Posted on 08/15/2007 2:19:08 PM PDT by hardback
Wayne Barrett, the professional anti-Giuliani, has a piece in this week's Village Voice considering what might have made America's Mayor's daughter, Caroline, grow up to be a Barack Obama supporter.
Some fun details of life at home with the Giulianis:
1. Rudy brought Caroline to City Hall on Take Your Daughters to Work Day in 1994 and 1995, his first two years as mayor, but never again — because by 1996 "the relationship between Giuliani and his twentysomething press secretary had so poisoned the marriage that all such family events were impossible."
2. The Giulianis went on a family vacation after he was elected in 1993 — and then never did again.
3. On Father's Day 1995, Giuliani told reporters he was going to play baseball with his son — and instead went to a basement suite at City Hall with his "ever-present" press secretary.
4. Neither his wife nor his kids went to Rudy's victory party when he was reelected in 1997.
5. The kids aren't listed in Giuliani's bio on his Web page.
6. He skipped his son's high-school graduation.
7. He went to Caroline's but left without speaking to her. "I am celebrating with my mom, my stepfather, my brother, and our other family members," she said then.
Yeah, we'd be supporting someone else for president, too.
Before the Rudybots whine that it’s the Village Voice, let me remind you that the Village Voice aren’t the liberals that’s in the MSM. These are old-line liberals who report on the Democrats just as much as Republicans.
I will probably not vote for Guliani in the primary (but I might), but isn’t it true that some of the most effective managers in business are ***holes? Maybe this means he’d be a great and effective president. Just a thought.
And when it's all over, the local feminazi Domestic Relations court can kiss my shiny Freeper behind.
Perhaps the time is right for us to have a leader who will be “nasty” to Chavez, Iran, Osama, China, etc.
Rudy is a failed father. His ex may be a witch, but kids are completely able to figure out whether a parent really cares or is a self absorbed jerk that uses them as an accessory. That his adult children have no use for him says it all. If they have their hands out, it’s because that’s what their father taught them to do.
Parents make fools out of themselves when they try to influence their kids against the other.
In April 1999, Giuliani formed an exploratory committee in connection with the Senate run. However, on May 19, 2000, before the Republican primary which he was expected to win, he withdrew his candidacy, with the stated reason that he had been diagnosed as having prostate cancer and needed treatment. Contributing factors may have been the Farmersville Garbage Scandal which significantly reduced his support in his core upstate counties and the fallout from his affair and messy divorce from his wife Donna Hanover.
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
- Rush Limbaugh -
He must be a***hole of a father
If Rudy's nominated, the MSM is going to be bringing all of this up non-stop anyway.
So it's good that alternative media is doing this & saving Rudy some face before the MSM gets ahold of him.
I don’t like Rudy Giuliani. He is the Republican version of Bill Clinton. However, I can virtually guarantee you that the author of this article supports
Bill and Hillary, come hell or high water. His points are valid, but this is still agenda-driven nonsense.
it’s pretty clear his marriage was all but over well before most of these events. If you add it all up, they may have stayed together for some time for ‘appearances.’ These things matter, but it is always important to know the context. Bill and Hillary have been married for decades, but that doesn’t make them a role-model couple.
I, for one, would like a hard ass president to take down the miscreants around the world. I do want to hear how all of his ‘skeletons’ play out during the campaign before choosing him over Thompson or Mitt. For someone that this board calls a liberal, he sure does have a lot of enemies on the left.
The great Ronald Reagan had a really weird pair of kids by second wife, Nancy. The daughter, Patty Davis, wrote a couple of thinly disguised fiction books about ice-cold aloof fathers, and was a constant critic of his through both his administrations. His son, Ronald Jr., was his mother’s favorite for a long time, but they are now estranged and his speech at his father’s memorial service was disgraceful. He may be married, but his homosexuality has been well known for decades.
I don’t like Rudy. I don’t like some of his past positions and I don’t like his sordid personal life. If he is the best the GOP can come up, I expect to see a lot of real conservatives abandon the party.
In fact, we are!
That's an interesting statement:
which is it?
Are the points valid OR is this "agenda-driven nonsense?
Can't see how it can be both.
I suppose that’s debateable, but I’m for Fred. Rudy’s just has too much of a chance in splitting the party. A bad experiment in these days.
“I’m leaving today...”
Well, the VP does NOT pick the next justice on the SC.
Not according to Bill Clinton or Rudy Guiliani supporters!!!
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