Just when you thought Weinergate couldn’t get any worse…
Even though it was many decades ago, I remember my first (and only) pregnancy vividly. It’s an exciting and rough time for most women, full of small discomforts, hopes, and fears, and usually marked by a heightened emotionality and vulnerability. You laugh, you cry, you need a lot of TLC.
Not the best time for your husband to be involved in a high-visibility scandal involving multiple women and the dissemination (to coin a phrase) of photos of his genitalia around the world.
Not that there is a best time for that.
So? Wanderlust Weiners wiener works wonderfully… if its his…
Sometimes having a child forces a man to grow up.
Although he certainly has a very long way to go.
I hope for Weiner’s sake (not to mention his wife and child) that he takes this opportunity to take a long, hard, er, look at whether this is the kind of man, the kind of father, he wants to be.
Others have climbed out of this kind of gutter.
Hollywood writer Joe Eszterhas (author of Basic Instinct, Showgirls, etc.) springs to mind. At the peak of his party lifestyle, he represented the depths of Hollywood’s excesses. Truly a revolting fellow.
But his life eventually took a very different turn:
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/hollywood_author_writes_of_his_damascuslike_conversion/
I don’t have high hopes for Weiner. But you never know.
What a shame Abedin did not realize what a sleazy cad she was to wed. If she did realize he was a slime ball and married him for reasons of personal/political ambition she deserves no pity. However, given her connection with HRC I doubt this is the case.
She should leave the lying scoundrel immediately. If she doesn’t she has only herself to blame for continued heartache and humiliation. People like Weiner rarely change their lowdown ways.
That poor, poor woman! . . .
So, Hillary got Huma pregnant?
Parker is absolutely right. Weiner has nothing to offer a baby except warped and unhealthy ideas about love, sex and marriage; he would make a bad parent, a poor role model; an inconsistent, demanding, emotionally if not physically abusive father. Weiner will continue to lie and use people, including his wife and child, until he is confronted and made to stop.
Huma would be smart to divorce him and place serious limits on his contact with their child; unfortunately they are probably co-dependents in a sick relationship which will only get worse under the strain of his inevitable resignation from Congress and the arrival of a baby. G-d help the poor little child!
gogo — Great line! I’ve needed a laugh! When it comes to Anthony Weiner, in fact, it’s most welcome because I have always found him to be an insufferable boor (and usually a bore, as well). He is one of the most obnoxious interviewees anywhere and the fact that he is a camera-hog just increases this characteristic exponentially. (Ironically, he’s one Democrat who does not boycott Fox! If only!)
This whole deal about a man, a Congressman, who is less mature than a teen hitting puberty. If I were a shrink, I think I would interpret his behavior as some sign of guilt from having gotten so far in life when he should never have, and acts out in the secret hope that he gets caught and punished.
Hmmm… Sounds like a Lifetime Movie Network plot! Well, I bet there are scripts being produced as I type!
All of this is not to say that I do feel terrible for his wife — and would under any circumstances. But after only a year of marriage, and in the first months of pregnancy — I can’t imagine what she is going through.
But then again, she is as ambitious as the man she chose to marry, and she, especially, is well aware of what goes with the territory of attention-seeking politicians of unmitigated hubris. Perhaps it makes her tougher — at least on the outside. Maybe it means she’ll be all that much more fierce and ferocious with her husband. One can only hope!
In the end, the witless stupidity of Wiener’s self-absorbed behavior is just plain sad. And the fact that most of us (*) empathize with his wife probably doesn’t do much for her emotional vulnerability as a woman who loves this jerk, and is carrying his child.
No one deserves to suffer this humiliation, all the more so because it is because it is being played out in public.
* – Bill O’ Reilly featured Jesse Watters who went to Wiener’s district and interviewed his constituents. Yes, there were a few who were rather scandalized although seeming also somewhat inured as this becomes yet another in a very long line of arrogant politicians who act selfishly and hurtfully. More interesting was the number of supporters who did not seem phased in the least nor did the past week’s revelations affect their enthusiasm for their Congressman. One man said,”He didn’t commit any crime. He didn’t hurt anyone.”
Is there anyone else out there who wonders at times like these about our system just a little bit, and how he fate of our nation rests in the hands of so many voters like this man?
Oops! 3rd paragraph above — meant to say “All of this is not to say that I DON’T feel terrible for is wife.”
That is, I DO! I DO feel very sorry for her.
(those dbl. negatives can be tricky!)
“Is there anyone else out there who wonders at times like these about our system just a little bit, and how he fate of our nation rests in the hands of so many voters like this man?”
I get more and more concerned day by day about the quality of America’s electorate.
The Constitution was not designed for every citizen to have the vote. The system was designed that, to have the vote, one must have a stake in the country. A certain amount of property if a farmer. A Trade and tools if a tradesman, a shop and merchendise if a shopkeeper.
The universal franchise will be the death of the country. Too many vote with no idea of the enormity of the task.
Peter:
I agree. Unfortunately, I see no way out of where we are now.
The way our voting is now structured is a fundamental and important flaw in our system.
Peter, I second the observation about too many people being eligible to vote. The inanity of letting 18 -21 year olds vote in an era of delayed, and often forsaken, maturity highlights the danger the republic faces. Last month I met two female graduate students, 23 years old, who had the maturity and worldliness of 10 year olds. And these are the people who will decide the fate of country upon which depends civilization.
As for the Weiner scandal; it comes down to Mrs. Patrick Cambell’s maxim: “I don’t care what people do as long as they don’t do it in the streets and scare the horses.”
What a shame Abedin did not realize what a sleazy cad she was to wed.
I would have to say, by the time you’re willing to get married, she should have known what sort of fellow he is.
Unless he courted her for a week before popping the question. And even then she should know better. It isn’t like she is just
a 20-something still in college.
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Except for marrying a Jew, Abedin strikes me as a thoroughly Muslim woman: servile.
She knew, didn’t care…just like Hillary.
Ned: yeah, like you know exactly what either Hillary or Huma think of their husbands’ infidelity, and what they all do in their bedrooms.
First of all, I think Hillary cared very deeply, if only because of the personal and public humiliation as well as the political fallout. As does Huma.
As for the rest of it, neither you nor I have a clue what’s going on with the intimate details of people’s lives. It’s all just speculation, and should be couched as such.
Neo, you diminish your iconic status by telling us you think Hillary and Huma care(d) deeply, while dismissing the thinking of others because of their “pure speculation”.
You know exactly what I know about Huma’s thoughts: Nada.
Careful, Don Carlos. I fear you are not reading very carefully.
Note that I wrote “I think.” That puts it clearly in the realm of my own speculation, based on my own observation. Note also that Ned’s comment, to which I was responding, was couched as though it were obvious fact rather than opinion. It is not.
Note, also, that the caring I speculate about on the part of Hillary and Huma does not involve their sex lives with or their love (or lack thereof) for their husbands, about which I do not speculate in my comment, although I’ve got notions about both, notions I’m not voicing here. I am speculating about a much more practical thing: the damage to their own public images as wives, as well as the potential political fallout for their husbands.
Well, I took Ned’s as opinion. I re-assert my caution. We’re not in a courtroom here. It is mostly opinion, which is why we read and post. But hopefully, with opinions that are fact-based.
one of the interesting things relating to open relationships, is that you have problems from outsiders, when technically in the relationship, its not a problem.
“Wonderful!!! That’s Wonderful!!! Now, when’s the blessed event gonna be, Congressman?” asks Democrat Donkey, smiling from ear to ear.
“Next January, actually…” Weiner replies, a bit shy and content…
Donkey suddenly replies, still smiling, “Nah! I mean YOUR resignation!!!”
Peter says, “The Constitution was not designed for every citizen to have the vote.”
I favor a simple test before one is allowed to register to vote (after showing valid ID):
1. The sun revolves around the earth from east to west.
T or F?
2. The USA was founded as a democracy, not a republic.
T or F?
3. The 10th amendment of the US Constitution states powers not delegated to the states are reserved to the federal government. T or F?
4. The commerce clause allows the federal government to require citizens to engage in commerce.
T or F?
5. The president of the USA is delegated by the Constitution the power to declare war.
T or F?
In my dream America 5 correct answers are required to vote.
Wouldn’t it be just desserts for Congressman Weiner if the baby weren’t his?