Sanford's wife: "His career is not a concern of mine."

Finally, one of these powerful political allies/wives is standing up and not standing by her man. I have watched the wives of Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Eliot Spitzer, Rudolph Giuliani and countless others stand by their men during press conferences, professing forgiveness and yet appearing humiliated.

Sanford's wife is having none of it: She had a promising career on Wall Street prior to marrying him and professed recently that she and their children will be just fine, his philandering notwithstanding.

I am not telling anyone not to forgive a wayward spouse, I have, after all experienced adultery and forgiveness myself of a fashion - long story - What I am saying is that a woman or man who has been wronged deserves time to lick their wounds and heal from the onslaught of lies, betrayal and the inevitable glare of media cameras in the cases of those mentioned in this story.

Jenny Sanford is a strong woman in her own right - hell, maybe if they impeach him, they should nominate her to fill his time left in office - she has my support.

Eliot Spitzer returns to the public eye

I was, as many New Yorkers, shocked, humiliated and embarassed by the prostitution debacle that brought down our amazing Governor, Eliot Spitzer last year.

In the meantime, he has bowed out of public life and spent time away with his wife and three daughters. He has earned their forgiveness for his acts and seems to be contrite and much wiser for having had the unimaginable experiences that thrust him into the butt of late night jokes, water cooler gossip and the like for many weeks last year.

I was most impressed with him today as I watched him interviewed by the competent Fareed Zakharia on CNN's GPS show this afternoon. He was the Eliot Spitzer I admired from years ago as Attorney General of New York - intellectually stimulating, articulate, knowledgeable and amazingly direct and candid in his responses.

He had some remarkable insight into the AIG mess, based on his prosecuting the company some years ago whilst still serving as AG. That he had such insight reminded me of why it is that I miss him, particularly these days when his successor seems to be stumbling along in finding his way as Governor of New York.

Some might question Eliot's qualification or even his ability to speak of the bad behavior of the folks at AIG, but his countenance and answers today led me to believe that he is a different man than he was over a year ago - he no longer appears to be quite as cocky, if that is the right word - he appears somewhat humbled and definitely has learned from his own missteps. He has every right as a private citizen, and certainly as a sometime columnist for Slate Magazine to speak out on issues that concern him - in fact, it would appear that his years of experience have qualified him most eminently for same.

I wish him the very best in his endeavors and hope that the American public will be kind to him as he carefully treads his way back into the public eye. After all, there but for the grace of God, go we all.......