Posted on 03/06/2007 3:27:51 AM PST by Liz
Rudy Giuliani vigorously defended his wife, Judith, as the perfect stepmom just days after his son, Andrew, revealed he doesn't get along with her. "My wife, Judith, is a loving and caring mother and stepmother," Giuliani told reporters after a meeting with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and county sheriffs.....he stood foursquare behind his wife, whose highly public relationship with Giuliani began while he was still married to the mother of his two kids.
Andrew Giuliani bluntly disclosed.... "There's obviously a little problem that exists between me and his wife." Sources familiar with the difficult relationship between the Giuliani kids and their stepmom said it started deteriorating before the couple married June 2003, but went south quickly after the wedding.
Giuliani's kids had hoped to carve out time to spend with their dad alone as things got worse, but he opted against it, the sources said.
At the same time, Rudy was involved in the life of Judith's daughter, Whitney, and even spoke at her graduation from York Preparatory school in May 2004. Sources say Giuliani has not visited Andrew at Duke, and that his relations with Caroline also are strained....even worse than with his son. Before she wed Giuliani, Judith went through a bitter court fight with Bruce Nathan over who would have custody of their daughter. Her ex-husband filed court papers in 2001 that said his daughter ran away from her mother when she was 16 and voluntarily moved in with him during the time when her mother was regularly at Giuliani's side in public while he was trying to get a divorce from Hanover.
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" Fact is, I assume that there's plenty of "wrong" to go around in the Giuliani households, just as there is in many American families.
But that says nothing about any of the parties' ability to operate effectively in the outside world. It is totally irrelevant."
Teen age boys, regardless of whether the parents are " perfect " can make life a challenge at times.
Andrew Giuliani is now a man and should stop blaming his evil step Mom for his problems.
Both his parents have remarried , both parents seem happy , Andrew should concentrate on his own life instead of running to the media and complaining that he doesn't get enough Daddy time.
But, then he says he's too busy playing golf and wouldn't have time for Daddy, anyway.
Andrew is obviously not very mature and maybe in time, he will realize that life's not perfect and his parents aren't perfect.
I wonder if Daddy is paying Andrew's Duke tuition and keeping him in Callaways ?
Ron and Patti behaved like brats during and after the Reagan administration and I never thought it meant that the Reagans were bad people or that President Reagan wasn't capable of being CIC.
I think this mini flap says more about Andrew than it does Giuliani.
I see. Now I am a "kook", a "liar", and "insane" for not supporting a pro-choice, pro-sanctuary city, philanderer.
Or do you just believe conservatives are crazy lying kooks?
Reagan, two marriages, Rudy, three marriages, most people ignoring his wife's three marriages, Newt, the hero to so many Rudy bashers, three marriages.
Clinton, one marriage. I think this issue is beating a dead horse.
I recall when Nelson Rockefeller was deemed unacceptable as veep because he divorced his wife.
Times have changed, like or not. Many families have broken up.
Bill Bennett criticizing Rudy, blech!
These unappeasables demanding perfection in others........I like the way President Bush puts it. I cannot attack the speck in someone else's EYE when I have a log in my own.
This kooky, lying, schlemielly, schlepper wants any of these GLibs to address Rudy's association with Stonewall and Moveon.
Here's the difference between you and I:
I will fully support whichever candidates are nominated for POTUS and VP in 2008.
Just for the record, my current top choices are Newt, Romney, Giuliani, Jim Gilmore, and Huckabee.
Why would I be "nervous"?
Not so fast buster! I corrected my error in post 272.
That's why I use the phrase "post-teens". No longer a boy, but not quite yet a man. Not the best source for impartial marital assessments (nonetheless a popular one with the RudyNot cadre on FR).
actually 275
The wanton misrepresentation and use of specious "facts" is very strange.
Not a New Yorker but I've heard that elsewhere, and also that it's fairly leftie in current terms.
Which makes me wonder why the RudyNot "conservatives" here on FR have been using it to make their case.
What's the significance?
Looks like we have another Juliebot pulling a Hinckley on Ronald Reagan's memory. Why do they have to tear down the great Ronaldus to promote their leftwing candidate?
"Here's the difference between you and I:
I will fully support whichever candidates are nominated for POTUS and VP in 2008."
Yes, that would be a difference. You will blindly support whomever you are presented with, and I choose to make the decision myself.
Just so I am perfectly clear, IF it comes down to a democratic primary between Hillary and Giuliani, AND there is no viable conservative running, I MAY hold my nose just for the sake of preventing a Cambodia in Iraq situation.
But I would never throw away my principles even before the primaries.
I have a real problem with any woman who cheats with a married man. That does not let the man off the hook by any means but being a woman I expect better of another woman. I suppose I am showing my age,but I believe faithfulness in marriage is a blessing of God. But I did not grow up in a lovely family,and my dad probably cheated all over the city with many women, as he was a police officer and liked to show off his badge! Just the other day I was told of a relative of mine who is messing around with a married man and it made me sick and ashamed of her. And she was just recently baptized Catholic not even a year ago. I have tried to be a good friend and family member to her but she has serious issues and family and friends told me to, shake the dust from my feet! I pray for her but I am also afraid something bad is going to happen to her.
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