TheCracker

The would-be Mayor Carlos Danger has done it again.

After sitting for lengthy, sympathetic profiles with The New York Times magazine, New York and People — where he declared, “I feel like a different person” — serial online sexter Anthony Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, held a joint press conference in which they admitted Weiner, who’d been ahead of all Democratic contenders in the polls, was up to his old tricks.

When did New Yorkers at large become the equivalent of the doormat wife? Is this how they see themselves — the collective masochist in Anthony Weiner’s endless psycho-sexual melodramas?

It’s one thing to believe sexual infidelity has no bearing on the ability to govern — the city had a rather grown-up reaction to then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s c***ting, which paid off in a great mayor — but it’s another to believe that this is all that’s wrong with Weiner and his compatriot in shamelessness -- His wife

They are hypocrites of the highest order, a self-styled paragon of moral rectitude, a spectacularly unaccomplished politician who did nothing in Congress other than alienate his staffers and colleagues.

He’s spent months selling this redemption narrative — full of tears and therapy and a martyred wife — while continuing to solicit at least one other young woman online, promising to hook her up with a job at Politico and a condo in Chicago in trade for a “hard delete” of their exchanges.

What happened? Is it our post-Oprah culture, where admitting you did something wrong — even only after getting caught — equals automatic forgiveness? Or have we lost our edge in going from lawlessness and race r**ts to debates over cigarette smoking and the size of cokes? When did New Yorkers develop such low self-esteem that Anthony Weiner seems like the mayor they deserve? `

iowagirl

I don't feel sorry for her as she's a muslim. I thought muslims h**ed Jewish people, so why did she marry him?

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Like a dog that returns to his vomit, is a fool who repeats his folly. Proverbs 25:11