Posted on 03/07/2007 1:00:20 PM PST by garv
And just what NYC needed to resuscitate the Big Apple from the morass that was the Dinkins Administration.
Meh, mixed feelings. Perhaps NYC could have been (begun to be) turned around by a personally NICER mayor. Perhaps, however, it was like The Joker said in the Batman movie, "This town needs an enema!"
Gee, how awful it would be to have a President that would tell off intellectually dishonest reporters...Yeah, that would really suck.
Contrast this to Romney's smooth handling of the smarmy reported who claim "I represent the people" to which he responded with a classic but polite put-down as follows: "No you do not. You represent the media. I represent the people."
NYC, fine. I'm not real comfortable with a President who reads the editorial pages and goes into a tirade or uses the power of his office to retaliate against his enemies.
Yeah he`s got his faults but I just loved the way he kicked Arafat in the ass. "Get tha hell outta my city ya bum!" Wish he was Mayor when those two other bums Chavez and Pres of Iran, Mahmoud Im-a-mad-idiot were here for their UN arse kissing. It drove me up the wall how those two got their rear ends kissed, police escorts, streets shut down, blocks closed around their hotels like they were Royalty. Screw that, Guliani would have set them up in the Bowery with crackheads where they belong.
By Jason Maoz
JewishPress.com | October 28, 2005
Ten years ago this week, the UN was marking its fiftieth anniversary with a series of events around New York City, including an Oct. 23 invitation-only Lincoln Center concert performed by the New York Philharmonic for a glittering list of dignitaries and diplomats. When Rudy Giuliani spotted Yasser Arafat and his entourage making their way to a private box seat near the stage that evening, the mayor immediately ordered the Palestinian leader off the premises.
Yes, most WAPO reporters are all those things but that's besides the point.
The reason liberals hate Giuliani is he proved all their theories wrong. He took their ideas of decay and threw them in the wastebasket.
They will never forgive how he made them look like jackasses. Now Rudy may not be the best guy in the world, but he's leagues ahead of the whining liberals who makeover NYC into a festering hole.
At that point, liberals told us NYC was ungovernable (so we should get used to it). The only salvation for us was they were taking care of the poor downtrodden masses who would cut our throats if we didn't provide the liberal solution.
Rudy ended all that. And then he ended them as a political force in NYC.
They were just laughingstocks after Rudy got down with their treasured projects.
How about a President that uses the power of his office to punish political enemies? Sound Familiar?
Sounds like a damn blessing after all these years of Bush just taking it and saying "Please, sir, may I have another?".
yes, he fights back - so the media describes him as "thin skinned", because he would dare speak up.
they prefer republicans who roll over.
anybody who thinks this isn't true of giuliani should research ny magazine v city of new york - rudy lost the case on first amendment grounds. Basically tried to deny NY magazine ad space on city buses because their ad poked fun at him.
and the problem with him fighting back against lying, scumbag reporters is...?
Sounds alot like Bill Clinton.
And thinner scalp.. When the combover went anything conservative went too..
Depends on who his enemies are? If they are enemies of America, then I say, Good!
They would be cheering him on if this hit piece were about Duncan Hunter, or Ann Coulter. Fighting back is seen as a good quality around here....some times.
There is a difference between fighting back and being the Mayor of a city of eight million and spending 20 minutes on the phone berating some moron columnist for the Daily News.
I could deal with that, but using government power to punish political enemies is a rather Clintonian personality trait. Taken as a whole the picture is of a petty, vindictive man. We all talk about McCain being unstable, I don't know if I want this guy to have the power of the Feds at his disposal.
Nahhhhh,,,,Bill Clinton didn't have a lisp.
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