Will someone please refresh my memory?

Question

I'm having a very hard time recalling exactly what Rudy Giuliani did on 9/11 that was so great and awe-inspiring. Also, in what ways do these heroic deeds qualify him to be president of the U.S.?

Thanks!

Oh, please, Josiah. "9/11" is virtually the only thing that ever comes out of Giuliani's mouth.

rotorhead: Are we to assume, then, that every single person in NYC that day lost their heads and panicked - except for Giuliani???

Answer 1

He didn't dress in drag. He's qualified because his father was a mob boss so he knows exactly how to take over the reigns of corruption from BushFraud.

Plus he's got the official endorsement from crackpot Zionist Pat Robertson.

Answer 2

He seriously kept his head, even though literally, buildings were falling around him. I saw an HBO special about 9-11. I was traveling and had no access for over a week to any TV. I was getting all my news via radio. By the time I was able to see a TV, all they were showing was cleanup.

To see it for the first time was very difficult. First of all, my older brother is a 767-300 Captain. Second, HBO had much that had never been seen. Watching it, I wanted to cry. I also wanted to nuke someone.

One clip was Giuliani with about 6 or 7 people coming out of a building that was right next to the collapsed towers and had narrowly escaped being destroyed. They were covered with dust and using handheld radios trying to coordinate emergency response. Paper, dust and who knows what else was falling all around them. A reporter ran up to him and stuck a microphone in his face and asked some really stupid question. Giuliani said something like "Please not right now, I'm a little busy."

It was brilliant. Giuliani was a calm and in control as any General.

Answer 3

Rudy showed leadership in a very difficult time. He made the public feel calm and ran the emergency services fairly well. Did he make mistakes, you bet. However unless you have been in this situation, its hard to know how a person will react. It would have been very easy for him to hide on 911.

Rudy has run the largest city in North America. So this and his leadership on 911 has a definite appeal for some people. I don't care for his politics, but he may be the best candidate out there.

Answer 4

You would have to have a sense of how enormous the task is to run a city like NY before you could begin to understand the stress of presiding over a disaster that had global implications.
I get the feeling that you don't have that sense and are just anti Rudy for some reason and there is probably nothing I could say that would alter your opinion.
I would ask you to consider this.
Katrina was an event that was bound to happen. It was anticipated. It was drilled for. It had been financed for many times over. There was at least a five day advance notice for the actual event. Ray Nagan folded up like a cheap lawn chair. 9-11 was a complete surprise.

Answer 5

He acted like the person who could offer comfort to everyone, with the sense that he was the closest leader type who lived there and had perhaps shared the experience by inhaling some of the smoke too.

Answer 6

Did you watch the news? Giuliani led NYC through grief, recovery, and moving forward.

Answer 7

Walk around with a dust mask looking very "mayorial" like.

Answer 8

Come on are you kidding, he wore a hard hat, and tried to look concerned.

Answer 9

i thought that he handled it pretty well...too bad he couldn't have ran last time against bush. i know that they're both republicans, but i think he would have done a better job.

just my thoughts.

Answer 10

He coaxed Bush out of his secret bunker and into the daylight