Taking Amtrak, Hailing Cabs - Just Another Day For Eliot Spitzer

What a good thing it is to think that the Spitzers together may have survived this public raking over the coals. Only in America could a highly gifted and intelligent governor be figuratively scourged for a personal addiction that remains in the illegal realm because of our priggishness. Yes, he should have "known better," but that's the nature of addiction -- to power, money, sex, and the list goes on. I for one hope his talents are not long lost to us.

I wish the column weren't quite so catty. If you subscribe to the notion that the private life of a public person is public business, I suppose you could say that Spitzer brought it on himself. But why should that be? Why can we not accord some dignity to our elected officials? Why does our society stare with such feverish and hawklike intensity at the private doings of public persons? That has always been a mystery.

I think we were much better off when the private life of Eisenhower or Kennedy, not to mention Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was respected as just that -- a private life, not for the cheap amusement of the public. What have we gained, besides some prurient satisfaction? We have deprived the country of the superior services of dedicated individuals -- and what have we gained by doing that? The sale of more newspapers? More gossip for CNN? Whooosh!

I stood next to the Spitzers last night in Union Station; they were picking up presumably one of their sets of parents, who arrived at Union Station at 7:30 p.m. No one recognized him standing there at first, but then some people started shaking his hand. Surprised me that people would want to shake his hand -- celebrity always trumps whatever indescretion. Sad.

But, yes, his wife was fetchingly elegant. I can't imagine what she goes through appearing in public with him, people surreptitiously snapping photos with their cell phone cameras.

Spitzer is a disgusting pig. His wife obviously loves his money more than her own dignity (or health, given his preference for unprotected sex with multiple partners). I wouldn't vote for him (or her) for the lowest office in the land.

How desperate are Democrats to support this guy?

My hat goes off to both of them.

Glad Mrs. Spitzer is paying more attention to her appearance now. Maybe she will keep her man. My wife always looks hot and it helps keep me interested. It is not so important what you got, ladies; it is how you package it that counts.

This is America; all are allowed a chance for redemption. Good luck to both of them.

If the adulterous pudgy hypocritical t*rd Gingrich can reascend to respectability, why not Spitzer? As opposed to nitwit Newt, Eliot has a brain and was actually correct in raising red flags about A.I.G., among other Wall Street miscreants. And anyone who causes ultra-conservatives to have torturous migraines is okay by me.

He deserved what befell him. I'm glad to see that his marriage has survived and apparently prospered. Sometimes each of us gets off more easily that any of us truly deserved. I hope he understands that, and is thankful for it.

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FBI examines extent of insurance industry fraud
WASHINGTON, May 4 (Reuters) - The FBI has been looking for nearly a year into whether accounting problems and other corporate fraud schemes might present a pervasive problem for the insurance industry, FBI officials said on Wednesday

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FACT: New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer knowingly turned his head and looked the other way when he found that the financial statements of the Mutual of New York (MONY) were fraudulent, that the company had been taken public with fraudulent statements and opinion letters that PricewaterhouseCoopers had knowingly falsified and that a massive fraud on the public had occurred. This CUT & RUN SCUMBAG took the cowards way out of a mess that he got into while polishing his own image as a crime fighter!

During 1999 Spitzer and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal investigated MONY's sale of ponzi retirement policies to dairy farmers in New York and Connecticut and fined the company while obtaining restitution for the farmers. Both of the scumbags then ignored hundreds of thousands of other policyholders who were similarly situated and had been victimized by corporate THUGS at MONY and PricewaterhouseCoopers. They knowingly entered into a criminal conspiracy to aid other regulators in hiding the criminal wrong doing that originated in the early 80s.

Good luck to him, and to them. He was always a smart, talented man and I'd like to see him fully redeemed.

I have nothing against Spitzer hiring a hooker. Prostitution should have been legal anyway. But I do find it troubling that he was on the offensive against those same activities before the scandal befell himself. That's hypocrisy.

Am I in the right section? I could've sworn I was reading "Reliable Source."

"His return to respectability is infuriating conservatives, if not others who wonder how a politician ruined by a sex scandal has reemerged in society seemingly unscathed, even if he did lose his job."

ummm...hello? David Vitter ring a bell? And as another poster said, what about Gingrich, who's on what, his third wife, dumping #2 in less than glorious fashion? I'm no fan of what Spitzer did, which as a human was just plain gross and Hubris run amok. His wife has her own reasons for staying which truly are no one's affair but their own. But conservatives should get off their ridiculous platform and get a grip. Those who live in glass houses.....

So what's he supposed to do -- die? Seriously, what do people who become fodder for America's scandal mill do with the rest of their lives? The guy paid a heavy price, in loss of position and public humiliation, for a victimless crime. If he and his wife have preserved their marriage, I think we might be happy for them rather than stalk them and post inane comments about their clothing.

...what, no comments about whether she was able to sit through the whole train-ride with ease, or seemed rather uncomfortable the whole time?

I personally think that he wears white running-shoes to make it easier to chase after hot teenagers and offer them money for anal sex before they disappear from sight.

The hypocrisy of the "infuriated conservatives" infuriates me. What did Spitzer do that was any different than "Mr. Family Values" David Vitter, who didn't even lose his job?

Mr. Spitzer deserves to get back to a regular life. He has every right to write and speak the truths as he knows them. Only republican hypocrites would be outraged over Mr. Spitzer and what he does. He is a very intelligent man and has much to offer.

There's really no secret as to why Spitzer has been able to dodge the proverbial "poo". Most Americans are adulterers....and that's the bottom line!

He's just a normal guy like the rest of us. Sad, isn't it?