By all accounts, Abedin is a very nice person. She is universally admired as discreet, composed, sophisticated and intelligent. She speaks fluent Arabic. Oh, and she's drop-dead gorgeous, too. Abedin's eye for haute couture and fashion model physique resulted in a photo shoot in Vogue a few years back. Talk about the perfect wife. Yet, Weiner still prowled for skanks online. Wow. So why is this cosmopolitan woman married to a schmuck like Weiner (who, prenuptial, was known as a "swingingly single Brooklyn Democrat")? Because "love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired," as Robert Frost said. That's a fancy way of saying, beats me.
As a longtime aide to Hillary Clinton, Abedin, 34, is well-known for her grace under pressure. "Ms. Abedin never sweats," wrote Spencer Morgan (New York Observer) in 2007. She worked for then Senator Clinton as an aide de camp and “traveling chief of staff” during the presidential campaign. Abedin is now deputy chief of staff to Secy. Clinton. Clearly comfortable in her own skin, she has always avoided the limelight.
So one can only imagine Abedin's grief at being dragged into a sex scandal, one that is now in "Tiger Mode" as the parade of cyber-mistresses (including a blond porn star) begin to vie for the Klieg lights. During his come-to-Jesus presser yesterday, Weiner said, "She was very unhappy, she was very disappointed, and she told me as much. And she also told me that she loved me and we're going to get through this." If that last part is accurate, she's a far better person than he is.
Honore de Balzac once said, "A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea." I hope, for her sake, she sees something worthy in the face of her man because I sure don't. All I see is a schmuck.
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