{"id":21671,"date":"2013-07-26T11:43:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T15:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=21671"},"modified":"2013-07-26T12:12:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T16:12:42","slug":"go-away-anthony-weiner-and-huma-abedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/go-away-anthony-weiner-and-huma-abedin\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Away, Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took a day off yesterday from reading about crazy New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin, but I was forced to acknowledge the freaky couple again this morning while I was reading the New York Times (in print<\/a>, of course!).<\/p>\n

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Oh! Instead of sexting with just one woman a year after he was forced to resign from Congress for the same behavior, (which he admitted in a press conference on Tuesday), he actually sexted with at least three.\u00a0 And the first sexting partner — Sydney Elaine Leathers<\/a> — was hearing from him daily <\/a>after<\/em> Weiner and Abedin sat for an interview with People magazine <\/a>in which Abedin said, “Anthony has spent every day since [the scandal] trying to be the best dad and husband he can be.”<\/p>\n

My skin is crawling because this scenario reminds me of a disturbed person I used to know who was so self-destructive that I could give a ridiculous, 25-step, Rube Goldberg<\/a>-worthy warning\u00a0 — “Whatever you do, don’t turn the hand-powered generator, allow the motor to lift the dog house, allow the dog to walk out, trigger the mousetrap, spin the gears, etc. <\/a>… if you do those 25 things, I will never speak to you again” — and that’s exactly<\/em> what this borderline personality<\/a> would do, always within weeks of agreeing not to do it.\u00a0 The “don’t do this” instruction was so specific and complex that a normal human could never do it accidentally. The normal human would need a checklist to make sure to hit every part of the process, but the borderline personality<\/a> would breeze through it and then act like I was the crazy one for being upset.<\/p>\n

Weiner didn’t have a 25-step process to avoid but it was still an extremely specific “don’t”:\u00a0 “Don’t sext with young women online because you are guaranteed to be caught.”\u00a0 And that’s what he did. Seriously, he couldn’t shake things up and go have a regular affair? He had to do EXACTLY what had brought him down already? That’s some weird compulsion shit.\u00a0 I don’t know if Weiner is an addict or has a personality disorder or what, but my hunch is that he needs to spend 24 hours a day for the rest of his life trying to fix himself and that doesn’t leave much time for him to be mayor.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, everyone is analyzing his wife, Abedin<\/a>, and talking about whether she should leave Weiner or stay with him, as well as her reasons for doing one or the other. I don’t care! If she wants to, she can spend the rest of her life with a guy who appears to have no redeeming qualities whatsoever. That’s her personal decision\/problem. I just want him — and her — off my television and out of my newspaper and far, far away from the mayor’s office. They’re giving me post-traumatic stress and flashbacks to my own brush with insanity. Plus, in a city of over eight million, I know<\/em> there are people with better leadership qualities than Weiner. Hell, there are cats<\/a> with better leadership qualities than him, and cats generally suck at leading. Let Weiner and Abedin lead their lives of quiet desperation<\/a> privately. Just go away, Anthony and Huma! As Blondie sang: “You spell, you read, D-O-O-R.” <\/p>\n