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Giuliani Daughter an ObamaGirl?
August 06, 2007 2:53 PM
ABC News' Jan Simmonds and Jake Tapper Report: The campaign trail buzzed this morning with blogosphere reports that Rudy Giuliani's seventeen year-old daughter Caroline is supportive of Sen. Barack Obama's, D-Ill., campaign for the presidency.
The daily web magazine Slate.com was the first to notice a posting on Facebook profile that appeared to indicate her support for her father's potential presidential rival, and reached out to Caroline Giuliani for comment.
According to the report, Slate.com did not hear back from Caroline but at 6am this morning her profile page noted that she had left the Facebook group "Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack)." The page continues to claim her political viewpoint as "liberal."
But not so fast says Joannie C. Danielides, "a spokeswoman" for Caroline Giuliani:
"Before the presidential campaign got underway, Caroline added herself to a list on Facebook as an expression of interest in certain principles. It was not intended as an indication of support in a presidential campaign and she has removed it. Caroline is not commenting on the 2008 election."
Giuliani responded to the report today from Clear Lake, IA saying he doesn't "comment on [his] children because I want to give them the maximum degree of privacy."
"I think children in situations like this deserve to have the maximum degree of privacy. And the best way to preserve that is, except to point out that you love them and care about them and you’re very, very proud of them, just don’t comment about it," Giuliani said.
Over the past several months, media reports have noted a rift between Giuliani and his two children (21-year-old Andrew and Caroline). At the core of their troubled relations is believed to be the former New York City Mayor's divorce from their mother, Donna Hanover, and their relationship with Giuliani's third wife Judith Nathan.
August 6, 2007 in Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (24)
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If you witnessed your father's disrespectful treatment toward your mom by Committing adultry twice, you'd have a problem with him as well. And now he's trying to look morally correct in the limelight of an election, please.... Giuliani is a joke! Just because he was mayor of NY during 9/11 he thinks that qualifies him to run for President...NOT!
Posted by: Trabell | Aug 6, 2007 3:29:27 PM
I don't care for the G man. He is a fiasco, that is only popular because he was Mayor during 9/11. Put Bush as mayor or a chimp (no difference in IQ) and folks would keep them popular because of sympathy. Not because of their records. The slap in the face to his family and the ciy of NY when he was parading his HOmewrecker while still married is a disgrace to a "conservative" candidate. I really can't stand ANY candidate and am saddened that our 2 party era has come to give us such lackluster candidates. We will still be a laughing stock for another 4 yrs at best.
Posted by: Joe | Aug 6, 2007 3:46:59 PM
Hillary is so much more qualified becasue she was the Presidents wife. Give me a break.
Rudy had one of the toughest jobs in America and he did it very well.
Go Jaspers!
Posted by: David | Aug 6, 2007 3:50:41 PM
GO BARACK ,,
Posted by: this magic moment | Aug 6, 2007 3:54:35 PM
Ask NY firefighters what they think of Rudy.
Or just google it.
Posted by: stevex47 | Aug 6, 2007 3:55:01 PM
Giuliani's own children won't have anything to do with him. That says a lot about the guy. And now his daughter is so strongly against him that she's been mentally driven to the far left and to supporting Obama. That really says something.
On a personal level, he is a creepy guy who has done numerous creepy things. His first wife was his cousin and they were married for fifteen years (no children, to answer your first question about that one). And after that, it's been one creepy thing after another.
Posted by: jhopolong | Aug 6, 2007 3:58:47 PM
Why would any American vote for a Muslim to be an American president is beyond me. The name alone BARACK OBAMA is so un-american.
Posted by: Sands | Aug 6, 2007 4:00:16 PM
Barack Obama un-american? You must be out of your mind. First of all, Barack is not Muslim. Second of all, Islam is a religion and America is a country - they are mutually exclusive. Finally, being mayor during a tragedy or a First Lady does not prepare either to be President. If you want to vote for the most experienced polititian, vote for McCain or Dodd or Paul or Biden.
Here are the facts re: political experience of the frontrunners:
Guiliani - mayor for 8 years
Clinton - Senator for 8 years and counting
Edwards - Senator for 6 years
Romney - Gov for 4 years
Obama - state senator 8 years, US Senator 2 years and counting.
Barack has the most experience as an elected official.
Posted by: PJ | Aug 6, 2007 4:26:14 PM
Obama's middle Name Is HUSSEIN!!!
Posted by: Man | Aug 6, 2007 4:58:29 PM
"At the core of their troubled relations is believed to be the former New York City Mayor's divorce from their mother, Donna Hanover, and their relationship with Giuliani's third wife Judith Nathan."
What a stand up guy. He should definetly represent a whole country!!!!!
Posted by: Constitutionalist23 | Aug 6, 2007 5:01:06 PM
It's okay, Ms. Guillani, I would do the same thing if my dad was Rotten Rudy. Especially after the way he treated her mother. GO OBAMA!
Posted by: Cat | Aug 6, 2007 5:14:19 PM
He won't comment on his children?!?! Gee, you don't see any other candidates refusing to comment on their children! In fact, most candidates' children are helping them campaign. This guy's lame, I hope you republicans are smart enough not to vote for him.....then again, you guys gave us Bush.
Posted by: Cat | Aug 6, 2007 5:18:25 PM
I wonder why no one asks candidates, like Guiliani, who insist that the current system of health care is what should be maintained. How many people will have to die, (the almost 47 million who have no health care--no medicare, no medicaide, no health insurance)before the great benefits our current systm kicks in?
Dan Kanoza
Posted by: Dan Kanoza | Aug 6, 2007 6:04:20 PM
I'm just happy to see that Giuliani, a leading Republican candidate, has good moral fiber and shares traditional conservative views on marriage and government...oh wait...
Posted by: bandstand | Aug 6, 2007 6:06:01 PM
Re: the above debate on Obama.
Here are some facts on Obama's Muslim-Arab heritage. Barack Hussein Obama is one fourth Arab, one fourth black (Kenyan) and one half white (his mother). He was born when his mother was living in Hawaii. His genetic father was a half Arab, half black Kenyan who was also all Muslim. He left the family when Obama was 2 and later went off to Harvard himself where he got a Phd.
His mother then married a second Muslim man, and the family later moved to Indonesia, which is the largest Muslim nation in the world. Obama lived in Indonesia with his second Muslim father amidst that massive Muslim culture during the formative ages of 6 to 10.
After that, his mother sent him back to Hawaii (where he originally was born), and there he lived with his mother's parents through high school. Then he moved to the mainland US (for the first time in his life) to go to college, first in California then later in New York and then later Boston.
His first name Barack was originally Baraka but it was shortened, likely because Barack flows better with Obama. (At college in California, he went by Barry.) Baraka itself is an Arab name and it appears in the Koran so it also in Muslim. In Arabic it means the blessed one. His middle name Hussein (named after his grandfather) is also an Arab and Muslim name, as everyone knows.
So there is no doubt that he has a strong Arab-Muslim element in his background.
Posted by: Jhopolong | Aug 6, 2007 6:18:53 PM
Save America from another NEO CON
Listen to Ron Paul speak before you think he is a wacko - after which you will agree that all the other politicians are wackos (except huckabee, kucinich and gravel - and maybe Biden)
Posted by: brettrix | Aug 6, 2007 6:28:33 PM
Wake up America. If we are fearful of a Black American or Muslim American as President of this country, then this country is doomed.
The terrorists seems more united than us, and they see our hypocrisy despite our talks of supporting freedom and yade yada ya.
Posted by: Wakeup America | Aug 6, 2007 6:34:21 PM
THIS MIDDLE NAME "HUSEIN" SEEMS BOTHERING SOME OF YOU, HE, HE, HE, THAT IS ANOTHER GOOD REASON TO VOTE FOR THE MAN. YOU MAY GO NUTS WHEN HE BECOMES THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BUT WE WILL ENJOY.
Posted by: BOBSTER | Aug 6, 2007 6:42:42 PM
If democracy is in the numbers in 30 to 50 years Muslims will rule Europe and Hispanics will rule the USA
Posted by: Man | Aug 6, 2007 6:58:58 PM
I just cannot help but laugh at you silly republican fanboys. You are so much in defense mode that it does not strike you as odd or even seem to *bother* you that the candidate's own *children* won't vote for him. Hahaa.
And before running on about how your party has a corner on patriotism, keeping America safe and such, I will remind you that your last vote for president a/invaded iraq unprovoked and diverted away from the hunt for obl in afghanistan/pakistan (his quote was something to the effect of "i don't worry about finding him"), b/said the FEMA director did a "heckuva job" after Katrina and c/spent the first 9 minutes of the most critical American moment of the 21st century, while the attack was still underway, finishing reading his story "my friend the pet goat." or whatever that piece of literature was called.
So lucky are we to have such a decisive shepherd guarding us poor sheep.
But seriously, we elected the guy twice, so perhaps we do deserve another fine republican in office, such as uhhhh.... giuliani! he's a real genius, putting the NYC emergency command center right on the site of the WTC (WTC7), after the first WTC attack in 1993. Doh!
Posted by: laughing donkey | Aug 6, 2007 8:38:43 PM
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