JFound: Rudy a frat boy?

Posted on May 22, 2007 by | 1 Comment

http://lifewithoutanswers.blogspot.com/2007/05/
world-is-run-by-frat-boys.html

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Monday, May 21, 2007
The world is run by frat boys

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It might come as a shock to you, as it did to me, but the world is not run by conformist men who wear Polo’s and yell a lot at football games.
I’ve toured University of Pennsylvania’s fraternity circuit, partied in their frat houses, and talked with their girl friends. U Penn kids are all frat boys, people who aren’t quite social enough to make friends without a “club.” And one of my least favorite, slimy politicians is one of them. No not George Bush or John Kerry, Rudy Giuliani.

In a great excerpt, Salon showcases his rise to power in the “least liked fraternity on campus” (which to me seems redundant) at Manhattan College.

“Kathy Livermore knew plenty of ambitious young men from Manhattan College in the early 1960′s, men who dreamed of becoming lawyers and bankers and business executives. But even the fiercest did not possess the furnace-like heat that radiated from within her boyfriend, Rudy Giuliani.

He knew what he wanted, and where he was going, and no amount of ridicule from his friends could upend his very sober and certain view of the world and his place in it.

“We’d joke about it — ‘Oh there’s Rudolph William Louis Giuliani 3rd, the first Italian-Catholic President of the United States,’” Livermore recalled years later, chuckling. “He said it enough that it was part of him. He didn’t say things lightly.”

Posted by nick prestemon at 10:54 AM

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One Response to JFound: Rudy a frat boy?

  1. libertas | May 22, 2007 at 10:05 pm |

    what presidential candidate hasn’t wanted this their whole lives? I mean c’mon, they’re all extremely ambitious! Tell me something I don’t know.

    As for the fraternity, that’s a bit more disturbing, ’cause it was probably the precursor (along with his italian roots, and yes, I can say that ’cause I’m italian too — loyalty is important in our culture) to his whole loyalty obsession. Loyalty is a nice trait, but as we’ve seen with Bush, sometimes it can outweigh good judgment. ANd it has in Giuliani’s case at least twice: Placa, and Kerik. ANd there’s probably a lot more times we’re unaware of.