Monday, March 5, 2007
Families & candidates
I suspect no one who has been in a family for more than five minutes would say it's easy. In the very best of circumstances with two parents who like each other and a modicum of respect and kindness for each other, there are always moments when anger or resentment or hurt feelings loom between and/or among parents and/or children. And anyway, who among us luxuriates in the best of circumstances? Certainly not the fifty percent or whatever it is who are on their second or third marriages. Thus it's a bit surprising the press is all a-twitter at Rudy Guiliani's son's acknowledgment that there has been a rift between him and his father. Duh. Remember Guiliani's mayoral election when chubby young Andrew fooled around and grabbed the microphone and generally disrupted the show? Did mama Donna intervene to allow Rudy his moment? Course not. She'd already begun her pursed-lips journey of irritation and self-righteousness, during which she almost cheerily made not even a tiny effort to keep their problems private. Always understandable but rarely pleasant or mature or wise. Andrew and Caroline didn't have a chance of fewer than at least a few years of being nasty. It's kind of a familiar rite of passage from which only a very rare few escape. So I'm guessing that other people will have the same reaction I have - it's a little sad but probably irrelevant.
Labels: people, reflections
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