With former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani consistently leading early polls for the Republican presidential nomination, pundits have spilled an ocean of ink concerning his electability.
Having recently sat down with the man, let me tell you why I consider Giuliani a candidate wholly appropriate for our times.
As someone who spends a lot of time thinking and writing about globalization and security, I was brought in recently by the Giuliani campaign to discuss these topics with the mayor.
This is standard practice as presidential candidates gear up, and Giuliani's camp is the fourth I've visited in the last year.
I'll make no attempt to describe the mayor's positions on anything we discussed because that's his job as candidate. Let me instead give you a sense of what it was like to engage him over a couple of hours on my areas of expertise. I've interacted with numerous government, military and corporate leaders over the past couple decades, so I'm able to draw some comparisons.
First off, Giuliani is a serious and wide-ranging reader, not just a skimmer of "bullets" prepared by his staff.
When he reads your stuff, you better remember what you wrote because this guy really absorbs material...
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