Here’s an interesting Washington Post column about wives of public officials caught up in scandal. The second paragraph by Libby Copeland reflects exactly what I was thinking as I watched the Spitzer news conference yesterday:
He and his wife got up onstage, they stood close, he took responsibility, he took no questions. We’ve seen all this before, but across America, people watched for the panic, the angst, the teary eyes and, most of all, for that moment of clarity when Silda Wall Spitzer might rear back and slug her husband in the jaw.
