I am too tired to go back and look for the quote, but didn’t Rudy say the other day that he was the only one that could win the WOT? Perhaps, someone will help me out!
Giuliani claimed he was the “most qualified” to fight the WOT, to which I reply:
Giuliani sought and took a deferral from Vietnam to (pre)serve himself; his son is currently enrolled in a famous college of prestige.
One candidate served the United States, IIRC enlisted, for the Vietnam struggle; his son is now serving the Iraq struggle.
And Giuliani claims “best qualified”? He’s just a conceited, balding bloke.
Here’s Giuliani’s quote:
http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/30661/
“It is something I understand better than anyone else running for president.”
It would be interesting (in a train-wreck sort of way) to find those types of quotes from him and contrast them to similar quotes from history.
That one sounds like something I have heard attributed to a Roman Senator, back in the day.
I have a problem with *most* politicians, each of them (in turn) seems to compromise their values in order to ‘win’ elections.
I absolutely long for somebody to grow some ‘nads, stand up and tell it like it is.
JR posted the text of something that Fred Thompson said (on radio I think) about the disarming of America. He was blunt, and probably pissed off Rosie O’Donnel something awful, but every word that he said made me Proud to be an American.
I think that the America that I desperately want to live in is populated with people that would make me just as Proud. I see young Americans actually making a difference in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places, both more and less friendly to our interests and am humbled by their efforts. I see business owners forgoing paychecks to help an employee (who is told to keep it quiet) with a sick child, and am astonished at the self sacrifice that goes unknown.
Rudy does not even come close to representing the kind of America that I want to live in. And I don’t care who gets elected as long as I continue to ‘do the right thing’.