Newsweek: "Self-styled security expert Giuliani can't keep his campaign plans from getting stolen"

[Bluebear]

"We'd give this guy the nuclear briefcase?"

:rofl:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16502566/site/newsweek/#storyContinued

[berni_mccoy]

1. Stick a fork in that guy... HE'S DONE!!!

K&R :kick:

[villager]

3. I agree -- I think that one misstep did him in...

n/t

[illinoisprogressive]

2. Did you know he trademarked his name???

[NYC]

4. Did he really?

Let me know if you have any more information on that. :)

[MADem]

6. He did indeed...guess we can't use the name, we'll have to refer to him as asswipe or dickhead!

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/486469p-409552c.html

Rudy Giuliani never shrank from defending his image as mayor, but as a businessman he's gone a step further - even trademarking his own name, the Daily News has learned.
The unusual step, revealed in a recent Giuliani company contract obtained by The News, states under the heading "Use of Mr. Giuliani's Name" that the "trade names and trademarks 'Rudolph Giuliani,' or 'Giuliani Partners LLC' . . . shall not be used . . . without prior written consent."

Doing anything that "tarnishes, degrades, disparages or reflects adversely on the Giuliani" name, it adds, will be grounds for terminating the contract.

As Giuliani now ponders a run for the White House, the document underscores what has become a central question of his candidacy - how will the former mayor's roster of mostly private business clients play when viewed through the harsh prism of presidential campaign politics?

It is clearly something the mayor's own people are worried about: In a list of potential "problems" written inside a Giuliani campaign dossier and obtained by The News last week from a source sympathetic to a rival campaign, the word "business" appears at the top of the list, above even his ex-wife, Donna Hanover.

Apparently, Giuliani's own aides are already imagining the negative ads that could spring from his business dealings......

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. Jeb did the same thing

a few years ago.

[MADem]

10. Darn....there goes my plans to manufacture "Jeb Bush Toilet Paper!" NT

[Bluebear]

11. Yes, that was JEB!

[NYC]

14. Well, that's hilarious,

and I loved your reply. :hi:

[Bluebear]

5. I prefer Ghouliani.

Making political hay on tragedies for five years.

[bananarepublican]

7. Fooliani? Stooliani? "911crimescenedestructiani"? n/t

[Bluebear]

13. Thay all work! nt

[salin]

9. Run Rudi Run!

I want to watch the impending fueding between the Rudi and McCain camps - should be entertaining.

[npincus]

12. HAW HAW... how true.