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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx</link><description>From NBC's John Yang and NBC/NJ's Matthew E. BergerThe end is rarely pretty.
The morning after it was reported that Giuliani was dropping out was particularly chaotic for the campaign. The traveling press corps was asked to be in the lobby at 7:30 am</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#621698</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:03:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:621698</guid><dc:creator>Rick, WS, NC</dc:creator><description>Go home rudy911 to judi and your petrodollar clients...feel sorry for the dunces who wasted 50 million dollars on this clowns winter vacation in Florida, actually I don't...</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#621728</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:10:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:621728</guid><dc:creator>Arnold, Sacramento,CA</dc:creator><description>Does this mean that Rudy will not be in the debate? Wouldn't it be unfair for Romney if he were in the debate while indicating he was backing McCain?</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#621752</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:16:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:621752</guid><dc:creator>Joe Einloth</dc:creator><description>Rudy ended the campaign the way he started and ran it - half-assed!! &amp;nbsp;In between this and the sorry way he ran for the Senate in 2000, can we please get this arrogant, egotistical fool behind us? &amp;nbsp;Doesn't this seem to reinforce the notion that he made 9/11 worse, instead of better?</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#621771</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:20:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:621771</guid><dc:creator>j fl</dc:creator><description>Oh my, Rudy the man goes down in a blaze of glory.Cough, sputter.....</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#621808</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:28:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:621808</guid><dc:creator>nuanced</dc:creator><description>Did the reporters get on the plane or did the buses take the reporters back or did they have to use cabs again? &amp;nbsp;Where is the ending to the story?</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#621812</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:29:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:621812</guid><dc:creator>John Alexander</dc:creator><description>And the busses never came, ahhhhhhhhhhhh, too bad, hitch a ride, put your thumb out, just clean it off before you hitch, it has been where the sun don't shine and we don't pick up dirty people.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Media, the biggest losers so far! </description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#621823</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:31:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:621823</guid><dc:creator>Shadow, Hamden, CT</dc:creator><description>I could make a joke here about terrible GOTV organization, or about how Republicans always leave people stranded while buses sit unused; at least there wasn't a hurricane this time.</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#621839</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:37:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:621839</guid><dc:creator>Media Sucks</dc:creator><description>The reporters need to get off the gravy train and pay for their own ticket.</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#621845</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:38:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:621845</guid><dc:creator>John B, Des Moines, IA</dc:creator><description>Does anyone remember the movie &amp;quot;Dave&amp;quot;, in which Kevin Kline masquerading as the President drops a bombshell in front of a joint session of Congress? &amp;nbsp;The VP, sitting with a house full of supporters for his upcoming presidency suddenly finds himself completely alone.</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#621882</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:45:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:621882</guid><dc:creator>---NSMsnbc</dc:creator><description>&amp;quot;His wife, Judith, was not with him.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;--But were they still in post-9/11, pre-flight cell phone contact.</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#622013</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:16:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:622013</guid><dc:creator>Robert  Tampa/Houston</dc:creator><description>MCCAIN HAS A NEW WOMAN IN HIS LIFE- HER NAME IS RUDY GUILIANI AND SHE WANTS TO BE TAKEN CARE OF IN RETURN FOR HER SERVICES.</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#622030</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:21:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:622030</guid><dc:creator>Bill, Albany, NY</dc:creator><description>&amp;quot;or about how Republicans always leave people stranded while buses sit unused; &amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Way to re-write history. It was Democratic leaders in N.O. that did not use the buses. Or are the Mayor and Governor now registered Republicans?</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#622059</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:27:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:622059</guid><dc:creator>Shame is not leadership trait!</dc:creator><description>Is it not a shame that big money buys the White House, any truth factor is one can lie their way into the White House. Never is past has America supported hollow lies and hollow experience, leadership is now learned from being only a coat tail hanger! Side car experience is hollow of leadership traits, &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Shame of scandal and immoral being is the events which the Clinton's reside upon! &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;America will not relive that exposure again!!!</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#622061</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:27:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:622061</guid><dc:creator>Rick,ky</dc:creator><description>One Egotistic New York politician Down, One more to go. Come on Voter's,Billary is on the Edge, let's give her the gentle nudge she need's to jump off the cliff!</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#622104</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:39:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:622104</guid><dc:creator>P.D.</dc:creator><description>I remember a couple weeks ago on this post , I stated Rudy was finished and a number of people slammed me. It's not always pretty to be right!</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#622155</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:50:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:622155</guid><dc:creator>Ivory            Dayton    OH                 </dc:creator><description>I don't think he ever really thought about a real presidential campaign. It was always about being the former Mayor of New York and 9/11. What else is new Rudy? oh I forget about the 12 commitments applying them where? Florida didn't care about them. Let's see married a lot, pal Bernie a crook, it was always &amp;quot;I&amp;quot; never &amp;quot;We&amp;quot; the people. Just like all Republicans out of step with the American electorate. </description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#622167</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:52:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:622167</guid><dc:creator>j fl</dc:creator><description>Ricky dear, you must read the newspaper or get online and educate yourself. Hillary is ahead in most super tuesday states and many others as well.New Hampshire and Florida, &amp;quot;put her over the edge&amp;quot; you might say. </description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#622230</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:06:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:622230</guid><dc:creator>B. Olsen, UT</dc:creator><description>Never realized how happy I'd be to see Rudy go until I heard he was endorsing McCain. I guess Rudy thought he had to get something for himself out of this campaign, and McCain is just the slimy person to make the deal with him. Rudy is apparently just one more sleezy politician trying to worm his way to a cabinet post or VP spot. I think pay TV could make a fortune off of a special featuring everyone McCain has promised the VP spot to, and let them have a wrestling match. McCain would have a great time watching his puppets fight for him. Billary would be right there in the front row clapping. It doesn't matter who wins the general election anymore. Hillary and John McCain will be going steady, I'm sure, by the end of the nominating conventions this summer, since their so close, and whoever is in front in the polls will ask the other to be their VP running mate. Sorry Crist, Rudy, Martinez, Huckabee, Kennedy. You're all out in the cold!</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#622255</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:11:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:622255</guid><dc:creator>Terry L. Maddox, Topeka KS</dc:creator><description>That will leave just Mike Huckabee to siphon conservative votes off Mitt Romney, in a premeditated strategy to assure John McCain the Presidential nomination, virtually assuring a Democrat victory in the fall.&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#622287</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:15:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:622287</guid><dc:creator>Sharon Walker,  Dear Friends,  Folsom, CA  all of the USA</dc:creator><description>Dear Friends:&lt;br&gt;As a soldier must quietly and proudly board the transport home, so to is Giuliani and Edwards. You are heros and men who have served this nation with pride. &amp;nbsp;Your private and civic duty have and are making their place in history with respect and I am a proud American citizen to have had representatives such as your self run for the President of the United States of America. &amp;nbsp; Thank you. &amp;nbsp; God Bless you and your family. &amp;nbsp;Sharon Walker, &amp;nbsp;Dear Friends, &amp;nbsp;Folsom, CA &amp;nbsp;all citizens of the USA.</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#622398</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:29:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:622398</guid><dc:creator>Keya, Stamford, CT</dc:creator><description>Let's be real. &amp;nbsp;Rudy (and the rest of us) knew he wouldn't be president. The guy is a obvious ho and corrupt as all get out. The GOP just needed filler because so many of their ranks are, well, RANK! &amp;nbsp;Oh, and the gov't may have sent buses to N.O., but they kinda forgot about food and water for a sec...</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#622400</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:29:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:622400</guid><dc:creator>kenn</dc:creator><description>WHOS FOX TV FOR NOW WITH RUDY GONE WHO WILL RUPERT AND roger pick.CAN something that never started be over</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#622404</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:30:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:622404</guid><dc:creator>Venita Jaffier</dc:creator><description>Good riddance to Giuliani! &amp;nbsp;If it were not(sadly)for 9/11, he would most likely be living in obscurity. &amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#622440</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:36:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:622440</guid><dc:creator>Jeff, Austin </dc:creator><description>The question isn't so much who'll he'll endorse as which way his supporters will actually move.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Which way will Edwards supporters move now?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=1660"&gt;http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=1660&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;.</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#622577</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:54:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:622577</guid><dc:creator>phil..philadelphia  pa.</dc:creator><description>It amazes me to read some of these blogs from such shallow minds who condemm a loyal ,patriotic person who thinks enough to run for such a high office knowing well that there are those out that are nothing but takkers, and give nothing back..you are cowards.. Good try Rudy, and thank you for your loyality... Fight on John Mc Cain.. The silent majority is behind you..</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#622626</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:03:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:622626</guid><dc:creator>HP, Kansas</dc:creator><description>Republicans: Ask yourself why McCain won Florida.&lt;br&gt;Answer: His stance on immigration.&lt;br&gt;He won the majority of the latino vote. ....duh&lt;br&gt;Wake up republicans!! Before it's too late.</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#622684</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:11:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:622684</guid><dc:creator>Jane Doe</dc:creator><description>The sad thing is, perhaps we may be seeing Rudy again in the fall as a VP candidate. I shiver at the notion.</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#622977</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:00:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:622977</guid><dc:creator>Jeff, Seattle, WA</dc:creator><description>Giuliani won't be McCain's VP candidate. McCain is more likely to choose someone popular with the religious right, like Huckabee, to shore up his weak side. Giuliani would be looking for a position in a McCain adminstration, perhaps Attorney General.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Romney (should he be the nominee, not likely) doesn't get along with any of the others who are/were running, so he won't pick any of them as his VP.&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#623420</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:05:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:623420</guid><dc:creator>Bill, Raleigh, NC</dc:creator><description>Maybe McCain can get Rudy to at least make a speech for him. I fell asleep listening to McCain last night during his victory speech - come to think of it he has put be to sleep before. &amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>The end is rarely pretty</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/621639.aspx#623521</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:21:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:623521</guid><dc:creator>Brian, Melbourne, FL</dc:creator><description>Florida hates you, Rudy. &amp;nbsp;I don't care if you go to California or New York, just GO AWAY.</description></item></channel></rss>