Two reasons why Giuliani hates community organizers

Former presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani got a big laugh when he mocked community organizers. But it's not a trivial point. Republicans dislike community organizers because they reject the idea of collective solutions. If you need a park, get a backyard. if you need a job, get it yourself, or, more accurately, from your family and social connections.

Giuliani's distaste for community organizers is less political and more visceral. Community organizers try to help people without power, and themselves have little power. Giuliani's style is to mock the powerless and his belief is that he knows what's best so input from unelected types (or even lesser elected officials is entirely unwelcome.

Giuliani and Sarkozy

Lately Giuliani has been announcing his admiration for Nicholas Sarkozy. He has gone so far as to broadcat his "dream" about Sarkozy coming to America and the leading Democrats going to France. (Oddly, they all nearly die in a fiery mid-air plane crash in the process.)

I thought it was a pretty good line, even with the allusion to near death, until I learned the real reason that Giuliani so admires the French president. Sarkozy is getting divorced while in office. Now if Sarkozy comes here, he can advise Rudy-- and perhaps teach him how to find an attractive new wife.

And he is doing it in record time, the skids of France's divorce court having been nicely greased for the president.

It also brings to mnd a possible slogan for the campaign:

Rudy: Even his kids are voting against him

OR

Rudolph: If his family doesn't like him, why should you

I do not recall

Everybody is up in arms about poor Alberto Gonzalez. It's partly about how he let politics subvert the Justice Department, partly about how he seems to have lied about what he did, and partly about how he can't seem to remember what happened. Reports note that Alberto testified he could not recall 45 times at one recent congressional session.

In this total recall failure, Alberto has nothing on former Mayor Giuliani and NYC TLC Chairman Matthew Daus. When I deposed Giuliani in Padberg et al v. McGrath-McKechnie et al, Giuliani said testified he could not recall 99 times-- in a three-hour deposition. Click here for a transcript of the deposition.

In a three-hour deposition in Nnebe et al v. Daus et al, Matthew Daus testified he could not recall 85 times, including many times as to events in the last year. Aberto is a piker by comparison.

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