From a speech given by Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City, at the Republican National Convention last night, as quoted by The New York Times online:
On Sept. 11, this city and our nation faced the worst attack in our history ... I looked up and seeing the flames of hell emanating from those buildings and realizing that what I was actually seeing was a human being on the 101st, 102nd floor that was jumping out of the building, I stood there; it probably took five or six seconds. It seemed to me that it took 20 or 30 minutes. And I was stunned. And I realized in that moment and that instant, I realized we were facing something that we had never, ever faced before. . . .
Without really thinking, based on just emotion, spontaneous, I grabbed the arm of then-Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik and I said to him, “Bernie, thank God George Bush is our president.”
That is really, truly, emetic.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he said that because he thought there was some kind of presidential summit in the twin towers that day.