Two Rudy incidents should earn the respect and admiration of all Americans - Rudy threw Arafat out of an affair at Lincoln Center. The family of Leon Klinghoffer sent him a personal not e of thanks. The second was when Rudy returned a $10 million check to Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal after the Prince tried to make the moral equivalence argument for 9-11. Rudy told him flat out that "there is no moral equivalent for this terrorist act." I would be proud to elect President Rudy Giuliani.
What you said bears repeating.
When he was mayor of New York, Giuliani maintained an official policy under which every city department was prohibited from cooperating with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in turning over illegal aliens. When Congress responded to numerous instances of this kind of nonsense among city governments around the country by passing a law in 1997 against this kind of criminal activity among local government officials, Giuliani unsuccessfully sued the Federal government to have the law overturned. The Federal courts threw out his suit on the grounds that they were nothing more than an unlawful effort to flaunt Federal enforcement efforts against illegal aliens, and Giuliani responded by vowing to ignore the law.
If Mohammed Atta had been arrested by the New York City police on September 10th, 2001 for jumping a subway turnstile, he would have been back out on the street within a couple of hours even if the INS had on open warrant against him for overstaying his visa.
Now I want every one of you Giuliani sycophants out there to read what I've posted here and tell me how this kind of political opportunism and criminal behavior squares with the "tough-guy / law & order / former Federal prosecutor" image that everyone seems to have of this @sshole.
Then tell me how he is possibly going to get more than 35% of the popular vote in either a GOP primary or a general election when his opponent starts revealing this information in a well-orchestrated ad campaign.