Would Rudy Giuliani Make a Good President

As an adult voter, I am going to talk about Mr. Giuliani only in context of what I know. I know that he was mayor of New York City for many years. We have been told that he found New York City with many problems, criminal and corrupt. We have also been told that he and he occasionally uses the word “we” but he isn’t clear as to what he means by we, cleaned up New York City and made it the great city it is today. And, for that, we should vote for him for president of The United States of America.

His other qualifications to be president are sort of confusing. He is qualified because he is obviously rich since he is three times divorced, remarried, and yet still has the money to spend on running for the presidency of The United States of America.

Since I am giving my opinions here, I would opine that times have certainly changed. And, I am not above giving the credit for our changing qualifications for president first to my beloved Ronald Reagan who was divorced and remarried and secondly to Mr. Bill Clinton whose idea of marriage is mind your own business if you know what’s good for you. With such sterling precedents before him, Rudy Giuliani is not all that off to claim that his own personal life is not all that different from presidents before him.

What stays in my mind though as perhaps a criticism is a comment that he made during one of the televised on cable debates. His answer to some question was the remarkable word “absurd”. I am going to assume, and we all know what limitations are present when we presage our explanations with “assume”, that he is well learned in professional jargon. The word “absurd” is used to refer to Sigmund Freud, the Jewish Father of Psychoanalysis and the founder of Psychology as a distinct, working science in its own right.

Freud was despite what some lay people might assume the extreme conservative in relationships between women and men. During his lifetime, movements were started to give married women equal access to the workplace. Married women were seeking the right to work and make the same wage as their male counterparts while continuing in their marriage. Freud responded that it was “absurd” as that would violate the role of women as nurturing mothers to their husbands.

Was that a psychological slip on the part of Rudy Giuliani and secretly mapping out to us, his possible future subjects, if he is elected president? Does he share Freud’s beliefs in married women’s role in the workplace? That is a serious point and should be carefully considered before making a decision to vote for him or not to vote for him.