I can't imagine anyone thinking that this was a good idea...
Of course the disclaimers came flying in from both the fund raiser in question and the Rudy camp proper but, as I've said before, this is the same cynical tactic that the right is infamous for. They can be seen to be backing away but the message was sent. Rudy is 911, Rudy is 911, it's all he's got. If you listen to him speak, he actually has absolutely no grasp of any of the issues, he merely regurgitates the Bush mantra verbatim and throws in 911 whenever he thinks it appropriate, which for a republican presidential candidate is whenever possible.
It's fear mongering propaganda at it's most heinous and in Rudy's case, only to be expected.
I believe Rudy condemned the MoveOn.org ad...
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I guess I don't understand the whole, "you're not allowed to talk about 9/11" thing. Why is it that a politician must be proscribed from talking about, or referencing the signal event of our time?
Rudy performed heroically in the wake of 9/11. That, and his transformation of New York City from the crime-ridden, financial mess of the Dinkens administration are the reason he's in the race. So he's not supposed to talk about it?
Puh-leez. I think this is more correctly understood as Democrats attempting to silence an opponent on an issue (terrorism) for which they have no good answers.
No body is saying "you're not allowed to talk about 911" talk away Rudy... the more he talks about that 'signal event' and the more the American people find out about his role in it and his exploitation of it the better. He is a scurrilous single issue windbag who has never had an original thought in his life.
As for his time as NY Mayor, things did improve under his administration. However, near the end of his second term NYers as a whole were glad to see the back of him. He had become a dictatorial and petty autocrat, micromanaging his 'special interests' and setting himself up as St. Rudy.
As for NY's 'crime-ridden, financial mess' that was far from Dinkens legacy alone. Remember I lived there through both administrations and Dinkens inherited a much bigger mess than Rudy.
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