Maybe Silda Spitzer chose to go up to the podium. We don't know. She's already humiliated by what happened, not by what she chooses to do from this point. If anything, her courage and loyalty in standing by Spitzer lessens her own humiliation. Maybe she's wise or kind enough or both not to prefer her partner face the public alone.

The public outcry whenever something like this becomes public is pretty sad. Most of us past being kids know damn well how chaotic love is and how hard it is to square our ideals with the disappointments and ups and downs of any relationship.

I have to agree with Patt Morrison...why in the world would she agree to stand there like a prop. If anything it makes him look more like a "creep". I'm so sure she wasn't invited to stand next to him while he participated in his escapades. Com'on ladies show some pride-at the risk of teaching your daughters to accept this garbage!.

He would have had to stand solo on that one!

PMG

If I were Silda Spitzer...

I would have called his mother, all his aunts, all of his female teachers, professors, bosses up on stage to surround him. Each woman GLARING at him wiith the meanest, nastiest gorilla death stare ever. Don't even look good for the camera. Don't wear your pearls.

If I ever have a son...I would rather groom him to be gay than to ever, EVER participate in this pathetic and demeaning behavior. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being a homosexual, but there is CERTAINLY something wrong with being a perverted, straight married man.

I feel really badly for his wife but especially for his daughters, a simple divorce can wreck the kids adolesence, but this, wow! those poor, poor girls.
http://johnnydoom.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-york-governor-spitzer-linked-to.html

I certainly hope Silda Spitzer who is very intelligent and a very good looking woman packs her bags and leaves that perverted excuse for a husband. I only wish she would have let him stand on the podium alone to face the piblic. I don't want her to be another Hillary Clinton who sticks by her man after public humiliation just for her own politically motives. I lost all respect for Hillary Clinton and seeing Silda on the stage with her husband, I fely so bad for her.
Peggy w

Curiously missing from the article "Wife puts troubling face on the Spitzer scandal" is a single mention of the sanctity of marriage. Are there only negative reasons Mrs. Spitzer stuck by her man? Could there be others such as 1) She loves him 2) She has promised to stick by him till death do us part 3) She believes in the sanctity of marriage 4) Here's the big unspoken one that is mildly hinted at in the article: "-she laughed at a question about whether she and her husband spent much private time together. 'It's hard to say that we do,' she replied."

Humm, now what could this possibly be construed as? Could it be that cheating husbands looking for conjagal visits outside the marriage, and there's plenty of 'em, might not have much opportunity for such encounters in the marriage? Could the two factors be related? Might the husband not have many opportunities, for any number of reasons, to 'be with' his wife? Of course, that is never a reason or excuse to cheat. However, what I notice is the glaring absence of any discussion of this aspect of cheating.

One thing people overlook in such cases is the probable state of the man's sex life at the time. Although this is my pure speculation, it is quite likely that Mrs. Spitzer is into her menopause and had been neglecting her husband's "needs". Further, I speculate that Eliot probably has a much above-average sex drive as in the case with many successful men in their trade. It's not coincidence that many historic figures had mistresses.

Anyway, It is quite possible that if his wife had taken Eliot's daily needs more seriously in recent years, this tragedy could have been avoided. I'm not saying it's an acceptable excuse. I'm simply suggesting a possible scenario in an angle people never talk about.

It is sad. Sad for everyone.

Mr. & Mrs. Spitzer are separate individuals. HIs boldness and confidence allowed him to take on the very forces which all other politicians of both parties cultivate, the big contributors. These necessary qualities come at a cost: the bearer is used to getting his way, is untempered by the qualities that restrain others. Elliot accomplished much of value before his strengths betrayed him.
Mrs. Spitzer represents the kind of person without whom no society, organization or family can function. All the good the Elliots, in their shining armor, accomplish would be for naught if not for the Sildas, the mothers, the trusting, those who give of themselves, who take joy in the accomplishments of their mates, who - by placiing themselves at risk of betrayal - keep trust alive in the world. When they must endure the unendurable, like the Amish parents whose children were slain by a madman, and still maintain the function to which they have given their lives, they are a beacon.
Most of us lack what it takes to be either of these people, but we need them in our midst. Fragile they may be, but nothing endures without them.

Its not about what you want, in fact it really isnt any of your business.
If you want to do something productive try seeing Mrs. Spitzers strength and courage, instead of adding negativity to what you "say" you are against