Breaking: Giuliani's Ego Over-Inflates, Pops

In the latest of a series of self-congratulatory speeches, Rudy Giuliani once again milks a horrible tragedy for his own personal gain.

From the New York Times:

"What they say in Washington is not going to affect the fact that there are terrorists around the world that are planning to come here and kill us," he said in Iowa, in the most spirited part of his newly honed stump speech.

Pointing his finger and bouncing up and down on his toes, he declared, "It is something I understand better than anyone else running for president."

Ironically, he said the same thing about marriage, extra-martial affairs, and capitalizing on other people's emotions.

Until this week, Mr. Giuliani’s views on Iraq were not well known. But on this trip he made clear, though never mentioning President Bush by name, that he firmly supported the administration’s current strategy, including Mr. Bush’s decision to send more than 20,000 additional combat troops there.

Hm... A "stay the course" strategy. That's so crazy it just might work!

He then casually lumped Iran with Al Qaeda. "Their movement has already displayed more aggressive tendencies by coming here and killing us," he said.

Mr. Giuliani was asked in an interview to clarify that, inasmuch as Iran had no connection to the Sept. 11 attacks. Further, most of its people are Shiites, whereas Al Qaeda is an organization of Sunnis.

"They have a similar objective," he replied, "in their anger at the modern world."

In other words, he said, they hate America.

Oh Mr. Giuliani, your grasp on foreign policy is almost magical. You know what else would be a good idea? We can start referring to the Chinese as "those communist Asians" and the British as "Those queen loving Redcoats" as well. In fact, why don't we group every single ethnicity and country into racist stereotypes.

At least Giuliani does something well: He helps reaffirm the reason we don't elect Mayors for president.

Although, if he does win, I was treasurer of my honor society in college - I think that means I'm qualified to be head of the state department, right?