the press, Giuliani once again pulled out his cute cell phone stick, took a phone call from his wife and was overheard to say "Honey I can't talk right now….right in the middle of Karl's talking points…Ya the inexperience chessnut….I'm going straight home after the game…I dont know, I'm sure McSame has extra Depends…Gotta go, just a little more BS to serve…Love ya too…"

Well maybe Giuliani can teach Obama a thing or two about experience..let see he's experienced in cheating on his wife, breaking up his family oh yeah and there is that failed attempt at running for president. Speak not Giuliani!

If the Iraq war continues USA will lose in Afghanistan like the Soviet Union lost the Soviet Afghan war. Obama speaks the truth.

What's the purpose of a trip when your mind is already made up?

"He (Sen. McCain) was right about Iraq when almost everybody else was wrong."

Some people just cannot accept the truth. Yes, elect McCain for president so we can continue on this course of disaster.

This cat is a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jul;ie you are too mouthy and without substance. John is a hero but so was McArthur, and the almost 5,000 who have died in Iraq. John is too old and has both an anger problem and a communication problem. Did yuo look at those faces at the camps in Afghanastan – the soldiers? Did you see the interest, the pride in seeing Barack Obama there? Those soldiers are the future and they are in the same generation as Sen Obama and understand the new world, noty trying to eep it old with old war stories and
sound off" songs. C'mon………… Republicans, your day(s) was here, it is long gone.

Giuliani you failed to protect New York. The Twin Towers were attacked before 911 and where was your contingency plan. You relied on Washington?!! And who was there, with all their experience….John McCain. Now you want to talk about Iraq, you bold faced liars!!!!

Who really cares what Giuliani has to say about anything? I am so fed up with pathetic reporters playing their neurotic little games of let's play one politician against another rather than doing some real and honest reporting!

All this emphasis on foreign experience is nearly laughable. Over the years, how many of our elected presidents have come into the Oval Office with vast foreign affairs experience?

How much experience did Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton or George W. Bush have? Obviously, it wasn't a determining factor in those elections. Granted, we might be in a different situation now had we chosen someone more qualified in foreign affairs the past 4 elections, but we didn't.

Mccain Inaguration……………………..

I don't see any women in this picture, CNN.

Not true Guliani!, I wont be voting for Mccain in November just as i didnt in the primaries. Republicans are pathetic with your back door slander. For that matter, lets not even talk about what Americans think about you in this day in time!

One more thing…..stop speaking for ALL of America!

Whatever. John McCain may have more experience, but that doesn't make him right or the most qualified. His choices now and in the past are the reason why Barrack will win in November. Besides, this is not McCain's first run at president, and he's been a politician much longer. Barrack knows his strengths and weaknesses. Can't say the same for McCain. I commend Barrack for doing all the neccessary things he will need to do ,to do his job as president better.

Obama/ whoever he chooses '08

Repubilcans whine when Obama doesn't go to Iraq, then they whine when he does.

Obama could find a cure for cancer and Repubilcans would refuse to praise him, but instead find something wrong about how he cured cancer.

So now the words of Giuliani carry weight with the American people? This is the same Republican who floundered at the starting gate. Come on CNN stop giving a "listening ear" to these "has beens."

What else did you expect Giuliani to say? He's now competing with Romney for the no. 2 spot.

"Knows the world"….but can't use a computer???

So how did Giuliani gain such insight? Courting slimebags and chasing women?

Puh-lease! Guliani is nothing but a rank opportunist who used 9/11 to build up some meager political capital. What's his experience in foreign affairs? Typical, too, he says, "Without any disrespect.." when that is the only reason for his comments in the first place–to disrespect the opposition. What a phony!
And shouldn't he have said McCain had, like, forty or fifty years of experience…?

We have seen what the experienced Republicans can do. It is time for the Republican to sit down and shut up. You have totally blown it by standing by the worst president in US history right up until now. How is it you think you know how to run the country now?

Face it you blew it big time!!!

John McCain still thinks the Czechoslovakia exists (became Czech Republic and Slovakia in the early 90's), what makes you think he is current and capable!? Sure he traveled, so what? not that his trips make any difference. Leaders need to stay current and make decisions based on NOW.

Obama at least is trying to see what is going on currently. Publicity or not… I will at least give him that.

This from a man that had to abandon his run for Senator in his own state because the people that knew him best did not want him.
He went on to prove he could not win one primary in his ill-concieved run for President.
Yes, he was tough on crime in NYC adn it may have helped the city but many naitives did not share his vision of the "new" New York and found him to be a bully.
His opinion is at best unimportant.

This is from the same guy that waited for Florida to make his big move.

he's just jealous he's not the nominee

Mr Giuliani is absolutely correct regarding Obama's inexperience and Iraq strategy. For those reasons, and lists of others, my vote will be for President John McCain!

And we should listen to the former new york city mayor? By the way, the day before 9/11, his popularity was rubbish!

Who is this drag queen Giuliani to criticize anybody on foreign policy experience? This is a guy that ran for president , where his biggest foreign policy experience was as mayor, keeping window cleaners more than a block away from the united nations building.

Our President was never out of the country prior to being elected. Senator McCain suggested that Senator Obama, who has spent much time out of the country all his life, tour the Middle East, now that he is doing it, he's being criticized by those who tried mightily to defeat John McCain and couldn't even do that.

What can I say, I know Mayor Bloomberg and Rudy you are No Mayor Bloomberg.

i have to agree: bush just agreed with Obama, PM of Iraq just agreed with Obama, after 8 years of "wars and rumors of wars" where we sure don't want to talk with anyone who disagrees with us bush is talking with iran again after mcbush said we can't. 16 months vs. 100 years, yeah you got a good case.

"It has turned out that if we had caved in the way Barack Obama and the democrats wanted we would now have a defeat. America would have a defeat rather than a possible victory.” (Rudy Giuliani) Yes, if we if we had caved in the way Barack wanted…there wouldn't be a War in Iraq. It's becoming apparent that neither you nor John McSame don't think before you speak!

Guiliani should keep his mouth shut. The inexperienced argument coming from an overrated mayor whose reputation was built on the back of the 9/11 tragedy is hilarious. Guiliani was rejected by the American people when he tried to run from president. Evidently the american people see Obama differently.

Despite McCain's experience, he was wrong being one of the biggest supporters of invading Iraq in the first place. Whenever confronted about this ugly truth, he dodges the question making it even worse.

That alone speaks volumes of what kind of failed leader McCain will be.

And why do Republicans even want Guliani within their ranks with his Clinton like womanising values?

HE HAS TO BE IN THE MEDIA CIRCUS. OBAMA IS SO ON HIMSELF. HISTORY FOR HIM IS THE BIGGEST JOKE OF THE CENTURY. AMERICA GETS WHAT THEY ASK FOR.

well it also highlights his willingness to do what he needs to do as president GILUIANI. john mccain may have expreiance but he doesnt have great judgment. I mean i know experiance is great, but if you dont have the judgment to use that experiance to make good descions than your experiance matters little. i pick judgment over experiance any day.

So who cares about Guiliani ? Another MC old.

This is such bullcrap.

When he didn't go….they had a problem with it.

Now that he's making the effort…..they STILL have a problem with it.

Bottom line, when McCain and Bush both REFUSED to calmly sit down and talk with our "enemies", while accusing Obama of being naiive for even considering it….now they both have egg on their faces b/c his trip to Afghanistan and his efforts to speak with their leader about a timetable….which incidentally is the same as 'horizon' in Bush terms….was a clear success and he was congratulated by Condoleezza Rice, personally…..

Whether they want to give him credit for it or not – Obama clearly and consistently has the better judgement.

OBAMA – the only choice for November.

"America would have a defeat rather than a possible victory"
Does this mean we could still lose and we would somehow be better after wasting more lives and money?

Obama lacks experience — where have we heard that before?

Oh, yes, Senator Clinton tried to warn us. Too bad the Democratic party "selected" him anyway.

McCain 2008 – Clinton 2012

Yes, he is so inexperienced, naive, and lacks any vision. No wonder Bushy and McShame are following his lead! No time table, but we can have a time horizon! To meet with opposition leaders is akin to Chamberlain meeting with Hitler, of course unless Bushy does it! The real threat is in Afghanistan we should deploy troops there. McCain – "me too, me too, me too!" I think Rudy needs to find a positive reason voters should consider McCain because these tactics are really not working.

Is he kidding? I bet Barack knows what country he is in, who the leader is, and what issues the country is facing. McCain can barely remember his own name, or what he said (on tape) five minutes ago. Guess they will say anything to keep Republicans in line.

No Mr. Guiliani, if we'd listened to "Barack Obama and the Democrats" in the first place we'd have never subjected ourselves to this situation at all . War was not the only answer then, and there is no "victory" in Iraq possible now. There can only be an end or a continuance of war.

yada yada yeda…whateva….

Looks who is talking- the guy who could not even win Florida Primary despite putting his 100000% efforts..

In my opinion, no other politician in the USA has less credibility than Rudy Giuliani. If I were McCain, I would avoid Rudy like the plague.

How do they just out right lie and your reporters don't call them on it? Enough with the BS please. This is serious business and you are being incredible. As in NO CREDIBILITY. Where are the reports on the issues, lies. gaffes. firings. etc in the McCain campaign which is on the verge of implosion?

He has so much ground to stand on after the horrible and very conspicuous way he handled 9/11……..and the primaries..

well,, mr rudy,,,, this is your opinion and as fae as mccain has experience? only in lies and forgetfullness,,,, his experience is none other than being a vertern and like thousands of our troops,,, mccain may understand what they are goin through, but that about it,, mccain gets his advice from bush,, you can bet on that for sure,, and mr ruby,, what did mccain pay you to say that????? my vote still goes for obama,,,08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What has McCain done with all of his so-called experience? Let's see: hires the wrong people who have to quit his campaign. Confused the factions in Iraq. Voted for the war in Iraq. Says he doesn't know anything about the economy. Oh, he and Giuliani do have something in common. They both cheated on their wives. Apparently the republicans didn't want Giulliani. The nation will reject McCain too.

9/11 9/11 9/11?

9/11!

what a hater!! when was the last itme guiliani visited oversees?
typical republican bs

" ….America would have a defeat rather than a possible victory"
I am sorry Mr Giuliani, America does not have a victory anywhere in Iraq or Afghanisthan. It does not even have hope of a victory, You now have another Vietnam on your hands. I guess history does repeat itself.

If John McCain knew the world he wouldn't keep bringing up Czechoslovakia. Go Away Rudy.

Giuliani — what a partisan blow-hard. Anybody who understands the situation militarily knows the fight is in Afgahistan. Try and keep up! The commanders on the ground know it, the troops are ready and the Iraqi government wants us OUT.

McCain would keep America in Iraq solely to serve the same interests that GW Bush took us there for.

This from the man whose many mistakes and oversights made 9-11 far worse than it needed to be.

No we need a man who does't come from the Bush/Republican school of thinking….. McCain is just more of the same and the people pushing for him are the same one's who swore Bush was the right man for the job at the time… look where that got us.

Yeah right – Giuliani saying something besides '9-11′?

I don't believe this story for a moment.

Once again someone talking about something they know nothing about. The article clearly states,a s we all know, that Obama has traveled to other countries in the past just like McCain.

But wait, the White House shared with the media that the Iraqis agree with the "inexperienced" Obama and, oh yes, they also are engaging in diplomacy just as the "inexperienced" Obama has been touting for months now even though they said he was dilusional. So if he is so inexperienced, why are they following OBAMA's lead? I will tell you why, he has better judgement and the international community sees this as well as those of us here in the states.

This from a idiot who only ran on 9/11. Go away!!!

who cares what "a verb, a noun and 9/11″ Giuliani has to say?

yeah , he has the experience, he is old. but he does not have obamas judgement,and that is what matters.
obama 08

Giulani is such a failure! He should stick his head in the sand, instead of criticizing an intelligent man.
I do not understand how nowadays anybody can be a republican!! Hear how McWar criticizes all the failures of our present government. Turkey: is his own party!!!
He is in the side of a president who is a war criminal, who has devastated our economy, and McWar wants more fighting.
Regarding McWar's age, with all due respect, he will not be able to survive the incredible demands of the job of being president. Sorry, but I am his age. Ergo, Iknow.
George Los Angeles CA

Really? The only experience Giuliani has is being the mayor of a city and then milking a tragedy for every photo op around – and continuin to try to cash in on that same tragedy to run for President! Even his own kids have nothing to do with him. Does he really think the country will?

This comes from a man who cheated on his wife, married his mistress, and loves to dress up in drag. Have he forgotten that he only been to the middle east once himself before running for president and never been there afterwards. Rudy has no experience other than the phrase 9/11.

Giuliani is right. We can't elect someone on fancy talk and no ideas alone. Flip-flopping-Obama would be a HUGE mistake because he was wrong on everything with foreign policy. God help us if he's elected.

McCain '08!

GWB, Cheney are experienced they destroyed the country.

Inexperience? This is coming from the man who had one of the worst President campaign strategies of the past century

And because Rudy Giuliani says it, it must be true. Hmmmph. Will someone get these clowns off the stage.

Two losers at a ball game, no story.

What the heck does this idiot know?

Rudy Giulani has absolutely no credibility to talk about experience at federal-level politics or foreign policy. Guliani is a political opportunist, who is trying to gain McCaine's favor… with the faint hope if McCaine is elected, he might weasel his way into some position of power. This is why Giuliani's words are insignificant.

Hey RUDY ! wear any good dresses lately ! when we want to go DRAG we will seek your advice, uh, that will be never !!!

Ideas are far more important than experience. We are now talking to Iran, setting a schedule to withdraw from Iraqi and paying attention to Afghanistan as we should have from the very beginning. Those ideas belong to Mr. Obama. I will take an idea person over a so-called experience person any time.

What constitutes a "victory" in Iraq? These two guys are fear mongerers. Lets not be led by our fears, only our dreams and hopes for change.

Obama 08!

Really?? Does he know the world? How come he still thinks Czecoslvakia still exists?? Get real Ruddy! You guys are are the old brigade…. move over for the new genreation!!

Rudy, you need to read your history.
Obama has federal experience in foreign affairs as a senator.
By the way how much inexperience did Ronald Regan or Father and son Bush have in the senator. Ohhhh so they were never senators. Hmmm.

Rudy is the last clown in the circus who should be ripping Obama for lack of experience…the way his joke of a campaign was run you would think he was in the 7th grade running for hallway monitor…anyone who pays attention to this guy is a bigger fool than Rudy himself

By the way…When was the last time you and your Mistress took a trip overseas Giuilani? Didn't I just see you on CNN in full makeup and a dress making out with Donald whats-his-face?

And Giuliani knows all about experience, I mean, he was like Mayor for 8 years and knows everything there is to know about international diplomacy, restructuring the distorted image of a nation, and reestablishing the respect for international treaties. Mayors deal with this all the time. Yeah right, Get a life Giuliani.

Where do you get experience? Taking a break at a baseball game with McCain and ignoring the problems in Afghanistan and letting our troops die while you create no new plan or strategy and comfortably watch a game at Yankee Stadium.

At least Obama is trying to clean up the mess your party created.

Giualiani's opinion is irrelevant……why is his comment even making the news?

Rudy is one to talk. What are his foreign policy credentials? Ahhhhh handling 9/11 on the New York front with the brave men and women of NYC and their respective police, fire, and emergency personnel (as well as all the help he got from the state and the federal government).

At least Obama, who I am not a fan of in the slightest, is making this trip to prepare himself should he win the presidency. Kudos, Obama!

ahh Rudy if only you couldve made that very trip….sigh…

We are not looking a warlord or one with 60's war experience to lead us in 2008. Get that into your head that you wouldn't in anyway win this election-you so called conservatives with big spending habits

this coming from a known CHEAT…RUDY be quiet and go sit down. I am a new yorker and I DO NOT THINK YOU WERE A "GREAT" MAYOR. You sir are a JERK who cheated on his wife and paraded his AFFAIR for all to see.

OBAMA '08

"He was right about Iraq when almost everybody else was wrong".

Has Guilliani been smoking pot again? McCain voted FOR the war, not againt. That means he was WRONG about the war, not right.

Guiliana saying something is not worth a comment.Just another McCain.Whoops I flip flop to hear the gang tell it but I could not
help myself.

who cares what rudi "the ghoul" giulliani thinks. Nobody listens to him anymore.

Giuiani could not convince his own party to listen to him. He lost overwhelming to a 72 year old man because no one found what he had to say worth listening to. He is just another old man who's time has past.

Yet more proof that Rudy is seriously disconnected from reality. I can't think of anyone in New York who respects the man, and I am a lifelong Republican.

How about McCain take a tour of the poorest areas of the United States. Maybe he would get a better understanding of or economy.

Giuliani – Swing & a Miss…….. —– strike 3

McCain – Swing & a Miss…….. _—- strike 3

Barack Obama- HOME RUN…!!!!

Rudy- Your a idoit

if his so exeperienced why did he vote to go to war in Iraq. McSame should have visited there before going to war.billions of dollars lost thats a great experience we dont need .

Obama 08

Uhh, who cares what he thinks?

Rudy who? These clowns are ancient stiffs. What a hack Giuliani is. So is his grandfather McCain.

Even as a responsible senator, Obama should already have several trips to Iraq and Afghanistan under his belt. It has not been a lack of opportunity, but a lack of desire. Obama has no experience, no knowledge, and no desire to master foreign affairs that are crucial to our national security.

Giuliani just wants the VP position that's all.

The only thing this guy knew how to do was run on a 9-11 platform and look where that got him.

He's irrelevant. And needs to go away just like McBush.

Rudy who? What foreign policy experience does he have? This remark just goes to prove that His Honor is the typical partisan politician. Senator Obama has lived abroad, and the overwhelming majority in the international community welcome his fresh take on American foreign policy. Sadly, the GOP can only offer more of the same.

McCain=Bush III

No kidding…

Guillani doesn't get it. It's a good thing that Obama isn't experienced because he doesn't have all the wrong experience that both Gulliani and Mccain have.

Yep, McCain sure knows Czechoslovakia.

Giuliani is a loud mouth failed presidential candidate. He needs to shut up.

giuliani !!! nobody cares about his opinion !

a noun, a verb and 9/11…loser, crawl back to the hole you came from.

the best thing for THE AMERICANS IS TO OBAMA TO COME BACK SAFELY

If John McSame "understands the world", why is he having so much trouble understanding what is going on right here in the good ole USA?

McShame is NOT our man!

Giuliani is a laugh. Since when is he qualified to comment on anyone's experience in foreign relations and international affairs? Playing meet and greet as a mayor doesn't make one a foreign policy expert – it makes one a glad handing tour guide at best.

It must be nice for him to get a chance to be a flack for the guy who beat him out for the republican nomination. I wonder if Giuliani's firm is charging the Old Fogy Campaign for his PR efforts?

Oh yes, it does not stop at the waters edge or at the edge of the baseball field. I am really starting to feel ill. HOPING FOR LOVE AND PEACE

from a man that has no experience either

Judgment is far more valuable than experience… and military service does not necessarily equate to presidential material. I have several family members who have served in the military and that didn't qualify them for any better judgment or experience than anybody else. To the contrary they have faced a lifetime of horrid memories of babies dying and everything else and had to deal with either seeking mental health treatment or self-medicating.

McCain's experience should have told him that the war should have been waged in Afghanistan and not Iraq in the first place. Iraq wasn't responsible for 911, Osama Bin Laden was and he was in Afghanistan. Instead of admitting that, the war mongers want to justify an unjust war and keep it going.

Where is his experience on fiscal responsibility and improving our economy? I think he better start reading quickly. An ongoing war that is not winnable will only continue to destroy our economy and further damage our credibility throughout the world.

There's more to foreign relations than labeling everyone as a terrorist to keep the people at home living in fear.

Remember the first day of the new guy that started in your office? He walked around and attended meetings trying to look like he knew what he was talking about, but it was pretty obvious he was clueless. This is why John Sidney McCain III will crush Barack Hussein Obama this November. Anybody who doubts me is living in a bubble. Democrats will then ask themselves "WHY?" as they try to figure out how they blew another election cycle. WIth leaders such as Dean and Pelosi, it is no wonder your party is a train wreck.

CNN-"Comments are moderated by CNN, in accordance with the CNN Comment Policy, and may not appear on this blog until they have been reviewed and deemed appropriate for posting."

Some of the ones you do post are outrageous. What exactly is "deemed appropriate"?

His inexperience shows daily. Heaven help us all if Obama is elected.

Mr. Giuliani's optimistic slant notwithstanding, how could a country still be in the running for a "possible victory" when in excess of 4000 soldiers have sacrificed their lives, billions of dollars have been lost, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been killed, the opportunity to capture Osama bin Laden has been squandered and the reputation of the U.S. on the world stage is in tatters? I think any further loss of life just so the U.S. can avoid the humiliation of losing, as per Senator McCain would be unconscionable.

How many times have you visited Afghanistan, Rudy? How about Iraq? I wouldn't be so quick to criticize, especially if you have any future presidential bids in mind.

I believe that since Guiliani couldn't even figure out how to run a campaign for the Presidency, he doesn't have much to offer in the way of advice and/or comments about Barack Obama. If he had run a campaign as Barack has run his, maybe we would listen…but no……..Time to go bye-bye, Rudy. See ya. You are a has-been. As is John.

Obama is the least qualified candidate for president in recent history. He's never held an executive position or any job where he's had to make tough decisions. In a time when foreign policy experience is critical, this guy has NONE. After all the primary elections, it's appalling that the best the Democrats could do is nominate this lightweight.

Experience doesn't necessarily equate to good judgement, and good judgement has seriously been lacking in the current administration, and surrounding Repubs for the last 7 years. It is crucial that we have someone in the WH that can reach out to not only our friends, but our enemies as well, and restore respect and admiration to America. Barack Obama has character, integrity, and better than a 5th-grade reading level. He has continuously shown good judgement in the face of adversity, and will instill that kind of thinking when he is POTUS. He is not perfect, and has never claimed to be, but takes responsibility for his actions and strives to be the best face in America politics. He is by far the best choice for POTUS, hands down.

Invaiding Iraq ( Mr George W. Bush) and Indicating that we should stay there for 50 years (John McCain) highligts far less understanding of foriegn affairs. Show me your foriegn credentials Mr Mayor.

I love it!
Obama will see war torn Afghanistan, and instead of bringing our troops home like he claims he will…my money is he'll divirt them to Afghanistan. Obama is soooo inexperienced. "let me go now, before elections, to make the Americans think I care or know what I'm talking about" HA!
McCain-the lesser evil-

McCain 2008!

Poor Rudy, his 15 minutes is over and he is desperate to hold on at all costs. The fact that McCain is looking to him for support shows how in the ditch his campaign is.

How ironic…..Guiuliani (aka LOOSER) and McCain (aka LOOSER)) together in New York.

Guiluliani must be sucking up to McWar to be his VP

Great pair of bookends….2 heads made of stone.

Has Giuliani had his head in a hole someplace? We don't need this so called "experience" Mc Cain has to offer, just look at the last 8 years! We need a person of sound judgement, the best of advisors, and a person with good ole Common Sense. Barack Obama is the only candidate who will carry our country to honor, respect and dignity once again. Once the super rich are out of office, then maybe we can get the peoples business done.

This is coming from a man who spent all of his time campaigning in Florida, and lost a lot of money. What a joke

McCain would make a better president on so many levels. I am 29 and paying on my student loans and I think a lot of people my age are getting caught up with the fact that Barack is more entertaining and more charismatic, but they are forgetting all of his tax cuts are going to come from somewhere and his experience is a liability to this great country.

Rudy, your dead wrong, even the PM of Iraq has stated Barack was not only right, but his timetable is great..

John McCain was WRONG on Iraq, and we should have NEVER been there, and we were lied to by the same administration that John Supports and votes with over 95% of the time!!!…

Experience you say??? Yep Experience in doing things WRONG

what gives giuliani the impression than anyone cares what he thinks? As mayor, he's ridden on his predecessor's coattails and has accomplished little on his own. I don't think we need to hear about experience from a mayor who dropped out of the presidential election after a miserable showing in only one primary.

LOL Rudy thinks ANYONE care what he thinks.

Empty Vessels make a lot of noise but some seem to make unnecessary noices. If only I could make a bit of sense in what Giuliani is saying, I wouldnt have bothered writing this comment.

my goodness–what no 911 reference?–you're slipping rudy. Ddidnt this guy loose the republican primary? Lame.

do what you do best.: dress in dragg. you weren't even taken seriously for the presidential candidacy. deal with your own inexperience and ISSUES

We're talking about Giuliani, the former Mayor of NYC right? No other comments are needed!

That's right, Rudy. INEXPERIENCED. Bottom line.

PUMA!!!!!!!

Republicans = Bunch of grumpy old men (Gramm, Guiliani and McCain—> calls his younger wife a "C..t"). What a lot of good their experience brings.

Was he right about Iraq when he said we'd win a quick and easy victory back in late 2002, or when he said there is no history of violence between Sunnis and Shi'ites and it should be an issue for us as he did in April 2003, or was he right about how Rumsfeld certainly deserved to remain as SecDef back in 2006? Some experience….

Obama proposes talking to Iran, and now we do so. He advocates pushing harder against Pakistan and possibly even launching cross-border raids for which he is called naive, but it is now official policy. He calls for a buildup in Afghanistan, and now after over a year Bush and McCain are finally coming around. Who is the true leader with the judgment ot lead America?

OBAMA 08!

respectful and accurate…

Democrat for McCain
a leader we can believe in

McCain's record on Iraq? I guess he means his record of supporting an invasion based on lies, which has turned into the greatest foreign policy disaster since Vietnam.

We don't need experience nearly as much as we need judgement, and Obama's judgement is miles ahead of McCain's.

and these comments are coming from a former mayor of a city who thought HE had enuff credentials to run this country. the redumblicans will say anything or tell any lie they can think of to stay in office or power. desperite times call for desperite measures i guess. pethetic!!! why is it that every time a stastic comes out that is negative about our economy or our unemployment rate or our world standing that our present addmin is only worse than the first bush or reagan or nixon/ford. what a legacy of problems the redumblicans have left to their successors.

And Giuliani what type of foreign policy experience do you have?It boggles my mind that a political opportunist such as yourself even has the right to speak!

Obviously, foreign affairs experience doesn't matter when running to be president if a *mayor* thinks he has a shot at the job.

This coming from the guy who put all his chips in Florida and lost by huge margins. I kinda wonder who's more inexperienced now?

Obama 08

Forgive Barack Obama for the worst attack on America in history not happening on his watch.

So what does Rudy "9/11″ know about world affairs? Let's look at Rudy's experience and judgement: After the World Trade Center was attacked in 1993, he stupidly relocated NYC's emergency response center to the World Trade Center . It's subsequent destruction in the 9/11 attacks clearly resulted in a breakdown in communication between first-responders and that breakdown may have resulted in many more deaths than might have otherwise occured. Not very sound judgement, in my opinion.

As for Obama's trip, it looks like the GOP is trying to have it both ways, as usual. McCain can, at taxpayer expense, trek to Columbia, Mexico, and the Middle East, multiple times and that's ok because he's an "experienced" statesman who is, in the course of his duties as a US Senator, gathering vital information about world affairs. But if Obama, also a US Senator, does the same thing, he's wasting taxpayer dollars and is demonstrating his "inexperience." Of course, if Obama didn't go to the Middle East, then McCain could criticize him for making decisions without having a clear understanding of facts on the ground. Give me a break. I'm sick of McCain and the GOP. Its Karl Rove deja-vu!

Obama '08 in a LANDSLIDE!!!

Neither McCain Nor Obama have given a hopeful vision of a future for America.

The U.S. is facing great challenges in the new century.

There are a lot of challenges: Degrading environments, shrinking and more expensive energy supplies, Islamic extremists, almost unlimited cheap labors all over the world to compete with American workers, a united Europe that is bigger than the U.S. (Euro has doubled its value against dollar over past few years), a re-vitalized Japan, a re-vitalized Russia, a rising China, and a rising India.

Pick your LESSER evil.

Obama stole the nomination by illicit means and has no qualifications…..advantage, McCain.

Guiliani making a comment about Obama is hilarious, isn't he the guy who was going to be the Repugs nominee? It just shows how smart he is, what a loser. Well, Obama has them both fooled and best of all Obama never cheated on his wife and has only had one wife, lovely Michelle. These Repugs are so jealous over Obama they can hardly speak and they will never say a good word about him. McStupid fits right in with the loser from NYC.
I am a senior white woman from Phoenix, all of PHX thinks McLoser is a loser, we know him.

McCain's "experience" hasn't led to good Judgement. The surge hasn't been sucessful. The key benchmarks haven't been achieved and the reduction in violence is mainly due to the militia's ceacefire and hiring 70,000 sunni "sons of Iraq" Either group could change their mind. The primaries showed that Americans prefer change over "experience".

Robert
Seattle

If i recall, I don't believe Giuliani's campaign went all that well.

Rudy Giuliani is the most unintelligent man to ever present himself for the office of president. His bitter rhetoric against Obama is nothing more than Jealousy. There will be no other 9/11 God willing becuase it is only in terrorism that the likes of Mccain and Giuliani shines.

Would you rather have a well-traveled but foolish president or a candidate who has insight and has been steadily correct about our foreign policy? Aren't eight years of a well-traveled fool enough?

Who is Obama?

He's not much of a man; not much of a senator and certainly isn't Presidential — he's probably one of the best used car salesmen one could ever hope to meet.

Wrong man, wrong job!

When are these Republicans going to get it into their pea-brains that there is NO WINNING IN IRAQ. You cannot withdraw with honor from a war that should never have been waged in the first place.

Obama is right about everything.

Like GWB was experienced that is why we are in this mess. At least he is not a war monger like McSame. Ask McCains service buddies how he performs under stress then you will see what we would be in for!!! Let opt for change

Giuliani, like McCain, is just jealous that he's not in Obama's shoes. What a creep.

Yeah, McBush (so much experience, so much knowledge of the world!) has made trips to Czechoslovakia, Zaire, Biafra, Mesopotamia, Rhodesia, and Gaul, the latter doubtless in company with his old friend Julius Caesar. What's next? Cathay? Or does he support Formosa instead? Giuliani, on the other hand, can only travel on the 9th and 11th days of the month, so he can't go very far (good news for foreigners!).

If McWar has all this experience then why does he keep messing up, bomb bomb Iran, the smoking thing, worrying about countries that have not been around for years, confusing ethnic groups, this is McWar experience.

Obama has enough experience it get it right about the war and Iran. McSame can't say that.

And what experience does Giuliani have in world affairs from him to make that judgement?

Weren't you offered a job in Mexico City at one time Rudy? Call 'em back and see if they will still take you.

This Italian Pizza eater should go and rest.

vote obama! Gouliani is finished.

I can NOT stand McCain…

I am voting for McCain.

Can you guess how I feel about the dirty, divisive, vitriolic, race-baiting, woman-hating, strong-arming, propaganda, manipulative spin campaign Obama has run under the banner of hope, change and unity?

McCain is a flawed man… Obama is smoke, hype and myth.

Well put, Rudy. I agree that Giuliani has made mistakes in his day, but his comments are on the mark. Obama made this trip to provide dramatic photo-ops. He could have saved us all a lot of money by using Microsoft PhotoShop and generating some fake photos with Iraqi and Afghan leaders, to go with that fake presidential seal he made. The only sad thing about Obama's trip is that it isn't one way.

The inexperience thing didnt even work for Hillary Clinton and it is
not gonna work for you either grand pap!. It is our time to play the game
you have had yours, please leave the court while you still have your
diginity.

Ohh Rudy! You still here?

Naol, DC

This guy is a right plunker.He failed miserably in his own bid to gain his party's nomination.He has now some how turn to the word of reason in the same party.
The fact that McCain has been going around the world for 20-30 years is even the more reason for a change,considering USA's image around the world

From Ireland.

This from the ineptmoron who couldn't even run a half-way decent campaign.
I don't think Ghouliani's words have any sway any more.

Unfortunately, McCain is also 20-30 years out of date with regard to foreign affairs, Mr Cross-dresser. C'mon Americans be smart for a change!

They said John F. Kennedy was too young and inexperienced for the Presidency yet he averted the Cuban missle crisis. Is personal experience and age that much more valid that having a leader who knows how to surround himself with brilliant strategists and a cabinet that will support his policies? I trust Barack Obama to lead our country and improve international relations.

YEAH RIGHT, RUDY (9-11) … WHY DON'T YOU GIVE HIM SOME ADVICE ON HOW TO RUN A PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN AS WELL ?

The GOP's got nothing on Obama. I can't tell if I should be laughing at the Republicans for being so desperate, or feel ashamed for my country because of the sheer number of unenlightened citizens supporting these fools.

this just in from Rudy Ghouliani:

"9/11 Obama bad 9/11 9/11 McCain good 9/11 9/11 9/11″

Giuliani is no genius. He's just pointing out the obvious.

Of course he does, he's a Republican. If he were a Democrat would he say that? How is this news?

Is this going to be the serial adulterer ticket?……

Giuliani knows about as much about foreign policy as he does about governmental ethics and keeping firefighters safe with good radios, which is to say, nothing.

Maybe he can go back to making money off of the dead of September 11, and leave government to those who are in it for the right reasons, and who are not tarred by Bernard Kerik and the innumerable other ethical lapses of Mr. Giuliani.

Almost one whole day without an attack on Obama…. almost.

McCain has gone 20 30 times, but does not remember which countries, as for Rudi repubs rejected him out rite; he is an outcast in the GOP so he should shut the F up. No one profited from 9/11 like Rudi; all the scrap metal went to the mob for free in the name of helping clear ground zero.

No matter how the Republicans try to downplay Obama's overseas trip, it was a success before he even left the states. Obama has a press corp that out numbers all the press corp combined that followed John McCain's eight trips there. The reason the surge is working is because the Iraqis sees hope coming. And that hope is in Obama. Just let McCain win the presidency, and all h-ll will break loose. Ask yourself this question, why were the twin towers bombed six months into a Republican Administration's term? This is no coinsident my friends. We Americans are ignorant of world news and affairs. Right now, I bet those abroad can tell you more about Obama than we Americans can. If Bush had listen to Colin Powell we wouldn't had been in this mess ln the first place. Hussein by now, would be holding his first National Golf Tournament in Iraq. No, we went over there and invaded this soveriegn country. Destroying Bagdad, which was one of the most magnifiscent citys in the world. Now it's a big deal when violence is subsiding a little. Obama spent a lot of his childhood in the Middle East. Going back there is like going back home. That's why it wasn't a big deal, he already know the cultures over there. McCain doesn't know jack about the cultures of the Middle East.

Hahhahhhahhhaa.

Oh Rudy!

Why don't you tell us about your campaing strategy again?

Mr Guiliani proved himself to be a quitter in the race for the republican nomination. After he wasn't just given the nomination, he kinda just faded away. Hey Rudy, hows Bernie Kerik? You guys still sharing the NYC "Love Shack"?

Lack of inexperience ??? And the same goes to you Giuliani…….

Remind me Rudy……what was the reason again for you running for President ???

Oh ! I'm sorry, you dropped out !!!

Your opinion doesnt matter……and it showed when you began to run.

And where has Giuliani's "experience" gotten him? With plenty of free time to attend a Yankees game, that's where.

Uh Huh, Giulani and McBush have some shared experience. They are both lecherous adulterers who abandoned their wives for younger women.

And we care what Rudy Guiliani says because…? This is the guy who's presidential strategy included sitting out early primaries and waiting for the old Jewish retired folks to give him a win in Florida… some strategist.

There is no victory or defeat in wars like that in Iraq. There's just making the best of the bad situation that moron in office got us into, with the help of a lot of gutless Senators in Congress, including Democrats AND Republicans such as John "I'll never surrender" McCain.

Like Vietnam, the fervor runs deep about illegal wars. I truly believe that John McCain has not gotten past Vietnam. It is scary.

It's time to elect a President who will wage PEACE.

Casey | Tecumseh, Mo

No Bush Third Term!

So because McCain has been places before that means he has more experience? Giuliani is showing himself to be a complete buffoon. He is in essence saying that traveling to a place is synonymous with understanding that place. That of course is ridiculous. I myself have traveled all over the world. I feel that that has given me a greater understanding of what it means to travel to a place, but it by no means has given me some mystical greater understanding of that place. Giuliani was a complete hack as a mayor and would have been considered a failure had undue praise not been heaped on him post-911.

Mayor G speaks the truth on the inexperience of Obama:

1 Zero national experience
2. Zero interational experience
3. Zero military or homeland security experience
4. Zero economic experience
5. Zero track record in the Senate
6. Zero Zero Zero across the board

The US can do better than slick talking and distortions of McCain;s record, and constantly playing the Bush card and the race card – The US can do much better with McCain

giuliani as matter as i am concern.obama have more oversea experience than you.

Who cares,

Does anybody remember his approval rating before 9/11. He is not credible and if it were not for some of his leadership after the tragedy he would have no legacy at all.

Does anyone really care what Rudy has to say? He's a loser, yet still thinks that someone cares. As far as Grampy McCain's experience, he's 72 yrs. old. Of course he's had more experiences than Obama at 46. But do those experiences qualify him to be the president? I think not. It's time to take a fresh look at the world and elect someone who can represent a new America.

And i suppose Hitler knew more about the world as well – at least, he invaded more countries…

Rudy, will you please "just go away".

i smell a hater.rudy you cant even run a good campaign.

Mc Cain insisted on his going now other Republicans are screaming inexperienced. You can't please all the people all of the time.
It would had been different had he Obama had Mc Cain on the trip.
Obama is his own man regardless how little Mc Cain and Rudy thinks this is so.

Rudy and McFlipFlop both cheated on their wives. I guess that makes them more experienced in foreign affairs than Obama. I don't think this nation needs the type of experience that McFlipFlop has.

Say that after McCain mistook Sunnis with Shiites, referred to events in Czechoslovakia, made a few "jokes" about killing Iranians, events in Iraq, not doing enough in Afghanistan…

Experience doesn't mean anything if you keep the same failed policies. I'd rather have an inexperienced leader with new, better ideas than one with experience with horrible policies.

That sounds like Obama!

Obama '08

I think Rudy has proven that no one should ever take his advice again.

I'm I New Yorker and a conservative I use to like Giuliani however he is not being honest to him self. if he like McCain good tell the world why you like McCain. However being negative is not a good plan. the more negative the republican get it only make obama look better.

This Republican fixation on "victory" is irritating…

What 9/11? Obama is 9/11 so we should all 9/11 and when the 9/11 gets going we should serve 9/11 well.

Sorry Guilaini, the only person that is showing inexperience is your ignorant bum. Why don't you leave us all the 9/11 alone.

Rudy Giuliani is hardly one who can speak on experience. He ran an unsuccessful campaign on fear of 911. He is hardly a role model for the failures of his personal life. We have had the two most experienced oil men in charge for the last eight year and we now have a total disaster!

This from the man who ran a "one state will win the nomination" strategy?
LOL
He bet the whole thing on FL and LOST! Yet Obama shows inexperience? Most importantly Obama shows judgment, Giuliani might want to try some!

This is coming from the mouth of a man that failed miserably in GOP primaries.
Dear Mr Giuliani, Go home; Your words do not matter!

since inexperience is the latest republican buzzword, i suppose it's safe to say that mccain's experience in and support of the current state of miserable world affairs, and the policies that shaped them, trumps obama. nice thinking. will the same 62,000,000 fools who believed this crap last time still line up at that trough again? this cute little bit of pretzel logic from the right is like some twisted version of Munchausen syndrome, where the right causes the disaster in the first place, and now wants to try to play hero. it's about as ego-maniacal, spoon-fed, and delusional as it gets for even a single person to buy this line of desperate petty drivel.

Oh please. Giuliani? Gimme a break. This idiot is worse than McCain….if such a thing is possible…well…yeah it is…….George W.

Obama was the one right about Iraq because he realized from the start that it was an evil, unnecessary war of aggression. Going places, in and of itself, is not indicative of sound judgement. We all know McSame has experience but it is the wrong kind of experience. What has the Bush / Cheney / McCain experience done but caused thousands to die, thousands to be scared for life and millions of Americans catching the devil just trying to survive. No thanks. I don't want McCain's kind of "experience" anymore.

And look where Giuliani's "experience" got him.

That's right.

And what's with this "inexperience" stuff anyway? He had more time in elected office than Hillary Clinton, but no one complained about her inexperience. Because he's young we're supposed to believe that McCain's better? No. In fact, Obama's age helps him grasp the real problems at hand and develop stances and policies that make sense. What has McCain's age done for him? Make him forget that Czechoslovakia is no longer a nation… twice?

Nice, try.

OBAMA '08!

This guy is a looser. Why should anyone listen to him?

Giuliani needs to shut his mouth. He was in the dog house with NewYorkers before 9/11 attackes. He is another one who benefitted from 9/11.

Hey IDIOT! John McCain is 8000 years old! Of course he knows the world. Too bad he doesn't know crap about the United States!!

Would you please shut the hell up and go back under the rock of shame. you know, the one you hid under after you got beat by the likes of McBush. Boy, that must really hurt? BUT, it lets the rest of us know how irrelevant you and your opinions are.

And what's Giuliani's valuable 'experience'? Being mayor of New York while some buildings got leveled? Get lost Rudy!

McCane has been wrong about Iraq since day one. This is a sad day for Republicans.

this is a joke!, barack obama has the knowlegde and experience to lead America . experience is not the main criteria to be president otherwise cheney or anybody with long experience will be automatically president. Give me a break! experience is important but judgement and good one, is what this country needs. A candidate should be criticized for what he/her has done and not pure speculation on experience that do not solve problems.

Rudy Rudy Rudy,

Yes, maybe John is your friend and has been traveling the world over, as you say 20-30 times. I suspect more for sight-seeing than fact finding. Because he sure hasn't heard what the world has/is been telling you Republicans for the last 8 years.

Rudy, you of all people should understand the difference between being just a leader and a great leader is the ability to surround yourself with the best people, from all demographics and educational backgrounds to understand what the electoral wants. I doubt you could have survived 9/11 without your supporting cast.

Experience, is the ability to learn from past mistakes. We have seen many in the last 8 years. Seeing that you gave up your run for presidency, I guess you find it easier to chirp from the cheap sits instead of doing what we remember of you.

Rudy the worst you can do for yourself is fall under the same umbrella as John and George…it's old, and quite frankly Sen Obama represents the change that stagnates us today.

Obama 08

GUILIANI COMING OUT OF HIDING? dO YOU SUPPOSE HE WANTS MC CAIN TO CHOOSE HIM AS HIS RUNNING MATE?

What Giuliani meant to say was "What? Did someone say 9//11? Because I know 9/11, 9/11, what about 9/11?"

Get a life Giuliani, oh wait, you tried to by running for president but got your butt kicked even by Mitt Romeny. Haha.

Who's listening to Rudy after he couldn't even make it to the middle of the primary season as a presidential candidate?

These people have to be crazy. People were lined up to see Obama. People feel at ease with him. He is a man of the people. Rudy is a loser. The only thing that boosted his popularity was 9-11. Without that, he was a sitting duck.

Knob.

Where is this mutant from – I was waiting to here 911, a noun and a verb. Well, he's learning new vocabulary now.

Guliani is wrong again – if Obama's plan was adopted, we'll not have lost 4,000 soldiers, 30,000 seriously injured, and $2 trillion spent on useless war!

"It has turned out that if we had caved in the way Barack Obama and the democrats wanted we would now have a defeat. America would have a defeat rather than a possible victory.”

Despite misgivings I have with Sen. McCain, I respect him for having the strength to support the surge when it was extremely unpopular, on both sides of the aisle. John McCain knows who he is and what he believes.

I have difficulty understanding how someone that cannot get it straight that Chechoslovakia is no longer one country; and cannot tell the difference between Sunni and Shiites is thought to be able to understand the world better. This same person continually spouts off about bombing Iran and killing off Iraqis. How can that lack of common sense, insensitivity, and lack of judgement be the person with the best ability to run our country? Sound judgement is what makes a good leader (which Obama has proven with his stand on Iraq) Old age and experience are not. If that were the case our country would be sitting pretty right now with Bush/Cheney and gang running the show.

I have traveled all over and I don't feel that makes me any more qualified than McCain or Obama at running the show. Traveling alone is not a good indicator. I do respect and admire McCain's service to our country, but I don't believe he is the best person for this very important position.

That's not to mention the ignorance towards the economy that is coming from the McCain camp. The recession is not a mental issue I am dealing with, but one that is definitely reality. I really worry about the future of our country. It cannot hold up to more of the Bush economy and foreign policy. I don't see any difference between McCain and Bush specifically on those two very important issues. I once admired McCain for his willingness to separate himself from the typical Republican thought process, but he has definitely flip-flopped towards the neo-con mentality.

No thank you McCain, I will vote for Obama.

All this “experience” stuff has gone way too far. There are plenty of people who’ve been all over the world – many more times and to more remote places than McCain has been – but they have no business running for President of the United States! If Giuliani believes that this particular experience is what makes McCain more qualified than Obama, then how does he justify his own run for the Presidency? Where has he been? What “world travel = experience” does he have? It’s all a bunch of nonsense, and has no bearing on what it takes to be President. Giuliani is showing his true colors. What a disappointment. Same for McCain. And, did he say, “possible victory?” So, the jury is still out. Leaving it open-ended, are we?

I'm sorry but what the heck does Rudy know?

They're both inexperienced.

This coming from Rudy "hey I was in office during 911 then put my criminal friends in power while I was having an affair in the Mayors Mansion" Guiliani?
Please show you understand how to have positive experience before you critic against inexperience. Or at least tell me you have learned by your mistakes.

Oh my God! How can Giuliani attack a United States Senator and the Next President of the United States while he is on foreign soil!!!

It's Treason!!!!

These people never cease to amaze me. If McCain understands the MidEast so well, why would he ever support Bush's intrusion into Iraq with the supposed mission of bringing stability to the region? And why would he support keeping US troops there after Saddam was captured? And why would he insist on forcing the Shiite majority to accept the Sunni as brothers in Iraq when the Sunni do not accept the Shiite in any other nation?
Westerns, in particular Americans, will never understand Arabs. We should be happy to sit and have tea with them and trade with them, but we have no chance of making them accept our way of thinking.

Ah yes, these comments coming from a man who used tax payers' dollars to woo his mistress and had a outright failed presidential campaign. Hmmmm… I think I'll listen to someone else thanks.

Woman for Obama.

Is Giuliani still relevant?

rudy said: "America would have a defeat rather than a possible victory.”

actually, we defeated saddam and his army in about a WEEK. it was not a "possible" victory, it was a REAL victory!!

get your head out of your butt mccain, start standing up for the USA, not just for yourself and your buddies. you will never gain my vote with your old, sorry routine.

yeah, but mccain is also 25 years older than obama! of course he's been there more time! geez!
at least obama's keeping up with the times ans seeing what the war is like now; keep up with the times mccain!

Inexperience – is that why Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee and Giuliani isn't the Republican nominee? And worse yet – McCain bet Giuliani – that doesn't say much for him.

Barack Obama is bringing pride and dignity back to the USA.

Sorry Rudy. Your time has come and gone. Even the Iraqi government agrees with Obama's Iraq policies … maybe when you guys start learning how to play with others people will take your party seriously again.

This from a guy who never held federal office, never had defense or foreign affairs duties, and washed out of his party's primary before anyone noticed he was in it.

Oh, I forgot. He gave a speech once standing on rubble that other people were still buried under. I guess that qualifies him on the subject.

Guiliani is an idiot, has always been an idiot and has just showed, by opening his mouth and hanging out with McCain that he remains an idiot.

Your right Rudy, he has no experience with the "old style political machine" of both the democrats and the republicans….looks like the old politicians have finally lost control of of their back rooms and selling their votes to the lobbyists…….looks like you and the rest of the the hangers-on are going to have to find other ways to fleece the public……

Nobody cares what you think besides how's that decision to campaign in Florida only working out. Now that' s EXPERIENCE!!!!!!!!

Get R Done
Obama 08

Well there you have it mayor. That is why we will have an election, to see if there are enough people out there foolish enough to think McCain has judgement, capacity, & intelligence since that is what you are implying with his "experience".
Haven't we had enough stupidity in the white house for the past 8 years?

giuliani sucks we need change we need an exit from war and to deal with our economy and energy problem Obama is the man for the job

Loser!!!!!!!

Look who is talking!! Guliani the loser. I have never seen who played an overrated card as this guy. The credit he claims on 9/11 is that he was the mayor at that time. He did what is expected of him. No more than this. If he thinks he will be a VP, we then have to check what he is smoking. Bye mayor.

giuliani is all talk and no action. just shut up and go away and cheat on another of your wives.

Well, at least mr. Obama would have known that the Czech republic and Slowakia split years and years ago.

Need No advice from a republican!

How can BHO bring experience to the WH if he has only served in the US senate for 134 days??????

Gee, how many times has Rudy been overseas to visit the war zone and Europe? Suddenly, John McCain is more "experienced" because he's been there. I make several visits per week to a bakery, but it doesn't make me an expert baker. Get for real, Guiliani. Even his Guiliani kids weren't going to vote for him.

I agree with Giuliani , we have to get serious and elect someone with experience . They is too many people hurting to try an inexperienced democrat . I also Agree with Bill Clinton that this has been the bigest fairy tale ever , electing someone who has only 143 days in the senate .

Obama has a lot of experience. He made a speech in 2002. He served two terms in the Illinois Senate. He is serving a term in the U. S. Senate..

That's always what he has to say. I wonder why he got kicked out early off the GOP race. I thought he's got all the experience in the world. He's got to be ashamed of himself accusing OBAMA of "inexperience" while he failed himself to demonstrate and sell his own experience to the american people.
OBAMA/Hagel or OBAMA/Biden all the way to the white house.

Ha! Look who's talking about inexperience. Rudy's experience is limited to two numbers: 9 and 11. McCain's trotting out his "A" crew, huh?

Giuliani was such a political failure during the primary, I can't see him lecturing anyone on anything…. except maybe, how to poorly exit a marriage…. or how to run a disasterous campaign.

Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!

Please present your credentials on foreign policy!

And Obama has international experience – more than you ever thought of having. How many times have you visited Afghanistan? (Can you even spell it without looking it up?)

As for your comments about McSame – get a grip! Or maybe the McSame PolyGrip has got you covered on that one!

McSame is "right" about Iraq. The only "right" thing about Iraq is that it is a war we never should have waged! You can honestly accept the lies and betrayal of the American citizens to enter a no need war as "right".

Whatever Loser

And John McCains camp thinks were in a mental reccession and all Muslims are bad.

Go Obama

This coming from Rudy, who thinks anything west of NY is overseas, what a joke! Who thinks anything Rudy says is news worthy or has any meaning, well except CNN and John McSame. Has Rudy every even traveled out of the country? Enough of one noun, one verb and 911 makes a sentence Rudy. Please!

Nice. It's amusing how Giuliani is really only re-hashing tired campaign rhetoric and has nothing of actual substance to say.

I can feel myself already beginning to care less…

Giuliani ! Dont waist your time. NOBODY listens to you. Sorry.
Obama 08! Obama 12! Obama 16!

Let us put it this way… has McCain gained the experience, in the almost thirty years that he has over Obama, that would make him a historic American president? Doen't seem so, from his beliefs. Being older and an ex-prisioner of war are not qualifications.

Who care's what Rudy thinks.Nobody wanted a bandstand 3 time part time husband and his own son can't stand him.

Barack Obama’s campaign has scrubbed his presidential Web site to remove criticism of the U.S. troop "surge" in Iraq. It previously described the surge as a "problem" that had barely reduced violence.

The Obama Web site now cites an "improved security situation" paid for with the blood of U.S. troops since the surge began in February 2007.

Obama now wants an “urgent” surge of 7,000 troops to Afghanistan – but not until 2010 – really “urgent,” wouldn’t you say?

Will wonders never cease!

With all that experience, you would think McCain would know the difference between Sunni and Shiite… or at least that there hasn't been a Czechoslovakia in over 15 years.

I want a president who knows about third world poverty because his grandmother lives in an African village with no running water. One who knows about Islam from the time he spent living in Indonesia. And had enough of a cultural understanding to know that we wouldn't be greeted as liberators in Iraq, and that the country would need more than a few months to recover after a government overflow.

Rudy what would you know.? You camped out in florida with your head in the sand during the primaries hoping you would win the republican nomination. Guess what.. you didnt!

Why should anyone listen to you??

I think your jelous of Obama and the fact the US and the rest of the world really like him. Unlike your failed republican party whom everyone hates.

Criticizing Obama’s strategy on Iraq, the former mayor said, “I think if you look at Senator McCain's record on Iraq – you don't fail to elect him president. He was right about Iraq when almost everybody else was wrong. It has turned out that if we had caved in the way Barack Obama and the democrats wanted we would now have a defeat. America would have a defeat rather than a possible victory.”

So the one person who we thought understood 9/11 still does not understand the war in Iraq was a lie for oil, more lives, and the strenghten of Al-Qada…The ones who hurt us while he watch, the surge worked because the people of Iraq never wanted us there, and still don't why don't people get it…Now we have to go finish the REAL war so what is that going to do to economy, and in McCain words he can win WARS (JUST HOW MANY IRAQ, AFGANISTAND, AND IRAN…SO I ASK WHO ELSE AND WHAT ELSE AND HOW MUCH MORE DOES HE WANT US TO PAY!

Wow! This coming from a guy who has zero foreign policy experience.

Giuliani is a joke…a punchline, a clueless hack.

DX in TX

I think if you look at Senator Obama's vote on Iraq – you don't fail to elect him president. He was right about Iraq when almost everybody else was wrong. It has turned out that if we had caved in the way Barack Obama had wanted, we woudn't have even gone to war and thousands and thousands of our soldiers would be alive and unharmed today.

This statement highlights Giuliani's irrelevance.

If Rudy's brain were as large as his mouth, he'd be the Republican nominee. As it is, he's working for a cabinet appointment. Given his experience and personal life, perhaps Urban Affairs would be appropriate.

Pot – meet Kettle.

Rudy your experience is zero – you are the king of cover up. Why didn't you report that your police stole cars, expensive jewelry etc during 911.

No doubt about it. While barack hussein is going to International college on our dime and his campaigns's dime, other men and women with vastly better and more extensive knowledge of foreign affairs are right here at home having a positive impact on US life and politics.

There is no way someone who has never served his country can know what it is like on the front lines or what it is like serving in a chain of command. BaracK must think (arrogantly) that he can know all this in less than five or six days…really arrogant and foolish. he does not have the judgement of a buck private!

It is time we stopped listening to amateurs — and radical islamic amateurs at that — and got two people to run for president that are worth listening to, Hillary Clinton and Mccain.

Otherwise, ho hum. The recent antics of Obama the Magnificent are just soooooooooooooooooo boring.

Giuliani is not the person to criticize others for lack of experience

The cold, hard truth FINALLY!!! And this is from a 21 year-old college student……McCain 08′

I want to know why is Rudy's opinion so important for the press. Other than using 9/11 for his personal success, for the success of his consulting company what else did Rudy really done for this contry?…
What experience does he have on foreign policies, on national security?… Other than riding the flow of 9/11….. I mean come on people does the press really take Rudy's opinion serious?… A guy that started as the front runner for the gop nominee ended up being praticly the first one to drop out. Insted of the media going around and take Rudy's opinion, why don't the media find out how in the world Rudy can be worth between $18m to $70m and all this wealth happen right after 9/11.

who's right who's wrong, it does not matter. Iraqis want the US troops leave and McCain wants the troops stay permanent maybe 100 years. Does it call invasion when their country men say go and McCain insists stay?

Ooooooo… next thing you know CNN is going to post something that Chuck Norris said about Obama. After all, ol' Chucky is about as relevant to this election as Rudy.

McCain will benefit from the weakness of the installed puppet nomineeof the UNdemocratic party that selected the least qualified over the 'policy wonk' :

The DNC and the democratic party will feel the fallout of the terrble way they treated HRC – and allowed her to be treated by Obama, his campaign, black pundits, black members of congress, the media and all the new democrats who love Obama and hate anyone who disagrees.

The cost to our Nation and to democracy for this treachery and for the unfairness of a primary where the Least qualified was installed over the BETTER qualified opponent will be felt for decades.

Principles, freedom, justice and equality DO matter to the millions of TRUE democrats. The Newbies seem not to care for the democratic process too much. They prefer to FORCE people to do things their way, by crying racist, anc calling those who disagree ignorant morons

Giuliani has had his 15 minutes of fame on a pile of rubble that used to be the twin towers. Apparently his "experience" and "lack of" leadership did not help stop the worst terror attack ever to take place on American soil.

Question: So, why should we listen to a has been Mayor who's greatest "experience lies in juggling ex-wives alimony accounts??

Answer: We shouldn't.

VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA….IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO !!!!!!!!!

No one is disputing who is the more experienced candidate. But in my view there are two important things to note: 1) Former mayor's are not necessarily the end-all in quality sources for picking world leaders and 2) Neither candidate's experiences qualify them for the job of president. Resume wise, a governor with foriegn policy experience like (Richardson for the D's and Romney for the R's) are far more "qualified." Now it really comes down to who is going to make policy that you can stand behind. You've got to make that choice for yourself-sorry Rudy.

Is Giuliani trying to keep his VP chances alive??? Of course McCain has been around the world more than Obama. McCain is older than Obama!!!! McCain has had more opportunity to see the world. This does not mean McCain understands the world more. McCain's understanding is nothing more than his judgment and has no correlation to how many times he's seen a particular place. If Obama sees a place once and comes away with an understanding equal to that of McCain's, Obama has better judgment in that McCain couldn't see it the first time. How many times McCain has been somewhere only shows how old he is. Giuliani's logic is misleading and his argument is transparently weak.

SNEAZY & SLEAZY AT WORK.

WHERE IS LIMY?

I HOPE CZECHOSLOVAKIA IS OK.

Rudy Giuliani is just jealous that he ran the worst campaign in the history of presidential politics. He was running ahead in every single poll and blew his chances by not campaigning in any state but Florida, where he still took third place…ha! Stop hating on Obama just because he was able to rise from the bottom to the top and run an amazing campaign, Rudy.

This man is such a joke. John McCain said himself that Rudy has absolutely no foreign policy experience, so why the hell would you want him out there spewing out foreign policy talking points. The republicans amaze me, they are totally clueless. They keep following Obama's lead on foreign policy issues such as: actually talking with Iran, sending more troops to Afg., and setting a general plan for withdrawl from Iraq. Two weeks ago McCain said we didnt need more troops in Afg., then last week he says we need three more brigades. Well guess what Obama already said that. And John McCain says Obama is the naive and inexperienced one. Well at least he didnt think Iraq would be " a reletively easy fight", and "we would be greeted as liberaters". Now that sounds pretty naive and inexperienced to me.

Giulani is irrelevant. The 'Experiece' we have endured from the Republicans for the last eight years. Has been all bad.

Giuliani is absolutely correct

And Giuliani knows enough about foreign affairs to make this judgment because why?

The more McCain's surrogates open their mouths the more it becomes obvious that this country must finally take the high road and elect to take a fresh, new course.

This coming from a man who was in the race for how Long????? You repubs will say anything to help McShame,

"…we would now have a defeat rather than a possible victory…"

Who gets to define what "victory" and "defeat" mean?

I thought victory would be Iraqi sovereignty, plain and simple…

And defeat? What's defeat in Iraq? Decreasing American involvement in the fighting? Do we think that we have the magical ability to end all the violence by our occupation? All we're doing is definitively denying Iraqis their complete sovereignty, which I thought was our goal there.

I guess I was wrong; I guess we just want to stubbornly prove a point.

Giuliani – I feel sorry for you sir! and I beg to disagree, because as I reckon clearly, Obamas trip to these places is infact the opposite. He has demonstrated a better judgement without being on these grounds .McBush has been overseas umpteenth times, and still manages to mess up!! quite ironical dont you think?

Right. Like our last (existing) "president" had any world experience when he was handed the job by the corporate oil barons. But wait, to be fair, Bush did have experience with the World of Beers – Beer of the Month Club so he did know what beers were brewed where. And, he gave up golf in support of our troops… but only after thousands of them have died for his war-monger game. We need a break from these republicans who have squandered our country for their self-interests. A pox on them all.

If Rudy Giuliani has so much experience, then why could he not use it during his campaign? His strategy was a fiasco why the whole world was looking.
What can the republicans offer this country after this last 6 years of Bush? McSame?

We are in "mental" recession, the gas price up 300%, the deficit is all time high after the republicans inherited a surplus from Bill Clinton. We are spending $10 billions a month in Iraq, a country that did not attack us and did not have WMD while millions of Americans are jobless. Where is that vast experience of the republicans? Now they are giving us a 72 years old senile old man? Get over it Rudy Giuliani!

Nice to see McCain and Giuliani hanging out at Yankee games that are in 3rd place. While Obama is serving the people in the States and trying to create Diplomacy. This won't get you more votes McCain. The Yankees have there fans. When was the last time they voted Republican in NY????? Yeah thought so. I think this speaks volumes about Repubs when Obama is abroad and they sound the Bugle to attack. That is not working anymore. Not scared, not afraid not worrying about war if it comes it does. Gas to high, Jobs being lost by the thousands everyday, homes being lost and banks stealing people money while Execs get outrageous bonuses. Nope not buying that BS. That isn't going to work. Need a person to stand up for the people not the countries that don't give a Da__. Just a questions to Americans and this free trade and job loss thing. Wouldn't real Americans that Love there country take a little less in such a worse time to keep jobs here. I mean when you Company is doing well say Budweiser but you still sell your company for profit. How greedy are you. We need these companies that are doing well to invest into America and not abroad. That is American.

Giuliani is a joke and his opinion really means less than nothing.

I don't think Rudy Giuliani is in any position to make any comparisons on anyone, when all he could do during his rancid run for the White House, is compare every agenda to 9/11.

The man could be talking about senior health care and he'd find some way to plug 9/11.

Someone needs to tell Rudy that he's washed up and should keep seated as they knocked down Yankee Stadium.

Two Old Farts at the Ball Game.

Nice try Rudy!! I can pretty much guarantee you that with Obama at the helm, our country will be in much better standing in the eyes of the rest of the world. Four to eight more years of Republican rule will not be productive for our country.

I guess it doesn't matter than Barack has made such huge changes here on our own soil instead of galavanting around on photo shoots. Just because McCain's wife is rich, he is able to get free publicity flying around on her dime.

If it comes down to McCain's experience vs Obama's intelligence and sound judgment, Obama is the only choice. After the last 7 years of criminal misconduct and downright daffy governance from the executive branch, we cannot fail to elect him.

He went on to say "9/11 9/11 9/11."

Why is Guiliani relevant?

What is the definition of victory in Iraq? I thought went in to stop WMD production.

I find it hard to follow this logic of victory when the first reasons offered for our starting the war was wrong.

John McCain is experienced but this arguement is starting to sound like ageism against Obama. Just because he is younger and McCain is older they are attacking him. Obama's policies and intelligence make him fit to serve as president if people take a non-biased look.

The only experience that Giuliani has in affairs of state is at least one extramarital affair.

I guess visiting the troops and giving them some hope that ONE of the candidates truly is grateful for their service in defending this country does not count for anything. Guiliani needs to take a break. All Presidents will need to visit overseas and meet with both troops and world leaders.

Sorry Mayor beter say the truth ,presdent Obama knows politics of
progres for all mankind of all nations.

Next, Giuliani said, "Are you going to believe that facts on how Iraq is going or you going to listen to my opinion as a Republican."

Mr. Giuliani obviously has no children or family in Iraq.

If McCain's positions show experience, I'll take inexperience.

INEXPERIENCE? OBAMA IS A BUMBLING FOOL. THE U.S.A. DOESN'T NEED SUCH A GREENHORN IN THE WHITE HOUSE. OBAMA CAN'T EVEN SPEAK WITHOUT HIS NOTES AND PREPARED FACTS. YES, THIS TRIP WILL HOPEFULLY FINISH OBAMA WITH THE AMERICAN VOTERS. DOES OBAMA REALLY THINK THAT PRESIDENT BUSH NEEDS THE INFORMATION HE'S SENDING TO US? DOES OBAMA THINK THAT OUR GOVERNMENT HAS ITS HEAD IN A HOLE? OBAMA IS SO UNCONSCIOUS ABOUT WHAT AMERICA DOES IN THIS WORLD. WE SURELY DON'T NEED OBAMA TO CHANGE ANYTHING, FOR THE UNITED STATES IS IN GOOD SHAPE. THE ECONOMY GOES UP AND IT GOES DOWN….SO WHAT? IT'S CALLED ECONOMICS 101. IT'S BEEN LIKE THIS FOREVER. PRESIDENT BUSH IS DOING A GREAT JOB WITH ALL THE PROBLEMS THAT HAVE BEEN HEAPED ON HIM.

McCain has the worst grades from top military veteran groups.

— Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America gave McCain a grade of D for his record of voting against veterans. (By contrast, Obama got a B+.)

– Disabled Veterans of America noted McCain’s dismal 20 percent voting record on veterans’ issues. (Obama had an 80 percent.)

– In a list of “Key Votes,” Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) notes McCain “Voted Against Us” 15 times and “Voted For Us” only 8. (Obama voted for VVA 12 times, and against only once.)

So much for experience

These sorts of comments are why Giuliani went from front runner to sideline! Maybe the American public is tired of the old regime and looking for a change. Maybe we want someone that the "Old white guy ways" are no longer what we want.

How ironic. Guiliani did not even have enough experience to know how to run a presidential campaign. He focused on only 2 states and dropped out earlier than any other Republican candidate. His opinion in this matter is useless.

if you republicans really have the experience, then what are you doing in IRAG? is that where the talibans are? was there a weapons of was distruction in irag as claim? ….. so what is the purpose of invading irag? ,,, and you guys still claim that an old man like Mc Bush will be a good president, THAT MIGHT JUST BE THE WW 3…..

Come on Guiliani! If he didn't go, you'd be saying he's never gone, and now that he has, it "only shows his inexperience." That's why I hate politics sometimes.

John F. Kennedy was initially dogged by suggestions from some Democratic Party elders (such as former President Harry Truman) that he was too youthful and inexperienced to be president; these critics suggested that he agree to be the running mate for a "more experienced" Democrat. Realizing that this was a strategy touted by his opponents to keep the public from taking him seriously, Kennedy stated frankly, 'I’m not running for vice president, I’m running for president."

Sound familiar? This was 1960 and in 2008 we here almost the exact same things being said about Senator Obama. Personally I thought President Kennedy was one of the best Presidents this county has ever had. But if it were up to these "experience" mongers he would never have had the chance.

I was surprised to learn that Obama has a team of more than 200 plus smart-intelligent people helping him prepare understand the world politics, and keeping him uptodate on world affairs.

With such a huge platoon of smart advisors, even a moron can rule the kingdom.

Is this guy really able to handle Presidentship ?

RUDY BETTER SHUT UP!!!!!!!!
HE WAS SO INEXPERIENCED
HE COULD NOT EVEN WON 5% IN THE GOP
PRIMARIES.
NOW HE'S TRYING TO CRITICIZE THE MAN
WITH THE BEST POLITICAL TEAM EVER
THE TEAM THAT KNOCKED OUT THE CLINTON MACHINE
THAT RUDY PREDICTED WOULD BE THE DEMOCRATIC
NOMINEE……………LOL………….RUDY/LOSER.

I can't think of a better person to "decide" that a person has no experience… or is inexperienced… if we were to talk of "judgement" could we please talk of your police commisioner that you, yes you, promoted for " dept of homeland security sect."… how did that vetting go… Your "experience " and that of your partys pres. candiate may be vast but your judgement and decision making is beyond suspect…

Yup, that old/retired, WHITE guy, the "FORMER" republican, from Ma.
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Bruce

So does it mean we should take dr. evil's long experience? Evil experience over judgement? Great…. thats what people these days decided…

We want a change not idiot Bush's clone as a president. Guilian, what will it take to get out of your illusions?

Giuliani does't know how to take care of his own family and get support from them . How will he take care the whole American people?

this coming from a deucebag Giuliani is very telling……….the McShame campaign is running out of talking points and it surely shows how these "whining" failed republicans are suffering from "mental depression. next?

The comments were submitted before I wanted them to be.

Here's the rest of the foreign policy points:

1. Obama never approved of the war in Iraq
2. Obama thought Afghanistan should be the focus of the war, and a man known as Osama bin Laden.
3. Obama wants a timetable that sounds pretty similar to the time horizon the Bush administration is now proposing.
4. Obama supported meeting with Iran, and guess what the Bush administration is trying to do as well.

That's four points that John McSame can't claim. While he may be more "experienced" in foreign policy, that doesn't mean the choices he has made have been the best, or even the right ones.

I find it amazing that John McSame has been going overseas for 20-30 years and it's the same old, same old, what really puzzles me, is with all his experience I would think he would know whether Al-Qa'eda was a Sunni or Shia organization?

Who needs this idiot all he ever talked about was 911 he is a blank slate far short of knownng anything except spewing hot air.
Even looking at him is TOOO much.

Obama will be the next President of this country with a landslide so get ready for booting the old guard out ,NO MORE MCBUSHES MC CHENEY"S MC ROVES MCIDIOTS the list goes on VOTE THEM OUT,move them out /throw them out .
it will be a New day /a new beginning .

Obama YES WE CAN

Be quiet Rudy! Go somewhere and sitdown. What do you know about foreign affairs? Please CNN give us a break with this clown.

Obama 08

The McCain campaign had been counting down the days since the last time he went. Now that he is overseas they, the Republicans, want to say that he's doing it for different reasons or that it shows his lack of experience. But when McCain went to Columbia nothing was said. Barack is darned if he does and darned if he doesn't.

I am getting tired of some in the media only showing what they think is negative with Barack and only the positive with McCain. How is it that McCain has been going unnoticed with all the gaffes and flipflops? I would rather not have to hear about a different poll every single week. I would rather hear about the issues that are going to affect me the most and right now that is the economy, the wars, healthcare, education.

Giuliani who? Why is this news?

One idiot supporting another. Who has more common sense? Support a failed policy blindly at all costs, or let's look at this and come up with some planned outcome. Which makes more sense to you?

Just kidding. Even I won't vote for a dirty mick like McCain.

Is Rudy talking about the same man who said US troops could spend "maybe 100″ years in Iraq? or about the man who still believes Czechoslovakia exists as a country (18 years after it disappeared). What experience? Is getting shot down in an unjust war appropriate leadership experience?

Rudy and his buddy John at a baseball game show critizing obama for being diplomatic. Will Americans really vote issues this election, because people need help and john is not going to do it just like bush.

When will the republicans, like Giuliani, realize that the word "experience" is synonymous to "much of the same". At some point in time the republicans will realize that America wants change in this country and how we are perceived internationally. It seems to me they will run from that word and not use it.

"Niave" is another word I would think the republicans would avoid using. When I hear that word used by republicans, I think fo JFK and what he was able to achieve in the short amount of time he was in office.

..And this is coming from a person who ran for president and was only mayor of a city. Would he have said this if he were running against Obama?

Guiliani has a lot of nerve. This is the same guy who put all of his eggs in Florida's basket and had his head handed to him. Talk about showing a lack of experience. Rudy is in the right place, on the sidelines, talking trash. He can't handle being in the game.

Why is there even an election? The media has already proclaimed Obama as the next president. Democracy my butt.

Obama brings youth and change whereas McCain is simply the old guard. Yeah, I wish Hillary Clinton was the nominee, but I will take Obama over old man "can't even internet" McCain.

Interesting that the Republicans didn't think that inexperience in world affairs was an issue when they nominated the governor of Texas 8 years ago. And if experience was a prerequisite, why did Giuliani think about running himself?

I don't deny that experience in world affairs is important. But it needs to be the right experience. Anyone who listens to McCain talk about how Vietnam was 'winnable' should keep in mind that the ability to learn is even more important.

Well Guillani, you have lots and lots of experience with getting married and putting your foot in your mouth. What does that tell you?

Obama '08

Who Cares what Rudy Guiliani Thinks ? The Guy makes ABSOLUTELY no Sense. George Bush has now done what Barack Obama has been talking about over the past two years. ..Talk to Iran. I believe before its all said and Done, American Troops will come home before the end of this Disastrous presidency of McCain and Bush Republicans.
If Guiliani had any idea what the Americans wanted, he would have made it through the first leg of the republican primaries. The Guy has NO CLUE and should just stop trying to be relevant. Obama is a genius and will be the next President.

BTW, there's a great article by Frank Rich on McCain (ok, great only if you already don't want McCain for President), here's an excerpt;

"“In a time of war,” Mr. McCain said last week, “the commander in chief doesn’t get a learning curve.” Fair enough, but he imparted this wisdom in a speech that was almost a year behind Mr. Obama in recognizing Afghanistan as the central front in the war against Al Qaeda. Given that it took the deadliest Taliban suicide bombing in Kabul since 9/11 to get Mr. McCain’s attention, you have to wonder if even General Custer’s learning curve was faster than his."

So much for the education his 20 to 30 foreign trips gave him. He is too stuck in a flawed method of thinking for me, I don't think he's really living in the same world as the rest of us. Perhaps he is trying to relive a war he never got to fight when he was shot down so quickly in Vietnam and he's making one last attempt to fight by trying to become president. Bombing Iran is in his sights and he's chomping at the bit just to give the order. I find that scary.

If it wasnt for McCain Obama wouldnt be wasting his time over there

Look who is calling the Kettle "inexperienced."

Thankfully Obama doesn't have the experience of the morally corrupted three time loser Rudy G.

Rudy, a man who has sold out the "loves" of his life, his great State of NY, and his country, with his companies illegal practices. Such an experienced man! And all wicked!

Bless you Barak, with righteous inexperience of these evils!

Sandra Miner- Las Vegas NV

Well… his inexperience is ONLY one negative.

His cheating, dirty style of politics is the bigger concern.

If not Hill… then ANYone but the 'bro and HIS ugly ho'- just to paraphrase from the democratic primary we all loved so much.

This from a guy who couldn't even garner one delegate. And used absolutely horrible strategy in his quest for the Presidency. Obama has run a campaign bigger and better than most countries are run. Who do you think has the judgment and organization to lead? These old recycled McCain supporters need to start learning how ridiculous their statements sound in the light of reality.

Big whoop. Giuliani's a joke. Joe Biden was right: Giuliani's all about a noun, a verb, and 9/11.

Weren't you supposed to be running for president. O. I forgot you where counting on Florida, Florida, Florida. Not in my state Yankee fan. Stick to what you do best Giuliani keep going to Yankee Games. Let real Politicians do real work. All the experience you had and you couldn't beat Ron Paul. Do me and the rest of Florida Florida Florida a favor and shut up. The Experience Obama needs is what he is getting right now and not back down to anyone of you Repubs that can find fault at a Kids Play on Sunday.

Obama 08, 12

McCain says he knows how to win "wars"…….what war has McCain ever commanded & won?????

I find it puzzling that the "media" is not challenging this point.

McSame is befuddling……

Just another try to smear Obama. It's getting pathetic. You'd also think that McCain would have more important things to do at the moment than attend a baseball game with his pal….or maybe he doesn't!

headline should read: guiliani comment highlights bitterness

NO if we listened to Obama and the dems we wouldn't have been in Iraq in the first place.

Guliani's comment is like campaigning after election which has no meaning. Experience is not about age it is about sound judgement at the critical times and the ability to make a good decisions. Obama has got it right on Iraq. Allow Americans to decide what they want. Stop selling yourself.

“Without any disrespect to the other side, he's just so far more experienced …Gulliani.
if a person crashes his car every time he is behind the wheel, he is an experienced driver….but he is also a bad driver and considered hazardous. John McCain has experience…BAD EXPERIANCE!

Giuliani said, “Without any disrespect to the other side, he's just so far more experienced that I think America will elect him. I think the American people are going to take a look and say we have got to be very serious about this…we need a man that has experience and John McCain has that experience."

Rudy – Some of us Queens residents are ashamed of you. Let's look at recent happenings

Obama was one of the only ones who recognized it was a mistake to go to war with Iraq. We were mislead on why we were going there by this administration. There would have been no need for a surge, and no american deaths.

Obama wants to get out of Iraq in a 16 month timeline. Iraq agrees with that we now hear.

Obama wants to get into Afghanistan to focus more attention on Al-Quaeda. Seems Gen. Petraeus agrees with that.

Obama believes we should have dialogue with Iran. Seems the Bush administration wants to get on board with that one.

So take MCcain's thirty years experience and show us how that compares with Obama judgement.

Will someone please explain to me the difference between victory and defeat in this war. Is it number of people killed by us? Number of our men killed? Or is it all just symantics? Have we really 'stamped out evil'? Was it worth the price? I guess I am just not smart enough to understand bringing the troops home this year (democrat/defeat) and next year (republican/victory).
Democrats say timetable= BAD
Republicans say time horizon=GOOD

go mccain , hillary 2012

And Rudy is exactly right. Obama is as phony as $3 bill. You want a black president? Vote for Denzel. You want change? That's all we'll have in our pockets when he gets done with us.

I don't think John McCain could spell experience.

CNN) – (Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday Barack Obama’s overseas visit is only serving to highlight the candidate’s inexperience in world affairs.)
Your wife said you are inexperience, and you will not be McCain VP
so stop Sucking up ……..McWAR voted for the WAR!!!!!!
By the way how long did you last in the PRIMARY?
Giuliani Old Cheshire CAT GRIN!!!

We cannot allow men like Bush, Giuliani, McCain, Murdoch, and Cheney to put their selfish interest before the greater good our our nation and consequentially the world. It's time to end the reign of the true terrorists in our country. The ones that put drugs into the ghettos, suburbs, and cities to continue to perpetuate funds for crooked police. The ones that use clips of media coverage cut and pasted to cater to the false fodder that they feed to us on FOX. The ones that have no answers to begging important questions about 9/11, but will say terrorists in front of cameras implementing a technique used by Nazi's! The ones that claim they simply don't have to answer for their war crimes. The tides are shifting, more and more people are seeing the truth about the American facade that these men try to peddle at the low price of your freedom, yet freedom is what they claim to give. The gravy triain is coming to an end for the selfish and tyrannical. The eb and flow of the earth is about to expose the truth, and soon no man guilty of these heinous acts will have anywhere to hide. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP. TRUE FACES WILL BE SEEN.

This is interesting coming from this man – his own children would not support his campaign.

Yes, McCain has been going there for 20 to 30 years – that is the problem. His tired old ways will not repair America's image around the world and his tired old ideas are not working. Funny how the past week McCain is duplicating all of Obama's ideas.

Let's see, three wives, kids don't like you , manufacture hero statements for September 11, props up scum bag for homeland security. You just might say, Rudy, your years of experience have taught you that integrity really doesn't matter. Just show me the money door and what to say to win…you and Bush could have done so much to keep this great country secure and respected…you chose the low road and look what we have now…enough comments from you….Obama '08

Why do we care what Giuliani thinks? Why does CNN care? Oh thats right the media cherry picks quotes to establish the narrative that Obama is inexperienced. Again, media persuades instead of inform.
Thanks MSM.

LOOOOOOOSER!!!!!

McCain's century of experience means NOTHING. What has he done to help the people of this country while he was in the congress for decades? NOTHING. Experience is useless if you don't make the right decisions while you have the opportunity to do so.

Dear Mom and Dad, I'm 47 years old now, it is now my generation that needs to take responsibility for the country and the world. I'll take care of you and make sure you're OK, but it is time to listen to my generation. We want Obama. Please Mom and Dad, vote for Obama, I will take responsibility for the Obama presidency. Common sense foreign policy, a strong respect for the Constitution, and a commitment to making a level playing field so we can all compete against each other fairly.

Love,
your son

Considering the source of Giuliani's comments (himself), printing the comments from Giuliani was a waste of "key strokes".

Time to shut it down, Rudy. You could not even win your weak party's nomination.

what do you expect from a politically tactless former RNC presidential candidate -Ruud Giuliani,whose "experience" met a waterloo in Florida,during primary election.Is he qualified to highlight Obama's experience in a sarcacastic way?He never won a delegate,yet squandered money.He is nothing ,but a praise singer,jockeying for a position

Rudy WHOliani?

McCain is a former POW – he never won a war and he voted for the Iraq war!!! What experience is Giuliani talking about? 9/11 happen on his shif and Bush!!!

Yeah because Giuliani has enough experience to make those kinds of comments!

Another unfortunate who can't open his eyes and see beyond the Republican party rhetoric. I can't imagine anyone saying anyone was right about Iraq. Giuliani says McCain was right when everyone else was wrong. That's flawed thinking right there. Wars are never right but a war waged on lies and cover ups with its chief objective being oil is more than wrong, its unforgivable.
McCain may have done alot of traveling in his day but what is to be gained except Aeroplan Miles when it didn't even teach him the difference between Sunni and Shia or that Checkoslovakia ceased to be many years ago.

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Well everyone thought Guliani was an experienced politician a couple months ago, but then he blew a huge lead by focusing on the wrong state.

Yeah, it could have possibly been a defeat in a war that is not win able on either side until all folks in IRAQ are willing to work together for a common goal of a secure, safe, and functioning government. Until then, Barack was correct at not voting for a war that beyond all the propaganda from the White House and their cronies, did not make sense. The trouble was always in Afghanistan, and NOW, we need a surge there to correct a McCain vote in the first place for war in IRAQ. A trillion dollars later, and more troop lives at stake, seems experience is in the hands of those who read ALL Documents presented to them and not briefed in some sort of Cliff Notes; Way to go McSame. Thanks for reading all the facts, and listening to make great decisions, Obama.

A President that Reads all the facts and gains experience through all the tribulations caused by the current administration and his coherts and cronies '08

Come on give us a break…..

Rudy saying Obama lacks experience may be a a statement with some basis, but coming from someone who recommended his NYC police commissioner, the unforgateble what's his name, who has been charged with corruption and surrounded by scandal, to head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security makes Rudy look and sound very silly.

Always like to back you and speak well of you Rudy, but can't do it this time…

why does this guys opinion have any importance whatsoever to make it into the news. WHO CARES ABOUT THIS GUY? I THINK VOTERS MADE IT CLEAR

Rudy? Same guy that messed up with prepared response to emergencies in NY? Same one that supported war in Iraq?! Not hiding from shame but chose to say something? Amazing…

The guy having no shame should be truly happy guy…

First these same people said Obama should go to Iraq and Afghanistan. Then when he does, all they can do is criticize him. How predictable!
As far as Giuliani goes, he's made himself out to be some super hero simply because he was mayor of New York when 9/11 happened.
People forget how despised he was prior to that day.
The guy's a dirt bag in my opinion and his opinion means nothing to me.

You mean Rudi knows more than just Noun, verb, 9/11? Amazing.

"Giuliani said, 'Without any disrespect to the other side, he's just so far more experienced that I think America will elect him.'"

Are you kidding? The Democrats already had a candidate that was far more experienced than Obama and the American people didn't want her. They chose inspiration over perspiration. Why does he think things would change now?

The DNC and the new democrats changed my perception of the Democratic Party, of which I have been a member my whole (35 yr) voting life.

The good old boys stood by while a great woman was labeled a racist, shrill and dishonest by a campaign bent on winning at any cost.

The ever-courageous democratic leadership (except BILL) did nothing to defend her or deter Obama in his dishonest portrayal of HIllary Clinton.

I am no longer a member of the Democratic Party. I worked for years supporting, volunteering and donating money to a party that turned it's back on women.

Don't try to guilt-trip me with your 'Roe vs Wade' fearmongering. First, at age 53, I am too old to care. Let the newbie women take up that fight. Second, Obama has already betrayed women with his back peddling on a woman's right to choose, which isn't surprising, he has abandoned every position that got him the nomination. It also isn't surprising since he voted present eight times on votes pertaining to a woman's right to choose. The man is a fraud, he can't take a firm position on anything, he either votes present, or changes his position to match where the votes are that day. Politics of hope and change, what a joke!

Bush had a pretty good resume of experience… look where that got us.

Giuliani-self proclaimed hero and poor loser.
Remember when he tried to make himself mayor for life ?
Mr G-a lot of real New Yorkers are not so fond of you !

HaHaHa… No! Blindly Revisionist history and automaton-like Republican Rhetoric, with no basis in reality specifically highlights the reasons why politicians such as McCain and now dunder-headed mouthpiece Guliani have no business in a, dynamic political atmosphere. Actions such as… Obama's recent self-introspection regarding foreign policy is not actually a disability but rather a necessity for any viable candidate. If anything McSame's, 30 some odd years of foreign "experience" have formed him into a politician just as inflexible as his ability to break away from the Bush Doctrine. Srsly CNN is this a worthy headline?

And He didn't mention 9/11 once.

Good try McCain. First you say wer're succeeding in Iraq and then turn around and say we can expect another terrorist attack. Now you go dig up Giuliani and put him in the forfront as a reason to bring up 9/11. How stupid do you think Americans are.

Guiliani who???????????? Never heard of him.

A) What does Rudy know about it? he ran his campaign like an amateur, and he is a former mayor who has never had the access a senator like Obama has to US intel.
B) He nevertheless has a lot more experience than W. Bush did.

I think we all know THAT. If Obama is elected it will be another Bush presidency. Another inexperienced president at the helm.

What a jerk! OH WOW! Sure saw a lot of empty seats at Yankee stadiums to see oldman McCain and Dumb Dumd Giuliani; that is not what you would not see if Obama had been there. McCain you 'Turncoat', I suggest you stick to the small town halls with the cameras trained on the wall behind you; that way the American people cannot see just how unattended your stops are.

Rudy who?!

Obama has the intelligence and judgement to make the right decisions. What has all McSame's "experience" gotten us so far?

No more talk of "winning" the war either. There is no such thing in this debacle. Bow out as quickly and gracefully as possible and bring our troops home!

Obama '08

According to Giuliani "he has been going there for 20-30 years. He knows the world. He understands the world." If he knew so much about the world, how could he have voted so poorly in going into to Iraq the first time? If it is between experience and judgment, give me judgement.

Thanks

It will only take one trip for Barack Obama to get it. McCain can go on fifty trips and still be too ignorant of the facts if someone pointed them to him.

And I see McCain's record on Iraq. It's the same as yours, Rudy. A Trillion $ fiasco that should have never happened. It's caused division and mistrust here and abroad. Thousands of refugees can never return and a country occupied by its invaders.

Barack Obama accurately forecasted all this And has called for diplomacy, not offense (as you describe it), with our allies and enemies to settle these issues.

You keep talking offense. Maybe some day you will admit Iraq was never a threat to us and all those ideas of wmd and ties to al qaeda were not true. And don't forget we lowered our standards to equal the terrorists. Remember Abu Ghraib?

First time I ever agreed with old Rudy

Giuliani Who?

Here's what McCain has told his gullible supporters about what he learned in Iraq:

“The neighborhoods are safe. We walked down the streets with no body armor on”
— John McCain

Here's what the REAL story was:

“McCain’s delegation was guarded by more than 100 American soldiers with 3 Black Hawk helicopters and 2 Apache gunships overhead”
— News report and films from the event including McCain wearing a flak jacket.

I'll take Obama's "inexperience" over that kind of "experience" any time.

What does Giuliani know about world affairs? The same thing would've been said about him if he was his party's nominee. What a clown.

OBAMA NEEDS AMERICAN HISTORY LESSON
Instead of an overseas trip, Obama needs a lesson on the history of the United States of America. YES WE ARE A CHRISTIAN NATION. WE WERE FOUNDED AS A CHRISTIAN NATION. HIS UNIVERSITY, HARVARD, WAS FOUNDED AS A CHRISTIAN UNIVERISTY.

NOTE QUOTE FROM HARVARD:

Of the first 108 universities founded in America , 106 were distinctly Christian, including the first.
Harvard University, chartered in 1636. In the original Harvard Student Handbook rule number 1 was that students seeking entrance must know Latin and Greek so that they could study the scriptures:
'Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life, John 17:3; and therefore to lay Jesus Christ as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom, let everyone seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it of him (Proverbs 2:3).'

Come on home, and learn about our nation.

One trip to the Middle East and being an ex-follower (i.e., ~20 years) of Rev. Wright does give one foreign policy experience.

How many affairs, how many marriages experienced? You can step down now mr mayor

Obama may be half black… but he is ALL green

Hey Rudy, your party is in a meltdown. Your party has been a total failure to our country. The "experience" you see in John McSame is what this country must avoid to remedy itself.

Looks who is talking…. and what makes you the right one to talk ??
Oh yeah you lost…

This can't be the full statement. I did not see 9-11 in there.

He seems to be doing pretty good, for all of his inexperience. Certainly better than you Mr. Giuliani, who could not get support to earn your party's nomination. You really should get your opinion to yourself because no one care what you think.

Is the same Giuliani that, due to HIS inexperience, put all his eggs in one big, fat, Florida basket??? Get a life and go get another wife, Giuliani

The democratic party has been crippled by the self-serving, self-promoting cocky, boastful Obama.

The true democrats will protes the treatment of Hillary and her supporters by Obama, Michelle, the media, and the Obama campaign with the blessing of the DNC.

The tail will NOT wag this dog

Maybe Obama has to wait to reach Florida to get some experience.

And how exactly does John McCain know the world, can you help educate us on that, rather than making general statemets?

right, like Gulliani has traveled the word?

all he knows is to use fear, and the simple fact that he was govenor on 911 to get ahead (and that didnt even help him!)

Who cares what TOOLiani thinks.

Guiliani needs to shut his ignorant mouth! Why does the media even bother to report anything that comes out of his mouth? He's nothing but a loser & has-been.

Giuliani, you are perfectly wrong!

The Bush administration is a bad joke. It's time to close the curtain, so we can SALVAGE our economy, our health-care system, our environment, our reputation, and our hope and faith in the integrity of our great nation.

Interesting…coming from someone who ran one of the lousiest political campaigns ever (virutally in FL alone) and LOST!!! Guillianai…how is it you were able to do this interview without once mentioning 911??? Hoping to become McCain's Veep??? You'll have to get comfortable wearing "magic' underwear to accomplish that feat!

The Bush administration is a bad joke. It's time to close the curtain, so we can SALVAGE our economy, our health-care system, our environment, our reputation, and our hope and faith in the integrity of our great nation.

There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution regarding that the qualifications to be president has anything to do with a person having to visit 'every' country in the world. Guilianni and McCain are looking foolish. It was McCain that was pushing for Obama to go overseas in the first place and now all McCain has been doing is whinning about it. It was McCain's POOR judgment not to take the press with him on his trip overseas and now McCain is jealous that Obama decided to take the press with him. OBAMA '08

Mr. Giuliani, were you qualified to run for the president of the United States because you were a New York Mayor? Does that qualified you to be an experience candidate? Fairness might help.

I love the way Obama acts like he's got it all and will save the world… and has nothing to back it up, zero…. except for his teleprompters.

Experience…Repubs talking point, over and over.

Look where their "EXPERIENCE" got us!

Dahmer had "experience"…

Go crawl fack from under whatever rock you crawled out of you slime bucket. Us New Yorkers will never forget how you manipulated our tragedy for financial and monetary gains. Those BOOS you heard from the Stadium were for you and not for McSenile.

Oh really? It seems your pal John Insane doesn't know the "world" THAT well. His recent comments since becoming the repub nominee have proven he is probably one of the most out of touch so called "leaders" of this country we have. Unfortunately Rudy, your ol' buddy seems to know the "old" world better than the new. And hasn't a clue on how to make the adjustments to his agenda necessary to accomodate the HUGE changes the world has seen the past 2 decades.

AMERICA, YOU CAN WRITE-OFF BOTH OF THESE MEN AS "LOOSE CHANGE."

If we look at McCain's voting record for service members and veterans, we will find he only voted no when the democrats attached riders that were rediculous. The Obama crowd is good at half-truths.

The democrats are notorious for loading bills with pork in areas that republicans will normally vote positively.

I love how Obama says he would send our troops into Pakistan, our ally in the region. This is the immaturity that is scary. If you inflame Pakistan; you endanger India and Afganistan at the same time. We are not electing someone to be the boss in the sandbox with the other children.

Senator McCain voted for this senseless war. May I ask how "He was right about Iraq when almost everybody else was wrong"? Can McCain, Bush, Giuliani or anyone please explain to America why there is a war in Iraq?

That comment is funny because if John McCain had any judgment he would not have voted for waging war in the first place. I will take good judgment over experience any day. George W. Bush had lots of experience and look what it got use…the worse presidency in the history of the US, and McCain is apart of that… We should have not been in Iraq in the first place.

Obama/08

So? This is news? Who cares what RG thinks? How about some news. You know, the Cable NEWS network?

Juliani, that was the reason you lost in the primary, that people did not like you. Don't you realize that??? Now, you're trying to critiziced Sen. Obama with your poison words along with the republicans, that's all you people know, fear and smear. Well, the American people already fedup with all of your Republicans ways and corrupt Government. They need change in a way that can leads them in a new direction, not the Republican way, attack and always tell negativity to the American people. I think Obama has more experience than you are. Again, that was the reason you did not get elected by the people because they did not like you and your inexperience. Go back to school get more educated.

Giuliani is one to talk. He was hoping that New yorkers living outside of New York would vote for him, What kind of experience does that show. He's only blabbing his mouth to help keep Mcbush in the news. Too little too late.

the only experience mcsame has on sen. obama mr.transvestite guilani is his old age. nothing else.

Guiliani…yesterdays news…his opinion is meaningless.

His children don't support him, he should just be quiet. He needs to fix his problems at home before he can tell us what to believe, he couldn't convince his children to support him while he was running for president. He is a loser, I mean truly!!

AH SHUT UP and go plan another 9/11

Thats it Rudy, give your opinion, we all know how important it is to our progression as a nation. lol…….Maybe one day these political big wigs will realize that "having experience" with foreign affairs does little to help with the experience needed right here in the United States. Thats the problem, we keep concerning ourselves with everything but what needs to be done here. Can we work on America first guys?

Obama and his hateful campaign were bent on winning at all costs.

They bashed, ridiculed, mocked and demeaned the best candidate out of the running.

They believed that the answer to winning was simply to eliminate the only GOOD candidate. With Hillary gone, Obama would then be able to win the election as the ONLY democrat left. Or so they gambled.

To that end, Obama and his vitriolic, vulgar, loud, filthy mouthed supporters risked dividing the party, insulting the democratic base, denigrating women, demeaning the lifelong democrats, all just to STEAL THE NOMINATION.

Well, it backfired… hate will not win you votes. Using race as a shield against criticism and as a sword to gut your opponent will not inspire loyalty. Talking trash and mocking and demeaning the people whose votes you need will not win people over.

If we didn't go to iraq in the first place, we do not need a troop surge to break the quagmire.

Newsflash – a McCain surrogate supports McCain above his oponent! Stop the presses CNN and cover this story! Nevermind about the more important story that Maliki supports Obama's position on troop drawdown. Nevermind that McCain's experience has not helped him to have a better solution to the current world problems, let's hype that Obama has less experience (even though he's done a commendable job at explaining viable solutions anyway). We can't let this race get lopsided or the ratings will go down – let's tear down Obama so he can't get too far ahead. (At least that's what this slanted coverage sure looks like CNN must be saying.)

Thank you, Rudy! Obama's Rainbow Tour is just an expensive photo op.

Hey, we don't need someone who pretends to be Presidential; we need someone who IS presidential.

The man who can do the job is McCain.

Hey, Jessica Simpson and Obama have a lot in common.
They both entertained the troops (Obama played B-ball) and both are
photogenic but COMPLETELY UNQUALIFIED to become president.

Maybe Obama should go into the entertainment business. He is a good actor but we need a president.

Rudy Giuliani, "He (Senator McCain) has been going there for 20-30 years."

And, yet, McCain felt Invading Iraq was correct?

That many years of going over there, and he still didn't get it.

Maybe in 10 or 20 years Obama will have sufficient experience to actually make a good president. But he will be a much different person, in his positions then. He's presently shifting those positions right now as he gains "experience" via advice, on an accelerated schedule, from his new staff members. Come back in 10 or 20 years once he has had time to gain real experience and settle on what his real positions are – rather than all the guesses (euphemistically being called judgement) he's been coming up with. But I fear he will become president and it will be Jimmy Carter all over again. If so, so be it…

Wow…look at this wise guy, Barrack Obama comes from a far diverse background and is more intouch with the American people of all Races. He's Travelled from childhood to become a US Senator. I don't Think Mr "Only word on my vocabulary is nine eleven" Over Here should open his mouth! Thats why his party saw how inexperience he was to be Party nominee. This Country of ours needs healing and having these 11th hour clowns doesn't help with Jobs, Healthcare and a clean future for our children. Obviously Sen. Obama is right on foreign affairs. He got Iraq right and Afghanistan is seeking his focus. Mr Giulliani Shut your reject-pie hole!

Ha ha, Rudy! Your *experience* got you where in this race, exactly?

I do not think Giuliani has any sense. No wonder he lost woefully.

The Republicans are a joke. They think this old attack campaign strategy will continue to work. First they attack Obama on not going, then when he does they attack for going. Stupid, stupid, stupid. And you see wehre this type of politics gets us, in a load of hurt. It's time to put a stop to this foolish all-or-nothing mentality. Everytime McCain and his buds talk, it shows why we need to change.

Isn't it interesting that Rudy thought that he had the experience to be president and that he was a better choice for president than John McCain when Rudy had even less foreign policy experience than Barack Obama?

Travel to a given place, or places many times does not necessarily give one knowledge, let alone valuable experience of various situations or conditions. Takes more than that.

Rudy who?

Taking trips overseas does not make you more politically experienced. Just look at all the trips Giuliani made while consulting various Arab countries on security…he didn't even get a delegate in the primary…what a joke this guy is.

Experience, i.e. " Doing Business as Usual" is what got the United States into the foriegn policy mess and deep recession that we are in NOW. What makes Mr Giuliani think that the policies/ methods that caused the problems will cure them ?????? With friends like this and Mr. Graham, Senator McCain doesn't need enemies. Nothing annoys a voter like insulting their intelligence…..

You know, I don't understand what makes Giuliani an expert in world affairs. He had Norman Podhoretz as a foreign policy expert, and the last time I checked, Podhoretz was a literary critic on the left before he became a neocon. I think John McCain would be better off if he had surrogates that knew something about foreign policy speak on his behalf.

P.S. I just want to add Giulani's presidential campaign was the biggest joke EVER. Talk about a crash and burn.

Just when I think the McBush team can't make up more lies, they top themselves! I'm beginning to wonder if republicans in general just have no idea what the truth is or are they just that desperate?

Just because you have been there does not mean you have foreign policy experience. If that was the case, he would have probably known the difference between Sunni and Shiite.

But apparently, travel equals experience just like POW equals President.

So says the candidate with the "Florida strategy" and campaign slogan of a noun, a verb and 9/11. Rudy, you are in no position to give anyone advice; as a matter of fact, you're irrelevant.

How in the hell can this loser Giuliani, say that anybody is inexperienced. Giuliani is inexperienced in running a presidentail campaign, and we have proof of this.

Uhhhh. Did any of that crap make any sense to anybody? Cause it sounded like a bunch of rambling rhetoric. What exactly has McCain been right about? Oh yea, the Iraqis want us out in 16 months but McCain thinks we should stay there forever. Sounds like he is right in sync with the current state of world affairs……. I think Guliani is hallucinating

Oh really? Did we expect to hear anything different from someone who was in attendance with John McCain? I think not!

Obama 08

Oh yeah, Mr. 9/11 sure has a lot of experience

I cant stand Rudy, but this is one issue, as a lifelong Democrat, that I agree with him on. Obama's last minute "War for Dummies" trip (which is the first he has taken to our war zones) shows how very inexperienced he really is! He is the Freshman of the Senate and is in no way qualified to be our nations leader!

As if Rudy had foreign policy experience???? How is it Rudy ran for President with less foreign experience than Obama and thought it was okay? The only foreign experience Rudy has had was as a "security consultant" when he was sometimes hired by foreigners. Rudy has become joke.

The fact that John McCain wouldn't hesitate to bomb Iran tells you how much his type of experience is the wrong kind.As for the dear Mayor,well,that's what he was,a mayor.

Bravo! Mc Cain1 God bless you and bless America.
Bob

Well Mr. Guiliani, like you said Sen. McCain may understand the world for 20-30 years of traveling and experience. However, the world has changed DRASTICALLY in the last ten years, so we need a FRESH perspective — GET IT!

OBAMA 08

This coming from a man whose only expierience is being mayor during 9/11. Sorry but that gives you no expierience so shut your mouth and stop playing up to mccain.

Mac Cain's experience is out of date!

And you foreign policy experience was what Rudy? Oh yeah, rule Florida! Go home and save what dignity you have left!

Rudy Giuliani? Who's he??
Anyway….Rudy whoever you are….. John McCain doesn't even know the Shiites from the Sunnis. He needs the hovering Lieberman to whisper in his ear everytime he makes a mistake.

Does anyone know who this Rudy Giuliani is? Anybody?
cue the crickets………

And why in the world is this a ticker item? Why are we hearing about what a McCain surrogate says about Obama's experience? Where's the coverage about Maliki supporting Obama's 16-month drawdown of troops? Isn't that much more worthy of indepth coverage? Why is the media downplaying an important story like that, and covering a trivial story like this? I'd say that Obama's experience was sufficient, given that Maliki support Obama's position.

This from a man who put all his eggs in one basket, ignoring small states and going for Fla. The clear GOP frontrunner who basically was a one day candidate. Yea, he is an expert to talk about strats and inexperience.

Next story please, a fork was in Rudy some time ago.

whatever you say mr 911

Oh please, as if Rudy has alot of experience….What foreign affairs did he handle????

Hear the Republicans who speak highly of Abe Lincoln. Well, how many of you know that Abe Lincoln was serving his first term of Senator when he ran for President???? Gee, look how well he turned out….

Speaking of experience of foreign politics, etc….how much experience did Bush have when he ran for President.???

How was McCain right about Iraq?!?

He said we would be greeted as liberators and that oil revenue would pay for the war. I'm so tired of the Neo-Con Republicans flat out ignoring the truth and pretending that THEY are on the right side of the most important issues facing this country when on EVERY SINGLE ISSUE–from healthcare, the energy crisis, our failed foreign policy and the housing market crisis—REPUBLICANS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FALLOUT. The Democrats have only held the majority in congress for 2yrs. We've had 2 oil men in the Executive Branch for 8yrs. When will we as Americans stop buying into their lies?!?

I don't recall George Bush having as much foreign experience as either Kerry or Gore.

The only reason why John Mac cain has to visit Iraq and afghanistan so many times because he is not internet smart. Obama can do it all from a distance.

Hey Giuliani, have you visited Afghanistan yourself?

It's thanks to this same level of "experience" McCain had that he voted to enter Iraq in the first place!

talk about inexperience Rudy…you couldn't even run a believable presidential campaign..I think you should shut up really!

McCain sure knows the world; McCain said that Iraq would be an easy war that would be over fast. McCain still hasn't realized that Czechoslovakia is no longer a country. McCain still doesn't know the difference between a Sunni and a Shia and which sect supports what, even after he was corrected two times. McCain thinks Iran is a sever threat near equal to the Soviet Union, even as Iran photoshops it's missile launches of missiles that can barely reach Israel.
Though its sad how Giuliani lies, Obama as visited Iraq and other countries before, this isn't his first time. And what is ironic is that during this trip Iraq's PM Maliki came out and supported Obama's Iraq plan.
All polls show that a majority of Iraqi citizens want America out, now Iraq's government wants us out so why are we not getting out? Even McCain and Bush said if Iraq wanted us out we should leave, but now we learn that when they said that a year ago they were simply lying and being typical politicians.
Obama has enough experience; Obama has more elective experience then Reagan had.

All this from the guy whose strategy was to run to Florida and wait on the primaries to come to him? Oh yeah, oh yeah, he's the one to listen to! Go Rudy! It's your birthday!

Let's be honest here. No Presidential Candidate, in recent history, has ever gone overseas while campaigning. This is a first in recent memory.

Shall we not forget that it wasn't until McCain took Obama to task that Obama suddenly decides to take a trip to these countries. Do we really want a president that has to be poked and prodded to do this rather than take initiative himself (or herself as the case should have been?)

If we had listened to people like Obama instead of people like McCain from the beginning we never would have gotten ourself into this mess in Iraq.

Rudy Gilluani is not qualified enough to call others inexperienced. He was a Mayor of a city and lead many Fire Fightetrs to their death to help some business people. He has used his office to kill more innocent Americans!

Republicans need many Americans killed somewhere to help theGUN INDUSTRY of USA.

How can this man be person to talk on Human rights or world affairs?

Giuliani was a big failure. His perforamance in the primary was very poor. He did not win a single primary.
We have seen what the experience fo Dick Cheny and Rumsfield has brouhgt us. McCain is from the generation and he will not be different. The world today needs a new leadership and new vision.
Obama will make a great president who will lead America in the right direction
No, to the experience of : CHENY…McCAIN or RUMSFIELD

"Inexperience" is precisely why he will win the election. Haven't you been listening? Obama is arguing that the politics of the past are no longer necessary, and he wants to bring his views to move America in a new and better direction. This is the first election where experience is disadvantageous. It just so hapens that the majority of Americans want to move beyond the politics of the past as well, so stand back and watch a miracle take place, as Americans take this country back into their own hands through the small dollar donation funding of his campaing, and being elated for finally voting for him when November comes around.

Rudy Guliani lost in the primaries. John McCain was complaining about Obama goes and he is still complaining this is getting old.

Wow, he didnt say 9/11 once, he must be in remission

What kind of idiots has mccain surrounded him self with. And this is the guy some poeple want to be president. We elected one idiot as presdident and now some are tring to elect another one. When will america learn?????

BARACK THE VOTE!!!!!!

BARACK /SEBE;IUS 08

Having been around the world for 20 or 30 years as the ex mayor of New York City said of McCain,I'm sorry, but that doesn't make him more qualified to be president than Obama. He has repeatedly gone along with Bush 95% of the time and voted to give him anything he has wanted. I don't trust him, and I know that if he is elected, it will be just more of the same monarchy that King George has forced on this country. We need youth and enthusiasm, and hope that we can be so much better by going in another direction.

So it's inexperience that makes the Iraqi PM agree with Obama's plan.
CLEARLY!

Giuliani is the dumbest RACIST in the world. As a native Manhattanite, I can fully say that he is an idiot who did NOTHING for NY after 9/11 except cheat on his wife. This moron had the nerve to run for president, then say someone else is inexperienced?!?! What a total LOSER.

"…John doesn't have to go for the first or second time to these places. He has been going there for 20-30 years. " That's a LIE.
McCain hasn't been to Afghanistan and Iraq 20 times…leave alone going there for 20-30 years. No wonder you lost both the primaries and NY election….people vote for HONESTY not for liers…get your medication before you talk next time…

This from a man who was so brilliant that he staked his whole Presidential bid on Florida – and then folded ?
This from the man who set the stage for even greater disaster BEFORE 9 / 11 – and sacrificed the lives of rescue workers ?
Rudy is an idiot.
No wonder he backs McSame. Just another puppet for the Puppet Master.

Wow, and this is coming from a guy who got no delegates in the primaries and had little chance of becoming president. Giuliani needs to crawl back into whatever hole he came out of! That's why the GOP and John McSame will lose the General Election this year.

OBAMA '08!!

Sure Rudy…yours was the worst campaign. It's obvious you have bad judgement so your opinion should be treated with the same attention your campaign got – NONE

This is starting to be pathetic (or maybe continuing to be). The Republicans continue to believe that if you repeat something over and over again, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, everyone will believe it.

That may have been true in the run up to the Iraq War, but I believe the American people have enough sense to see through this. Obama has been consistently RIGHT, where McCain has supported Bush the whole time with the exception of calling for more troops (which MANY Democrats were saying should have been done at the outset).

Amazing – I really can't wait for President Obama!

I don't believe that Obama is inexperienced. The world has changed during the past 20-30 years and if McCain is holding onto those experiences, I would say that he is out of touch! One more thing, don't these old geesers just wish they would young again!!!!

Guilliani is just jealous of Barack Obama. Because Guilliana "half" ran New York surely does not mean he can run our national government. He needs to get over himself.
Afterall, look at the state of New York!!!

The American people were very serious when they took a good look at Guiliani and said NO. So the argument Guiliani is making, Obama vs. McCain, needs to be directed to Pres. George W. Bush because they too are on the same page with Obama and not McCain. In fact the world is on the same page as Obama. Desperation brings people like Guiliani and McCain to say very stupid things so EAT YOUR HUMBLE PIE" and take a hike.

The New York mayor is only interested in protecting his lucrative businesses overseas where he is the puppet of those governments – he does not care about how his schemes affect the American people, he only cares about money and power – he is corrupted and has forgotten what this country is supposed to be about. What a dispicable person.

Rudy is a bit off mark here, because it was McCain who kept harping that Obama has not been to Iraq in 999 days; a clear reference to the need for Obama to go and see first hand what is happening rather than running for President by staying inside America.

What will be Obama's view after he comes back is what we need to wait to know. We already know he doesn't have the McCain political experience, but this year's race is going to be very tough given that there are more agitated world players seeking to get a leg up on the world's lone superpower: the USA!

Whose arguments for America will hold sway in November? Obama or McCain?

Moreover, will white dominated western Europe, which spent more than fifty years looking up to America as superpower and leader of the free world, be still willin gto look to America for leadership if a BLACK MAN IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE?

The race issue is not confined to America, but extends to the rest of the white world that looks up to America for leadership!

We've got to get real as real gets!

Not if the democrats had Hillary… but with Obama our OWN poor choice… we may well prefer the lesser evil, McCain.

Oh!….then I was right. Vote Giuliani for Sec of State…hehehe. Go New York.

No surprise here, Yankees are the republicans of baseball. Thats why everyone hates them.

Infact, Mr Giuliani, Your knowledge is fifteen billion dollar a month short. When the America people look at his record on Iraq, it purely reflect his poor judgment.

This country can not afford to have a lightweight for a president.
Not at this time..not ever.

YOU DON'T BRING A KNIFE TO A GUN FIGHT

Rudy sounds like a sore loser. What does he knows about strategy and was it not his strategy in his run that got him kicked to the curb. i would like for someone on this blog to tell me what bush and McCain got right with Iraq?

Obama 2008/12

Mayor……..look who's talking!! You just want attention. Plus, with you there at Yankee stadium, I'm afraid that the Yanks won't make the playoffs now! You and Hillary……….well, I'll just leave it at that, LOL!!

As for Senator McCain, he's a true sports fan. As a matter of fact, he's always been. He knows about that but you(Rudy), you are an idiot sir…

Hey Giuliani,

Why don't you pretend the American public, well at least the east and west coasts along with a few in the central states, can actually see right through stupid statements like yours. We've already had a joke of a president that didn't, and look where that got us. MORON !

Giuliani lost his bid and was not able to Judge the peoples verdict. he cannot judge between good and better. so in my opinion, he should keep his mouth shut.

What a stupid Giuliani is? What a crap he is talking about? They can't fool around this time. No one is going to believe this nonsense except few.

Now now now when obama comes back from Iraq and Afgan he will know all about what they are doing, how they are doing it and how he will resolve the problem in no time….after all he is a king, a god among men. Someone who sat on his butt all thru the state and federal senate and has not come to be the "it" factor…everybody knows that.

In damage control, the McCain and Biush camps now claim Maliki's statements were not well transmitted. They forgot there were footprints to his current statements from the past two weeks:

Starting from Maliki seeking a timetable when the Bush admin had said they did not want one forcing them to now want a 'time horizon' (how unstupid and uneducated they think we are – no wonder they keep dumbing down our education system making it easier fo the rich and elite to rule us by proxy through republicans).

The next natural step for Maliki is to look at Obama's timetable (being the only clearly proferred one) and render his judgement on it – on questions from Germany – which he did. He only confirmed what we already knew here that Obama is a very strategic candidate.

Yeah, America needs the experience that can strengthen ties with Czechoslovakia and to fight the Muslims who all want us to kneel or die. While we're at it we can try to get the Iranians to kill themselves with cigarettes!

Get this tool sack out of the news. McSenile right about Iraq? That's all I hear from these idiots. Attack, attack, attack. No vision, no concrete helpful policies, nothing.

Wipe the floor with them Obama.

Obama/Sebelius 2008/2012.

Giuliani (dirty Yankees fan. GO SOX) is just angry that 1) he lost his party's primary miserably and 2) no one would care if he had gone over there.

Why the losers always have so much to say.
Rudy,when was the last time you went there?

McCain doesn't even understand the internet, but he supposedly "knows the world"?

Even if mcCain has traveled more than Obama, he does not know the common man in America. He is so far removed and sheltered from the reality of life here he is out of touch with the average American.

This coming from a "mayor" who bet it all on Florida and LOST big time. I hardly think he is in any position to call someone else, "inexperienced". Let's just chalk this one up to some fluffy comments for the press, and nothing more.

my god, what a boob, he still is!

Nice to try to spin it as experience. But he's RIGHT on the war. Bush and McBush are learning from Barack.

Wasn't that the bright politician that though he could win the presidency by buying Miami?

Geez – two old geezers out checking out the girls.

Go Obama '08

Yup….John has crashed 5 planes all over the place…his overview of the world is about as good as yours, Rudy……disastrous!!!

An obvious and accurate observation.

I certainly want Clinton to take that phone at 3 A.M.

Rudy, be quiet. Nobody wants to hear you speak.

As the USA get's weaker, so the Arab's get stronger… The weakest link in America today… Is the Idiot Obama.. The Guy who bends, in a Breeze…

I think anyone with half a brain would realize that Obama can't develop foreign policy credentials instantaneously via quick trips around Europe and the Middle East….and all done at the last minute.

Was for Hillary, now for McCain!

PUMA