KATHRYN GALLANT writes:

I just read this article in the New York Times on the pregnancy of Huma Abedin, the wife of Congressman Anthony Weiner.

Poor child! When he or she is born (God willing), the child will have a lot to deal with.

Certainly the child will grow up in physical comfort, but I doubt that Weiner and Abedin will stay together for very long after the child is born — if they even stay together that long. Even if Weiner and Abedin nominally stay together, they will probably be so caught up in their work lives that they will have relatively little attention for the child. Not good at all.

Laura writes:

Parenthood can change people dramatically. I think this is a good thing for this couple. And it may all be forgotten years from now.

I can imagine what it is like being pregnant (at the advanced age of 35) and being a major assistant to the Secretary of State while traveling to North Africa. It’s all too much. Women today are constantly in over their heads.

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Fred Owens writes:

I don’t like the minute dissection of Congressman Weiner’s life or that of his wife. Now that we all know that she is pregnant, I especially feel they deserve some privacy, and I see no reason why he should resign for what amounts to — not adultery — but a flirtation — admittedly in bad taste — with women who lived in other states whom he never expected to meet. Weiner can truly say, “I did not have sex with that women.” Well, he didn’t.

I am annoyed at all the media, including your blog, because of this. He flirted and then he lied about it. That’s it. And that ain’t enough to hang him….Go after Barney Frank if you must, or Newt, or John Edwards — all who have done worse — but can’t we just leave these people alone? And can’t we just judge him on his political/public actions?

Isn’t it time you or some other persons talks about “casting the first stone?”

How many men, within a hundred yards of your own home, have done worse than Weiner?

Laura writes:

The three posts on Weiner here don’t amount to “minute dissection” or excessive attention. As for why he is the subject of attention, he just appeared before the public and explained what he did. Barney Frank, Newt Gingrich and John Edwards are not in the news. His actions were serious enough for the House Minority Leader to call for an ethics investigation. A public official should expect scrutiny and to be judged to a certain extent by his private actions. It is the same person who functions in private and in public. This was not mere flirtation. Neverthess, there’s a reasonable case to be made that he should not resign. 

Laura adds:

At View from the Right, Lawrence Auster writes about the liberal commentator Kirsten Powers’ latest piece on Weiner, whom she once dated. According to Powers, Weiner’s actions were misogynist. Auster writes:

Seen through Power’s feminist eyes, in the vast landscape of Weiner’s spectacular misbehaviors, his main sin is that he is anti-woman.

If this knee-jerk ideologue wrote an article about the Russian Revolution, she would find that the most objectionable thing about the Bolsheviks was that they didn’t respect women.

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