[Dark Skies]

Rudy promoted his ex-driver---Bernie Kerik

lol...you might have some credibility if you provided sources for your lies.

Rumor has it that Kerik was Commissioner of NYC Department of Correction before being appointed NYC Police commissioner by Rudy.

Usually folks want to get the truth out about candidates, not just smear their reps.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Kerik was an alley cat just like I was, but he messed up by thinking it wouldn't come out when he went for DHS.

[Liz]

Rudy supporters: Watta combo----stupid and nasty. They blindly follow their boy. Anybody daring to utter a discouraging word is a "liar." Demeaning conservatives is their specialty. The ding-a-lings defending Rudy are a clue to the conservative-hating going on behind Rudy's phony facade---amid Rudy's vain attempt to make himself look conservative.

Rudy’s Bernie Weekend by Ben Smith
New York Observer
This column ran on page 17 in the 12/20/2004 edition of The New York Observer.

Three years and three months is a long time to keep your sainthood if you’re still among the living, so give Rudy Giuliani credit: He had a good run.But mark the date: On Dec. 11, 2004, in a splash of tabloid headlines, history returned to the man formerly known as "America’s Mayor." His attempt to install his former driver and rough-edged alter ego as the Secretary of Homeland Security backfired, his new Republican friends threw him overboard and, returning to New York, he found the city he’d once tamed turning on him, its cowed press militant and his old enemies—remember when Rudy had enemies?—gloating on television.

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You may reach Ben Smith via email at: bensmith@observer.com.

SOURCE http://www.observer.com/pages/frontpage1.asp

[metalurgist]

(The American Prospect) This column was written by Greg Sargent.

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What do Bernard Kerik and Michael Chertoff have in common?

Both have proven to be disastrous choices to head the Department of Homeland Security. But that's not the only thing they share. Both were enthusiastically championed for this all-important post by Rudolph Giuliani.

As it happens, Giuliani was largely responsible for putting each man on the political map and helping launch their careers. Kerik was once Giuliani's driver. Giuliani subsequently made him his city corrections chief and, eventually, his top cop. Kerik's 2004 nomination as Homeland Security chief was aggressively pushed by Giuliani, which helped persuade Bush to take a flyer on nominating him. We all remember how well that turned out. Kerik's nomination promptly imploded after a host of ethical and financial problems surfaced, and Giuliani subsequently had to apologize to the president.

You're the one that's uninformed. Ben Franklin has some advice for you.