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...almost too perfect. The volcanic mayor of the new and improved New York City was on his way to speak at Our Lady of Pompeii church. That's Pompeii as in the city buried under the molten lava of Mount Vesuvius. What if Rudy Giuliani, in the middle of his big civility campaign, blew his top as the gathering of seniors digested their lunch of franks and beans...
...Giuliani was already three days into a meltdown in which he'd snapped at, among others, a columnist who claimed that he clocked Giuliani speeding in his GMC Suburban shortly after the mayor vowed a crackdown on scofflaw motorists as well as jaywalkers, and promised--read closely here--the creation of a more polite New York City...
...love it. The only town on the planet where a civility-campaign slogan could be, "You talkin' to me?" And the best part is that everyone in New York, with the lone exception of Giuliani, has caught the irony. "He's got a lese majeste personality," observed ex-Mayor Ed Koch. "If you say anything critical, off to the guillotine...
...friendly fire from the mayor's fellow Italian Americans at Our Lady of Pompeii. In an informal sampling at a table of six before his arrival, the wildly popular second-term Republican mayor was elected President of the U.S. One of the diners, Antoinette Vomero, told of the time Giuliani kissed her on the cheek...
Some commentators have also seen Giuliani-style government as a sign that the age of identity politics is over. Jim Sleeper, for instance, writes in Newsday, that "Giuliani's victory is part of a national political realignment based on an emerging consensus: Liberal Democrats' `Rainbow' racial and sexual identity politics and their obsession with `root cause' explanations for social decay made them thunderously wrong about how to fight crime, stimulate employment, provide welfare, and improve public education...