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What Was Silda Spitzer Thinking?
Washington Post/Newsweek ^ | March 14, 2008 | by Sally Quinn

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: silda; sildaspitzer; spitzer; spitzmas
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To: dinoparty

She is in the public eye because she actively inserted herself into the public eye. You can’t have it both ways: privacy and speaking out publically on issues.

Got it?


41 posted on 03/14/2008 8:40:57 AM PDT by eleni121 (Solzhenitsyn on the bombing of Serbia: "no difference whatsoever between NATO and the Nazis")
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To: dfwgator

Their kids are 19, 16, & 14 - old enough to know exactly what Dad’s been up to, without any explanations.


42 posted on 03/14/2008 8:41:47 AM PDT by nuconvert (There are bad people in the pistachio business.)
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To: najida
I had to take law courses. Learned everything I know about psychology from my experimental population family.
43 posted on 03/14/2008 8:42:47 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Have some hyperbolic rodomontade, and nothing worse will happen for the rest of the day!)
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To: jdm
Certainly Hillary Clinton comes to mind as a competent and successful woman in her own right< /BS >
44 posted on 03/14/2008 8:42:58 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: jdm

Maybe she was thinking of a prenuptial that says she must stand by her man through thick and thin until the divorce papers are signed or else lose the millions she married him for.


45 posted on 03/14/2008 8:44:18 AM PDT by Melinda
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To: dinoparty
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.

No, standing there is a deliberate action, not showing up at her husbands press conference isn't, unless you consider she has an obligation to be there.

As to it being a public issue, good grief, he's the Governor of New York with Presidential ambitions, resigning over both legal and moral misconduct. It's a public issue irrespective of what his wife does.

46 posted on 03/14/2008 8:46:43 AM PDT by SJackson (Never talk when you can nod, never nod when you can wink, never write an e-mail, E. Spitzer)
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To: Tax-chick

LOL!
So did I—— from my family.

My job just reinforced what I already knew ;)


47 posted on 03/14/2008 8:48:06 AM PDT by najida (Your advice is like offering a Twinkie to Julia Childs.)
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To: jdm
Unless Silda knew all this was going on, of course.

Unless she played an organ or two in a trio.

48 posted on 03/14/2008 8:49:06 AM PDT by Revolting cat! ("I am like...Dude......do you really....like want the Sex?")
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To: SJackson

Read again. I never said his actions were not a public issue, I said her thoughts about her marriage need not be made public.


49 posted on 03/14/2008 8:51:02 AM PDT by dinoparty
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To: nuconvert
Their kids are 19, 16, & 14 - old enough to know exactly what Dad’s been up to, without any explanations.


50 posted on 03/14/2008 8:52:26 AM PDT by Revolting cat! ("I am like...Dude......do you really....like want the Sex?")
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To: eleni121

“Got it?”

Got what, your non-sequitor?

Speaking out on public issues does not mean that you are required to disclose to the public your thoughts about your marriage.


51 posted on 03/14/2008 8:52:57 AM PDT by dinoparty
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To: goldstategop
Nothing in her appearances showed any approval of what her husband had done. You may feel obligated to show family your outward support but you don't have to feel like you're condoning their behavior. I don't imagine Slida feels at all happy with her husband's conduct. She never smiled or looked at him during his press conferences.

Not suggesting she did, I was simply addressing the propriety of her actions, or potentially lack of, as a public issue. Which it is. I haven't a clue what she does from here. And while Quinn seems to think the message is one condoning male misconduct, it can just as easily be construed as keeping private issues private, as best as you can. Realisticly though, there's also a message of standing by your man, which wouldn't be there if the genders were reversed.

52 posted on 03/14/2008 8:53:47 AM PDT by SJackson (Never talk when you can nod, never nod when you can wink, never write an e-mail, E. Spitzer)
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To: Vermont Lt
It is interesting to see Sally Quinn, of all people, writing an column called "On Faith". It is no surprise that in that column she would merrily call on a woman to throw over her marriage vows at the first sign of trouble.

I will have to make a habit of reading Quinn's religion column, if only for the humor value. Kind of like the New York Times Magazine Ethics column, which is written by the most ethically blind person I have ever encountered in print. He gets it wrong, every single time.

53 posted on 03/14/2008 8:53:50 AM PDT by gridlock (They don't call us "The Stupid Party" for nuthin'!)
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To: texgal

All I can say to you is that you are better off without the creep, and so is Silda. Chances are the woman that your husband ran off with, wasn’t the first woman that he cheated with, and she won’t be the last. I’ve seen the type many times.

The first thing that my husband asked me when he heard about Spitzer was, why is she standing there with him? I said that maybe she loves him, either that or she already knew and was glad to have satisfy his kinky sex drive somewhere else.


54 posted on 03/14/2008 8:54:44 AM PDT by Eva (Benedict Arnold was a war hero, too.)
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To: SJackson

“No, standing there is a deliberate action, not showing up at her husbands press conference isn’t, unless you consider she has an obligation to be there.”

You honestly believe that the issue of her marriage would be discussed less in public if she had NOT been there? Please.


55 posted on 03/14/2008 8:55:05 AM PDT by dinoparty
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To: dinoparty

True it’s sad anyone has something like that happen to them.


56 posted on 03/14/2008 8:59:17 AM PDT by Vaduz (and just think how clean the cities would become again.)
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To: goldstategop
That's why little good seldom comes out of confessing that one has had an affair.

Actually, little good comes out of having an affair in the first place. Once that is done, all the options are bad, and one must pick the least bad option.

Kind of like the upcoming Fall election...

57 posted on 03/14/2008 9:00:32 AM PDT by gridlock (They don't call us "The Stupid Party" for nuthin'!)
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To: dinoparty

She’s not disclosing anything. I have not heard say a thing about her so called “private” life.

What are you smoking?


58 posted on 03/14/2008 9:09:04 AM PDT by eleni121 (Solzhenitsyn on the bombing of Serbia: "no difference whatsoever between NATO and the Nazis")
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To: jdm

Obviously, she’s attracted more to power than she is to fidelity. Why else would she have urged him to stay in office and fight the charges?


59 posted on 03/14/2008 9:14:18 AM PDT by Adams
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To: jdm
No way she knew what was going on.

That said, if she was my mother, the only thing I would have respected on March 10 was if she stayed home with me and my sisters and we threw daddy's stuff out the front door while he was confessing for the cameras.

When are any of these pathetic political wives going to find a spine and become a woman their daughters could admire?

60 posted on 03/14/2008 9:16:02 AM PDT by NYpeanut (gulping for air, I started crying and yelling at him, "Why did you lie to me?")
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