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I know this is a sensitive subject, but what did Rudy do after 9/11 that went above and beyond what any mayor should have done after a similar crisis? I'm not trying to be insensitive, I just want to know.
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From all the reports he reduced welfare and crime by some rather large numbers. I don't know the exact numbers. I would never vote for a RHINO under any cercumstances anyway. Fence straddlers turn me off.
^^ Crime reduced while he was in office, but did he have anything to do with it? Doesn't seem so. During the same time crime reduced throughout the nation. There is an interesting explanation for this in the book "Freakonomics": The legalization of abortion.
So basically he ain't that special. It puzzles me how people mention how he handled 9/11 as one of the reasons they would vote for Rudy. To me he just did his job as a mayor. I wonder if he would even have a chance for the presidency if 9/11 didn't happen under his watch. Something just doesn't sit right with me about him.
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So basically he ain't that special. It puzzles me how people mention how he handled 9/11 as one of the reasons they would vote for Rudy. To me he just did his job as a mayor. I wonder if he would even have a chance for the presidency if 9/11 didn't happen under his watch. Something just doesn't sit right with me about him.
It seems we've gotten to a point where we consider someone just doing their job to be noteworthy.
And no, I don't think he'd have a chance for the nomination were it not for 9/11. I still have the feeling the skeletons haven't begun to leave the closet yet.
Simple: he is high-profile, i.e can raise lots of money and is comfortable on camera and can talk a good game in front a of a media today that doesn't ask hard-nosed questions, nore demand hard, substantive answers. In other words, he is just like every other "high profile" Republican and Democrat.
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Simple: he is high-profile, i.e can raise lots of money and is comfortable on camera and can talk a good game in front a of a media today that doesn't ask hard-nosed questions, nore demand hard, substantive answers. In other words, he is just like every other "high profile" Republican and Democrat.
Add looks good in a dress and it sounds a lot like Paris Hilton too
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