Based on my experience, this is probably what Rudy is thinking about now: So what’s the rule on this? Having dropped the course before the final, if I take it again next semester and pass, does that replace the F, or does it get averaged?
Rudy missing in action for Iraq panel
Giuliani’s campaign fundraising kept him from commitment to panel studying Iraq.BY CRAIG GORDON
craig.gordon@newsday.com
June 18, 2007, 11:41 PM EDT
WASHINGTON — Rudolph Giuliani’s membership on an elite Iraqstudy panel came to an abrupt
end last spring after he failed to show up for a single official meeting of the group, causing the panel’s top Republican to give him a stark choice: either attend the meetings or quit, several sources said.
Giuliani left the Iraq Study Group last May after just two months, walking away from a chance to make up for his lack of foreign policy credentials on the top issue in the 2008 race, the Iraq war.
He cited "previous time commitments" in a letter explaining his decision to quit, and a look at his schedule suggests why — the sessions at times conflicted with Giuliani’s lucrative speaking tour that garnered him $11.4 million in 14 months.
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1. 3 wives.
2. History of mistresses.
3. 2 messy divorces.
4. Likes to cross-dress.
5. Flawed decision to locate emergency headquarters to WTC site.
6. Married cousin.
7. More interested in making money than national security.
Rudy sounds like the perfect GOP candidate for president.
He married his cousin? I thought he was from up North…
Craig Gordon says taking part in the ISQ would have given Rudy “a chance to make up for his lack of foreign policy credentials on the top issue…the Iraq War” but that would only be true if the American public (and especially GOP primary voters) were concerned with such things as “credentials.” First of all, as with any candidate who was in neither the executive nor legislative branches of the federal government during these past few years, not having to be accountable for a vote or decision on Iraq is to Giuliani’s advantage.
Secondly, image is much more important than credentials to the primary electorate, especially on foreign policy and the so-called “War on Terror.” (see Thompson, Fred). Rather than having to sign his name to a document that embraces multi-faceted and complex approaches to a complex problem (anathema to the right-wing GOP voters among whom Rudy is trying to increase his appeal) Giuliani probably felt (and from a political-calculus standpoint, rightly so I think) that his unshakeable association with the days immediately following 9-11 constitutes all the foreign policy “credentials” he needs.
And so far, he seems to be right about that.
It’s about time people start to realize that Rudy is NOT presidential material. His claim to fame is that he put a handful of mobsters in jail and he walked the streets of NYC after the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Since Fred Thompson is an actor, he can at least act Presidential!