I just finished watching an interview Rudy Giuliani gave on CNN. The interviewer presented a clip of Giulini from 1989 where he disagreed with Bush, Sr.' veto against provision to publicly fund abortion. In the clip, Giuliani said there should be public funding for abortion.

The interviewer asked Giuliani whether his position is still the same. Giuliani said he has to review his comments at that time and the circumstances in which he made them. He went on to assert that he is prolife and that "adoptions went up and abortions went down while I was mayor."

Ummm. Adotions propably went up and abortions probably went down while Giuliani was mayor of New York City. But that did not happen because Giuliani was prolife. In fact, Giuliani played very much the pro-choice or pro-abortion people in order to sustain his electability in NYC. While Giuliani was mayor, Bill Clinton was President. It had already been established that, during that time, nation-wide adoptions went up and abortions went down.

Can Mr. Clinton take credit for that? I doubt it. I think other social factors fortunately played into that statistical reality. But Mr. Clinton is not now running for President, Anakin Skywalker -- I mean, Rudy Giuliani -- is. He cannot take credit for a social phenomenon he had nothing to do with. More importantly, his words in 1989, and consistently throughout his political career prior to running for President, do matter.

Either he lied then; or he is lying now. Either way he cannot be trusted. [But I know that already. I am a New Yorker who lived under his emperial rule here].

Finally, a Southern Baptist I can agree with... on one issue, anway: Rudy Giuliani should not be in the White House. Of course, I have some different reasons for opposing him, but the end result is the same.

According to The Hill, Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, says that Rudy Giuliani will not get the vote of "the 'vast majority' of social conservative voter's... even if he gets the nomination and faces off against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.)." Clinton's team must be lapping that one up. The problems, for Land, are Giuliani's positions, respectively, on abortion (he's pro-choice) and gay rights (he looks passable in a dress). Add to that, Giuliani is on his third wife; after having openly cheated on wife number two with wife number three. Not a good match for social conservatives.