Five Reasons Giuliani's No Hero

[cal04]

Long article, so I just posted the five reasons)

The GOP hopes that Giuliani's post-9/11 glow will impress, but there's a lot about his past that isn't so heroic.

When former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2001, appears today as a prime time speaker at the Republican National Convention, it will be largely to confer fellow hero status upon President Bush. The Republican Party hopes that Giuliani's extension of his post-9/11 hero's glow to the president will banish from our memory both men's actual records before and after that tragic day. Here are a few critical reminders of Giuliani's real record, surprisingly similar to the President's:

1) Disdain for the Constitution
2) Subverting Democracy to Suit His Needs
3) Withholding Public Information
4) Profiting From His Hero Status
5) Refusal to Acknowledge Mistakes or Apologize

The American public should not make the same mistake. Hero coronations are for autocracies, not democracies like ours.

http://www.alternet.org/election04/19673/

[shadu]

1. Good summary

[zbdent]

2. Didn't this guy, one of the champions of "family values"

have an affair while still married and wanting to put the girlfriend in the Governor's mansion?

Hmm?

[Inland]

3. And he's unhinged. Here's a representative transcript:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1111/is_1793_299/ai_55881909