The Wife: Jenny Sanford

Kinda interesting Sanford thread over at TPM. Couldn't help but think of Mrs. Spitzer (sorry, can't remember her Hebrew exotic first name) and Hillary, and Laura. Michelle seems to breaking the mold for us.

"I thought about the things we do as Americans to women in our society as the array of photos of the governor's wife, an ex-investment banker who was the mother of his four sons, flashed across the screen, the things we do to idealize their femininity, while divorcing them from their sexuality, as if those four boys had popped neatly out of the accessories section of a Talbot's catalog. I thought of the perverse way the press has castigated any woman who has not fit their preconceived mold of proper political wife, whittling away all these years at the public's imagination until all we are willing to accept is the narrow field of view they have convinced us to adopt as our own."