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...would be grotesque to refer to Rudy Giuliani's prostate cancer, or his domestic mess, as Hillary Rodham Clinton's luck. But politics sometimes works in grotesque ways...
...Then fate, deus ex machina, bizarrely intervenes. Behold: The formidable Giuliani implodes. Troubles descend upon him in an avalanche - not all the sorrows of Job, but a few of them. Giuliani is diagnosed with prostate cancer. His marriage of many years cracks apart, and he handles it maladroitly, announcing the breakup to the world without bothering to tell his wife that the marriage is over. His affair with another woman becomes a feast for tabloids. The private Rudy seems to shriek confirmation of his enemies' suspicions about the public Rudy...
According to Donna Hanover, Giuliani's wife of 16 years, the Mayor had an intimate relationship with Cristyne F. Lategano, his former communications director, before her departure from City Hall last May. Lategano only commented that she had "no desire to speculate why Donna Hanover decided to issue the statement that she did." She did not directly deny the allegations; neither did Giuliani. He did, however, mention at an emotional press conference last Wednesday night that another woman, Judith Nathan, was "a very, very fine person--I rely on her and she helps me a great deal...
...only reason that this hasn't become a national news story is the somber announcement two weeks ago that Giuliani has an early form of prostate cancer. No matter how harmless and how treatable it might be, nobody should be allowed to make fun of somebody with cancer--not even an op-ed writer. What is permissible, however, is to question Giuliani's ability to compete in a historic senate race between two political heavyweights. The First Lady versus the Mayor of New York was bound to be a national news story, but with the recent turn of events...
...Giuliani himself said that he "[doesn't] really care about politics right now." In any case, it will be hard for Giuliani to argue in a few weeks that he will again be able to fully focus on his two full-time positions of running New York and running for the Senate. And he will also have a clear disadvantage against Hillary Clinton. She was the one who kept the first family together and stood by her husband's side. In Giuliani's case it appears that he is the one causing the troubles at home...