Posted on 03/14/2008 8:11:56 AM PDT by jdm
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Once, just once, wouldn’t you love to see the politician up there at the lectern sweating bullets, apologizing for letting down his wife and family …. alone?
Once, just once, wouldn’t you love to see the wife issuing her own statement saying that what he had done was unacceptable and that she was leaving him?
Wouldn’t that be morally correct?
But instead, again and again, we see the pathetic, ravaged faces of these women victims, standing supportively beside their husbands as they allow themselves to be excruciatingly humiliated in front of the whole world.
We really haven’t come a long way baby, have we? Certainly not in the case of women married to elected officials.
For the past few days since the Spitzer scandal broke, all anyone has been talking about is why? Why would a guy with a fabulous education, brilliant career, powerful position, beautiful and brainy wife and a lovely family, risk losing everything for a couple of evenings with a hooker.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Here’s one possibility:
Elliot is worth about 55 million. If she divorces him now, she gets slightly more than half, say 30 million.
When daddy passes (he’s 83 years old), the Elliot family will receive a good sized chunk of his 555 million dollar estate.
A divorce at that point would be worth a whole lot more.
I’m not saying it’s true. I hope it’s not, but it is a possibility that she must have considered.
She was the First Lady of New York State, and he was resigning the governorship. She might have felt obliged to appear for that reason if no other.
What an idiot Quinn is to write this.
I thought the final resignation speech was interesting body language. She was looking over his shoulder as he read his text with the stern supervisory look of the school-marm with the nasty student that couldn’t be trusted to read each line. It was chillingly cold.
That's true, right up until the moment she mounts a public podium, presumably in his support. At that point her decisions become a public issue.
No shoot him instead of fighting :)
If that is the case, she's as big a scumbag as he is.
If a wife gives her life, entire trust and sacred honor to her husband, I do not see how it could ever be the same as it was after he betrays her total trust. But that's just me.
Cordially,
She probably did it more for the kids, than for Eliot. There will be plenty of time to explain what is happening to the kids.
Can you imagine a man standing next to and supporting a celebrity wife who is at the podium admitting to whoring around?
Well, by your reasoning, she is required to make it a public issue. After all, if she had refused to stand there, then it would have been sending a strong message about the future of the marriage. I see her being there as a way to minimize the speculation.
agreed with every word.
What happens in this marriage, the motivation of the wife, the resolution she chooses is none of anybody’s business.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Add me to the group of “He committed the crime, leave his wife out of this” ....
Slamming his wife is getting on my last nerve.
“Unless Silda knew all this was going on, of course”
That, or maybe her actions have something to do with future remunerations from the Spitzer side of the family.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Inherited money is not community property until it is commingled or shared. His dad’s fortune is not hers nor should it be.
People are projecting all over the landscape :-). Typical when there’s a situation like this in the news. It’s probably an instinctive self-protection measure in some way ...
(/amateur psychologist)
Ditto/(75 CEU’s in psyche under my belt for my job ;) ;) )
As a wife who had a similar thing happen to her, I can definitely say Silda was probably in a state of shock at the time of the press conference. I'm sure his handlers were telling her what she had to do "for the good of her family".
While there was no press conference for the jerk I was married to, he expected me to continue to act as though everything was normal and not to treat the situation as a "big deal". It was a big deal. My husband of 30 years left me for the wife of one of his friends. He got up one morning and made the announcement and was gone from our lives as husband and father. I had no idea it was going on. People would say, "you had to suspect something. The fact is, I didn't.
These people who do this to their families will reap what they sow. Our kids have not spoken to their father or his family in almost 10 years.
Let's cut Silda some slack here, shall we?
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