It's not even 2007 yet, so I'm loathe to get involved discussing the 2008 presidential race yet. However, this piece in Salon yesterday brings up some important things about Rudy Giuliani's reign as mayor of NYC that have been overlooked since 9/11. As the author puts it:
On 9/11, all Americans were frightened children, and in a moment of mythic personal heroism, Mayor Giuliani filled the gaping leadership void. The president looked like a petrified chimp; Cheney was spirited to an underground bunker. Only Giuliani could pull himself together sufficiently to get on TV in the midst of the wreckage and show America that a grown-up was still breathing. On that terrible day our reptile brains looked at Rudy Giuliani and said, 'We're OK now. Daddy's home.'My favorite blurb comes from Rudy himself, responding on his radio show to a person who took issue with NYC's ban on pet ferrets:
And we forgot, some for a moment, some permanently, that Daddy was psycho.
There is something deranged about you ... this excessive concern with little weasels is a sickness ... you should go consult a psychologist or a psychiatrist with this excessive concern, how you are devoting your life to weasels. You need somebody to help you. There are people in this city and in this world that need a lot of help. Something has gone wrong with you.Not that it's any of my business to tell the GOP who to nominate for president, but do you honestly want someone on the top of the ticket who once chastised a person for "devoting [his] life to weasels"?
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I don't know. Doesn't it seem ... well ... apt?
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