Ties that bind

Barack Obama sold off $180,000 in a retirement investment in an oil services company that does business with Sudan, a nation he has sharply (and justifiably) criticized. The right-wing bloggers now oscillate between calling Obama a hypocrite and slamming him as a poor investor. ("Obama is a fool in investing. How will he handle the nation’s finances?")

So...er...what about Rudy and his ties to Saudi Arabia?

That's diffo, as Hatlo used to say.

The Giuliani-Saudi linkage is described at the very end of this video, which delivers Ron Paul's response to Rudolph Giuliani's debate attack. I've already noted that Giuliani's remarks betrayed his ignorance of the uncontested fact that Osama Bin Laden has consistently cited the Iraqi sanctions as a casus belli.

(By the way, I want to apologize for misspelling the former mayor's name in a couple of previous posts. Believe it or not, a short while ago I lived a block away from a street called Giulio. So I have no excuse.)