Half Sigma –

Really? Then why are there laws against adultery? Why will it get you court-martialed in the US military services?

Perhaps you might consider either (a) doing some research, or (b) changing your screen name to Half Wit.

A few additional points:

+ I ran into him once in a Barnes & Noble. He’s really tall.
+ The new inter-department communication system that is intended to replace the one that failed so badly on 9/11 is still not slated to be operational until 2009, or sometime ridiculously far in the future. Why was this not done 15 years ago?
+ For contrast to the Diallo shooting, Google Sean Bell. Very similar circumstances: an unarmed black man was recently gunned down by police, on his wedding day no less. Within a day or two, Mayor Bloomberg did a press conference with Al Sharpton. A week or two later, a group protesting police brutality was granted a permit to march down 34th Street — a shopping mecca — 2 Saturdays before Christmas. I seriously doubt that would have been allowed during Giuliani’s reign.
+ Crime did decrease significantly under Giuliani, which I think he deserves a certain amount of credit for, but it has continued to decrease under Bloomberg with far less authortarian tactics and policies. Citizens’ groups and neighborhood organizations deserve a lot of credit for cleaning up New York, of course, but Giuliani usually gets the credit/blame for making parts of New York the safe tourist attractions they are today.
+ The nail in the coffin for me personally was Rudy’s speech at the 2004 RNC. He sold New York right down the river.

I bought into the post-9/11 PR blitz at the time. It was comforting to see the mayor walking around lower Manhattan in his shirtsleeves. He’s also got a certain kitschy-ness to him: hosting SNL and doing skits in drag, for example. But a closer examination of his tenure as mayor and even his career before that reveals some scary stuff.

Like the Bible: Exodus 20:16.

Since whatever rape allegations that were ever brought against Mr. Clinton were entirely unsubstantiated, I might remind you that in some places making false charges is frowned upon.

it IS illegal to lie under oath at a deposition or in front of a Grand Jury.

But it’s not an impeachable offense, especially on a personal matter that doesn’t directly relate to criminal charges.

It IS illegal to rape someone, it IS illegal to lie under oath at a deposition or in front of a Grand Jury.

One reason Giuliani was re-elected–I don’t know if it was the main reason–was that his opponent, Ruth Messinger, came off as a complete wuss, so many of us held our noses and voted for Giuliani, figuring that a meanie might be a halfway decent mayor, but a pushover can never be even that. But as Jimmy Breslin said in an earlier campaign, New York is a mean enough city without having a mean mayor.

In the Giuliani-Messinger campaign, Giuliani attacked Messinger for not attending the Columbus Day Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. For Pete’s sake, Ruth Messinger is Jewish! Does Giuliani ever attend High Holy Day services?

No wonder the WNYC radio host Steve Post pronounced Rudy’s surname with a hard G.

You got it exactly right - he’s too thin-skinned and authoritarian and responds to criticism in incredibly petty ways. There’s way too much Nixon in there for the good of the country and the last thing we need after Bush.

But now I’ve got this post to point out just how bad Rudy would be.

Donna- Given past behavior of the MSM they will ignore all the bad stuff he’s done and focus on how revitalized central park etc.