by Lionel Bascom — May 22nd, 2007 — 1 comment
Johnny Yen says he didn’t like Rudy Guliani before 9/11 and likes him even less now. But Yen, who writes the Here Comes Johnny Yen Again blog, says he is puzzled by the common wisdom that Guliani handled 9/11 “brilliantly.” I’m at a loss to see what he did that was different from what any other mayor would have done, Yen says, “walk around, looking concerned, then giving a couple of speeches. Hell, even our own excitable Mayor Daley here in Chicago would have done the same thing. Guliani did his job. Wonderful.
I remember Mayor Daley’s father Richard. He did his job too and people overlooked some of his many faults because the old man did his job too. It occurs to me that electing a politician who can at least do his job might be a refreshing change from what we have now.
I was no fan of Rudy’s either since his greatest claim to fame before 9/11 seemed to be his clean up of city street – ridding them of the squeegee boys (grown men really). But Rudy was tough on crime in a city with lots of it and frankly, we could use somebody in the White House who does more than lie with a smirk or play a mean sax. Rudy ain’t exactly my man, but the pickings are mighty slim. Rudy did take charge after 9/11 and there was no time for politics as the Twin Towers were falling.
The fools who blog and the so-called news media had nothing better to report today than how much Rudy and the others in the field are charging for speeches. Our soldiers are driving around in junk, including Stryker vehicles manufactured by some pals of the vice president. That’s right. Junk. Somebody’s child died in Iraq today for no damn good reason so anybody who can take charge and stop the madness (even Rudy) can lead me the hell out of this quagmire. I am damn sick of pretending the emperor has any clothes on at all.
9:39 PM in Uncategorized, World Trade Center, Ground Zero, Related Stories, Freedom Tower News, Politics
Perhaps, if the media did its job and actually asked the real questions, we, the people, might actually do our job right and elect a decent man or woman for the job of president.
Our job is not to judge others, not to just ‘get by’ with the least amount of effort, not to create situations where we place ourselves on pedestals only to glare down upon others in an effort to make ourselves feel better.
While on this planet, our job is to learn. We are to make this existance have meaning to subsequent generations. We are to make this world a little better than it was when we entered it.
Our job is to live, to make decisions that bring hope, joy and love to our fellow human beings, to awaken the consciousness of humanity to the possibilities within the creative genius of each mind.
And if these high and mighty, judgmental, elusive, stubborn, limited-sighted fools cannot see this, let them wallow in their ignorance. But, for Goodness sake, do something significant.
Dare to be different, defiant, declarative…even if it only saves one life.
Jeanne · May 22nd, 2007 at 10:32 pm