Eliot Spitzer’s resignation had been widely expected since he said on Monday that he had acted in a way that violated any sense of right or wrong.An FBI investigation has implicated Mr Spitzer in the alleged use of a $1000-an-hour prostitution ring. He has apologised, but without giving details. Married with three teenage daughters, Mr Spitzer was once dubbed the “The Sheriff of Wall Street” because of his hard-line stance on corruption and prostitution. Mr Spitzer announced the end of his governorship. He was elected state governor in 2006 after serving as attorney-general.
For once, I can agree with Shrub when he characterizes Eliot Spitzer’s situation as “sad.”
Eliot Spitzer is the guy who so boldly went forward as New York’s “Sheriff of Wall Street” with an unforgiving stance on corruption and prostitution. Spitzer has now shown himself to be a corrupt politician who uses state funds to solicit high-end prostitutes.
And here is his wife (above), a highly-educated woman by his side at news conferences twice in a few days after his last recorded liaison took place as he left her and flew to another state on Valentine’s eve to have sex with a whore.
Firstly, if I were in her place he couldn’t stand up and hold a press conference because I would’ve broken both his legs.
What a disgusting man this is. Still, he is so self-involved that he trots her out and makes her share his humiliation. Ugh.
I listened to his initial press conference as he blustered on in the grand way politicians do and I thought this guy does not get it–at all.
And this morning upon reading more about Spitzer and other “disgraced” male politicians and the women who have literally stood by them as the cameras flash in the face of their disgrace, I really didn’t have to think much on the whys. They are sadly apparent when you have a good long look at these women. Silda is either medicated up to the eyeballs or in shock.
But still, why would a woman stand by such a grotesque example of a man? What is she telling her three teenage girls by example, about the place a woman stands in a public marriage–in any marriage. Was poor, disgraced Silda always just a stoic prop at her husband’s side?
Only time will tell if she plans to leave him and write a tell-all book ala former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey’s wife, Dina (later to appear on Oprah–giving her side of the story) or continue to suffer through being the wife to such a man–for appearances sake–for the sake of the children?!? ( She does not need the money.)
It’s sad situation, yes. Not for him–he deserves what’s coming in spades for being such a blatantly hypocritical dillhole.
The sad situation is that Silda Spitzer does not have enough respect for herself or her family to gracefully (that is what she’s trying to act out here for the cameras–grace under the pressure of the revelations of the complete and utter lack of moral and ethical behaviour by her snake of a husband?) go into seclusion and let Mr. Hire An Expensive Prostitute for Valentine’s Day hang out there like a grape that’s shriveled on-the vine.
Silda didn’t have to play it this way. When Bill Clinton was in the White House and caught with his pants down he made a televised apology as Mr. Spitzer has done. However, Hillary Clinton was nowhere to be seen. Despite the fact that they’d acted as a 2 for the price of one set–when he brought incredible shame to their family and the office of the President of the United States, Hillary was savvy enough to let the public Bill deal with the shit storm that he brought on himself. She never lowered herself publicly to discuss what she considered private family business and for her part, it was. Bill brought it into the public venue by choosing to a. have illicit sex acts in the White House, b. lie repeatedly about it–even under oath, and c. having the illicit sex acts with a White House intern.
But Bill Clinton was skilled enough at running the country that the forces to “throw the bum out”–and there were many–never gained enough momentum to do so.
Spizter does not have that luxury as I’m quite sure that the New York press, if not his Republican arch-nemesis, would have him thrown out.
Clinton, Spitzer, and so many others that came before them and will undoubtedly continue to blight the landscape are fascinating in how they blaze to glory then, with the very momentum with which they did so, manage to blow up their careers by succumbing to the very things that brought them to the forefront to begin with.
With Spitzer it was his “Sheriff of Wall Street” persona. With President Clinton his good ol’ boy schtik. Both those routines were what ultimately led to their demise though admittedly, Clinton in the past eight years, has laboured mighty to polish his image. He’ll always carry that stiff stench of indiscretion however, and I dare say Spitzer the uncontrite will, too.
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