Republican presidential hopeful Rudolph W. Giuliani praised President Bush’s war leadership on Saturday and mocked supporters of a nonbinding congressional resolution condemning the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq.
The former New York City mayor came to Bush’s defense as he promoted his White House candidacy at a California Republican convention. Drawing parallels between Iraq and America’s Civil War, Giuliani compared Bush’s political troubles to Abraham Lincoln’s. When the Civil War was unpopular, Giuliani said, Lincoln “kept his eye ahead.”
“He was able to say, ‘I know my people are frustrated, and I know my people are angry at me.’ ” But after weighing public opinion, Lincoln had “that ability that a leader has — a leader like George Bush, a leader like Ronald Reagan — to look into the future,” Giuliani said.
If George W. Bush is Abraham Lincoln then I must be Major-General JEB Stuart or something. I mean, seriously, I don’t think I can take too much more of this crap. Guiliani was a passable mayor. He had the great good fortune to run the city during a huge economic upswing. He had the great misfortune of being responsible on 9/11 when his hero George W. Bush was reading children’s books and fleeing for a bunker in Nebraska. Guiliani did the job he was called to do that day. He rose to the occassion. I’ll always admire what he did that day and in the days that followed. The man knows how to keep his head in a crisis, unlike his AWOL buddy in the White House. But Rudy has long ago milked that cow dry.
You can compare Bush to Abe Lincoln. It just makes you look like some kind of idiot. Or worse, it makes you look like you have absolutely no moral compass. But what should we expect from a man who made his name prosecuting mobsters only to turn around and appoint a mob-connected man to be his police chief when he became mayor?
If Bush is Lincoln then I guess Tom DeLay is Teddy Roosevelt, and Jack Abramoff is George Washington. We can make a new monument and call it Mt. Shamemore.
