However, when it comes to Podesta, that's the title given to career bureaucrats in charge of the secret police and torture in Medieval Italian city states, and in the top rungs of the official courts in Sicilian principalities ~ even under the Moslems.
Nancy and Leon would kiss Podesta's ring if he showed it to them, and be happy for the opportunity.
All of them would have been required to carry my own ancestors around in sedan chairs from palacio to palacio ~ and they might or might not have been allowed indoors if it rained.
Then, there's the Papacy, and that's about as high as the traditional Italian structure goes.
A clue, the Popes still hold court in Rome, my own ancestors were run off out of there about 700 years ago ('cause they were undoubtedly very evil and very French), and undoubtedly the Podestas, Panettas and d'Alessandros were reduced to a very impoverished sort of gentility where they were consigned to collecting empty wine bottles for refill at the village vintner!
The fact that descendants of all these families have been allowed to prosper means that America is truly a great land, but frequently unappreciated even by those who have been brought back from the precipice of history and given the keys to the kingdoms of this world.
It appears we are being watched by someone at a crisis management company that works with the energy companies and someone in the white house.
http://whoseparanoid.blogspot.com/2011/01/ashley-turton-atf-joins-investigation.html