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| 2001-09-15 |
OK, show of hands: How many people care today that Rudy Giuliani has a girlfriend? Given Rudy's extraordinary leadership over the past five days, one is almost inclined to cast one's eye over other politicians and order for them in the manner of the lady in Katz's Deli in "When Harry Met Sally": "They'll have what he's having." What we require from political and military leaders is political and military leadership. They are role models, certainly, but at their best they are role models of qualities like perseverance and courage and resilience and vision. These virtues are markedly different from the ones related to marital fidelity. Rudy Giuliani has given us a display of leadership virtues that make him a role model - for civic leaders. He never asked to be considered a role model for husbands. Maybe we can retire this tiresome public conversation about adultery because we're going to be demanding a lot more of our leaders than we have in the past decade. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |