Why, when Katrina hit New Orleans, who was it that stood there against the breaking walls, and later drove around 5 rescue vehicles simultaneously through the maddening river, with no other crew available? Rudy. When Saddam sent a core of elite comic book assassins to kill Bush’s daddy (just as he said), who was it that took all their poisoned darts in one arm, and suffered severe arthritis as a result, for the rest of the day? Rudy.

Who offered to go to prison in place of Libby? Who stood 24/7 at the border between Mexico and the United States, shooting any man, woman, child or infant that dared to crawl a step northward, armed with a diabolical plan to prevent hardworking Americans from getting slave pay on farms?

Who has arranged every trade deal with a foreign nation since 2000? Who has offered to arm wrestle any FCC member that dares even breathe the words “Fairness Doctrine” in their sleep? Who has paid off every single former ENRON employee who lost their life savings from his petty cash fund?

Rudy. Shame on you for not seeing him for the hero he is, and instead presenting him as a disgusting, self-aggrandizing puke who will build on thousands of personal tragedies to feed his own insatiable political ambition.

EDIT: I really should do this kind of thing as a diary, I suppose.

After the way they attacked Clinton I never thought the GOP would nominate a draft-dodging drug user with a history of financial irregularities either.

Why not?

It is very. very, very important for all rational people WITH integrity to STOP projecting those traits onto republicans – THEY DO NOT POSSESS THEM!!!!!!!
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And then consider; the religious right hates him. This guy will never get the nod, much less the presidency. But he will spill blood in his quest, mostly republican blood. The Republican Primary is about to get ugly. Bread and Circus, anyone? I have a front row seat.

Short version: Rudy is nuts. Period.

Worse: his insanity could be his biggest political asset.

Makes sense to me since nothing in the GOP appears to be reality-based.

rudy the megalomaniac is just getting warmed up.

Welcome to New York’s world under the reign of rudy the megalomaniac.
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One woman lost her young son. A new fireman recruit. He’d been with a prestigious auditing firm, but wanted to follow his Dad into the firehouse. I remember when his mother told us about his career change. I asked if she was nervous and she said no. Nothing had ever happened to her husband Dennis, so she felt the son, named for his father would be OK. They never found him. His father was down at the pile every day consumed with guilt. The young man had been married for a year, and well I remember his Mom telling us the plans for the wedding and about her dress. The most expensive thing she ever bought for herself. Well, he was a wonderful son, a good boy, a hard working all American kid anyone would be proud of. They adored him. He loved them too and he loved the extended Firefighting community/family. It showed in everything he did. The thing I will never forget is how trusting and decent these people were. How sure that what happened could not have been avoided. That is, until one weekend, they got to view some of the tapes. A group of firefighters had watched it together. When I saw my friend next, she said they didn’t have to die. It was the radios. They were all brave heroes, but they would have left the building if they had been able to hear the order to evacuate. The radios that were unable to share the police frequency, the radios that failed the firefighters. The same radios that the firefighters had continuously asked Rudy to do something about. After that weekend, I saw sadness harden into anger and then into rage. So many of the fireman died because of the damn radios. That of was the beginning. But of course Rudy’s arrogance antagonized these families even more as time passed. He betrayed them and they will not forget it. He’s never had the decency to express regret to the families for his negligence.

On a personal note, I wonder that Rudy could see the death of so many and yet not work hard to embrace his own precious children. What is wrong with him?