Rudy Giuliani hits the campaign trail
Slate
by John Dickerson
08/31/06
When Giuliani started to speak, I was expecting a Lifetime vignette: A story about a fallen firefighter or a 9/11 widow bearing up under unspeakable pain, or perhaps a riff about how he looks out his office window toward lower Manhattan and never forgets. Every other politician is misusing the 9/11 anniversary, why wouldn't he? But he did none of that, showing tasteful restraint he'll have to give up if he actually runs for president. Instead, Giuliani's remarks about 9/11 were general. 'Sept. 11 is not over. It's not just a piece of our history. Sept. 11 is still going on. There are still people like that who want to attack us today. They're trying to do an attack that's even bigger than Sept. 11 to kill more Americans. That's just the reality of the world we live in. To deal with it, you have to be on offense.' And the mayor didn't even mention Iraq as the central front of the war on terror...
http://www.slate.com/id/2148741
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by John Dickerson
08/31/06
When Giuliani started to speak, I was expecting a Lifetime vignette: A story about a fallen firefighter or a 9/11 widow bearing up under unspeakable pain, or perhaps a riff about how he looks out his office window toward lower Manhattan and never forgets. Every other politician is misusing the 9/11 anniversary, why wouldn't he? But he did none of that, showing tasteful restraint he'll have to give up if he actually runs for president. Instead, Giuliani's remarks about 9/11 were general. 'Sept. 11 is not over. It's not just a piece of our history. Sept. 11 is still going on. There are still people like that who want to attack us today. They're trying to do an attack that's even bigger than Sept. 11 to kill more Americans. That's just the reality of the world we live in. To deal with it, you have to be on offense.' And the mayor didn't even mention Iraq as the central front of the war on terror...
http://www.slate.com/id/2148741
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 1. Sep, 14:37
