demonstrates conclusively that the guy has no impulse control and just about as much judgment. And those are two personality traits you don't want in a chief executive.

In any case the arrogant, racist, Palestinian hating creep is toast.

to not support him ?

not this sexting crap. i think his wife probably doesn't have a problem with it but it's probably considered even less acceptable for her to say that in public than for the sexting thing itself.

are valid reasons.

Look, I never liked the guy because of his race baiting, rah rah Israel crap- among other things, but this just adds to it.

--her hubby has a need to flash his weiner to unsuspecting people. It's a weird addiction. And also he's a lying narcissist. But she's decided to try to make the best of it, with therapy. It's not something she should put up with. He needs help to figure out why he has these destructive compulsions. It's self-sabotage. Important to see the difference between this behavior and a sexual liaison.

I doubt she'd be fine with a purely sexual relationship either. At least it would be between consenting adults, but still has the element of thrill of being naughty --"my wife (ie. my mommy) doesn't know." But this Weiner thing is all about an adolescent need for attention and predation to get that attention. Lots of wives have had to bring their spouses to a (let's just say) greater sense of self-awareness and adult maturity. With greater or lesser success.

I bet Hillary and Huma have had some GOOD chats...

That with all the smears of shit all over this guy, it's the one that actually has nothing to do with his career that makes people boo him. Vote to waste thousands of American lives in an effort to destroy Iraq? Silence. Insisting that cluster bombs are humane - so long as used on Palestinians? Silence. Sends a pick of his banana hammock to someone? OUTRAGE! ANGER! CALLS FOR RESIGNATION!

But then if there's one thing DU has taught me, it's that I can't expect "progressives" to be much better than regressives when it comes to dicks or Arabs.

a common flaw among many "progressives".

Where do you get that he is racist?

This is from last month:

Anthony Weiner to meet with Rev. Al Sharpton, speak at rally

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election/anthony-weiner-welcomed-rev-al-sharpton-article-1.1365669#ixzz2ZxgJwUie

Note:

A Quinnipiac poll last month found Weiner the choice of 20% of black Democrats. Christine Quinn was next at 14%, followed by Bill Thompson, the lone African-American in the race, at 13%.

Who knows, though, how the most recent news will impact his standing in the polls.

Anthony Weiner is a lot of things, but racist does not appear to be one of them.

it's an ugly peep into who the guy is.

And I would say the 1991 incident you cite gives a look into who the guy was in the past, but people do evolve and change (sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse).

it don't make being a cad right, it don't make one a bad politician either apparently..

Zero impulse control and zero judgment. It's like he wants to get caught.

just that the media didn't go there then..I just think this is a tempest in a teapot..

Weiner's look tame by comparison.

Weiner, for all his sexting weirdness (and I DO think he is weird and has a problem), is a rank amateur. If he were in the GOP he could visit prostitutes, poop in diapers, get a change and a dusting, and have his wife step up beside him in leopard polyester, swearing to stand by her man!

Even though down thread you say he isn't.

Why would her opinion on this have any validity?

You noticed that when this came out a couple of years ago, she wasn't at his side. Now, he's gone and done it again, and she's playing "The Good Wife". Clearly, she wants to be the wife of a NYC mayor rather than a former Hillary aide, even though she'd have her pick of jobs in a future Clinton presidency. Clearly, she's drunk the kool-aid.

I don't live in the city, either, so it's not my dog in the fight as well. However, I get coverage of all of this on both national and local news, so I'm immersed in it.

of whether he is a good candidate for office. I don't care a fig about his sexual behavior or about their marital life. The question is whether the guy is a fool. There are plenty of fools in office already; there's no need for another one. Other people will vie for the office without him.

he should go quietly into the night

and I do have a dog in this hunt - I want to see more progressive D's elected and he is bringing the bar down to the level of the other side. He is a liability to libs/progressives.



(that said - I thought he should go after the first revelations came out - we do not need guys like this in elected office)

Glad to see men (am assuming you are one by your indicators)--who are not willing to buy that this behavior and the disclaimers (ie. lies) around it are so benign in a politician.

Yes --time for Weiner to spend more time with his family (and his therapist) and find something useful to do. The come back kid schtick is not working for him.

That she thought her husband is cheating scum?
That she wants a divorce?
That she's ok with the behavior and encourages it?
That it turns both of them on when he does it?

None of the above would be politically acceptable things to say.

Weiner is scum and she either really loves him anyway or has decided she wants to be First Lady of NYC

when means she put herself in a position where she would have to speak publicly about her husband's behavior. I think Weiner is slime for putting his wife in that position, but my response wasn't really meant as a criticism of Huma, merely that under the circumstances she had to say some variation of what she said.

honestly, i dont give a shit. i might give a shit if he has no chance of winning the primary but siphons off votes from someone who can beat christine quinn like bill de blasio

Even if she's staying with him, she didn't have to humiliate herself that way.

I don't care if Hillary did it too - she didn't need to humiliate herself either. Perhaps she would've been president already if she'd thought more about her own career and less about her pain-in-the-ass husband's career.

like moist (though not for quite the same reasons) it makes me literally nauseous.