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A report in the Wall Street Journal today about the departure last weekend of former Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle offers up this explanation for the departure:
Ms. Solis Doyle recently returned home after two months on the road to find a family accustomed to her absence, she told colleagues. When her 6-year-old son cried out one night recently, he rebuffed his mom, saying, "I want Daddy." Ms. Solis Doyle flew out of the room in tears and told her husband: "Joey doesn't want me. S- this campaign, I'm quitting."
Aside from prompting a desperately funny string of intramural Slate e-mails about what the S stands for (Fraysters???), the anecdote raises a whole lotta questions for the mommies and daddies on this blog: Like doesn’t this scene happen to every mom after every single business trip? My heart goes out to her. My 4-year-old spent much of October ritually biting some kid at preschool every time I left town. On the one hand I was about ready to quit over Coby’s daily nibblings (especially when he started telling his teacher “Mommy is on vacation in Washington for 100 days” each time he did it). On the other hand, this smells like a gender-fraught cover story to justify what Josh Green says was definitely a firing. Help?
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