It's this simple which ever canidate runs on securing the borders, therefore securing our culture wins easy. The borders will be the big issue in 2008 and Hillary is off and running, she has a good shot. Rudy has no chance of winning the republican nomination. I like Rudy, however he's pro-choice therefore he would not get the nomination.
Aubrey Immelman, a political psychologist at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn., who believes Mr. Giuliani is driven by deep-rooted hostility and rage that have their origins in his childhood, offers a bleaker prognosis. He has done personality studies of President Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and independent counsel Kenneth Starr and is currently working on Gov. George W. Bush of Texas and Gov. Jesse Ventura of Minnesota. In an assessment of Mr. Giuliani prepared for The Observer, Mr. Immelman said the Mayor fits the profile of a "hostile enforcer," a person who is "biologically hard-wired" to be aggressive and even sadistic.
According to Mr. Immelman, such people channel their repressed rage into socially acceptable crusades against rule-breakers and other transgressors of societal norms. "They are untrusting and harsh in their interpersonal relationships and the world at large," he writes. "They are persistently on the defensive and any cracks in their tough outer facade or perceived exposure of personal weakness or inner vulnerability prompts capricious, precipitous surges of hostility and outbursts of rage."
Mr. Immelman said people with Mr. Giuliani’s personality traits have often been treated harshly by their parents. By most accounts, the Mayor, an only child, was doted on by his father, Harold, a Brooklyn tavern owner, and his mother, Helen. But Mr. Giuliani could be exasperating even as a youngster.
His aunts and uncles told Daily News reporter Paul Schwartzman that he was "a restless baby, prone to staying awake for 48 hours at a time. This restlessness on more than one occasion prompted the nuns at school to smack him." Helen Giuliani, who meted out the discipline at home, was also a believer in the virtues of corporal punishment.
The psychologist was even more intrigued by Mr. Giuliani’s account of how his father dressed him in a Yankees outfit and sent him out to be mercilessly teased by neighborhood children who were fervent Brooklyn Dodgers fans–which meant, of course, that they were passionate Yankees haters. As the Mayor tells it, the neighborhood kids threw a noose around his neck as if they were going to lynch him. His screaming grandmother intervened before any physical damage was done. "To my father, it was a joke," Mr. Giuliani has said. "But to me it was like being a martyr."
According to Mr. Immelman, such people channel their repressed rage into socially acceptable crusades against rule-breakers and other transgressors of societal norms. "They are untrusting and harsh in their interpersonal relationships and the world at large," he writes. "They are persistently on the defensive and any cracks in their tough outer facade or perceived exposure of personal weakness or inner vulnerability prompts capricious, precipitous surges of hostility and outbursts of rage."
Mr. Immelman said people with Mr. Giuliani’s personality traits have often been treated harshly by their parents. By most accounts, the Mayor, an only child, was doted on by his father, Harold, a Brooklyn tavern owner, and his mother, Helen. But Mr. Giuliani could be exasperating even as a youngster.
His aunts and uncles told Daily News reporter Paul Schwartzman that he was "a restless baby, prone to staying awake for 48 hours at a time. This restlessness on more than one occasion prompted the nuns at school to smack him." Helen Giuliani, who meted out the discipline at home, was also a believer in the virtues of corporal punishment.
The psychologist was even more intrigued by Mr. Giuliani’s account of how his father dressed him in a Yankees outfit and sent him out to be mercilessly teased by neighborhood children who were fervent Brooklyn Dodgers fans–which meant, of course, that they were passionate Yankees haters. As the Mayor tells it, the neighborhood kids threw a noose around his neck as if they were going to lynch him. His screaming grandmother intervened before any physical damage was done. "To my father, it was a joke," Mr. Giuliani has said. "But to me it was like being a martyr."
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<HR style="COLOR: #fdde82" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->charles....your write up on Rudy is probably the reason he'd never make it as president.....
He's too ready and willing to shake the system up, and actually looking to get something done.....very much someone we could use in office that could prove an asset and an achiever, just don't see his fellow politicians going along with all of it, in fact I think Rudy would make them rather nervous...
Call me cynical but this would shake up the "good ole' boys" network.....
Would be nice to see Washington rebuilding America instead of making sure Iraqi school teachers are overpaid.....
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Anyone not their ilk scares the Far Right: Schwarzenegger's another example. In fact, Giuliani made up his own schedule when aiding Bush, that's how much leverage he held.... But they have no realistic alternative: this is where i think Bush erred by preaching to the choir: he already had their votes-- they weren't going to vote for Kerry LOL He made the election tougher than it had to be by picking un-winnable & unpopular issues such as stem-cell research, gay marriage, etc.--issues that anyhow are individual states' rights & are as futile to enforce as prohibiting alcohol or cigarettes, as futile as trying to stop the ocean tides....
Çonservatives, however, are smart to know that ratings / votes are tough for them to obtain: who wants to go watch an old, square, boring fart reading from some piece of paper(key mistake of the Dumbocrats: that's exactly the type they paraded).... that they'll need to present someone with charisma, glamor, communication skills, unblemished integrity: see Ronald Reagan.
Giuliani's owed a lot of favors from this past election: he also stumped all over the country for scads of Congressional candidates-- most of whom had trouble drawing any attention on their own.
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<HR style="COLOR: #fdde82" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->charles....your write up on Rudy is probably the reason he'd never make it as president.....
He's too ready and willing to shake the system up, and actually looking to get something done.....very much someone we could use in office that could prove an asset and an achiever, just don't see his fellow politicians going along with all of it, in fact I think Rudy would make them rather nervous...
Call me cynical but this would shake up the "good ole' boys" network.....
Would be nice to see Washington rebuilding America instead of making sure Iraqi school teachers are overpaid.....
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Marco:
Anyone not their ilk scares the Far Right: Schwarzenegger's another example. In fact, Giuliani made up his own schedule when aiding Bush, that's how much leverage he held.... But they have no realistic alternative: this is where i think Bush erred by preaching to the choir: he already had their votes-- they weren't going to vote for Kerry LOL He made the election tougher than it had to be by picking un-winnable & unpopular issues such as stem-cell research, gay marriage, etc.--issues that anyhow are individual states' rights & are as futile to enforce as prohibiting alcohol or cigarettes, as futile as trying to stop the ocean tides....
Çonservatives, however, are smart to know that ratings / votes are tough for them to obtain: who wants to go watch an old, square, boring fart reading from some piece of paper(key mistake of the Dumbocrats: that's exactly the type they paraded).... that they'll need to present someone with charisma, glamor, communication skills, unblemished integrity: see Ronald Reagan.
Giuliani's owed a lot of favors from this past election: he also stumped all over the country for scads of Congressional candidates-- most of whom had trouble drawing any attention on their own.
