Eliot Spitzer // Current TV

Did Spitzer Cross the Wrong People and Seal his Doom?

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Paterson, Obama, And The Shield of Truth

by Nicole

This is definitely the way to go. Instead of waiting nervously for his skeletons to fall out of the closet one by one, the newly appointed New York Governor David Paterson, who replaced his disgraced colleague Eliot Spitzer, took the bull by the horns and confessed all just hours after taking office.

After rumors of infidelity surfaced, Paterson and his wife Michelle admitted they had both had affairs during a rocky period in their marriage in a joint interview with New York's Daily News on Monday. The pair then faced reporters together at a news conference held this morning in the Capitol's Red Room.

"I didn't want to be compromised, I didn't want to be blackmailed, I didn't want to hesitate taking an action because the person on the other end might hurt me or my family. I just thought this was the time to come forward and reveal this," Paterson told reporters.

Perhaps this may serve as a new model, with politicians and statesmen confessing all before they take office (which Paterson didn't strictly do, but it's not like he got to pick his timing here) so they can get on with the important work at hand unfettered by sins of the past. After all, public officials only become truly accountable to us at the point that they begin their public service (or, if elected, start campaigning for office), and some of the best and brightest hopes are surely likely, at the very least, to have follies of youth buried in their past.

What are mistakes but opportunities to learn and grow? We, in turn, should learn to be more pragmatic about sin. To quote the big J.C., "let he who is without sin cast the first stone." If we allow our politicians to admit to more mistakes without fear of hysterical or over zealous judgment, we also allow them to better serve us. So let's be grown-ups about this, and get such compromising information out in the open where it is rendered benign. This has to be a more evolved policy than our current one, where the cardinal sin is getting caught.

It's at this point I'd like to give Obama the opportunity to hit the public confessional. McCain and Clinton have been in public service so long that their dirty laundry is by now well aired, but the press have only just started digging into the life of the new kid on the block.

If Obama does indeed win the Democratic candidacy, as it very much looks like he might, it'd be sad if the Republican's won the election by default were an unrecoverable scandal to break closer to November. The tenet of public service is to put those you serve above yourself (and your own career prospects). I'm therefore urging you, Obama, if you have anything you're hiding, whether it be financial or sexual impropriety, or something that could appear as such, to take a leaf out of Paterson's playbook and get it out there now. Your best shield in the upcoming battle is the truth.

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Escorting, check! Sex scandal, check! Girls Gone Wild, check!

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We can haz Spitzer photoshop?

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New Revelations about Governor McGreevey

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Spitzer's babe in Sheen threesome

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Why do we "Celebrate" the "Non-Celebrities"?

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Newsblast! Week in Review

A sex scandal, a pink poodle, and lots of Deadly Sins.

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Spitzer Resigns // Comment Picked for TV

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Spitzer's Astrology Chart Says ...

Eliot Spitzer and is wife Silda are ruled by opposite signs of the zodiac. He's a duplicitous Gemini, and she's an intelligent, free-spirited Sagittarius. But though opposites attract, will the current storm they're facing together ultimately force them apart?

Eliot Spitzer, born on June 10, 1959 appeared to be blessed astrologically with all of the fire and air in his chart. With his Sun and Mercury in the sign of Gemini, Eliot has a great ability to outwit people with his communication skills, getting them to give him what he wants. With his Venus, Mars and Uranus (and possibly his moon) in Leo, it gives him the charm and charisma to get people eating out of his hands.

Inwardly this man has a very huge ego and always questions himself on what he really wants. He came into this life like the wolf in sheep's clothing, where in past lives he was ruthless and controlling. One of his biggest challenges this time around is to learn how to balance and develop relationships. Realizing this, makes me wonder what the real deal is in his union with his own wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, born December 12, 1957.

It doesn't appear that the two of them are very sexually compatible. I feel Silda is the brains in this relationship. She is also the one who is intent on creating the perfect public image so the world doesn't really know what is going on behind closed doors between the both of them. I feel her lack of intimacy and her inability to express herself emotionally is what led Eliot into the arms of an escort service. He's a man who needs and seeks a lot of attention and he wasn't getting it at home. So with his power, influence and ego he went after the unobtainable, or in this case, the forbidden.

So why now, why the fall from grace for the Spitzer family? Both Eliot and Silda have a very difficult aspect transiting in their birth charts. Both are experiencing the planet Saturn crossing over their natal Pluto in the sign of Virgo. Saturn rules karma, Pluto's gig is all about death and regeneration, and Virgo is all about truth. My take on this is that Eliot and Silda need a lot of soul searching and healing in order to understand what drove their marriage to this level. This could be the one relationship in recent years that has experienced sexual scandal, that doesn't stand the test of time. Unlike many other political relationships, Silda doesn't need Eliot to gain the professional success she is capable of achieving on her own.

Source: DailyMantra.com

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