Has Rudy Giuliani done anything besides invoke 9/11 to prove that he'd make a good President?

Question

And before you mention any other candidate... use your own five points for that, I'm asking about Giuliani, nobody else.

Answer 1

I've long said of Giuliani that he's the luckiest mayor to not have been out of town on vacation that day.

[EDIT to Hagar] "Invoke"... Dude, pick up a dictionary. You're embarrassing yourself.

Answer 2

He sure did. NYC was a very dangerous, corrupt place to live in and to visit. Crime was up, drugs, prostitution, corruption, and many other issues were a plague on the city. Giuliani made some major changes in NY which changed the area immensely. We, who live in the area and visit often, could see the difference and the people who live and travel there were very happy with the improvements. Look at the records and see for yourself. Giuliani was respected and considered to be a hero of sorts for doing all that he did in a short period of time. The City was not in such good shape for decades! When 9-11 happened, Giuliani was there and worked very hard at keeping things as good as they could possibly be. It was a difficult task and next to impossible. Pictures could not tell half of the story; the destruction of life and of this area in NY was beyond anything imaginable. Giuliani was there, working and doing everything humanly possible to help his City and his people. He did an incredible job. He has performed very well before, during and after 9-11 and certainly has the qualifications required to be President.

You want five points:
1. Made changes in the Police & Fire Departments so they could do what was necessary to make NY a safer place.
2. Cleaned up the red light district and got prostitutes off the streets where they used to be all the time.
3. Enforced drug laws and removed drugs from the area in a very big way.
4. Worked hard on disabling corrupt businesses by shutting them down and removing them from the city.
5. Put good, hard working people in positions that needed improvement in the City government and in the schools and got rid of the corrupt ones who were pulling the city down not to mention working hard and succeeding at arresting and convicting members of the Mob.

There are other things but, these are the ones I can think of right now.

Answer 3

well, Giuliani did insist that the Emergency Command Center be located in the Twin Towers, even knowing they were prime terrorist targets having been bombed before.

yep ... if installed in the Whitehouse Giuliani would certainly carry on with the same kind of policies and strategies we've come to expect from the neoCON Republicans over the past 6 1/2 yrs.

and he looks quite natural in a dress.

PS. bet ya a dollar to a donut that if he's the Republican nominee he won't win NY State for the GOP. New Yorkers know him too well.

Answer 4

Giuliani was a judge, I think it was a federal court. Being that as it may, judges generally have an excellent ability to sift through ambiguity and come up with viable, acceptable judgements.

When working in top positions, these skills are invaluable. As far as his experience, his name recognition is the reason for his popularity. No he has not held any other political office. Working with the senate and the congress requires one to be extremely deft.

Presidents in the recent past that have been very successful at achieving the balance sauvely are Reagan and Clinton. Reagan was a Governor and so was Clinton. They were able to draw on that experience and be successful.

Does Guiliani have what it takes, well that's your personal decision. Listen to his speeches, hear him out. He is attempting to make a huge leap frog from a "mayor" of major city to the head of the United States.

Answer 5

No.
1. He discussed how he turned New York around prior to 9/11
2. Day to day operations of running a city with 15 million people (more people then some mid-west states) provides a lot of real world experience most Senators or Representatives never experience. Puts him on par with Governors.

3. He is a successful business person not a typical career politician

4. The first 3 items trump Obama's experience hands down.

5. Enough said.

Answer 6

I can't stand the guy. All he says is what a tough and wonderful guy that he was on 9/11... he was good the weeks after but why would that make him great as a president... is he planning for another terrorist attack in the nation so he can play hero again?

Also, how hard was it to do what he did???? The city needed comfort and was not in the mood to blame any American for anything... we were in shock and just needed a cheerleader and that was principally what Giulliani was. He was good at it but that doesn't make him the tough guy that he is pretending to be in his campaign. I am not prepared to vote for a cheerleader that was once just a mayor who now talks like he's Rambo.

Answer 7

His "invoking" 9/11 wouldn't be enough to sway anybody. What the people who support Giuliani remember is that he was a calming authoritarian figure during a horrible tragedy, someone who had information for us, who seemed in control in the midst of chaos, who showed empathy for our loss but helped keep rescue procedures moving. As we saw after hurricane Katrina, not all officials at the city, state, OR national level can be that composed during a sudden tragedy. Giuliani was.

We saw that, and a lot of people believe what they've seen modeled more than they believe what they hear said.

I'm not saying I'm voting for him. But it doesn't weaken him much to minimize one of thing things he actually did right.

Answer 8

the place to start? Guiliani is a socially liberal Republican with a checkered very own historic previous. It did no longer wash with the very conservative time-honored electorate. He additionally did no longer enter the race until eventually late, assuming he could merely be buoyed alongside the present of a few 9/11 fever. It did no longer artwork.

Answer 9

I think he said something about the day after 9/11 but I could be mistaken.

Answer 10

Still a nice picture.

He ran a major US city and reduced both petty and serious crime. He didn't exactly keep spending and taxes under control, but people could actually walk through Central Park after dark.

The thought processes behind that are worth exploring on the national level.