America dodged a bullet this January. Lets thank our lucky stars that Rudy Giuliani is not the Republican nominee and therefore will have no chance to be President of the United States. He endorsed John McCain today. During his speech, America's Hizzoner said this:
"It's disappointing to lose a race for president because you believe you're the best candidate, but I had made it clear before I had to make this decision who I thought the other best candidate was," said Giuliani. "I think I made it clear during a debate that if I had not been running, I would be supporting John McCain. So I'm not running, and I'm supporting John McCain and he is far away the best person to be the commander in chief of the United States."
Article II, section 2, clause 1 of the Constitution says the following:
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;
The President is not the commander in chief of the United States, but of its armed forces. Was this a Freudian slip? No.
This was no slip. This is how Rudy actually thinks. I know, because I lived under his administration and was a cop for a few years under his NYPD. Rudy believes that executive power should be completely unchecked by anyone, and that these powers are completely necessary and proper.
In a famous speech he gave in 1994, Giuliani said this:
We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
This is a person who has no real concept of what freedom really means, as my fellow New Yorkers will attest to. Giuliani in the 1990's didn't "clean up the city." A prosperous economy and reforms instituted by Dinkins and his police commissioners did that. No, Giluiani was a man far more sinister.
It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.
Can you imagine this man with the powers that George W. Bush has granted himself? There would be no line he would not cross. I know McCain or Romney could possibly be bad, but they do not strike me as nearly close to being the kind of raving sociopath that Rudy Giuliani is.
The people of America, in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina and finally Florida have all helped America dodge a bullet. We New Yorkers are glad you heard our warnings about this man.