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Thomas Paine (not verified) says:
Giuliani may be riding high in the polls but dark clouds are on the horizon for America's Mayor. I have already ordered my advanced copy of Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11. Rudy and company may wish to rewrite history but the fact remains that the mayor did NOTHING to prevent 9/11 and as the above article notes terrorism was not even on his radar screen.
Its telling how American's have come to expect so little and such mediocrity from our politicians that when Giuliani strung together a few coherent sentences after 9/11 he was perceived as a national hero.
I prefer to remember the pre-9/11 Giuliani, the Mayor who attacked the Brooklyn Museum for displaying Chris Offili's painting of the Virgin Mary, the Mayor who took issue with vendors selling art in front of the MET, the supporter of unwarranted police shootings and false arrests, the paranoid Mayor who fenced off City Hall and prohibited protests out of a sense of his self importance, the Mayor who would have certainly lost reelection ( if not for term limits) on 9/10 because New Yorker's were tired and fed-up with his policy of extremism in the defense of the perception of public order.
Sure the "crime rate" statistics dropped in NYC but they also dropped across the entire country.
Although Bloomberg's conduct regarding protesters at the Republican convention was despicable (the City is quietly paying off hundreds of those arrested) he is a far better Mayor than Giuliani.
Giuliani may be riding high in the polls but dark clouds are on the horizon for America's Mayor. I have already ordered my advanced copy of Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11. Rudy and company may wish to rewrite history but the fact remains that the mayor did NOTHING to prevent 9/11 and as the above article notes terrorism was not even on his radar screen.
Its telling how American's have come to expect so little and such mediocrity from our politicians that when Giuliani strung together a few coherent sentences after 9/11 he was perceived as a national hero.
I prefer to remember the pre-9/11 Giuliani, the Mayor who attacked the Brooklyn Museum for displaying Chris Offili's painting of the Virgin Mary, the Mayor who took issue with vendors selling art in front of the MET, the supporter of unwarranted police shootings and false arrests, the paranoid Mayor who fenced off City Hall and prohibited protests out of a sense of his self importance, the Mayor who would have certainly lost reelection ( if not for term limits) on 9/10 because New Yorker's were tired and fed-up with his policy of extremism in the defense of the perception of public order.
Sure the "crime rate" statistics dropped in NYC but they also dropped across the entire country.
Although Bloomberg's conduct regarding protesters at the Republican convention was despicable (the City is quietly paying off hundreds of those arrested) he is a far better Mayor than Giuliani.