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?
$$,$$$,$$$?
Cordially,
More important for the average citizen is whether she knew anything about his financially corrupt practices...for instance has there been any blackmail during these years for ex - has his prosecutorial zeal been corrupted by his “private activities”?
If and when she is called to testify she will be asked about this.
As a self-proclaimed proud atheist, and a card-carrying "Other Woman" in her break-up of Ben Bradlee's marriage, what Sally Quinn thinks about anything, least of all the adultery of married men with selfish, mindless bimbos and the wives and families who are the casualties of their careless transgressions, is of no consequence to anyone with half a brain.
Does Quinn think we've forgotten her own tacky rise to the corner office?
Mistress, heal thyself.
{thinking to herself}I have him by the short hairs. Eliot, your arrogant patrician ass is mine. It's mine until the day you die. No matter what any prison husband who picks you in the future might think, I own it. Now and forever.
Excluding calculated and scripted responses like Hillary Clinton’s at the news of Bill’s latest discretion, this happens often enough that it seems there is a pattern of the faithful spouse standing by her man at times like this.
At least in the early days.
I think it is normal human behavior.
It is a normal response to any signifiant blow to a person because of the impact and shock, the unexpected immensity of the revelation and the almost instantaneous intense media scrutiny that has to be dealt with out of the blue.
Under these conditions no one has the time to make a considered judgement, especially when all the facts are not yet in.
So in the short term, emotion drives people to the fallback position, which is to stand by the spouse, to stand by the relationship with a loved one, and most of all, to protect the family, to pull it together against the threat of outside forces.
There is time enough after the initial frenzy to consider and reconsider the facts, to evaluate the long term consequences of a betrayal and make a more deliberate decision as to the best course of action for the long term.
And that is what seems to happen.
Look at the situation of New Jersey Governor James McGreevey who announced his gay love affair.
At the start his wife, Dina, stood by him.
But after the spotlight was off them she arrived at the decision to divorce him.
50 posted on 03/14/2008 9:24:12 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot
I disagree.
It is an ABNOMRAL reaction to stifle ANGER and DISAPPOINTMENT and stand next to the cheating liar.
I wouldn’t.
I’d be absent. As to whether or not we divorced would be the “private matter”.
What I'm getting at is, if your marriage is directed at achieving some worldly goal, maybe you subordinate your feelings to the goal. Not a good thing or something to applaud, but with some people it's like that. The Clintons for instance ...