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I’ve never had an objection to Giuliani – apart from the fact that he is a complete and utter fraud.
At least with a cornpone knuckle-dragger like Bush, there is the omnipresent danger, that, if not scripted, his speech will wonder down the occasional solecistic blind alley – and you just know there are scads of metaphors yet to be mixed. But, deep down beneath the cow pie and squinty eye, you know there’s a real sincerity to Bush: You can sort of sense he is genuinely stupid.
Rudy, on the other hand, has sufficient guile to present himself as something he’s not: a moral man. In fact, Rudy is something of a rutting pig.
So, when we learn that he was exaggerating just a bit about being “down there” with the real heroes, it doesn’t surprise us in the least.
