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Posted on 01/30/2007 7:46:34 AM PST by TommyDale
To be frank, I'm not a Rudy supporter, but this article sounds like a total crock of shiite.
"To be frank, I'm not a Rudy supporter, but this article sounds like a total crock of shiite."
Consider the source, the Village Voice.
I will bet they gave Clinton allof the credit for the economy of the 90's.
It's one person's opinion, the author. The statistics manipulation makes sense, especially if people are not actually going down to the precinct and reporting crimes.
The headline would be more accurate if it had the name Clinton instead of Giuliani.
Either one of them.
Strange. I noticed that the incessant subway begging of the Dinkins years became a rarity on many of the trains; the openly operating hookers, pimps and dealers in Times took a powder and by the time I left, Times Square had become a corporate Disney World. I'm not even mentioning the obvious, overwhelming increase in the police presence on the subways and streets.
Must of been in the wrong city./s
FINALLY, something besides star-struck, left-wing media driven TRIPE about this liberal northeastern-corridor, inner-city RINO.
LOL. Only because you are so blinded by your animus towards Rudy that you didn't notice the author's failure to provide evidence to support his assertions. And can you tell us what is so interesting about comments like the following?
Under Giuliani, black employment in city government reversed a decades long trend of slow and gradual growth. We actually saw a significant decline in black employment in all city agencies.
Sounds to me like abolition of the cancer known as "affirmative action."
Short translation: Rudy refused to kiss the *sses of the so-called black leadership in NYC.
This article is written by an editor of one of the most scurrilous left wing publications around. There are many reasons to disagree with Mr. Giuliani. The words of Wayne Barrett aren't one of them.
There's a difference?
Candidate Rudy promised to wash them out of our hair. While they seemed everywhere, an NYPD report found that there were only 75 of them in 1993, planted like Calvin Klein billboards in unavoidable locations. So Ray Kelly, the police commissioner who worked for Dinkins, heard Giuliani's campaign cry and drove the squeegees off the streets before Rudy raised his own Windex-free right hand on inaugural day. The whole world, years later, thinks Rudy did it -- the predictable result of endless repetition.
So far, the author of this article isn't doing a very good job at getting his point across.
Oh gee .. yet another Rudy article
You only needed to live through the Administrations of Lindsay, Beame, Koch, Dinkins and Giuliani and see what the city was like to know that any amount of crediting the drops in Crime, the increased redevelopment and a slew of other advances to ANYTHING Dinkins did isn't going to wash. The Village Voice seemed to exist during the Giuliani administration to criticize anything and everything Giuliani did...that and running ads for call-girl/boy services and having club listings.
911 was the best thing that could have happened for Hillary. After 911, a retarded lizard could have done what Hillary has for New York.
I actually consider all of that meaningless when it comes to running my country.
Who has any track record in dealing with terrorists? – Rudy! While this country and the President of the United States was sucking up to Arafat, Rudy had him confined to the hosting Embassy and wouldn’t allow a terrorist to walk the Streets of NYC. If, in the face of the holy wrath of Madeline Albright, the entire United Nations, the President, and all of his cronies, the NY Times, Jimmy Carter, and every bleeding heart Liberal Rudy can effectively tell them all to stick it where the sun don’t shine; then that is the man I want to lead the War On Terror.
Isn’t it amazing how when a courageous man stands on principle, all of the play ground bullies skulk away. Cowards will never stand up to a man with convictions. All of the players I mentioned above backed off because they stood on shaky ground. Rudy stood his ground.
I suppose that this writer feels that Rudy was “Lucky” when 9/11 happened. I know that this country was lucky that he did the job he did. We needed Rudy on that playing field (NYC – 9/11) and until a better LEADER comes along, I see no one else to LEAD this country. As far as I’m concerned, all of the other candidates are managers and not LEADERS.
I might take the author seriously if he had command of the language.
I can't recall all the details but I think I was in NY for a day in Dec 1993, during the transition. There were the usual homeless and vagrants on the streets, some asking for money. The next time I went was Labor Day, 1994. At first I couldn't figure out what was different. Then I realized what was up. I had not been approached by anyone on the street! Someone asked me what had changed in NYC. I said I guess it must be one word: Rudy!
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