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November 15, 2007
Rudy Is So Tough -- You Don't Even Know!
Romney's draft-avoidance isn't quite as shameful as Super Tough Guy Rudy Giuliani's, whose deferment request was denied in 1969, thus placing him at imminent risk of being drafted, when he somehow convinced the federal judge for whom he was clerking "to write to the draft board, asking them to grant him a fresh deferment and reclassification as an 'essential' civilian employee." The very idea that a first-year judicial clerk, just out law school, is "essential" for anything is absurd on its face. Yet the swaggering tough guy Rudy Giuliani used that blatant lie to ensure that someone other than himself was sent to fight in Vietnam.
Brilliant as usual. Except for "swaggering." Giuliani kind of skulks, slithers and lurches. Like this guy:
Posted By Bob Cesca | November 15, 2007 11:13 AM | DIGG ME!
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