LONDON – Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani bragged about his international celebrity Wednesday on a trans-Atlantic campaign trip in which he schmoozed with conservative idol Margaret Thatcher.<\/p>\n
“I’m probably one of the four or five best known Americans in the world,” Giuliani told a small group of reporters at a posh London hotel as onlookers gathered in the lobby to gawk at actor Dustin Hoffman who was on a separate visit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And that leads me to my latest haiku:<\/p>\n
The Rudy Complex
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
Giuliani brags
\nAbout how famous he is.
\nLike Napoleon?<\/p>\n
So who’s ready to fund my “Are Republicans Shorter Than Democrats” study?\u00a0 Nobody?\u00a0 How about my “Are Republicans Balder Than Democrats” study?\u00a0\u00a0[tags]GOP Braggart, Mayor Rudy Guiliani, Overcompensation, Republican Humor, Height, Macho Politicians[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I don’t mean to cast aspersions on short people.\u00a0 (I’m only five foot zero myself.)\u00a0 But I have a totally unsubstantiated theory, and here it is: Republican politicians are, on average, shorter than Democratic politicians.\u00a0 (Can you think of a better explanation for the over-compensating machismo and braggadocio that run rampant throughout\u00a0the Republican party?) Case […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107,20,71,7,3,9,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}