Ah, Bernie Kerik. You don't hear much about that guy in the news these days. Thankfully for our reading pleasure he gave an interview while attending the ceremonies this morning at Ground Zero. For the most part he stayed away from his former pal Giuliani in the physical sense, but that did not stop him from praising the Presidential aspirant and slamming the people opposed to him.
From The Huffington Post:
Asked to respond to criticism that Giuliani made a terrible, life-costing mistake by putting New York's terrorist response center in one of the Twin Towers - thereby rendering it moot when the building was hit - Kerik noted the clairvoyance of hindsight."Yeah," he said, "I wish I could look back and say some of the things I've done and moves I've made, I didn't make. But the reality is you don't have that luxury of going back. Was it a bad decision? Possibly. But I think people have to look beyond that and look at the scope of the response on 9/11."
As for the criticism expressed by the International Association of Firefighters that Giuliani's performance on 9/11 was more or less a disaster, Kerik decried it as politics.
"The unfortunate thing is they have brought this into the political arena," he claimed. "As an insider in the administration, I know what Rudy did for the fire department. And I know what he did for the city... For anybody to question his leadership, I find it pretty appalling"
Appalling? Really? Those are brave comments coming from a man criminal such as himself. As for questioning Rudy's leadership....that is the right of every American to ponder before thinking of making him our next President. Speaking of people running for President, Kerik even took the time to lambast Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH):
Kerik even waded briefly into the presidential campaign, lobbing criticisms at Representative Dennis Kucinich, D-OH, who, in a recent radio interview from Syria, derided America's presence in Iraq.
"I was so sickened by it, I had to turn it off," Kerik said. "The reason we are never going to win this war is because we can't unite against the enemy. I don't know what the parameters are for treason, but this guy should be impeached."
Kerik is so far out of bounds he can't even see the field on this one. He might want to keep his mouth as far away as he does his distance from Rudy on this day....and any day.
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