Ah, here's a little candidate psychology for you this morning. Everyone knows that his mostly grown kids despise him. Caroline, his daughter even endorsed Barack Obama on her facebook profile. So much for supporting dear old Dad. Now, could it be how he left their mother, giving her the news at a press conference in City Hall? Or is there something that goes back, way back to when they were just cute little peanuts in diapers?
From RawStory:
In the course of the New Hampshire primary, Darren Garnick, a writer for Slate.com., set out on a quest to photograph his 5-month-old daughter Dahlia being held by every one of the candidates.
Darren and his wife Stacy appeared on CNN on Monday to describe the results and show off some of the photos.
Barack Obama held little Dahlia like someone who knows his way around babies, cradling her securely and looking into her eyes. "I would vote for him just for that," was Stacy's comment on the photo.
Hillary Clinton also got a top score from Garnick. "Hillary's a natural," he said. "She was very warm."
In the photo with Rudy Giuliani, however, Dahlia is wailing and Giuliani seems almost as upset. "Rudy wasn't happy," said Garnick. "Dahlia smiled for the first two seconds and then she started crying and Rudy was panicky. ... He didn't want to be photographed with a screaming baby. ... He tossed her right back to me like a football."
This isn't a Jets or Giants game Rudy, we are talking about young precious life, the kind you are now protecting (or claim to at least) from the point of conception. So when they come out into the world, this is how you treat them? If they make you look bad, toss em' back? I don't blame little Dahlia for crying, I'm sure he had it coming.
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