Nobody remembers that, absent 9/11, Rudy was set to go down as a one-trick pony.....
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Did you live in NYC before Rudy? Have you lived there since Rudy?
If taking a semi-burned out, nearly broke, racially torn, city of 8,000,000 that had been abandoned by the middle class and the corporations that support it, where it was truly unsafe to ride the subway or walk the streets, where hotel rooms were laying vacant in peak periods alongside real estate values at lows and turning it into the shining city on the hill where the reality of today is at the extreme opposite of what I just described was just a trick then I'd like to hear what qualifies in your world as a complex, extremely difficult job well done.
See Post 81. A partially successful two-term mayor with decidedly liberal positions on countless issues; an embarrassing private life (his first wife was his first cousin); zero state or federal executive or legislative experience; a marked tendency to bully, abuse, and humiliate subordinates and opponents; and an almost pathological desire to pick unnecessary fights does not a president make. He's smart, he's tenacious, but he's never managed to escape the prosecutorial mindset. Has Rudy ever given a moment's serious thought to rural unrest in China? How about trade deals with Brazil? Or the dark future of the EU? Re-evaluate your idol. Do some research. Just because he has the same enemies as you do doesn't make him worthy of blind support. Nixon was hated by all the right people, too.