> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Grimes" <cgrimes at rawbw.com>
>
>>Progressives in New York must be really pissed because one of their
>>favorite targets was Giuliani who has turned out to be a fairly
>>courageous and organized mayor (or at least he looks that way on tv)
>>in the middle of a tremendous disaster. Now that has to really hurt.
>
> <...>
>
> Thank god Guiliani was there to rush his ass right to the bomb site to help
> direct traffice, calm nerves and counsel against hate, while Georgie was off
> cowering in a bunker in Nebraska (or whereever).
>
> It's kind of a Churchill moment; thank god he was there, and thank god he's
> leaving office.
>
i dont get it - would dinkins or say vallone/green/whoever have not been capable of doing what guiliani did, or not done it? what would have been different without guiliani? riots on the streets? witchhunts for arabs? looting? lack of food? more attacks? lightning and thunder? please explain...
--ravi
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- man is said to be a rational animal. i do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. more often i have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the 2nd degree. -- alasdair macintyre.