<p>You may (or may not) be right, sunnyflorida. I don’t have enough personal knowledge of lousy husbands and/or fathers to be able to make that kind of generalization, but I suspect that there are some people who aren’t great at being married who still manage to be decent parents. And, yes, the timing is awful (unless he somehow uses this as an opportunity to turn his life around). I was simply trying to answer someone’s question about legal rights. And I’m reasonably sure that the fact that someone is a lousy spouse – or even “the” lousy spouse in a marriage – has little or nothing to do with the determination of child custody, based on the best interests of the child. I’m saying nothing whatsoever about this particular case, and at this point I have a lot of trouble mustering any sympathy at all for this man. Despite the fact that if he’s any kind of human being at all it’s impossible for me to imagine how awful he must feel, I don’t really very much care. To think that when a lot of this stuff was still going on, it was at the same time that he and his wife were telling people that they were expecting. And he still didn’t stop. As the saying goes, “I can’t even.”</p>
<p>I have trouble mustering any sympathy for him, despite his obvious pain. His behavior was so risky, and he is so prominent, that it was only a matter of time before he was caught. Courting a nuclear explosion in one’s life is evidence of stupidity on a grand scale. </p>
<p>I feel very sorry for his wife, and for the child, who will someday read about all this.</p>
<p>I’m just glad the wife, pregnant or not, did not go and stand at the press conference as if she were the one who had done something wrong. I can’t tell you how much I hated that when the wives were still doing that.</p>
<p>She’d be standing there all remorseful while he spoke. I always thought, NO. Do it this way, let’s have him go and stand there while she takes the questions. </p>
<p>Sorry to hear she’s pregnant, but she’s been in politics for a looong time. Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas, as they say.</p>
<p>So any woman who marries a politician is thereby precluded from meriting sympathy if he effectively cheats on and publicly humiliates her at the same time they’re both telling people they’re expecting their first child? Sorry, I don’t buy that at all.</p>
<p>I am beyond disgusted. What an *******. <---- saving the computer program the effort.</p>
<p>I agree with poetgirl. Sorry it happened, but she’s seen what goes on. If she even watches The Good Wife on tv…</p>
<p>“I suspect that there are some people who aren’t great at being married who still manage to be decent parents.”</p>
<p>Yes, and the reverse is definitely true. Nancy Reagan, charitably, got mixed reviews as a mother, but all sources agree that she was a superb wife.</p>
<p>When it comes to judging someone as a husband, there’s one person whose opinion trumps all others. She hasn’t said anything. Maybe she’ll dump him tomorrow; maybe they’ll grow old together. Who knows?</p>
<p>Oh…how sad…she’s pregnant at this time. This should be such a happy time, but now she has to deal with this.</p>
<p>I don’t think she’ll stay with him.</p>
<p>Seems telling that she has not said a work or released a statement.</p>
<p>These guys really need to start thinking with the head that women really care about.</p>
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<p>LOVE the Good Wife. Great scrpt, great acting, really nuanced and spends a lot of time in the gray area of human behavior vs. intentions. </p>
<p>She worked for Hillary Clinton for years. They were married by Bill (I did not have sexual relations with that woman) Clinton. Who knows if she even cares?</p>
<p>I always had the sense that Hillary was more annoyed with Bill for fooling around with an intern than for fooling around. Just sayin’. Marriages are different things to different people, and political marriages, are a whole other animal.</p>
<p>“Who knows if she even cares.” Yeah, right. Sure. That’s why he looked like he did at his press conference, because he’s such a magnificent actor. That’s why all the apologies; that’s why she hasn’t said a word in support. It’s all some kind of clever plan to cover up that they have an “arrangement” and she really couldn’t care less, and to make it look like they have a traditional marriage; it’s all for the sake of his promising political career. That makes sense. Sometimes, extreme cynicism without evidence can be justified. Here, I don’t think so.</p>
<p>Okay, I guess it’s better to visit hookers (David Vitter) on a regular basis, instead of having a virtual flirtation with girls you’ve never met. Hookers are fine, actual paying for sex with hookers when you’re married is fine, but sending photos online, no actual sex, is not. Oh, please, it’s all disgusting, but clearly, if Weiner resigns, Vitter (co-sponsor of “protect marriage” act, votes for “abstinence only”, supports prayer in schools…) needs to do the same, and return all moneys given. Don’t hold your breath. </p>
<p>Weiner’s constituents want him to stay, by a wide margin:</p>
<p>According to the NY1-Marist poll, released Tuesday night, 51 percent of New York voters think Weiner (D-N.Y.) should remain in Congress. Meanwhile, 30 percent think he should step down, and 18 percent aren’t sure.</p>
<p>Like I said, it’s all disgusting…</p>
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<p>What about Barney Frank? He had a prostitution ring operating out of his Washington apartment. I would think that warrants a resignation.</p>
<p>^^^I’m sure there are plenty of others, on both sides of the aisle. The Barney Frank thing was investigated, and he was cleared of that particular accusation, though he had fixed the guy’s parking tickets. Whatever, it’s all a mess.</p>
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<p>Yep. Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.</p>
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<p>She’s the one who married him, not me. But, “my wife and I discussed this before we were married,” does indicate at least some previous knowledge of this type of behavior on his part. Don’t mistake your outrage for hers. Like I said, she worked for Hillary Clinton for years, and they were married by Bill Clinton. I would not choose Bill Clinton to marry ME!</p>
<p>Poetgrl, perhaps you don’t mean it that way, but it seems to me that you’re engaging in some good old-fashioned victim-blaming here. You’re leaving out the part about his having promised her that he had stopped doing it.</p>
<p>Some people speculate that he will not be forced out, at least not immediately: </p>
<p>[Weiner</a> could lose his home base in redistricting deal, sources say - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/06/08/weiner.redistricting/]Weiner”>Weiner could lose his home base in redistricting deal, sources say - CNN.com)</p>
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<p>females send plenty of pictures too. one sex does not have a monopoly on the stupidity.</p>
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<p>I think it’s just weird that a guy would think a woman would have the same reaction that a man would have when he sees a risque pic of a woman. For most women, it’s eh…yeah…we know what it looks like…next.</p>