I am loving the contrast between Patricia Blagojevich’s private and public personas:
“Rod’s marriage to her is really what begins his political career,” said John P. Pelissero, a political science professor at Loyola University. “It was really through connections with his father-in-law’s influence that he got elected.”
The complaint also shows her participating in a phone call in which the governor discusses trading his influence over the Senate seat appointment to earn money and find Ms. Blagojevich seats on paid corporate boards.
And, in a blast of vulgar language, Ms. Blagojevich eggs on her husband when he reportedly threatens to prevent the Tribune Company from selling the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field unless The Chicago Tribune fired editorial writers who had called for the governor’s impeachment. Ms. Blagojevich is quoted in the complaint as saying that the state should “hold up that [expletive] Cubs [expletive] … [expletive] them.”
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The Web site for the governor’s office says that in addition to raising the couple’s two daughters, Ms. Blagojevich occupies herself with typical first lady issues: raising awareness on children’s health, food allergies and literacy, and starting the State Beautification Initiative, which planted native wildflowers along state roads.
So you see, Rod runs the state, and Patricia spends all of her time worrying about peanut allergies and daisies.
I call it MacBethaphobia… the fear that women (especially spouses) will influence a man in position of power to immoral conduct in order to improve her status.
You see: women are the root of male corruption.
This is comparable to the belief that women cause rape by being sexually titillating and arousing men into fits of passionate rage.
As a result it becomes necessary to make women appear as harmless as possible. “Everyone look at how harmless and quaint MY woman is. You needn’t worryabout her; she won’t corrupt me.”