Rudy, Is it Pride or Arrogance?

Rudy this week we found out has been using outdated statistics in his stump speech to indicate his survival chances with Prostate Cancer here in America versus in England. At contention is his claim in an ad in New Hampshire that said, "My chance of surviving prostate cancer, and thank God I was cured of it, in the United States: 82 percent. My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England: only 44 percent under socialized medicine." Well that is not entirely true. The American Cancer Society says five-year survival rates were 95 percent in the U.S. and 60 percent in the United Kingdom.

Instead of correcting the misused statistics,

Giuliani defended his figures as "absolutely accurate" at the time of his prostate cancer treatment in 2000. "Those statistics have changed slightly today," he said Friday.

Rudy has been caught in several of these gaffes over the campaign in every instance he refuses to acknowledge his mistakes. This story would have gone away much better if he has just said that they had pulled an old statistic and would correct it in the future. That would not fit with Rudy though. I am not sure if it is just pride or arrogance, but Rudy seems to refuse to learn from mistakes or even admit to them. Not a good sign for someone who aspires to be President of the United States.

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