Strong:
Sen. Hillary Clinton: A++++++
Sen. Chris Dodd: A
Gov. Bill Richardson: A
Sen. Joe Biden: A
Not ready for primetime:
Sen. Barack Obama: B (I think he is wonderful, but just not ready for the White House.)
Sen. John Edwards: B- (John Edwards just seems very angry.)
Rep. Dennis Kucinich: ?????
The Democratic Party is lucky to have so many talented candidates!
> I found this old article about Rudy Giuliani that I thought was worth a second look.
CNN (May 15, 2000):
Deep inside Rudy Giuliani's Week from Hell--with his marriage wrecked and his Senate campaign close to it--the New York City mayor reached back and threw a few inside fastballs, just to prove he still could. "Oh, get outta here," he told a pack of reporters asking him about various women not his wife. "Get lost! ... Don't you guys have the slightest bit of decency? Don't you realize you embarrass yourselves doing this?"
...Even after the New York Post ran pictures of him leaving a restaurant with Judith Nathan, a pharmaceuticals executive who in the past year has often been seen at his side, Giuliani remained calm. He called Nathan "a very good friend." The nature of that friendship became clearer a few days later, when a gray, shaken Giuliani announced that he and his wife Donna Hanover would be separating.....
....That piece of news came as a gut-wrenching surprise to Hanover, a TV journalist who immediately went before the cameras to return fire. Blinking back tears and speaking in an icy voice, Hanover aimed for the heart. She said their marriage had been damaged in the 1990s by Giuliani's relationship with a city hall staff member. Giuliani and the woman in question, former communications director Cristyne Lategano, have persistently denied their long-rumored affair, but Hanover--breaking years of silence--reignited the story, adding that she had tried to patch things up after Lategano left city hall but Rudy "chose another path."......Giuliani allies say the mayor tried months ago to get his wife to agree to a separation, but she would not discuss the subject. Still, his announcement, which surprised even his staff, brought to mind the many times this control freak has lost control in front of the cameras. In March, after an unarmed black man named Patrick Dorismond was shot to death by New York police, Giuliani smeared Dorismond by releasing his sealed juvenile-arrest records. When he blindsided his wife last week, it was just Rudy being Rudy. He said he was being "honest, direct and decent," but others thought he was being a heel. Giuliani strategists are clinging to the idea that marital discord can't hurt you in a race against a Clinton. But Rudy is running against the wronged woman, not the philandering man. And the pain in Hanover's eyes is not likely to be forgotten by some of the suburban women who until now supported Giuliani over Clinton.....
There are many things highlighted in this article:
1. Giuliani is a control freak
2. There was another affair???
3. Giuliani and Judith Nathan were just friends.
4. He smeared a shooting victim.
Wow! I don't want Giuliani in the White House. He doesn't appear to be a nice guy.
