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    Resignation Hangover

    Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:24 AM | By Emily Bazelon
    I'm with you, Melinda, and all the other Silda sympathizers. And while I don't think it's going to work, I can appreciate why she wouldn't want her husband to resign, as the NYT reports. If he goes, that's it for the legacy they wanted for themselves, not to mention the career. He becomes not the best (if dim) hope for the first Jewish president but a footnote, and an embarrassing one at that. And she is forever the pitiable wife. It's when politicians brave it out and go on to have a second and third act that we think of them again as more than the sum of their sexual follies. Bill Clinton lived down Monica, and that meant that Hillary lived her down, too. Eliot Spitzer probably won't live down Kristen. And that is rotten rotten for Silda.
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