Most of the presidential candidates, democrat or republican, are running because they have something to show for their hard work and would like to work even harder by serving the American people as president. Regardless of political views, that is admirable. However there's one man who is running on a lie. That man is the republican frontrunner, Rudy Guiliani and the sad part is, most people trust and like this guy.
Rudy is basing his entire campaign on one event: 9/11. He is using what he did on 9/11 as his reason to be president. But I ask, what did Rudy do that was so great? He appeared visibly upset on TV, ok, big deal, everyone was upset. That was it. Rudy became the face of 9/11 because he was on TV so much, its that simple. The question has to be asked though--what did he do before 9/11 and what did he do beginning on 9/12?
Before 9/11, his only claim to fame was reducing crime. Yet he alone didn't magically reduce crime. Crime had been steadily decreasing before he came into office. What about after 9/11? Well I prefer to listen to the people who were there instead of drawing my own conclusion. The NYPD, FDNY, and WTC victims all say that Guiliani used this tragedy for political gain. One story particularly upsets me. Rudy called off the search for the remains and possible survivors in the rubble as soon as he found gold and silver from the WTC vaults. He has harmed the health of thousands of brave rescue workers by downplaying the negative health effects of the air quality near Ground Zero. Rudy could have saved many lives of firefighters as well, if he had just done what he knew needed to be done years before---upgrade the FDNY radios. And how about Rudy supposedly knowing oh so much about Iraq and is going to do the right thing there. Well, that could be more believable if he had attended just some of the Iraq Study Group meetings instead of making speeches for his profit. And speaking of profit, if you still don't believe Rudy uses 9/11 for political gain: Before 9/11 he was worth $2 million. Now after giving speeches about 9/11, he is estimated to be worth 30 times that amount. And what does he do with that money??? Yo guessed it, run for president and further promote himself.
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Rudy's big problem is he is trying to be a clone of Bush my telling the people electing a Democrat for President would enable Al Queda to strike America again. The fact is the worst foreign terror attack on U.S. soil happened on Mr. Bush's watch and also while Rudy was Mayor of New York. The tragic events of 9-11 happened because Mr. Bush's mind was on Iraq instead of the threat posed by Bin Laden even though Mr. Bush knew Bin Laden wanted to strike on U.S. soil. In fact, more americans have died at the hands of terrorist in the past 30 years under Republican Presidents than all the Democratic Presidents combined. It has been the Democrats that have kept America the safest.
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