Atta boy!!1!!

While it’s pretty well impossible to pretend that politicians aren’t constantly fudging history to better present themselves to their adoring public, the laundry list of past offenses doesn’t address Rudy’s omissions, it just plays the “I know you are but what am I” card for the umpteenth time.

The online aspect of this is particularly meaningful, I think, in light of the fact that efforts to fudge facts in the past had to get past quite a number of formidable barriers to become widely accepted. The net has made the dissemination of information a far simpler task. How long before Rudy’s bio is linked to other blogs and news services, which will elevate it to the top of any search engine query, which will be the first thing a research assistant on MSNBC will hit when rushing to get background for a segment? Fiction can rapidly become fact. The only credible explanations, really, are either that Rudy doesn’t want to “dwell” on his past, that it’s a “mistake,” or that he is hoping a certain percentage of the population will ignore troubling facts and cling to “Saint Rudy” in much the same way many cling to “Saint McCain.”

Duros, my apologies. I won’t use that term.

Didn’t Rudy marry his cousin or some such? Does he mention that
part as well?

Tyfoc’s point is well taken. Everybody has crap in their closets they’d rather not address, expecially on the campaing trail. I appreciate your bipartisanship as well, T.

Heh heh, Bill said “taint.”

Jay: you can take all your insults and turn them on your self if you think that there’s anything on Giuliani’s website that was not “specifically done by him and his team so that they could better position themselves for the GOP primary.”

Same goes for the website of every serious politician who’s considering a run for president.

Yet the theory is this was specifically done by him and his team so that they could better position themselves for the GOP primary.

Are you people really that retarded?

I can only surmise that he doesn’t want attention drawn to the previous marriage.

The rest, like Kennedy and Chappaquidick, is between him and his maker

The things politicians leave out of their bios are those things that it would be inconvenient or troubling to deal with during a campaign, which include, but are not limited to, things to be ashamed of.

So answer Wilbur’s question: is Giuliani ashamed of his kids or not?

You think having two kids from a previous marriage is the same as joining the Klan?

Did Ted Kennedy mention the unfortunate midnight swim?

I’m sure it’s on the same site that mentions Laura Bush’s little car accident. How are you fuckers not bored with this yet?

The things politicians leave out of their bios are those things that it would be inconvenient or troubling to deal with during a campaign, which include, but are not limited to, things to be ashamed of.

In the present case, all the omissions that tyfoc lists are things that, if valid (which I’m not for a minute acknowledging in every case), are things that the people in question should be ashamed of. So if tyfoc’s analogy were valid, tyfoc would be saying that Rudy should be ashamed that he was previously married, and should be ashamed of his children from that marriage.

But somehow I don’t think that is what he meant to say.

tyfoc’s point with which I agree is that Oliver does this only when Republicans do what every other politician does routinely.