Giuliani Estranged From His 2 Children

Son And Daughter Of GOP Frontrunner Won't Participate In His Presidential Campaign

(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.

[mimem]

OMG!!!!!!!! What a predictable response from a Dem.. YOU DON'T THINK WE WERE THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WORLD AFTER WHAT HE DID??????????? And, if you want to talk about how many lives were lost... read up on the sudden deaths of anyone involved with the Clintons... just ask Vince Foster for one... ahhhhhh you can't.. he's dead of a self inflicted gun wound to the head that would have been impossible for him to shoot himself from balistics... HA!
You are an ignoramous if you don't think there were weapons of mass destruction. He had PLENTY of time to get rid of them ... with the UN inspections on again off again antics of Sadaam.
If ya'll get in the White House in 08.. buy yourself plenty of gas mask and dig yourself a big hole for cover... your gonna need it!
After 8 years of the Clinton *** we need someone like Bush to stand up to these terriorist. By the way... let me remind you that when you JOIN the volunteer military, you KNOW that war and death is a possibility. Put that in your hasheesh pipe and smoke it!

[frankly6]

Mimem

So over ten years of ivestigations and tens of millions of tax payer dollars spent on investigating the Clinton's turned up what? An unauthorised bl0wj0b? And this defames the oval office? How many poeple died when Clinton lied about something no one had any business asking him? I'm amazed at how obsessed Republicons are with other peoples *** lives. Can your own be that boring?

You asked who has defamed the Oval Office more than Clinton. How about Bush. He lied us into Iraq which has cost tens of thousand to die and shattered the lives of tens of thousands more. He's made us a paria nation to the world. China and North Korea are held in higher esteem than the U.S. He's devided our allies and united our enemies. And he did it all from the Oval Office.

[mimem]

There ya'll go again... he's just a lil old adulterer...and he got impeached... whey, whey, HE WAS A LOW LIFE HAVING *** IN THE OVAL OFFICE WITH MONICA... HE WASN'T JUST AN ADULTERER....
Oh.. and when they left the white house they took half of it with them... "figures"
Tell me... what Republican has defamed the Oval Office like the low life Clinton??? HUM!!!!! Can't answer can you?
Why is Cheney's daughter and what she does any of our business.. she is not a political figure.. Leave her out of it!
BOY WHAT A MEAN SPIRITED DEM YOU ARE!!!!

[scarlettm512]

So, when a Democrat is an adulterer, he gets impeached. But when a Republican does the same thing, it is just a "personal issue" that the public should stay out of? Talk about hypocrisy. The Republicans are the ones who have made personal behavior an issue -- they just can't stand it when someone applies their rules to them!

Gay marriage is sinful -- but Cheney's lesbian daughter can have a child (out of wedlock, no less) with her partner and Republicans cry foul when it gets mentioned?

If you don't want your candidates being judged on the morality of their *** lives, perhaps you should stop judging others by their *** lives. If it involves two consenting adults -- it really is none of our business. As long as Democrats have to be judged on it though, Republicans should have to get a dose of their own medicine.

[mimem]

What in the hell are you Lib's thinking about! Do you remember what you said when the BUM Clinton did it with Monica in the Oval Office.. and ya'll said ... It was no big deal... it's her personal life, leave him alone... DO YOU REMEMBER?????????????????????????????????????

[mgpm-2009]

I think bringing the candidate's kids into it is unfair. They can't help what their dad did.

Guliani isn't going to win, anyway. Repubs need the anti abortion people they've courted and depended upon for so many years. If they turn away from them they will be in trouble. More trouble than they are already in!

[joule3]

This is news? Just a typical American Family.

[peaceforusa]

So what, he is still good at what he does. Not being family oriented doesn't make him a loser for pres. Out of all the candidates we have right now, he is the only one getting my vote. Look at Clinton's family values and he was voted into office for 2 terms..As far as I am concerned at least Rudy has it out of his system before he takes the oval office, unlike Clinton who did it in the oval office...the presidential bedroom, the white house kitchen................well you get my point! I like Obama, even though he did some of the stuff he did when he was younger at least he was upfront about all of it. If he stays that open to the people I think he would make a great pres, just not in 2008 because he is inexperienced.
I will not vote the other Clinton into office. Clintons were too much into hiding and lying when investigated about things and I don't like a President that can make things just go away, especially when it involves something illegal they might be doing.
At least with Juliana.. he works hard. Don't judge it by its cover. This man has done alot of good things in NY...and I think he will be great for the USA, but I have time to do alot more research before the election.

[plowhandle]

Working on his golf game ? What kind of Republishit-In-Training is this empty-headed WASP piece of ********* ?

He can't even play like one of former Vice-President Dan Quayle's equally-ignorant and illiterate kids and put on a good front that all's well at home just to get Dad elected to high office ?

This kid needs some serious Republiturd Party indoctrination !

[andrew_693]

So much for family values, his wife accuses him of adultery, I wonder in what part of the bible or what right wing church do they teach those values, Newt Gingrich left a wife dying of cancer as he also cheated with a younger woman. Just another hipocrat republican, the only difference is that this one doesn't hit the streets cruising for gay men.