It looks like she is, which if that’s the case, any sympathy for her will dry up pretty quickly.
She even hunkered down with disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner in a New York hotel Monday night — an incredible show of support just hours after a blubbering Weiner confessed to three years of sleazy online flings.
“She loves her husband very much. She is committed to her husband and her marriage,” the close friend said.
She’s adamant that her husband does not resign, and is optimistic that he can continue his career as an elected official.
“I think people have weathered worse,” said the source.
“They are still talking all the time about what to do [to survive the scandal],” the source said, adding that they plotted his political comeback while at the hotel.
This isn’t strength; it’s a kind of mania. I know I’m running the risk of sounding very harsh here, but this looks like a pair of addictions: His, to cheap thrills and risk, and hers, to the power she has been around for about 15 years (which is nearly half her life now). She married the future mayor of New York, and come hell or even more disgraceful pictures of him, she’s determined to remain married to the future mayor of New York. Not the man, necessarily, but the promise of the power that he, until recently, presented.
Maybe all that’s going too far. But still…within hours of his less than complete confession, she is playing political consultant behind the scenes trying to rehab the career he started throwing away just a month after they were married.
It would seem normal that she would be channeling Hillary Clinton, although Hillary was too old to be pregnant.
Why are you so amazed? What other kind of person would marry Anthony Weiner? Nevertheless, take heart – he’s undoubtedly gone anyway. But even if he’s not, it’s a gift that will keep on giving for the Republicans – a win-win if there ever were one.
Roger, I completely agree with you: what kind of person would marry Anthony Weiner. And what kind of person would Anthony Weiner marry?
I am trying to imagine their lives. They have been on the foothills of Great Power, and all day, every day, they both must scheme and plot, to make it up one more hill. Terrible.
Thinking about it solely from the position of a sex addict (which Weiner appears to be in some form)*, whether or not Huma is enabling him, or is a co-dependent, would really depend on their private conversations about this matter. If she excuses this stuff privately, then she is definitely enabling him. If, on the other hand, he starts some kind of counseling program, and accepts strict limits and accountability (from his wife or a sponsor) on his social networking activities, then he could be in a position to control and eventually recover from his apparent addiction to ego-stroking and sex talk. And there is really no reason this should be public, or be predicated on his resignation.
*(You are a sex addict if your sexual behaviors, which may be normal or acceptable in some circumstances, take control of your life and interfere with your career or marriage.)
There’s no return from having the whole world see your exposed member. There weren’t explicit photos in the other cases. The blue dress isn’t the same.
These photos are forever on the internet. Someday his child, if there is one, will be able to see them. They can plot and plot but they’ll never overcome this.
So we learn more about the brilliant, beautiful, second-to-none, oh-so-mysterious-but-oh-she’s-to-be-respected Huma!
Sounds like she’s another worthless Liberal addicted to power and now faced with her own poor choices, is making an even worse decision by telling her disgraced husband to stand in there and keep them both in national headlines for a few more days. I have zero respect for this woman. If she’s so smart, then why is she a Liberal?
look who’s talking. i hope you didn’t claim to be so smart, but any potential claims are now shot given your eagerness to generalize based on labels.
Huma is a Muslima, as silent as any piece of furniture must be. She is tilth for Wiener to use as he sees fit and Weiner must be a Muslim convert to marry her. Her life is his, literally.
Now Huma is an object for Weiners physical desires. She has virtually no rights as a Muslima and if she did speak up, it is well within his rights as a Muslim husband to beat her into silence (lightly of course)
I think people have weathered worse is the quote. Consider this though
Weiner is our elected leader, are we willing to weather the next and next?
The answer is obvious, NO NO NO
He does Not show me the leadership or inspire me to follow in his path which by the way was supposed to be our path he is walking for us,
One word describes him FAILURE.
Huma looks like a graduate of the “Hillary Clinton School of Keeping Your Eye on the Ball.” I can’t say for certain but in relationships like these the cement that holds them together isn’t love so much as the promise of political power. As we know Hilary Clinton loves power. It’s the only thing that she lives for. I have to assume that she surronds herself with staffers (like Huma Abedin) who share the same world view. If Anthony Weiner goes down than any hope that Huma has of gaining political power either through him are pretty much out the door.
Who knows? She may actually be a loving and devoted wife who will be a comfort and support to her husband in his time of need. However we are talking New York politics here. Nobody even remotely connected with politics in NYC has ever struck me as a font of disinterested humanity. If she decides to dump the Wiener then she will immediately pick up the invaluable “I’m a Victim” card. This can be parlayed across daytime TV and through friendly media into her own run for office. Maybe I’m cynical but….well I AM cynical.
Sorry. I can understand her wanting to help her husband through his “problem”, but, this should be done in private after he resigns. Why is it that supposedly liberal feminists always stand by their husbands when this kind of destructive (to the marriage at the least) behavior is discovered by the public? I’m looking at Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Spitzer, the wife of the ex-NJ governor. Why don’t they respond like Mark Sanford’s now ex-wife and refuse to stand by him during his public confession?
When these power hungry wives stop supporting husbands who behave like this, then maybe we’ll see politicians refrain from engaging in career and marriage ending behavior.