tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079851.post8791280451517852285..comments2023-10-22T07:19:57.496-04:00Comments on Oliver's Offerings: For Better or Worse... But Not For the Press ConferencesJana Oliverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00603652346290427856noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079851.post-76250774340802455072008-03-12T09:18:00.000-04:002008-03-12T09:18:00.000-04:00I forgot about Lord Louis and Edwina. Now they we...I forgot about Lord Louis and Edwina. Now they were a pair. As to Sickles, I do love the idea of forgiving one's wife after having killed her lover. Classy. One wonders if that forbearance came before after he was acquitted for murder. <BR/><BR/>I suspect one reason we've not seen a male standing behind his female politician wife while she admits to toasting her marshmallows over someone else's fire, is that there aren't that many women that high on the totem pole (yet). I doubt that women are any more discrete or more virtuous. So perhaps somewhere down the line there will be some mournful fellow, ashen-faced (as they described Silda Spitzer) watching his wife admit to cuckolding him. Maybe he'll wear a set of horns. Now that would be amusing.Jana Oliverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00603652346290427856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079851.post-90719385007802845702008-03-11T21:06:00.000-04:002008-03-11T21:06:00.000-04:00Lord Louis Mountbatten's wife Edwina was notorious...Lord Louis Mountbatten's wife Edwina was notoriously unfaithful to him, though Louis himself had affairs with both men and women (he was known by some as "Mountbottom.") When he was viceroy of India, Louis took advantage of his wife's affair with Nehru to get information. Of course, he never had to stand by his wife while she told all. The Brits were a little more discreet in those days.<BR/><BR/>Dylan Thomas forgave his wife Caitlin for infidelity, but he was no politician. There was Congressman Daniel Sickles, who publicly forgave his wife for having an affair with Philip Barton Key, (son of Francis Scott) in 1859, but only after he had gunned down Key.<BR/><BR/>Nope, I can't think of any male politician who did what Silda Spitzer did.steve on the slow trainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18257811143869341854noreply@blogger.com