New York, New York....If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere....
Except Giuliani didn't really make it here. Yes, he rose from lawyer to DA, US Attorney to Mayor of New York City, but he is trying to rest his laurels for presidential office only on the fact that he was mayor of New York City. But not really ever a popular one. And the funny thing is, his politics aren't all that bad, but he's a real SLIME BAG. He cheated on his wife, his son is estranged, his choice in police chiefs left much to be desired, in Kerik and Kelly. He has this way about him of being horribly offended if you question him on anything. I have heard the saying that when Giuliani talks about his presidential bid, two things come out of his mouth: a lie and 9/11.
And about 9/11. What the hell is his problem? He acts like he single handedly brought New York City back from the brink of destruction. Hell ANYONE that would have been mayor of New York would have looked good by crying on camera, showing solidarity to the firemen (who by the way don't like Giuliani) and policemen, meeting with victim's families.... He was damn lucky that something of this magnitude happened toward the end of his term, which happened to have overshadowed the problems he was having with minorities clashing with the police at the time. He never did anything to alleviate the problem. He just stood on his soapbox, smug, basically saying that the police had every right to do every misdeed they did to the minorities of the city because they were the police and there was too much crime here. I think the only crime was letting that sleazebag stay in office after the shooting of Amadu Diallo. Or the vicious beating of Abner Louima. Both of which the city's residents were unsatisfied with the outcome of the punishment for the officers.
And now it has come to light that he billed small city offices for the security he used to go out to the Hamptons to meet with his mistress. His Deputy Mayor Joe Lhota tried to assert that other mayors of the city had done so, and when it was brought back to him that they did not, he backtracked on his statement, thus embarrassing Giuliani and his camp. And of course Giuliani has done his predictable, usual M.O.: he's denying, double-talking and once again taking the offensive stance that someone should even have the audacity to look into his past dealings.
And this right on the heels of his association with Bernard Kerik.
Now I think if Giuliani were smart, he would have used his term as New York mayor as a sort of model as to how people would react to him. And he hasn't. But then again, men like him don't think that people see him in a negative light at all. He seems to only focus on what he wants to about himself and nothing else. And he expects the rest of the world to do the same. This is hardly the kind of man I want in office as President of The United States. Far be it from me to rest this decision based solely on a man's personality, but he just gets under my skin. And I'm bleeding from trying to scratch out Bush....
