Hey Mike,

Paraphrasing Rudy just a little bit maybe? :o) That comment was actually NOT made by Rudy, but by a comedian.

http://www.time.com/time/poy2001/poyprofile.html

Now, where to start on his failures and corruption? Too much there to even start a list! There are few good leaders in our history who did not have problems - racism, greed, it goes on and on. That doesn't excuse it, I just want to point out that research and media is just too good nowadays for anyone to sneak by with anything in their closet as they could in the past.




>>>I am young enough to be included in a draft. I have a feeling that having a hothead like Cheney as president would bring the biggest chance of a draft that would involve me.
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>>>So if Cheney because president and the worst I got is shot in the face with birdshot with a shotgun, I would feel lucky.
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>>>BTW, does anybody what the draft age range is? I heard mid 20's.
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>>Hillary would be your best chance to be drafted because we would probably wind up being attacked by every third world country and even a few from other planets!
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>>Don't worry though, when Rudy takes over, things will get better.
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>I like Rudy all right, for a Republican <g>. You couldn't ask for more leadership and empathy than he showed in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. He was stellar. Unfortunately for him I think political oppos will have an easy time taking him out, should he run. Most people outside NYC have probably forgotten how bored and disenchanted New Yorkers had become with their mayor before 9/11. And I'm not sure the Christian right is going to embrace him, considering his zip code and his open extramarital affair while mayor. (Classic line from Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live, in the wake of Rudy's threat to cut off funding to the Brooklyn Museum of Art after a controversial exhibit: "I don't want to see that kind of filth when I go to the museum with my mistress."). Like anyone who has been in politics for a while, he has his baggage.
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>I think I know why you like him. Law and order, right? Which of course is fine, up to a point. I just worry that Rudy might be right there philosophically with those in the Bush administration who think the Constitution and Bill of Rights can be chucked out the window, not to mention the other two branches of government, in the so-called war on terror.
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>You already know I am not a big Hillary fan. But what makes you think we would axiomatically be attacked by "third world countries" if she were President? The current bunch are as macho as they come and we got attacked on their watch. On our own soil. I don't think those who oppose us care much which party holds the Oval Office.