I just read an amazing insult to the American people by Rudy Giuliani, "America's Mayor" and candidate for President of 9/11:
Giuliani repeated his oft-told story of how he read Roy Jenkins’s Churchill biography for inspiration after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He also said he was in London wh en suicide bombers struck the city’s transportation system in July 2005 — and that Americans could learn from the "resilience" that Londoners showed by going straight back to work the next day. [emphasis added]
All I can say, Mr. Mayor, is that I live 12 miles from Ground Zero and I not only went back to work on 9/12 but stayed at work on 9/11. Millions of people in New York City, the surrounding counties and northern New Jersey who were right near the center of the worst of the attacks were working right through the disaster.
If you think that we need to learn from outsiders how to be resilient and tough in the face of tragedy then you don't know the American people and have no business as a candidate to be our nation's leader. You obviously have no effing idea who we are or how tough we can be.
We don't need Daddy Giuliani to come and protect us, and we sure as hell don't need you going overseas and insinuating that we're wimpy and have a lot to learn from the British on how to respond to disasters. We're the toughest people on the planet, tough enough that we can keep our freedoms and civil rights while fighting against the terrorists who attacked us at 9/11.
And you can kiss my grits.