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Shorter Rudy Giuliani Commencement Address

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This weekend I engaged in some actual "journalism", by which I mean "attended my sister's graduation where 2008 Presidential Candidate Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani gave the commencement address". The speech, which he gave with only notes rather than a prepared text, can be summarized thusly:

There are four qualities that are important to leadership:

• Knowing what you stand for
• Being optimistic
• Having ethics (please ignore my extramarital shenanigans and the stench surrounding some questionable patronage by my police comissioner)
• Be prepared

You are all prepared to be leaders. Go out into the world and do good things. Give back to your community.

Also, I was the mayor of New York during 9/11.

All that was missing was I'm Rudy Giuliani and I approved this message. There really should be a statute of limitations on taking credit for stuff that happened years ago.

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Last updated by Nicholas Beaudrot on 08:01 23 May 2005