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Thursday, August 20, 2009

An infidelity expert's comments on Jenny Sanford's Vogue interview

I only have one problem with the coverage of Jenny Sanford, at least the national coverage: I give her mostly positive reviews as well, but the national media doesn't seem to want to touch the fact that while she publicly said she couldn't give a darn about her husband's career, she privately made calls to the right people to save it. Maybe it shouldn't, but that one thing bothers me. I feel as though I was duped by Gov. Sanford. I really believed he was a sincere guy who was true to what he said, a real leader, not just another politician. That doesn't mean I didn't expect him to make mistakes -- we are all human, after all -- it's just that once this mistake happened, how he's handled it, by refusing to hold himself to the standard he always held others, surprised and saddened me. That's why he looks like any other politician in my eyes today and why I'm trying to not be so quick to declare Jenny Sanford an infallible saint. I don't blame her for what happened, but if we are going to talk about how she's handled this whole thing, let's talk about it all, including the disparity between her public comments and private actions.

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