Why Rudy Giuliani Really Shouldn’t be President

Special Guests Blog ^ | Marach 8.2007 | Jim Sleeper

[Angel]

Waht do YOU think?

[oceanview]

so he shouldn't be President, because he would actually dare to use Executive power? is that it? is this the best this author's got?

[joseph20]

This piece smacks of reverse psychology.

[AmishDude]

Sorry, I couldn't get past the writer's ego.

[bnelson44]

Jim Sleeper was a political columnist for The New York Daily News in the mid-1990s and an editorial writer for Newsday from 1988 to 1993.

That's what I think.

[cripplecreek]

I think he was a good mayor for New York but the rest of the nation is not New York, not by a long shot.

[Postman]

and what has he done lately???

[airborne]

I think the media has a self imposed quota on Rudy articles.

A minimum of 10 a day, even if they're drivel, like this one.

[The Worthless Miracle]

"Sorry, I couldn't get past the writer's ego."

He lost me at the opera references...

[jess35]

We need a candidate who can WIN. A candidate who can win votes from people who aren't registered Republicans. I have no problem voting for the "lesser evil". It's a hell of a lot better than kissing my vote away. Hopefully in the future, I won't feel that way and can make an ideological stand with my vote but now isn't that time. looking at the field of potentials, my only hope is anyone but McCain.

[upsdriver]

What do I think? Giulianni reminds me of Elliot Spitzer.

[GSlob]

Regrettably, we did not clone Ronald the Great, and even if we did clone him, we'd have to wait till the clone turns Constitutional 35 at the earliest. Thus one has to look at:
: What is available, [i.e. what we are stuck with right now], and
What is realistic [out of what is available].
And then one needs to pick the lesser evil and take it for the greater good it is. This writer is in doubt of Giuliani's "overreach" - well, how would he like hillary's?

[ZULU]

That's NOT what the author is saying.

He's stating the man is so single-minded wedded to the goal of achieving his personal objective - whatever tht might be, that he ignores reason and logic and abuses power.

He is arrogant, egocentric and self-absorbed.

The BEss Myerson case was ANOTHER example I had forgotten.
The Ferret incident is another. The author provides yet more.

But no logic, no reason, no data or facts will deter the JulianAnnistas from their obsession with this individual as the only person who can beat Hillery.

If ONE MAN is the only person who can beat her, and a flawed man as this one is ... we had better hang it all up and cash it in as a nation.

[Mojave]

We need a candidate who can WIN. A candidate who can win votes from people who aren't registered Republicans.

A Democrat.

[bnelson44]

He writes for Salon, the American Prospect and teaches at Yale.

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?name=View+Author&section=root&id=481

[mkjessup]

Waht do YOU think?

I think the predictable swarm of RudyBots are about to land on this thread, call you everything but a homo sapiens, and label the writer of the article as:

a.) A Rudy-hater.

b.) A homophobe.

c.) A right wing socon.

d.) A bought-and-paid for operative for another candidate.

e.) Stupid.

PS - If you post any graphics or pictures, at least be sure they're pro-Rudy, or you'll be labeled as a 'spammer' by the Rudyphiles who are by this time Saturday night, probably getting really rude from having nothing but Rudy-Aid to drink all evening, plus the time change.

Get into your Nomex(c) suit now.

Nice knowing you! (heh! heh!)

Best,

MKJ

[bnelson44]

He's stating the man is so single-minded wedded to the goal of achieving his personal objective - whatever tht might be, that he ignores reason and logic and abuses power.

Actually, what came across from the article was that the author was that way about his own career.

[bnelson44]

He seems strongly anti-Iraq

[jess35]

Nope.

[Mojave]

Oh? What about de facto Democrats like Rudy?