Posted by Pam Spaulding September 4, 2007 in Republicans, Election
* faulty radios for firefighters
* married three times
* “open and notorious adultery”
* flip-flopping on abortion
* daughter backs Obama for president
* looking bad in drag
* annulled marriage to second cousin
* emergency command center in #1 terror target
* estranged from children
* Bernie Kerik
Check out Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films and its look at The Real Rudy.
At a recent debate in Iowa, Rudy Giuliani was asked, “In 30 seconds, what is a defining mistake of your life and why?” He made a joke about how he couldn’t possibly list all his mistakes in 30 seconds. Ha!There’s also a poll to vote on Rudy’s biggest mistake. You can choose from:
* faulty radios for firefighters
* married three times
* “open and notorious adultery”
* flip-flopping on abortion
* daughter backs Obama for president
* looking bad in drag
* annulled marriage to second cousin
* emergency command center in #1 terror target
* estranged from children
* Bernie Kerik
Media Matters has a handy slew of other mistakes as well.
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It’s really not fair to call his daughter’s support for Obama a mistake, either for her or for Giuliani. It’s a good decision. But it’s really not fair when they’ve left out putting the headquarters for the response to terror attacks, etc., in the same building that was attacked years earlier.
Doh! I need to read more carefully, I suppose.
A. Conspiring to conceal the toxic air quality at Ground Zero
B. Turning a blind eye to the resulting sicknesses among rescue/recovery workers
C. Claiming publicly that he spent ‘as much if not more’ time at GZ as many recovery workers. Subsequent investigation proved he only spent 25 hours onsite.
* looking bad in drag
This one being the most important mistake
Actually, more like, looking bad in drag then trying to court the fundie vote.
It’s too bad that introducing “quality of life” style law enforcement…which is basically a crack down on the poor strategy, won’t be considered one of his mistakes. or the whole workfare swindle, which pushed so many people off the welfare rolls and into abject, invisible poverty, that other morally bankrupt cities are following suit. Or his crackdown on street artists or many other attacks on the first amendment.
i just watched the film Giuliani time and I have to say, the only time the man’s eyes didn’t look dead was when he was in drag. I think he is better at drag than maybe anything else,. hmmm…
OK, can I put a lighter note on this and jokingly add, ‘Signing the ‘one subway seat’ bill into law’? Does anyone remember that? It must have been 1999… I think right before the Abner Louima case. He passed a law that said that you could not take up more than one seat on the subway — this included things like your coat hanging over maybe two inches into the next seat. He even put police on some of the subways to enforce it! If I recall, though, some people flipped out on the cops or something and uh, yeah, that was over pretty quickly…
I’m sorry, this is one of my first political memories, like one of the first things I was really aware of happening. I was about eight or nine years old. The next one was Yeltsin’s resignation, haha.
Where’s the “All of the above” option? I guess, technically, you can’t have more than one “biggest mistake,” but that man’s whole political career is a nightmare. For me, his idea of “cleaning up” NYC is the worst thing he’s ever come up with. The ban on street booksellers along St Marks, the crackdown on artists, the destruction of community gardens to benefit his development and real estate buddies, the never-ending push for the new Yankees stadium (and then saddling the taxpayers with the bill for the feasibility study he ordered), allowing police brutality to go on unchecked, presiding over the the huge rent hikes while supporting luxury development and not doing anything to ensure creation of affordable housing units - the list goes on. This man is single-handedly responsible for the near-destruction of much of what is good about NYC. Add to that his abysmal handling of 9/11 and his slimy personality and I can’t believe anyone, anywhere could see him as a viable candidate.
The cover story in Harper’s a month or two ago was all about Rudolph…very scary shit. “A fate worse than Bush” was I think its title or subtitle. Recommended.
The thing I will never forgive Rudy for was his having the NYPD queer bash people protesting the murder of Matthew Shepard.