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- Um, Shaun, Rudy wasn't just a "witness." He was the guy in charge of the first responders. As the Secret Service and the military was demanding Presidential safety above presidential exposure (a perfectly understandable move), Rudy was the only public official anyone saw for much of the day.
Let's face it, there is no other elected official who dealt with this (Arlington County had no jurisdiction over the Penatgon, but we can only imagine how those clowns would have reacted).
We tend to forget this now, but it took a few days for President Bush to get his political footing after 9/11. Until Bush's speech to the NYC crowd ("... and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon") it was Rudy who exuded leadership to the nation.
New York certainly felt that way; less than two months after 9/11 it elected a Republican Mayor (the first time in the city's history that one Republican succeeded another) for no other reason than that Rudy backed him.
- comment Shaun Kenney
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- Post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning, in my humble opinion.
Fact: No 9/11, no Giuliani presidential bid.
Just because he was there, doesn't mean he is qualified to lead the nation. Of course, I dislike Giuliani for many, many other reasons than this... but you get the point.
- comment Doogman
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- Breaks my heart watching you folks rip on each other. Why... Rudy was a HERO just a while ago... heck, his #2 man was in line to be head of Father, errr Homeland Defense... until someone opened the wrong closet and found all those skeletons. Sigh. So sad to watch. (chortle)
- comment Doogman
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- OH yes, one more thing - Rudy 'exuded' all right... but it most assuredly wasn't 'leadership.' More like steaming flopsweat.
- comment None
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- I have never viewed Rudy as a hero. He is an adulterous dirtbag who wants to turn our nation into a police state.
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Let's face it, there is no other elected official who dealt with this (Arlington County had no jurisdiction over the Penatgon, but we can only imagine how those clowns would have reacted).
We tend to forget this now, but it took a few days for President Bush to get his political footing after 9/11. Until Bush's speech to the NYC crowd ("... and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon") it was Rudy who exuded leadership to the nation.
New York certainly felt that way; less than two months after 9/11 it elected a Republican Mayor (the first time in the city's history that one Republican succeeded another) for no other reason than that Rudy backed him.
Fact: No 9/11, no Giuliani presidential bid.
Just because he was there, doesn't mean he is qualified to lead the nation. Of course, I dislike Giuliani for many, many other reasons than this... but you get the point.
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