{"id":132196,"date":"2016-12-09T15:56:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T22:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/09\/okay-i-can-sleep-slightly-easier-tonight.html"},"modified":"2016-12-11T01:35:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T08:35:59","slug":"okay-i-can-sleep-slightly-easier-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/09\/okay-i-can-sleep-slightly-easier-tonight.html","title":{"rendered":"Okay, I can sleep slightly easier tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rudy Giuliani will <i>not<\/i> be our next Secretary of State.<\/p>\n<p>There are some dubious choices still in the contender list (seriously, the present <i>and<\/i> previous CEOs of <i>Exxon?)<\/i> but Giuliani is such a shouty, smirky, political hacky kind of guy that the thought of him advising Trump, let alone meeting with foreign heads of state, made my stomach lurch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/goo.gl\/news\/3Jhzl'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/rogQu2g4z3jvnJu_WKZ8btJxXZtlq88OSCGhLzPG1MlCHt6D1nSgwSrMnyrSZ8GW201I8Hq3tMJJg8MRNAU7su18f3fMgkmlaD5mPbs-l9_JcAJPh2EMLQUmo6Cybt6jBBMKa9QvOuJ76x466kaj4qs=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/goo.gl\/news\/3Jhzl'>Giuliani pulls name from contention for secretary of state<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n&#8220;The issue with Trump is you need to close the deal when he&#8217;s in the mindset. He&#8217;s not in the Rudy mindset anymore.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/ZcXjohx8BQk'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudy Giuliani will not be our next Secretary of State. There are some dubious choices still in the contender list (seriously, the present and previous CEOs of Exxon?) but Giuliani is such a shouty, smirky, political hacky kind of guy that the thought of him advising Trump, let alone meeting with foreign heads of state, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/09\/okay-i-can-sleep-slightly-easier-tonight.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Okay, I can sleep slightly easier tonight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10733,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/09\/so_much_for_rudy.html","url_meta":{"origin":132196,"position":0},"title":"So much for Rudy","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Jul-07 9:17am","format":false,"excerpt":"Not that I had any wild enthusiasm for Rudy Giuliani, mind you.\u00a0 Granted, he's got relatively moderate positions on some social issues (abortion, gay rights), but his \"law and order\"...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2008&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/giulianirobertson.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":131955,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/07\/the-people-who-would-work-for-trump.html","url_meta":{"origin":132196,"position":1},"title":"The People Who Would Work for Trump","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 7-Nov-16 7:34am","format":false,"excerpt":"Current top contenders for various posts in the hypothetical Trump administration:Attorney General Rudy Giuliani (it'll be great, because he has lots of contacts in the FBI already!)Secretary of Defense (or NSA Chief) Michael Flynn (where he might learn exactly how fast emails can be scanned for content)Secretary of State Newt\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132551,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/12\/rudy-giuliani-cyber-star.html","url_meta":{"origin":132196,"position":2},"title":"Rudy Giuliani: Cyber-Star!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Jan-17 10:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Rudy Giuliani, who of course is a cyber-security expert, is now Donald Trump's Top Adviser for cyber-security. 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