“Leadership”, his stupid book.
What a phony self promoter, still trying to “own” 9/11.
By “leadership,” he means a fascist police state.
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Whatever. During 9-11 he was grace under pressure. Compare him to the Dem, Kathleen Blanco, who cried on cnn during hurricane Katrina. Rudy can capitalize on his performance during 9-11, because it was exemplary. You don’t want to vote for him because of his stance on other issues? Fine. But he was $$ during 9-11.
He gave some strong speeches while Pataki bumbled about, as usual.
I’ll give him credit for that. And, he was MUCH better than the failed mayoralty of Dinkins. I’ll give him that.
But a “conservative,” no way. Absolutely no way. He himself ran under the Republican and Liberal parties in NYC.
And, his misuse of RICO as a federal prosecutor is all in the record. How he destroyed innocent people’s lives, making them do the “perp walk.”
I could see him in charge of Homeland Security, not as Chief Executive or AG.
And, not to lay into you (we just disagree on Rudy), but comparing him to Blanco, a total incompetent, is damnation by faint praise if I ever heard it....
What the hell did he do on 9/11 besides stand net to Bush on a rubble pile. A lot more people would have been alive is that pompos lying ass were not NYC’s mayor on 9/11! Gawd, the rudybots just do not think objectively! Brainwashed or stupid, I’m not sure which.
Dang straight!! There wasn't a camera, television or otherwise, within 100 miles St. Rudy didn't know the location of. The way he walked in front of the cameras, his little posse following close on his heels. I suppose he could have gone to the Emergency Command Center but the President of 9/11 had set it up right next to the Twin Towers. So it wasn't there anymore.
Guess 'studying' on terrorism since 1975 really paid off huh? Let's see where do I put the Command Center. Well let's put it right next to the last place the terrorists attacked....
You're right we need St. Rudy's leadership. It's about time the Keystone Cops have a revitalization....
Being a “tough-talking” sarcastic and often obnoxious guy is not going to help Rudy as Commander-in-Chief if he can’t do the first thing a commander needs to do, which is to get the troops behind him.
In a democracy, that means, first, Congress, and second, his military leadership.
As a former-Mayor, he has no network of sergeants and lieutenants in the House and Senate. None. And his drop-dead attitude isn’t likely to win him many.
As a former-Mayor, he also has track record of throwing out his most battle-hardened “soldier” over an issue of sheer ego. That would be would be his highly-successful crime fighter chief of police, William Bratton.
In a relationship that says much about Mr. Giuliani’s leadership style, the two had a falling out as Mr. Bratton was capturing some of the applause for the city’s crime drop, and so Rudy unceremoniously dumped Bratton in 1996.
After that, the two didn’t even speak to each other for 10 years.
This doesn’t bode well for Giuliani as somebody who can lead a nation.
I don’t take it as axiomatic that he’d be an effective president in time of war. He could very well be a disaster.