Bob and Rudy

Today Bob managed to get his picture taken with Rudy Giuliani, who was campaigning in a coffee shop down the street. He pulled out all his New York City stops. Wore the FDNY baseball hat. Shouted out, "My brother is retired NYPD and worked the pit after 911!" That seemed to do it in order for Mr. Giuliani to agree to a photo. Of course Bob didn't mention that his retired NYPD brother and his NYPD buddies really hated Giuliani's police contract policies. Don't confuse a photo op with the facts.

Anyway, since Rudy is Bob's personal mayor, well, needless to say that we were all very excited for this photo. Disclaimer: The blogger would like to say that she does not necessarily advocate for the viewpoints of any of her blog subjects. In other words, the blogger comes from a politically diverse marriage and life.

I will hand it to Rudy Giuliani for one clever answer in some debate somewhere; Iowa, I suppose. Everyone was asked a question like this, "What has been your greatest mistake?" Of course all the other candidates hummed and hawed about how they don't make mistakes. Rudy said, "You only give me 30 seconds to answer that?" Great non-answer.

Isn't democracy awesome! Flawed for sure, but awesome.

With love, T

P.S. Come to think of it, I would like to highly recommend the blog of Professor Mary Hess. Everyday she posts a golden nugget that answers this: "What is it to be a person of faith living in a global media culture?"