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Anyone who believes a word that comes out of Giuliani's mouth should talk to New Yorkers who had to put up with his insanity for eight years.
Giuliani is a thin-skinned, vainglorious, vindictive, petty, secretive, choleric, person. In other words, he is a bit of a psycho.
Giuliani managed to irk New Yorkers no end with his dictatorial, arrogant, and secretive ways.
He was also totally insensitive to racial relations in a city that is highly diverse. Giuliani never tried to have a decent relationship with African American community leaders. He also mishandled the Diallo shooting by refusing to speak with the African -American community. (For those of you who do not know, Amadou Diallo was shot 40+ times in the entranceway of his building, a victim of mistaken identity. He was no criminal: he was in the wrong place at the wrong time).
Giuliani's ego is such that he went to court to take down an ad that New York Magazine put in the subway: "one thing that Giuliani cannot take credit for".
He fired his extremely effective and competent police commissioner, Bratton, because Bratton was featured on the front page of Times Magazine as the man who brought down crime in New York.
But the day New Yorkers discovered that Giuliani was totally bat-shit crazy is the day when he called up a press conference to announce that he was divorcing his wife, Donna Holland. That would have been fine, except that he had not told her yet. We were then treated to a visibly distraught Donna Holland giving an impromptu press conference. That was really classy!
For those of you who think he is the 9/11 mayor, let me remind you that Giuliani located the Emergency and Rescue Center at 7 WTC even though the WTC was bombed in 1993. And that he never did anything to make sure that the police and the firefighters could communicate on radio with one another. On 9/11, he saw his moment of glory. He did the job he was paid for by marshalling and managing resources.
Shortly after 9/11, he joined the EPA chief, Christine Whitman, in alleging that downtown Manhattan's air was safe. As we know now, it was a lie.
Anyway, if Giuliani ever gets to be President of the US, you can be sure that you will regret the days of George W. Bush. He will manage to alienate everyone around him, and every country in the world. And he will run the country like a dictator. Giuliani will make Dubbya look like a Democrat.
