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Emily, I agree that modern women don't really want a Don Draper,
but at least he's a way better fantasy than fellow affair-havers Mark
Sanford and now John Edwards. First, Sanford had that lame Appalachian
Trail excuse and the even more embarrassing press conference. In a New York Times article over the weekend,
it was revealed that Edwards promised mistress Rielle Hunter that he
would "marry her in a rooftop ceremony in New York with an appearance
by the Dave Matthews Band." What is wrong with our chronically
unstylish philandering politicians? ... (Read the rest of this post, or the full thread, in DoubleX.)
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Emily,
I agree with you that Jenny Sanford should stop talking to the media. When a
husband describes his affair with another woman not as a regrettable
indiscretion but as “a love story” and refers to said woman as his “soul mate” and to his wife as someone he’s trying to fall back
in love with, does it not beg the question: Why is Jenny Sanford trying to save
her marriage?... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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Hanna,
perhaps the most enduring lesson of the Mark Sanford unraveling is that
when your marriage falls apart, don't call in the AP reporters. I
generally side with Ruth Marcus and
have been pro-Jenny Sanford. But the danger in claiming the moral high
ground is that the air starts to get thin, and the lack of oxygen makes
you say stupid things ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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“We careened… from not having enough information about the governor to having too much. Way too much,” says Ruth Marcus at the Washington Post. “There was Sanford talking about ‘that whole sparking thing’ and ‘serious overdrive.’ Really, if Sanford’s sparking, I don’t want to know about it, whatever drive he’s in.”
Well, neither do I ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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Mark Sanford's shocking presser from this afternoon is all anyone can talk about. Salon's Gary Kamiya admires Sanford for going off-script, and describes the Governor's confession as "so intimate it was almost unwatchable." Politico is reporting that Sanford went to Argentina on South Carolina's nickel back in 2002, but it's unclear if his relationship with "Maria" had already begun at that point ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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Emily, I suspect S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford’s wife, Jenny, was hinting at her husband’s infidelity during her interactions with the press while her husband was AWOL... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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