One of Rudy Giuliani's favorite pastimes in the campaign is to paint himself as being -- much -- larger than he really is. More plainly, he has tried to transform his role as mayor of New York into being the equivalent of being the president, the Director of the FBI, the Director of the CIA, the Director of FEMA, the Secretary of Defense, and the President of the Girls Scouts of America... all rolled into one. The saddest part is that lots of Americans believe this load of bull and that the mainstream media is going right along with it. (Sad, but not surprising.) Josh Marshall at TPM has a wonderful, short overview of this today at TPM. It uses a new Giuliani campaign flier for New Hampshire as its starting point. The piece is titled Commander-in-Chief NYC and can be found here. The flier can be seen here.
5 November 2007
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