The Fall of America’s Mayor

“Rudy wouldn’t be Rudy if he backed down,” CNN reports.

“But by amplifying his charge that President Barack Obama doesn’t love America, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani appears ready to risk sullying the powerful mythology that grew around his leadership when he steadied and steeled the nation in the terrible, confusing time after 9/11. Since those fleeting days when he was a unifying figure, Giuliani has more often dealt in waspish rhetoric and savage mockery — especially of a president he says has ‘failed.'”