According to CNN.com, Rudy Giuliani said that Barack Obama’s “overseas visit is only serving to highlight the candidate’s inexperience in world affairs.”
I’m sorry - Giuliani is citing someone for lack of experience? This guy’s claim to fame prior to 9/11 was that a) he got rid of the squeegee guys by the Holland Tunnel so that precious commuters from New Jersey wouldn’t have to deal with “confrontation” by people who were down on their luck and b) he shut down most of the city’s strip clubs.
As a downtown resident, however, I will give credit where it’s due and say that he did do a phenomenal job in the days and weeks after the attack. The city was in a tenuous state and surely wouldn’t have come out of the experience as well (or as quickly) if Rudy’s predecessor was still at the helm. That being said, if there was ever a one-issue candidate, Giuliani was it. He ran his entire campaign on being “America’s mayor” (whatever the hell that means) and he is the absolute last person who should be talking about foreign policy (or economic or social or legislative….) experience.
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great way to suck every drop of blood from a disaster, rudy.
now go back to your coffin. and take judy with you.
Comment by pansypoo — July 21, 2008 @ 1:42 am
I’ve always thought, if only he had run as the guy who closed down the fake non-fat yogurt scam on Seinfeld, this would have been a whole different election.
Comment by Jon — July 21, 2008 @ 12:09 pm
9iu11ani is pure gold.
McCain remade the map again. There seems to be trouble on the Iraq/Pakistan border.
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a81/kos102/2008/Video/?action=view¤t=mcsame-screwsup.flv
Comment by Martine — July 21, 2008 @ 3:11 pm
The city was in a tenuous state and surely wouldn’t have come out of the experience as well (or as quickly) if Rudy’s predecessor was still at the helm.
On the other hand, it’s a safe bet that Rudy’s predecessor wouldn’t have put the city’s emergency response command center *in the World Trade Center*. Rudy did this in 1997; you’ll recall that the WTC had already been bombed in 1993. That’s why Rudy was walking around in the street on 9/11, being very visible rather than running things from his nonexistent emergency response command center.
Comment by Keith Thompson — July 21, 2008 @ 4:22 pm
Martine - great video, hilarious and scary!
Comment by Nigel — July 21, 2008 @ 8:17 pm
thank god he isn’t involved in the USSR.
Comment by pansypoo — July 21, 2008 @ 10:50 pm
I shudder to think of Dinkins at all, let alone in charge after 9/11.
Comment by Miss Expatria — July 27, 2008 @ 12:28 pm