Every time Rudy tries to hype his manly ground zero bonafides these guys are going to be out there smacking him down. This stuff didn’t happen on the Mekong Delta 35 years ago. This happened very recently in the media capital of the world. His movements were well documented. You have to be a truly grandiose psychopath not to think comments like this will not come back to haunt you. Of course, that’s exactly what he is.
The above by Digby on Giuliani’s recent claim, later recanted, that he had spent as much time at Ground Zero as the workers.
And, according to this article in The Village Voice, the reason Rudy chose the World Trade Center for the city’s emergency-command center was so it would be close to City Hall:
The mayor was so personally focused on the siting and construction of the bunker that the city administrator who oversaw it testified in a subsequent lawsuit that “very senior officials,” specifically including Giuliani, “were involved,” which he said was a major difference between this and other projects. Giuliani’s office had a humidor for cigars and mementos from City Hall, including a fire horn, police hats and fire hats, as well as monogrammed towels in his bathroom. His suite was bulletproofed and he visited it often, even on weekends, bringing his girlfriend Judi Nathan there long before the relationship surfaced.
It seems to me, there’s a good chance if Rudy were elected that W would remain “the worst president ever” only for a short while.