My comment:
Who else is a closet Obama supporter?
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August 7, 2007
Giuliani’s Daughter Shows Support for Obama, for a Time
By MARC SANTORA
Rudolph W. Giuliani’s daughter, Caroline, has done her best to keep out of the spotlight as her father runs for president, choosing to keep complicated family matters private. And for his part, Mr. Giuliani has tried to shield both her and his son, Andrew, from attention.
But the very public nature of the way young adults socialize via the Internet, posting private musings for all the world to see, thrust Ms. Giuliani into the limelight yesterday with word that her online profile suggested she supported Senator Barack Obama’s presidential bid.
On her profile in Facebook, the popular online social networking site, Ms. Giuliani, 17, listed her political views as “liberal” and noted her membership in a group called “Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack).”
As word of her supposed Democratic allegiances ricocheted across the Internet after the online magazine Slate broke the news, visitors to her profile found that she had already moved to alter history. She quit the Obama fan club at 6:01 a.m. and, after Slate posted their article, she took down her entire page.
A spokeswoman for Ms. Giuliani, Joannie Danielides, said: “Before the presidential campaign got under way, 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.”
Mr. Giuliani, whose strained relationship with his children has been widely reported, alluded to his daughter’s differing political outlook during a campaign stop in Iowa, noting, apparently with regret, that his children “don’t work on my campaign.”
“My daughter, my daughter I love very much, I have great respect for her and I’m really proud of her,” he said. “I don’t comment on children because I want to give them the maximum degree of privacy.”
Mr. Obama, who was campaigning in Le Mars, Iowa, was asked what he thought about the support from such an unexpected corner.
“That’s very nice,” he replied. “We think it’s wonderful that we are attracting support from young people all across the country. I can’t wait to meet her.”
Caroline Giuliani’s Facebook profile was available only to people who attended Trinity, her high school in Manhattan, or Harvard, where she will soon be enrolled.
Mr. Giuliani, alone among the major presidential candidates in either party, has no Facebook profile. Even if his daughter wanted to “friend” him, she could not.
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