Beverley Wang
Associated Press Writer
January 2, 2008
HOOKSETT, N.H.—Would a Rudy Giuliani administration be populated with a cabinet of Republican rivals and a powerful, all-knowing vice president like Dick Cheney?
Possibly, according to musings Giuliani shared in answers to questions from New Hampshire voters Wednesday evening in Hooksett.
Asked to differentiate himself from Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war and veteran of the U.S. senate, and ahead of him in the polls, Giuliani won chuckles from the audience with his quip: "Primarily, we're two different people."
Giuliani then praised McCain as "a hero and a very good man" before going on to tout his own executive experience as the former mayor of New York. "More often than not the American people seem to prefer people with executive experience for the presidency," he said.
Later, Giuliani pivoted from a question about potential picks for secretary of state to this: "Let me answer with the question of what you would look for in a vice president first -- again without any presumption that I'm going to be the nominee." ... ( read more )
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