Can anyone tell me just what in the hell has Guliani done?

[slater71]

Just wondering other that 9/11, what the hell has he done. He was a mayor for christ sake that`s all.

[wildbilln864]

1. Well I'm suspicious that....

he helped coverup for the real perpetrators of the WTC attacks!
:hi:

[az chela]

8. I agree,all of a sudden him and bush became good buddies

Before 9/11 he was very unpopular,very few people liked him.Then him and bush get on tv and become overnight heros after 9/11 when the firefighters and police and the peopled who rescue the ones in the world trade center are the real heros

[tridim]

2. He gave a few speeches after 9/11

and was on Seinfeld. That's about it.

[Colobo]

3. Nothing of importance

I believe. That will not harm him, though. His position on social issues and his private life will put him at odds with the social cons, and that might be his downfall.

[Joanne98]

4. His name is Ruda!

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&q=Rudy+Giuliani%2Bnational+review&btnG=Search

Rudy Giuliani in Drag Smooching Donald Trump

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IrE6FMpai8

[theoldman]

5. He stepped in front of the camera at the right time.

[Auggie]

6. People in New York liked him prior to 9/11 for cleaning up the city

[bettyellen]

20. many of us here despised him for this "clean up"

among other things. he wasn't popular with liberals here at all.

[NYCGirl]

21. Speak for yourself. He was a fascist and a racist. NT

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

36. Agreed! eom

[fidgeting wildly]

27. I didn't live in New York while he was mayor,

but I have asked many people about it and haven't found a single one who liked him.

[Auggie]

30. I stand corrected, and obviously misinformed.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

34. many of us realized that the crime rates fell because of the financial boom

of the clinton years.

had very little to do w. the arrogant jerk known as guiliani

[Katherine Brengle]

7. Just remember, King George hadn't done much either...

and we all know how that turned out.

Oh, and Giuliani blamed the troops for al Qaqaa :D.

[gratuitous]

9. By comparison to Bush on September 11, he was a colossus

Other than that . . . meh. Good friend and patron of Bernie Kerik. Presided over a police force that delighted in sadistic treatment of arrestees ("This is Giuliani time, not Dinkins time!"). Had an insufferable boy whom he didn't see fit to rein in at public events, like his own swearing in.

Hmmmm. Looks acceptable in a dress, if you like that kind of thing.

No wonder he's the Republican front-runner. Look at the rest of the field so far!

[az chela]

11. and he let his gestapo police force beat black people to death

How easily people forget.Also remember what he did to his wife while he was blatently having an affair

[951-Riverside]

10. He held a news conference and said that he needed 12,000 body bags on 9-11

oh and he breathed in a little 9/11 dust.

[Radio_Lady]

16. Well, Riverside, to be fair... he didn't think the Towers would fall!

Really, nobody did -- even the original engineers didn't.

However, he has flip-flopped on his support of Bush several times. Air America radio played some of his press conferences, especially the one after 9/11 when he said, "I'm very glad Bush is the President!"

I wonder if he'd say that today!

[bettyellen]

12. he rounded up or homeless and shipped them off to Yonkers so that Disney

would pay to take over Times Square and turn it into a tourist trap.
Seriously, the homeless just disappeared and then Yonkers sued over it.

[EdwardM]

13. He didn't read my pet goat for 7 minutes.

Today, that is considered a plus.

[blues90]

14. Didn't he launch

The missile that hit the pentagon ?

[ProSense]

15. Here:

The Full Rudy: The Man, the Mayor, the Myth

Disgraced and Penalized, Kerik Finds His Name Stripped Off Jail

What are the chances that Giuliani will be the GOP nominee?

[John Q. Citizen]

17. He's a fascist. Isn't that enough? n/t

[Hardrada]

18. He made the pee smell disappear from the NY subway.

According to Tweety.

[Egalitariat]

19. Executives (Governors and Mayors) are more electable than Senators

because they've actually been responsible for running something, whereas all Senators do is vote -- or so it seems to the masses. And the masses choose who becomes president.

[skipos]

22. Who went from being a mayor straight to being a President? nt

[Egalitariat]

29. In the last 10 elections. None. Oh wait, that's Senators.

I know of nobody to go from Mayor to president.

[skipos]

31. Only 3 senators were elected Pres since Lincoln

So I agree that it is a bit harder for them.

[Egalitariat]

32. It's too easy to use their individual votes against them, and they don't have tangible....

accomplishments to tout.

"The bill I sponsored" just doesn't scream achievement like the things that executive branch people (federal or state) have on their resume.

[JHB]

40. Of course, we're talking about the Mayor of NYC...

...a city with a population greater than 39 states (and greater than the lowest 8 combined) and connections to just about everyplace in the world, so the experience is probably more relevant than most mayoralties. But as it happens no mayor of NYC has gone on to president, never mind going straight there. Former NY Governors, though, do rank among the presidential "greats".

[skipos]

41. Alas, Clinton and Obama easily beat Rudy in the latest NY poll

So the people of NYC must not like him enough.
I saw it on TPM cafe or whatever it is called.

[skipos]

23. Rudy can mention 9-11 more times in a single speech than anyone else in America

It is an amazing talent.

[bluerum]

24. He has done a hell of a lot more than that slick pos Romney.

Not that I like the a$$crater, but he at knows how to run a city. Romney has been on autopilot for the last 40 years.

[Gabi Hayes]

25. He's a political genius, as in: "Bernie, thank God George Bush is our president."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=151710&mesg_id=151710

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

26. He's a great dramatic actor

Right after 9/11, he pointed and shouted at people off camera who weren't there, giving them orders to do things that weren't real. It's a very rare and special talent and requires imagination and chutzpah, as well as a desire to walk around at a rapid pace at the head of a large entourage, roll up your shirt sleeves, and set your tie crooked so it looks like you're working hard.

[Generic Brad]

28. He cracked down on squeegee guys

And don't forget the subway turnstile jumpers. He went after those guys too.

[rug]

33. He transformed NYC from a working class city to the playground of the world's bourgeoisie.

[JHB]

38. That was already happening, but...

...Rudy didn't exactly slow it down.

[kskiska]

35. He tried to cut funding for the Brooklyn Museum

NYC mayor’s decency panel draws fire

(Editor's note: Mayor Rudolph Giuliani appointed a 20-member "decency commission" on April 3. Included on the panel are three artists, three clergy members and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa. Artist Peter Max declined to join after other artists criticized the panel and several news organizations reported that Max had been convicted of income tax evasion.)

NEW YORK — Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's plan to judge the moral merits of artwork has been roundly denounced by the four Democrats seeking to replace him at City Hall.

"The mayor's so-called decency committee is a sham," City Council Speaker Peter Vallone said March 30. "There are pressing issues for the city to attend to, and imposing arbitrary standards of decency on our public institutions is certainly not one of them."

(snip)

Courts have sided against the mayor on the issue.

In 1999, when Giuliani ordered the city to halt funding to the Brooklyn Museum after he objected to a painting of the Virgin Mary that featured pornographic cutouts and was dappled with elephant dung, a federal court ruled against the city.

And in a countersuit, a judge ruled that the city had violated the First Amendment's guarantee of free expression. The city was forced to restore funding and to stop eviction proceedings against the museum.

Six weeks ago, Giuliani was incensed by another Brooklyn Museum exhibit: a 15-foot-tall photograph of a nude African-American woman portraying Jesus surrounded by disciples, titled "Yo Mama's Last Supper."

more…
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=13589

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

37. His connection to the events of 9/11 are suspect. He knew the south tower was coming down 10 minutes

before it did.

He was also suspiciously invoived with FEMA games in WTC#7 when the first plane hit. That building, filled with all sorts of hi tech equipment and important CIA/FBI files, collapsed (just like a controlled demolition) without ever being hit by a plane, only having had some fires burning.

[The Gunslinger]

39. He cheated on his wife

Which we all know is more impeachable than starting an illegal war.

[Bake]

42. He did some funny stuff on SNL a few times ...

Other than that, I can't think of anything else.

Bake