I have personal beef against Rudy Giuliani. From my years working with families who have lost their children to police brutality, the Giuliani years aka Giuliani time in NYC was the worse. Young men of color were killed with impunity and Giuliani made it a point to smear these victims, even to their grieving mothers. For example:

In 1995, two young Puerto Rican men Anthony Rosario and Hilton Vega were shot in the back and killed by two New York City detectives in the Bronx. Evidence showed that when they were killed, they were laying face down on the floor and an independent autopsy revealed that Rosario was shot fourteen times in the back and Vega was shot eight times in the back.

“One of the detectives, was Rudy Giuliani’s former bodyguard Patrick Brosnan. So what did Giuliani do? First, he had the audacity to call the police officers to commend them on their actions and then when Anthony Rosario’s mother Margarita called in to his radio show, Rudy talked over her, insisting that gunfire was exchanged and that her son had a criminal record. Both of these statements were lies. Giuliani also told the dead man’s mother that perhaps she should look at her parenting skills to help explain why her son died. Is this the kind of person we want as president?”

Well thankfully we don’t have to worry about him as president, but if John McCain were to choose Rudy as his running mate and if anything happened to McCain, well then we would have to deal with King Rudy. And yet, Giuliani’s name is being thrown around alot, perhaps more times than he can say 9-11 in a single breath.

From David Frum in the New Republic:

I have my own personal nomination for vice president for McCain. It’s Rudy Giuliani, precisely because he shares the vision of a practical, reforming, war-winning Republican Party that inspires John McCain, plus the stronger-than-usual grounds for hoping that he might be the rare candidate who can make a difference in an essential state–in this case, New Jersey.

What war did Giuliani win exactly? The war against crime despite the fact that crime stats were declining nationwide which could partially be attributed to a drop in the use of crack as the drug de jour? Or maybe he means the war against people of color as Giuliani cracked the whip, stopping anyone and nearly everyone who was young and brown and having his police shoot em up for fun? No, no of course he means 9-11-01 because no other mayor would have done what he did during 9-11-01 (and don’t hate because I was in downtown Manhattan trapped in a subway during 9-11, nearly lost my mom during 9-11, and did lose some colleagues).

Honestly I don’t know what is scarier? John McCain alone or John McCain and Rudy Giuliani together.

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