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Weiner's Back

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In a NY Times Magazine article that tries to focus on his post-scandal life:

One day in early February, I met Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin for breakfast at the Gramercy Park Hotel, one of their regular joints, just a few blocks from their apartment on Park Avenue South. The first thing Weiner said when I sat down was that their 13-month-old son, Jordan, had just moments ago taken his first step. They were both giddy, kvelling with baby-pride, especially Weiner, who, with all his free time, has become his son’s primary caretaker.
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No particular surprise, he's sticking with the limited hangout, much like the original twitter photo that got him in trouble:

At a hastily arranged news conference in New York on Monday, Weiner tearfully admitted that he “engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone” and exchanged “messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years,” essentially the entire length of his relationship with Abedin, but that he had never met any of the women in person.
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Another "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," bit of BS? C'mon, he wasn't sharing pictures of the little wiener without some hope that it would be getting inside some of the gals he showed it to. And his tortured explanation?

By definition, when you are a politician, you want people to like you, you want people to respond to what you’re doing, you want to learn what they want to hear so you can say it to them. Twitter and Facebook allowed for me — not only could I go to a town-hall meeting or a senior center or in front of the TV camera, but now I could sit and hear what people were saying all around. Search your name on Google, begat read comments on your Facebook page, begat looking at what people are saying about you on Twitter, to then trying to engage them. ‘Oh, you should like me!’ ‘No, that’s wrong!’ or ‘Thank you very much!’ And it just started to blur into this desire to engage in it all the time.
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I don't blame Weiner for trying to make a comeback; that idiot Republican from South Carolina's doing the same thing. I do think that they're both trying it too quickly.
 
From the long list of storied Breitbart moments, the Weiner takedown is my favorite. The liberal rag NYT whitewashes this of course, making it seem like finally admitting the truth was a result of Weiner feeling guilty, rather than being nailed to the floor by Breitbart.
 
Still confused what the big deal was. Clearly 90+% of politicians should be fired for similar or more likely worse infidelity I guess.
 
ponderingturtle said:
Still confused what the big deal was. Clearly 90+% of politicians should be fired for similar or more likely worse infidelity I guess.
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Worse has been done for sure, see Brainster's reference to Sanford above.

The saying about the cover-up being worse than the crime comes to mind.
 
I think the Democrats should treat him the same way that Republicans are treating Mark Sanford and David Vitter.
 
If they get Vitter back, we should get Weiner AND Spitzer! As far as I know, neither one of them wore a diaper for sexual gratification (or was a full-on blowhard about family values).

Daredelvis
 
I love this country. You can lie, cheat, steal, embezzle, and murder and still get elected to the House or Senate, but if you have a sexy conversation there are grave doubts about your fitness.
 
Brainster said:
I don't blame Weiner for trying to make a comeback; that idiot Republican from South Carolina's doing the same thing. I do think that they're both trying it too quickly.
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I suspect they're both basing their timing on their perception of the memory and attention span of the American public. And by those standards, I think they're both in the clear. After all, it's probably been months since anyone posted a single snarky tweet about either of them!
 
daredelvis said:
If they get Vitter back, we should get Weiner AND Spitzer! As far as I know, neither one of them wore a diaper for sexual gratification (or was a full-on blowhard about family values).

Daredelvis
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Perhaps you forgot that Spitzer prosecuted a couple of prostitution rings?

Though his signature issue was pursuing Wall Street misdeeds, as attorney general Mr. Spitzer also had prosecuted at least two prostitution rings as head of the state’s organized crime task force.

In one such case in 2004, Mr. Spitzer spoke with revulsion and anger after announcing the arrest of 16 people for operating a high-end prostitution ring out of Staten Island.

“This was a sophisticated and lucrative operation with a multitiered management structure,” Mr. Spitzer said at the time. “It was, however, nothing more than a prostitution ring.”
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As I said in the OP, I don't particularly care if these guys make a political comeback; if the people are stupid enough to vote for them, they deserve each other. Meanwhile, Weiner picks up a rather silly endorsement:

“Anthony’s a good guy in my opinion. Now, he should’ve came clean once he got busted, you know, and I’m sorry he didn’t do that – but he’s sorry he didn’t do that and his [wife Huma Abedin’s] sorry he didn’t do that,” Ellison said on Current TV to host Bill Press.

“Look man, nobody here is perfect. Anthony was a great congressman in my opinion, and he’s dealt with his issues and everybody has issues. So I’d love to see Anthony Weiner be mayor of New York. I hereby endorse him.”
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thaiboxerken said:
So what did he do that was so deplorable, again?
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<shrug> Bad enough that I think he deserved to lose his job, yeah. Worse than the guy who lost his job for being overheard saying "big dongles huh huh" at Pycon, yeah. Bad enough to be ineligible to run for public office ever again, no. I for one don't think our elected officials should be sending pictures of their junk to random women on the internet. I wouldn't vote for him or Mark Sanford either for that matter, but if someone else does I guess that's their right.
 
I wonder how extreme Fox News would get if Weiner got back into the political arena and received a standing ovation when walking in.
 
ANTPogo said:
I think the Democrats should treat him the same way that Republicans are treating Mark Sanford and David Vitter.
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Precisely what I was thinking.

I am sure Weiner has been inspired by Mark Sanford's comeback. If that unbelievable jackass can make a comeback, anyone can.
 
thaiboxerken said:
What was it that Weiner did that was so deplorable, again?
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When people ask this question, I ask, "Is this the best guy you could find?" This is the kind of juvenile fool who typically never rises above dairy aisle manager at the Piggle Wiggly.

A guy who has poor impulse control making decisions which affect every American. That's the best guy you could find in your whole district? What does that say about your district?

"Yeah, we have this ass clown who can't behave like a grownup. We couldn't find anyone else."

Yeahhhh...
 
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