Posted on 10/01/2001 8:33:28 AM PDT by TheTopRead
NYPOST September 30, 2001 -- Mark Green yesterday accused Fernando Ferrer of narrowly viewing the World Trade Center horror through "the lens of The Bronx," while the Rev. Al Sharpton slammed Mayor Giuliani for hogging too much credit for uniting the city, saying "Bozo" could have done as much. Two days after Green and Republican Michael Bloomberg accepted, and Ferrer rejected, Giuliani's pitch for a three-month term-extension, Sharpton - a major Ferrer booster - sharply criticized Giuliani for trying to stretch his term.
"We elected you mayor, not Messiah," Sharpton said at his Harlem headquarters during a rally attended by Ferrer.
"You didn't bring us together, our pain brought us together and our decency brought us together," Sharpton said.
He added, "We would have come together if Bozo was the mayor."
A spokesman for Ferrer, who has praised Giuliani's handling of the crisis, said later, "Although [Ferrer] would have chosen different words, he agrees that our city's unity" comes from New Yorkers' shared grief.
Giuliani wouldn't respond to Sharpton's jabs, which came hours before Green, who spent most of the mayoral race avoiding conflict, ripped into Ferrer, his Oct. 11 runoff foe.
Outside Brooklyn Borough Hall, Green said Ferrer has a "short-sighted" view of rebuilding more than 20 million square feet of lost office space.
"While I tried to show leadership by proposing big plans given this big crisis, I thought that the borough president of The Bronx reflected a business-as-usual and politics-as-usual attitude," said Green.
Green bashed Ferrer for "first comparing the unprecedented criminal attack on the trade center to - his word - the ‘rubble' he inherited in The Bronx 14 years ago and by being largely silent on how he would respond to needs of reconstruction and security.
"The planes that attacked the World Trade Center did not attack The Bronx, with all due respect," Green added. "The Bronx of 14 years ago has very little to do with the crisis in downtown Manhattan, New York and the world now."
Green noted he has a plan for a reconstruction authority - and chided Ferrer for saying the city's financial center should be decentralized.
"I think we have to take not a narrow borough approach, seeing it through the lens of The Bronx," said Green.
Ferrer sought to keep the spotlight squarely on Giuliani, calling the mayor's plan "unprincipled" and charging Green ditched his promise not to go negative.
"What caused Mark to abandon his principles and break his word?" Ferrer said. "I think he thinks he has to say these things and do these things to win an election, and I think that's a shame."
Meanwhile, Giuliani insisted his term-extension bid is for the good of the city and not about politics. "When you have watched 10 or 12 of the people you really care about die, you've gone to as many funerals that I've gone to . . . you really don't care about political spin," he said.
The leftist cartoonist Tony Auth's latest cartoon (Sept. 30) likens Rudy to King Kong, showing him clutching the Empire State Building while planes circle around.
These vile black Raci$ts only act for the $'s and to destroy what is good in America!
Time for Fat Black Raci$t $harpton to go a real long term diet! He can only eat if he buys his food by earning it not by Raci$t extortion
To the brave conservatives in NYC, with these remarks he has imploded just like the cowardly Bill Maher. Time to "Maherize" the Black Raci$t $harpton! Wonder when Hilldebea$t will want another closed door $e$$ion with Fat Al!
Whose character is marked by every act which may define a bozo!
Real leaders don't "try to show leadership" !!!
Sure I can. Big Al sees hustlers like himself looking ineffectual and irrelevant in a time of crisis because they offer nothing - and it's obvious. Now, when Al thinks it's safe, he dumps on Rudy Giuliani in the hope of weakening the Mayor's status with New Yorkers and the nation.
Leadership isn't always obvious, not always being on TV or saying the 'right' thing at the right time, often it's felt more than seen, and Rudy Giuliani has given leadership. It doesn't matter if someone else 'might' have done the same thing; Rudy Giuliani is the Mayor today, he is the man who lead New Yorkers in a time of crisis and did much behind the scenes that we never see or hear about. Of course New Yorkers brought themselves together, but people need leadership and Rudy Giuliani has provided that.
Fat Al Sharpton is the Bozo here, as his remarks are way out of line and most New Yorkers won't take his slurs against the Mayor lightly. Can you say: 'Backlash', Al?
Not necessarily, and even if New Yorkers did come together, they may not have done so in a positive fashion, coming together in fear and out of weakness, rather than strength and resolve. And without leadership, every large, diverse group that comes together will eventually fragment and fall apart. That's where Rudy G shines the most. He is a leader, not a follower. He's willing to make and carry out executive decisions that are best for the group as a whole, regardless of the impact upon any particular member of the group. He has lead by example, walking among the dead and wounded, while remaining cool, calm, and collected despite the danger. He has proven himself worthy of our trust over and over again. If you really want to appreciate Rudy G's ability to bring and KEEP people together, then try to imagine the state of the city today if Dinkins the Dipskit, Freddie the Ferret, or Greenie had been mayor during this disaster.
He went further and said what if Bill Clinton used this to extend his term. Would we feel the same ?
Last year, saw, perhaps on 'O'Reilly'; or maybe 'Hannity +'. . .video clips of Rev. Al doing his 'Sunday Best' preaching. His 'hate speech', a little short of Farrakhan, was incredible nonetheless.
With all due respect; it is time we are shown the real Al Sharpton; more often and now, more than ever. . .
This man is lower than the city dirt on Rudy's shoes.
Think your question answers itself. . .
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