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You don't know? Why? You're not interested or too little information from.. those who should inform you?
Yup. Jeb Bush in 2008, and my urge to kill myself rises.....
If anyone but Barak Obama wins the presidency, I'm moving to Canada (sorry Canadians).
Though voting for a dead slug must be better than voting for George W Shrub.
beau..do you think the country is ready to elect someone with a name like Barak Obama...only the progressives. the swing voters will be scared.
In those first few hours of bewilderment, and the following days of grief and horror, New York's Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been at the centre of events, ensuring practical help, identifying with the suffering of the city's people, offering hope and reassurance for the future.
On the day of the disaster that changed the skyline of the Big Apple, he ventured so close to the chaos that had been the World Trade Center that he had to be ushered away, dust on his shoulders. The next day he returned, wearing a surgical mask.
Born in Brooklyn to a working-class family, the grandson of Italian immigrants, he graduated from law school and climbed the legal ladder until he made headlines as US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Spearheading the effort to jail drug dealers, mobsters and white-collar criminals, he secured more than 4,000 convictions and lost only 25 cases. He was elected Mayor in 1993, on a ticket focussing on the quality of life, crime, business and education. He was re-elected in 1997.
In his eight-year tenure, Giuliani has disproved a popular notion that New York is ungovernable. The dangers of the City's streets were once notorious, but crime has been cut by half and the murder rate by 70 per cent.
For the past five years, the FBI has rated New York as the safest large city in America. Single women wander without fear at night, the city is cleaner and Times Square is no longer a centre of sleaze.
Mayor Giuliani has also cut welfare rolls in half while moving more than 640,000 individuals from dependency on the government to what he describes as "the dignity of self-sufficiency".
Despite his reputation, he is broadly liberal on gay issues, abortion and immigration, and he now lives in the spare room of an apartment belonging to two gay friends.
He won widespread sympathy and admiration when he announced last year that he had prostate cancer. This was a Mayor admitting a degree of vulnerability and uncertainty, while still maintaining his dignity.
Had he not been laid low by events, he might have beaten Hillary Clinton in last year's New York Senate race. Had George Bush lost the White House contest, it seems Giuliani might have sought the Presidency in 2004.