Giuliani Estranged From His 2 Children

(CBS)  It doesn't look like Rudy Giuliani's two children will have a role in his presidential campaign. According to media reports, the GOP frontrunner's third marriage has alienated his son, Andrew, 21, and daughter, Caroline, 18, from their father.

Giuliani's 21-year-old son, Andrew, told The New York Times that he would be too busy working on his golf game to participate in his father's presidential campaign.

"There's obviously a little problem that exists between me and his wife," the younger Giuliani told the newspaper. "And we're trying to figure that out. But as of right now it's not working as well as we would like."

Giuliani's marriage to his third wife, Judith Nathan, followed his divorce from Donna Hanover, the mother of Andrew and Caroline.

In 2000, Giuliani announced during a live TV interview that he planned to divorce Hanover. She responded by publicly accusing Giuliani of adultery.

Caroline Giuliani has not spoken publicly, but the Times and New York's tabloid newspapers reported that she was also alienated from her father as a result of his marriage to Nathan.

The New York Daily News reported that Giuliani rarely spends time with his children and that he had failed to attend many important events in their lives, including Andrew's golf tournaments and Caroline's school plays.

Campaigning in Southern California on Monday, Giuliani asked for privacy to deal with the strained relationship with his children.

"My wife Judith is a very loving and caring ... mother and stepmother. She has done everything she can. The responsibility is mine," Giuliani said. "The more privacy I can have for my family, the better we are going to be able to deal with all these difficulties."

Andrew Giuliani is a sophomore at Duke and a member of the school's golf team. Caroline attends a private school in Manhattan. She will attend Harvard University in the fall.

Giuliani holds a huge lead in the polls over GOP presidential rival John McCain, but some political analysts believe the former New York mayor's estrangement from his children and other personal problems is bound to inflict political damage.

Political analyst Charles Cook told Newsday that the latest twist would hurt Giuliani with the GOP's conservative voters.

"This is just going to be one of a thousand cuts," Cook told the newspaper. "This will just sort of fit into a whole constellation of issues that work against someone winning a conservative party's nomination, a party that thinks of itself as a pro-family party. This just makes it really hard."

[bipbippadotta]

I don't have all the details concerning the estrangement between Mr. Giuliani and his two children, but if it is true that they had no participation in their father's Presidential campaign and voted for his his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, then it would suggest to me that all is not well in that family.

To my way of thinking, Rudy Giuliani is not the ideal candidate for President because he has been married thrice and is enstranged from his children. But one has to remember that Ronald Reagan had been divorced and also had a somewhat frosty relationship with his childred and also was not a church going man. Maybe I am being unfair and too harsh, but I look for certain characteristics in a person who is running for President of the United States.

[mimem]

Frankly6

Don't like the truth do you? You respond JUST LIKE A TYPICAL DEM O RAT... CALLING PEOPLE NAMES AND THROWING INSULTS... I BET AIR AMERICA IS YOUR FAVORITE STATION....
I'LL RESPOND IN KIND... GO JUMP IN THE LAKE!
PS... you can keep the stupid tin hat you keep talking about... obviously your non brain status guarantees you need some type of cover up there!

[frankly6]

Mimem


Thanks for playing "Who wants to be an idiot?" and congratulations on your amazing win. Your prize is a brand new tinfoil hat. This one has even better reception than your old one.

Please do come back and tell us more about the alien WMD connection.

[jar_jar_bush]

Yes, a true test of one's character is seen in how they treat family and friends, and once it becomes widely known that Rudy married his second cousin, that will surely lock up the "Git-R-Done" vote for him.
But while Rudy may be riding high these days, his lack of moral character and his blatant incompetence will have him withdrawing long before the Republican convention.
"America's Mayor" indeed. Rudy's more like "America's Shameless Opportunist" Between $100,000 speaking fees with Gulfstream shuttle service and his gross negligence in the handling of emergency preparedness in regard to acts of terrorism. Rudy is THE one who chose to put the command center for New York AT GROUND ZERO as well as the responsible party for the lack of cohesive communication between first responders, police and fire and rescue personnel. If Rudy is the one for the Republicans, the party is in much worse shape than they appear and behave.
Some speculate that when the inevitable crash and burn comes for Rudy, Jebby will step up to the podium at the convention. But one seriously has to wonder if Jeb Bush can overcome the stigma attached to the Bush Crime Family. With an infamous history like theirs, they are about as marketable a candidate as a Mussolini,Tweed, Hirohito,Hoover or Hitler would be.

[frankly6]

Mimem

Still no answers? Try adjusting the antena on your tinfoil hat. Maybe step out on the roof and point it towar Uranus.

[mimem]

Your "NYCkate" tells me everything I ever wanted to know... Voted Hillery as your Senator from NYC and she has never lived there or anywhere until then!!! Your the DUMMY

[nyckate]

Mimem - ok got it - you are legally certifiable.

[mimem]

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/FOSTER_COVERUP/foster.html
There is also plenty more sites like this one. Oh, I know, they are all lies... it's not proof.. Ha! Have you ever heard... where there's smoke there's fire... but you still probably only think it as hate mongering...

Try this on for size...

See what I mean about "MEAN SPIRITED DEMOC "RATS"...... You can't hold a conversation without some type of rediculous comment, like the tinfoil hat.

Well, dot,dash,dot,dash, IT JUST CAME TO ME... YOUR A DEMOC RAT AND YOU CAN'T HOLD A DECENT CONVERSATION... you probably invented the tinfoil hat, like Gore invented the internet...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[nyckate]

Mimem - you cannot, repeat CANNOT, still be so delusional as to think Bush is standing up to anyone or working for benefit of US - it's simply not possibly for you to still be this silly unless legally certifiable and delusional.

Invading Iraq was NOT standing up to terrorism but in actuality CREATING MORE terrorism and MORE danger -- tens of thousands of americans have paid with their lives, their legs, arms and bodies for Bush's invasion of Iraq. I bet you haven't done one single thing to help any of them or their families - you Bushies are all alike - selfish, dangerously delusional cowards who will rot in the burning fires of hell for all eternity.

[frankly6]

Mimem

You make several acusations but offer no proof of anything?

The FBI investigated Foster's death and ruled it suicide. Do you have proof that it wasn't? Do you know something they don't? Perhaps you should bring it forward. Otherwise put the tinfoil hat back on until you recieve the answer.

I repeat, how many people died when Clinton lied about something that was nobody's business? You are right we were the laughing stock of the world for impeaching our President over such bullsh*t. That is what world opinion was at the time. Clinton is still the most popular living U.S. President around the world today.

Where are these WMD? Did aliens take them? Again, do you have some evidence that the rest of the world doesn't? If so bring it forward or put your tinfoil hat on until you recieve the answer.