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pidunk 12:08 pm UTC 09/10/07 |
Jim blogged about Guiliani, and I must say that I agree. I was not living in New York City during his tenure as Mayor, but I saw his swearing in, because I was there on one of my visits at the time. I don't recall what year he was elected. I was a resident of New York City from the Wagner to Koch years, and regularly walked across the parking lot of City Hall when I was living at the Pace University Dormitory just across the street. I liked Koch, and he has had a good radio show since his leaving office, called "The Voice Of Reason", and he was the most uplifting mayor that city had while I was there. John Lindsay had a certain kind of sophistication about him, and Beame was the opposite, like a blue collar guy took the wrong turn and wound up in City Hall. When Beame was mayor he nearly shut down my school and caused me such confusion, so I left the threatened school, and avoided that kind of head-play. During Guiliani's televised swearing in ceremony, he had his son on the podium with him, and the kid upstaged his father, who didn't try to discipline his son during that crucial time. I didn't quite know how a mayor could have let a child do that to him, and it was difficult to respect Guiliani from that first day on. As his tenure grew, I found other reasons. Someone told me about a garbage barge that was floating around New York Harbor being rejected from landing at this site and that site, not able to unload its load of garbage, because it was being said that the landfills were all full. Giuliani's Garbage barge, became a parody in its own right. He had a scandal, during office, ho hum, and then when it was time to leave, what happened, but boom, September 11. Then, everybody had all the kind things to say about Guiliani, but after the dust settled, and his halo began to fade, I noticed that he was as much a grabber of attention as his little boy was on inauguration day. So I began calling him Broadway Guiliani, because he started showing up where he could get exposure and accolades for being the one to handle the mess of the WTC destruction and losses of those three thousand lives. If Guiliani is on the ballot, I think I'd rather write in Porky Pig. In the land of the pig, the butcher is king. | |
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