Daily Whackjob

Update: Timmeh brought up this very topic today on Meet the Press. Gwen Ifil has the moneyquote:

“Even if it were his presidential ambitions,” said Ifill. “Is that really a good answer that you were so political that you rather focus on politics than focus on the nation’s security?”

Nope, not his marraige problems. I don’t really give a flip about his infidelity. Other’s will surely make a big stink about that, but that’s not something I feel needs to be focused upon. Our nation faces much greater problems.

Only time will tell if the Republican party is stupid enough to nominate Rudy Gulliani to lead their party in the 2008 race for the White House. Apparently Rudy took the idea of a “race” a bit too literally when he decided that it was more advantagous to run out to a fundraiser, rather than serve the nation in a capacity that focused on one of the biggest issues in the election—Iraq.

Giuliani left the Iraq Study Group last May after just two months, walking away from a chance to make up for his lack of foreign policy credentials on the top issue in the 2008 race, the Iraq war.

He cited “previous time commitments” in a letter explaining his decision to quit, and a look at his schedule suggests why — the sessions at times conflicted with Giuliani’s lucrative speaking tour that garnered him $11.4 million in 14 months.

Giuliani failed to show up for a pair of two-day sessions that occurred during his tenure, the sources said — and both times, they conflicted with paid public appearances shown on his recent financial disclosure. Giuliani quit the group during his busiest stretch in 2006, when he gave 20 speeches in a single month that brought in $1.7 million.

Rudy expressed his concern that the Iraq study panel had been tasked with a “truly important mission.” I presume to the future of the nation. But yet he must have found the promise of soaking up huge donations a bit too tasty to pass up. Priorities huh?

You see it’s not about decisive leadership. Or even studying, in-depth the challenges facing the nation. It’s all about the money.