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.

So much for my earlier defense of Garry Owen's right to be disturbing.

I wrongly assumed that the comment had "passed" Salon's check. I understand why it was pulled, though. Although I still have objections to moderation and censorship based on subjective criteria, e.g. "common decency".

It's rather like coming to terms with using a condom.

I know this is a very terrible thing to say but I've always believed the Mayors sangfroid re the immediate aftermath of 9/11 [ I swear he seemed almost giddy at times] was entirely the function of his..... psychopathology. I swear that [ particle] mask barely obscured a beaming smile as he walked directly into the lens of history and a shot at running the Big Island not long down the road.

Equally terrible, Night Rider,is my sense that post-literate America always gets what it deserves.

was i late fetching your medication from the chemist? am only a valenteer remember? helping your lot be greatful n stop moaning is bad for your mental state

I always knew Giuliani was more interested in PLAYING WITH HIS OR SOMEONE ELSE'S BALLS OR WATCHING BALL-PLAY THAN HELPING THOSE NEEDED HELP AFTER 9/11!!!!! WHAT A HYPOCRITE, A THREE-FACED LOUSE AND BOMBASTIC IMBECILE!

Worse that Beame even. Nice guy I'm sure all up in that community redevelopment. But absolutely the #1 worst mayor of NYC since Tammany Hall. The city was crumbling around our ears as fast as jobs and people were leaving. Dave Dinkins could have set fire to NYC and been a better mayor.

The election is over a year from now and the real Republicans have yet to beat Rudi back into the piece of sh_t he is. Does anyone think that a Roaming Catholic, pro choice mayor of an Eastern seaboard city can survive those thugs? Single issue voters like the anti abortionists will have this little mafiaso dude for an appetizer. Albeit one without transfats. If he survives that round can you honestly see some freedom first cowboy from Utah pressing the lever for this guy??? They may stay at home in droves, which is a whole different topic, but I find it well neigh impossible to see the Republican West getting out the vote for Rudi. And don't even start on thoughts about Texas, unless they can find a Texan to be his running mate... like Kennedy 'chose' Lyndon Baines Johnson. Hey maybe Rudi could draft George W. Bush as his running mate...

If this is the state of the Republicans maybe we can win even given that we always seem to find a way to lose. Oh by the way I am a Midwesterner, size 12 1/2 shoe and you would have to break my fingers (all ten) to get me to vote for a Republican.

Anyone who watched the movie about Gypsy Rose Lee has to remember the the song preached to the neophyte Gypsy by her mother and the chorus, informing her that mere stripping would not be enough to woo audiences. Most presidential candidates heed this advice as well. Giulani is a viable candidate only because the media built him up as the savior of 9/11--and he latched onto that image and paraded himself before voters as the mayor-on-the-scene, working hand-in-hand with rescue workers as they excavated the remains of NYC residents.

As is increasingly the case, we must fault Traditional Media as much as the Hero. In this competitive world of corporate journalism, reporters taking their cue from profitable tabloids, inflate a story as big as they can take it, hoping it'll never explode in their faces. You remember such stories as:

Fearless Hero Jessica Lynch;

NFL Football Hero Pat Tillman;

9/11 Terrorist and Nuclear Bomb Builder Saddam Hussein;

The Man from Hope, Bill Clinton;

Fearless Leader and Protector of U.S. Citizens, Dubya Bush;

Misjudged, Mistreated, & Misunderstood, Paris Hilton

If you know how to work it, you can always shirk it, rule the world by simply waving your hand.

"I'm electrifying

And I ain't even trying.

I never had to sweat to get paid

'Cause if you got a gimmick

Giuliani, you got it made!"(*)

Footnotes(*)http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/gypsy/yougottahaveagimmick.htm

You know, some months before 9/11 (I don't remember when, exactly), there was a bit of a dust-up between Rudy and The New Yorker magazine. The magazine had begun using a series of ads on the sides of NYC buses with the tagline, "The only good thing in New York that Rudy hasn't taken credit for." Well, to make a long story short, America's Mayor threw a hissy-fit, and threatened to sue The New Yorker for libel, defamation, etc., etc. Ultimately, the ads were pulled, and the controversy subsided. But this is the Rudy that New Yorkers came to know and loathe before 9/11.

New Yorkers, Midwesterners, and everyone else would be better served to take a hard look at Giuliani's pre-9/11 record before pulling the lever on election day.

Dinkins was better. Koch was better. Bloomberg is better.

FYI: Rudy had to CHEAT both his elections in NYC to win. The first, 1993, was only won b/c his operatives created a symbolic secession vote on Staten Island to guarantee a greater turnout of racists, er, conservatives who would vote against the Black Giuliani: David Dinkins (the incompetent incumbent and Giuliani doppelganger).

He only won reelection by using his Stalinist pressure as head of City Hall to force unions and so on to endorse him. (DUH: he controlled their pursestrings.)

Please stop pretending he won fair and square.

(Besides, as usual, Rudy didn't win the election. The retarded Democrats LOST it. Ruth Messinger was almost as embarassing a human being as Freddy Ferrer.)

Lastly, WHY DOES EVERYONE LIKE TO FORGET THAT EVEN RUDY SAYS HE'S A WANNABE DINKINS? DUH: Giuliani hired... DINKIN'S Transit POlice Commissioner, a guy named Bill BRATTON to lower crime. Yet 100% of people still act like Rudy was the anti-Dinkins.

Wow. Humans are scary.

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