There Won't Be Riots In The Streets
I'm fascinated by this paragraph about Rudy Giuliani (originally printed here):
I shudder to think that our next president might actually be WORSE than the one we have now.
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As mayor, he made headlines in 1995, when he had Arafat ejected from a concert at Lincoln Center. In a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition this fall, Rudy pointed to this incident as emblematic of his leadership style: “I didn’t hesitate, like Hillary Clinton hesitates to answer questions on what she’s going to do about Iran. I didn’t seek to negotiate with him, like Barack Obama would do or says he’d do with these people. I didn’t call for a team of lawyers to help me. … I just made a decision. See, I lead. That’s what [being a] leader is about.”Let's repeat that last thought: I just made a decision. See, I lead. That's what being a leader is about. There's something so laughably undemocratic about that interpretation of "leadership" that it's almost hard to believe he's running for office in the first place. I mean, TECHNICALLY, in the ABSTRACT, it doesn't make sense -- why would someone whose sense of leadership is so overtly dictatorial be interested in managing a republic? Then again, the executive branch has so much sovereign, un-checked power after eight years of George Bush that perhaps the presidency is now uniquely suited to Giuliani's worldview of "just making decisions" without pesky time-wasters like CONVERSATION.
I shudder to think that our next president might actually be WORSE than the one we have now.
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Dan
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