Giuliani’s Daughter Shows Obama Some Facebook Love (UPDATE)

by Jim Newell | August 6, 2007 at 12:53 pm

Giuliani's Daughter Shows Obama Some Facebook Love (UPDATE)According to a Slate report from late this morning, Rudy Giuliani's 17-year-old daughter Caroline (Harvard '11) was a card-carrying member of the Facebook group "Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack)." She left the group around 6 a.m. according to her mini-feed (click the picture), after Slate had asked her about it. Oh mini-feed, we never should've distrusted your worth.

Any gotcha journalist would love to have this, but it's not that surprising. As the Slate article notes, Rudy Giuliani's relationship with his two children from his second marriage, Caroline and 21-year-old Andrew, is on shaky grounds. After all, Giuliani was having an affair with his current wife Judith Giuliani for a year before letting his family know in a press conference. The two kids have no intention of campaigning for their father.

One more thing from us at IvyGate to the writer of the Slate article, Lucy Morrow Caldwell: Why not us? Caldwell, a junior at Harvard and columnist for the Crimson, does not appear to intern for Slate; a search for her name through their archives yields this one article. Lucy! Lucy, Lucy, Lucy. Don't you know IvyGate would show you more love for something like this? After all, it's Nick Summers' birthday, and the man never turns down a request on his birthday.

UPDATE 5:14 p.m. Monday: Rudy Giuliani, Caroline Giuliani's spokesperson respond (briefly)... 

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