Mr. Guliani - prior to 9-11 your political career was in the toilet and New Yorkers were sick of your divisive, temper driven, leadership. After 9-11 the nation's shattered psyche craved the image of Wyatt Earp taking back the streets of Dodge City -but that was it. Instead of retiring gracefully, you shamelessly exploited 9-11 to develop your marketing brand as "America's Mayor" and with smoke and mirrors spun it into a multimillion dollar security consulting business, with your trusted partner Bernard Kerik.
When and if the national press snaps out of its trance there are some items in your resume that people might care about when choosing a president;
Dealing with a diverse population
-You were perhaps the most racially divisive mayor in New York City's history. Not once, in your eight years as Mayor, did you meet with the black Manhattan borough president;
Having a psyche that can be trusted
- What's with that screw loose history of a marriage to a second cousin that was later annulled;
Courage in a tough personal crisis
- You chose to let your wife, Donna Hanover, know you were filing for divorce by announcing it at a press conference - dashing any hope of being crowned "America's Husband";
Strategic planning
Before 9-11 you made the decision to put the city's emergency command center in a building at the World Trade Center - knowing that terrorists had already tried to destroy it with a truck bomb - so with a tank of its own fuel supply as an accelerant your command bunker helped bring down one of the smaller WTC buildings.
How come you never mention that?
Sound personnel decisions
- You opted to form a partnership with Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik who, when he wasn’t muscling himself into the camera shot next to you at press conferences, or pushing his autobiography or making a fortune selling stun guns to police departments, was having trysts in a government paid for condo at ground zero in an apartment rented with tax payer dollars as a place for ground zero workers to rest. Kerik finally capped his distinguished career by pleading guilty to ethics violations for using government contractors to work on his mansion.
Sound foreign policy decisions
Since 9-11 your only contribution to the national political debate has been your unflinching support of the worst foreign policy debacle in American history and the bible thumping snake oil salesman who convinced our elected patsies to gave him the nation's wallet and car keys.
So Mr. Guliani -aside from a decision we all appreciated, to get rid of that silly comb over (what a surprise- you're bald - who knew?)- and other than your press conference skills why would anyone in their right mind want you to be in charge of digging us out of the smoldering wreckage that George Bush will have left us?
