Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani had words for President Obama during his appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Candy Crowley Sunday morning – his accomplishments pale in comparison with Mitt Romney’s.
“The simple fact is that Mitt Romney has been far more successful in the things that he’s done than Barack Obama,” Giuliani said. “This is a man who ran a significant business, made it into a tremendous success which used to be — used to count for a lot in America.
“He created dozens of businesses. I worked with him when he took the Olympics out of chaos. Rremember, we had to do the Olympics in Utah just a few months after September 11. They were going to cancel the Olympics.”
Guiliani contrasted Romney’s personal successes with what the former mayor sees as Obama’s lackluster record as a radical community organizer and Illinois state senator prior to his coming to Washington.
Crowley sought to deflect Guiliani’s criticism, suggesting that being a community organizer was merely a different sort of experience than business and that the two were not necessarily uneven qualifications for the presidency.
“Candy – .” Giuliani grumbled in response as Crowley sought shift the topic. “That’ really jerky.”
Giuliani stayed on message comparing President Obama’s reelection effort with President Ronald Reagan’s 1984 effort, suggesting Reagan had a good record to run on and that President Obama can do is distract voters from the dismal economic results his policies have created.
“Well, I mean, the reality is that President Obama can talk about his record as president if he wants to look at something where he theoretically thinks he succeeded but he doesn’t talk about his record as president.”
