Posted on 03/04/2007 7:54:24 AM PST by pissant
Rudy Giuliani's shaky family life is being hit with new tremors, as his son Andrew hit the interview circuit confirming that he is estranged from his father - and that the root of the tension is Giuliani's current wife, Judith.
"There's obviously a little problem that exists between me and his wife," Andrew Giuliani, 21, told The New York Times. "And we're trying to figure that out. But as of right now it's not working as well as we would like."
The comments underscored what friends have whispered and Andrew himself has all but acknowledged for more than a year - that relations with his father have been frosty for some time.
As one confidant told the Daily News last year, "I really believe he loves his father. It's just that right now it's still a little difficult to communicate with him."
Andrew said in an interview to be broadcast today on ABC's "Good Morning America" that he and his father went through "a decent amount of time" when they weren't speaking to one another, but they are now trying to work that out.
"No matter what he's done, I love my father," he said. "It's not as good as it once was - but it's better than it was at its lowest."
Andrew said The Times interview was not an attempt to scuttle his father's pursuit of the Republican nomination for President in 2008, saying, "I do not want to hurt him."
Still, the relationship is icy enough that Andrew told The News he would not be campaigning for his father and would instead chase his goal of becoming a pro golfer.
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I am amazed at how children are allowed to behave these days.
If we ever screamed or hollered in a restaurant or ran around we would have been severely punished. It never happened. We knew better.
I never thought of that. The "Rudy in Drag" posters can be used as recruiting tools by the Islamofascists, yet we're told that only Rudy knows how to fight. Someone who speaks softly and carries a big stick, like Hunter, is what our enemies will really respect.
Pathetic RINO excuses. How many more do you have to offer?
The Reagan kids, except for Michael, struck me as spoiled brats. Besides, I don't think Reagan ever rejected or snubbed his kids, as Rudy is said to have done.
You are correct sir. And when that happens all these liberals are gonna come back and blame us. That's fine with me if they want to give us the credit! ;)
The New York leftists even hated Ed Koch. Should the Republican Party nominate someone like Ed Koch on that basis? The hard-core anti-war Left hated Lyndon B. Johnson, who gave us all these unConstitutional entitlement programs which are going to bankrupt the country. Maybe the Republican Party should have endorse LBJ for re-election, by your thinking.
Oops. My last post shouldn't have been directed to you. Sorry.
I know what you mean. My dad did not tolerate bad behavior at all. If we got out of line, he would just squeeze our arm and snap his eyes and we knew we'd better settle down.
And he wants to be a professional golfer!! How weird is that?
No worry, I could see you agreed with me, the leftists just hate, period!
Andrew has been absent from his father's campaign and campaign materials. This didn't make sense. He addressed the issue about as maturely as he could have, under the circumstances, by putting it in a positive light like a normal disagreement with a father and saying he doesn't want to hurt his campaign. He didn't raise the questions.
Well the comparison is is only in regards to divorce and alienated children, that's all.
Yes, especially kids whose fathers committed adultery.
Today's Post refutes that statement. Says close friends of Rudy's say he did not miss the graduation.
While I don't think that RR rejected or snubbed his kids, Patti and Ron Jr. seem to think that he did. What Rudy has said to have done, comes from the New York Times. Since when do we at FreeRepublic give any credibility to that particular rag?
But the Baggage Gal, aka Madame DeFarge aka Hildabeast won't have anything but mawkish sentimentality printed about her.
The media will greatly fear the Clinton mafia and/or Hildabeast's testicle lock box.
Almost verbatim what the Dem apologists said about some other President in our recent past.
Yet there was little said about the POTUS, Bent Willie, getting a BJ by a young intern in the peoples house and then lying about it to millions of people on TV.
Well, I've considered that picture.
And it left me a little sick at my stomach.
I'm sure it's a masterpiece.
But what the hell is it (denoting my philistine background)?
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