Giuliani's Daughter for Obama . . .
Most of us New Yorkers don't care very much for Rudy. It turns out that his daughter, a frosh at Harvard, feels pretty much the same way, according to Slate.
I don't do politics much, but I find this terribly, terribly amusing:
"There's one vote that Rudy Giuliani definitely can't count on in his 2008 presidential bid: his own daughter's. According to the 17-year-old Caroline Giuliani's Facebook profile, she's supporting Barack Obama.
On her profile, she designates her political views as "liberal" and—until this morning—proclaimed her membership in the Facebook group "Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack)." According to her profile, she withdrew from the Obama group at 6 a.m. Monday, after Slate sent her an inquiry about it."
Too funny!
I may have to add Schadenfreude as a category!
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Source:
Daddy Dearest
Rudy Giuliani's daughter is supporting Barack Obama.
By Lucy Morrow Caldwell
Slate, Monday, Aug. 6, 2007, at 11:49 AM ET
http://www.slate.com/id/2171730
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Which wife was she from??
Posted by: Christopher Laudani | Aug 6, 2007 12:40:42 PM
Having Rudy Giuliani as President will work out about as well as having some disgraced hardware store hack-CEO take over a car company......wait a second...uh....
Say goodbye to Chrysler. Sigh. Only when GM got a car guy back in charge did they get their act straight.
Posted by: Frank C. | Aug 6, 2007 1:04:56 PM
I think the cousin!
Posted by: Guy | Aug 6, 2007 1:07:56 PM
Damn! doesn't she know he will make the trains run on time!!! Ungrateful wench.
Posted by: DILBERT DOGBERT | Aug 6, 2007 1:24:35 PM
Not only is Rudy a megalomaniac, he's also a [shudder] supply-side free-luncher!
Gotta love it... a pro-abortion, pro gun-control candidate whose family life makes the Clintons look like the Cleavers.
Posted by: druce | Aug 6, 2007 1:30:46 PM
I will always remember Rudy for the Seinfeld epsiode where his cholesterol test results were tainted by Kramer's rendezvous with a lab assistant.
Posted by: spongetoddsquarepants | Aug 6, 2007 1:41:46 PM
none of rudy's kids are for him..that has to tell you something.
Posted by: jake | Aug 6, 2007 1:51:14 PM
I don't plan no voting for Rudy for President and his private life all over the place but as one who lives in NYC, I think he did a great job as mayor. yeah, he's an egomaniac but you have to be that way to turn this city around or just to run it (see Bloomberg). Unlike Hillary, at least he's actually accomplished things politically.
Posted by: lloyd | Aug 6, 2007 1:54:55 PM
So the plant is screwed up, but the seeds aren't?
This just screams stay away from all of the above!
Posted by: KP | Aug 6, 2007 2:13:06 PM
lloyd,
"Unlike Hillary, at least he's actually accomplished things politically."
Not from what I've read.
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Posted by: VJ | Aug 6, 2007 2:18:28 PM
>> yeah, he's an egomaniac but you have to be that way to turn this city around
lloyd, I used to believe that. But, please thumb through Freakonomics while you're in your local bookstore.
Rudy is a bright guy and no doubt would have been far better at running this country than ... (Well...why even compare?? It'd be an insult to Rudy.) But, he does not deserve as much credit as he gets for "turning the city around".
Posted by: wunsacon | Aug 6, 2007 2:21:38 PM
I lived in NYC during Rudy's reign. His accomplishments on crime were due to a) bill bratton and b) dinkins' tax hike that paid for a substantial boost in police numbers.
His other"accomplishments" (cleaner streets, etc.) were entirely due to higher tax revenues made possible by the national economic rebound. When your city coffers are full, you can run services. Simple as that. He was very lucky.
His two real accomplishment was increasing the number of taxi medallions and merging the police and transit forces. Yeah, I want him running the country based on that.
Posted by: Frank C. | Aug 6, 2007 3:23:20 PM
She's in college. You know the saying: "If you're under 30 and conservative, you don't have a heart. If you're over 30 and a liberal, you don't have a brain."
All joking aside, seems like the kids of politicians are they're own beings. They make their own decisions. As it should be.
Obama isn't going to beat Hillary.
It'll be Hillary vs. Rudy in November 2008, and it'll be interesting to see where folks line up.
Posted by: muckdog | Aug 6, 2007 3:54:19 PM
Who gives a flyin' f about Giuliana's... uh... Gulli...Gueilie... oh, fuck, you know what I mean. Who gives a shit about his daughter?
The situation with his daughter has less to do with politics and probably more to do with interpersonal relationships than anything else.
Lay off the girl. She's probably hurting... leave her the fuck alone.
Posted by: Eclectic | Aug 6, 2007 4:39:54 PM
I'd say there's a pretty decent chance Patti Davis didn't vote for her father either.
Posted by: Groty | Aug 6, 2007 4:54:51 PM
Right Groty, and probably not Ron either, although he gave the most insightful, respectful and beautiful eulogy for his father as any I've seen since Ted Kennedy's eulogy of his brother Robert.
Ron's remarks, to my mind, were somewhat of the eqivalent of Eisenhower's departing remarks as President of the United States.
Posted by: Eclectic | Aug 6, 2007 5:06:30 PM
Frank,
"I lived in NYC during Rudy's reign. His accomplishments on crime were due to a) bill bratton and b) dinkins' tax hike that paid for a substantial boost in police numbers."
Nationally, crime dropped EVERY YEAR from 1993 through 2000.
Giuliani just happened to be Mayor during that period.
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Posted by: VJ | Aug 6, 2007 5:40:13 PM
Congratulations on posting the most idiotic unimportant thing I've read in a long, long time. Oh well - at least it revealed your bias. Thanks for that.
By all means...let's pay attention to teenaged spoiled brat NYC liberal kids to help us decide who to vote for POTUS. Brilliant.
I don't find it funny at all. I find it pathetic. It's a comment on society far more than it is on Rudy. Or did you think his kids are the only ones who don't like their mother/father?
And btw, I don't like Rudy either. But this is the kind of story that is typical of our imbecilic society. Hey - maybe she'll do an HBO special with Paris? Wahoo! :(
Posted by: slick | Aug 6, 2007 5:43:46 PM
I think Rudy should be more concerned that his daughter is looking for "random play" and "whatever she can get."
Posted by: Bugs Meany | Aug 6, 2007 5:55:07 PM
She probably went to NYC schools so what do you expect? And BR, "Most of us New Yorkers don't care very much for Rudy." Where did you pull that out from?
Posted by: Norman | Aug 6, 2007 6:39:02 PM
Uh, how about the time he withdrew from the Senate race because was overmatched by ummh, Hillary Clinton?
By April 19, 2000, his approval was 37% positive - 57% percent negative.
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1302.xml?ReleaseID=631
Posted by: curmudgeonly troll | Aug 6, 2007 7:30:44 PM
Slick, this is important. If Rudy's family can't be bothered to support him for president, what does that say about the man's character.
So Barry thinks it's funny that Rudy's liberal daughter opposes her pro-choice, pro-gay daddy for president. What "bias" has he revealed?
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BR: I previously stated my bias: Like most NewYorkers, I think Rudy is an asshole.
Posted by: seamus | Aug 6, 2007 8:07:14 PM
Seamus,
The word is: abandonment. It trumps all your words.
Posted by: Eclectic | Aug 6, 2007 8:13:22 PM
Abandonment followed by humiliation for herself, her brother and her mother.
Supporting this sad sack of a father and mayor for president would be the surprise, not the other way around.
All you need to know about Rudy is that his faulty decisions post 1993 WTC attack and his lack of support for his fire and policemen's communications reveals his Bush like indifference and incompetence and Bernard Kerik cronyism.
The fact that this totally unqualified, incompetent, morally bankrupt person has any support at all reveals more about the rot in the Republican party than anything else.
Posted by: jds | Aug 6, 2007 8:58:57 PM
Just thinking out loud . . .
Chelsea is going to vote for McCain . . .
Response would be?
Restained and polite, I'm certain.
Posted by: MTHood | Aug 6, 2007 9:59:51 PM
