Love is Blind
For all to see. New NY gov gets it out of the way. NY Daily News:
The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state’s new governor, David Paterson, told the Daily News that he and his wife had extramarital affairs.
In a stunning revelation, both Paterson, 53, and his wife, Michelle, 46, acknowledged in a joint interview they each had intimate relationships with others during a rocky period in their marriage several years ago.
In the course of several interviews in the past few days, Paterson said he maintained a relationship for two or three years with “a woman other than my wife,” beginning in 1999.
As part of that relationship, Paterson said, he and the other woman sometimes stayed at an upper West Side hotel — the Days Inn at Broadway and W. 94th St.
Sounds a little more like their business than Eliot’s issues. But apparently he was silly enough to use a hotel where there was a high likelihood he might be spotted and recognized. It was only a matter of time.
The First Couple agreed to speak publicly about the difficulties in their marriage in response to a variety of rumors about Paterson’s personal life that have been circulating in Albany and among the press corps in recent days.
OK, that’s out of the way. Pre-game manuever in America’s first blind, black presidential run? I mean, if you don’t count Obama’s.
Surber’s Q&A.
Morrissey at Hotair: If he did not bill, he should be congratulated for the spill.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:25 am on Tuesday, March 18, 2008
7 Responses to “Love is Blind”
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March 18th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Ok. I’ve had enough. We can stop now. I state right now, right here in public, that I don’t give a damn about the intimate life of anyone, including politicians. No one need feel compelled to rehearse his or her affairs, his or her sexual preference, or any other such information.
Please.
March 18th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
As much as I’ve thought about it, I just can’t find a way to use the old saw “Blind leading the blind” in this post. I just t can’t.
March 18th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Saltydog is to be congratulated for his open-mindedness and the rest of us ought to be condemned for finding the violation of marriage vows reprehensible and even disgusting. Unless we want to go the moral equivalence route.
March 18th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
pssssst!!!! Banjo! Salty is a “she”, not a “he”.
March 19th, 2008 at 4:41 am
“In a stunning revelation, both Paterson, 53, and his wife, Michelle, 46…”
Dems lying, cheating, breaking their vows and screwing anything that moves (especially moving taxpayers). That’s a real stunner.
Not.
March 19th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Banjo,
I don’t care whether the power-lusters who inhabit the political world are Dems or Reps, the odds that they aren’t playing around are just about nil. Confessing the failure to take their vows seriously has done little but give our children the idea that this lack of character is fine and dandy — and all you have to do is stand up and beg forgiveness for the fact that your word is worthless. I suppose that it helps some people to think that their lack of character is the norm, not their fault, and therefore, that seeking to build a worthy character is nothing to strive for. Clinton did much to instill psychologically disastrous ideas in ignorant, and most willing teenagers, who have not the experience to understand that thoughtless, promiscuous sex can affect the rest of their lives. Children don’t realize that their lives can go in the toilet very quickly and that their youth will not protect them.
So, I’m sick to death of these self-serving confessions. I’m especially sick of those who choose to wallow in the sordid and salacious who think to govern my own actions. I wish they’d at least find some sense of shame, if they can’t manage to live a life of which they can be proud.
March 19th, 2008 at 10:35 am
I think the newly appointed governor was moving to preempt any freshly aroused (no pun intended) interest in and delving into his “personal life” by the media that might (no , will) accompany his ascendancy to the governership of NY.
Not such a bad move in today’s (prying) times, but such an admission feels a little tawdry following so closely on his oath of office ceremony.
Yikes, and he used a Day’s Inn :-)
Spitzer would have none other than the enormously prominent Mayflower in DC, where the inaugural ball is held.