Dysfunctional much?

[orichalcum]

From a NYTimesarticle
about the internal dynamics of the Clinton campaign:

"On election night, Mr. Clinton grew playfully competitive with his wife over who had done more events or had had more impact, Mr. Rendell said. Mrs. Clinton was superstitious and rarely watched election night coverage, but in the hotel suite, Mr. Rendell showed her husband county-by-county returns.

“The president wanted to know exactly what the returns were in the places he had been and Hillary hadn’t been,” Mr. Rendell said. “He kept showing Hillary, and she would laugh.”"

The awful thing is - I know couples like that. And I don't think of them has having healthy relationship, no matter how "playfully" it's phrased. You'd think he'd be proud of the amazing accomplishments of his spouse (who gave a terrific speech today, btw, which did much to soothe a lot of my irritation towards her).

In other news, this weekend the Obamas hosted 11 7-year-old girls for a pizza-and-sleepover birthday party at their house for their daughter Sasha, who has had her dad at home for all of 10 days in the last year but got him to make pizza for her birthday.

Comments

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

*sigh* That makes me sad... but not surprised. Which is too bad. What an example for a daughter, too.

Sasha Obama, on the other hand, wins!

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

I can't say I'm surprised by reports of Bill not really respecting his wife. After all, most of the functional marriages I know do not involve the husband shtupping his intern. Still, I can wish he would treat her better, especially during such a long, stressful haul.

On another topic, poor Sasha! It's gotta be hard to see your Dad that little. And her Mom's been pretty busy too. She's very little to understand everything that's going on.

[jendaviswilson.livejournal.com]

I remember reading an article that was about the Clinton's relationship. It was saying that although they try to sell themselves as an average baby-boomer marriage, in fact they have quite a unique (some might even say alternative or progressive) relationship, what with the politics and the ambitions and the independence and philandering and all. But if it works for them, hey, who are we to judge? I certainly wouldn't marry that guy, but I'm not a Hillary either. I can't imagine what their home life is like, given who both of them are, so I'm not even going to try.