Required reading

ARTICLE: Giuliani: Can hero of 9/11 win over his own party?, By Susan Page, USA TODAY,1/31/2007

Tom emails me yesterday asking how we could miss this and I don't know.

There was a profile of Giuliani in USA Today all the way back at the end of January, and he said he was reading PNM, and we missed it! Blast!

Left sidebar, bottom of "The Giuliani File":

Book currently reading: The Pentagon's New Map by Thomas P.M. Barnett.

Comments

[Shawn in Tokyo]

Haha, you need more web crawlers! :-)

[Anonymous]

i'm afraid you're right, Shawn :-(

[Brandon Winters]

Did y'all see/hear/read Giuliani's speech from CPAC in March? Also very impressive. Link to file can be found here.

Couple lines I really liked:

"My 80 percent ally is not my 20 percent enemy." Very non zero-sum sentiment--perfect perspective for someone who will have to forge new working relationships and repair old ones.

The segment about how "Americans want to sell you stuff" and "we're getting the world we always dreamed of"--also brilliant.

Here's hoping the Republican party does the futurist thing and nominates Rudy. Come primary season, I know who I'm casting my vote for.

[ry]

I really don't get why people say 9/11 gives the man credentials. Sure, his leadership, of the heroic from the front style, helped---a city---respond to an acute crisis. But how does that give him the 'magic' to understand the larger and bigger problem? I don't think it does. Emoting rather than critical thinking leads you there,imo.

What Winters put up is more convincing of that, but not simply being NYCs pointman is not convincing of that point.

[Jarrod Myrick]

It seems like it's all about hope to me and Rudy and Obama bring it. I just hope Rudy stays away from that Lloyd Braun--you know he ruined Dinkins--I heard he's looking for a job.

[Michael]

I'm not sure whether RG is the best republican candidate for the job or not (there's one or two I know nothing about). For better or for worse, though, he seems most likely of the ones I do know about to get the nomination.