any specifics?
2007-02-22 04:36:32 · 8 answers · asked by Roy P 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
I too am a New Yorker, and I'd love to answer!
1) Giuliani brilliantly solved a problem that no predecessor, Republican or Democrat, had even been able to get close to in half a century - the crime problem. When I was younger, NYC was known as fear city, and how well I remember it! When Giuliani left office, not only was our crime rate less than any other big city, but we had numbers that were the envy of some rural areas!
Others jaw-boned about fixing crime. Giuliani did it!
2) In the wake of 9/11, Giuliani showed a rare and precious quality - leadership. He showed how, in a time of crisis, a leader should act, and how to inspire people. Ronald Reagan could do that. I think Giuliani did even better. I remember during the 2001 mayoralty election how some (like Al Sharpton) said that anybody at all could have led the way Giuliani did. Yeah, sure! Just like those same nay- sayers fixed our crime problem during the half-century when they had their chance. But Giuliani actually did it!
3) Jealous Democrats might carp that Giuliani was a "joke" as mayor, but I loved to hear him speak. I listened to his radio talks. Instead of the boring blather you get from so many politicians, you could ask him a question and he'd come right to the point. He has a self-deprecating wit that I find very pleasing, and a refreshing contrast to the haughty vanity common among politicians. And when he didn't have an answer for you, he would not, as lesser politicians do, simply try to talk around the question as though pretending he knew. He'd admit it immediately, ask you for your name and promise that someone would get back to you with an answer.
I'd love to see his qualifications stacked up against (for instance) someone whose chief claim to fame consists of looting the White House of valuables at the end of the last administration!
2007-02-22 06:54:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anne Marie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To the second part of your question...he's actually NOT qualified, he only thinks he is based on his massive ego. I've lived in New York City all my life and I can't believe what a big stink the media have made with this guy being some kind of beacon during the time of the attacks. I keep asking myself and everyone else: What exactly did he do during that time that people keep talking about? All he did was do what he was supposed to do as a Mayor...keep people informed. That is something that anyone in his position could have and would have done...it's not something special.
About the only good thing I could say about the guy was that when he was Manhattan District Attorney - before becoming Mayor - he indicted and sent to prison many mafia types. That's how he made a name for himself. As to anything else that voters would look for in a great leader...sorry...there's not much else one could point to.
2007-02-22 04:50:26 · answer #2 · answered by henry315_ny 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No disrespect to Giuliani, but damn good question. I lived in NYC when he first ran for mayor and voted FOR him. But by the time 9/11 occurred, he was a joke of a mayor (though I had moved away by then).
He performed with great dignity, civility, authority, and humanity on that horrible day - I give him full and total credit for that. He was a surrogate president on a day when we didn't have an actual president.
But admirable though he was on that one day, I don't see how that translates into qualification for the Presidency. He just seems like a guy who's running for President on the basis of a brilliant and necessary star turn on a horrible day in our country's history.
On the other hand, if he has the gumption to stick with his lifelong convictions on social issues, I'll be LMAO if he's elected with the help of the conservative right-wing juggernaut who can't spot a pig in a poke even though THEY are the ones supposedly of the non-urban Heartland.
Just a quick addition - I don't conflate "experience" with "qualifications" when it comes to the Presidency. I think one can be "qualified" even if one's "experience" is short.
2007-02-22 04:46:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only thing that makes him qualified is how both he and Hillary know how to manipulate the media polls. The Republican Party doesn't seem to show any support for him.
2007-02-22 07:02:48 · answer #4 · answered by George G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only one specific: The comb-over will do him in for the feminine vote.
2007-02-22 04:51:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He's not. He has had no experience at federal or state level government. He was only a mayor for crying out loud.
2007-02-22 05:00:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
His commitment to his family and his faithfulness to his wife
2007-02-22 04:41:18 · answer #7 · answered by sligoman 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He covered up an INSIDE JOB well.
2007-02-22 05:23:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋