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  <title>Why American politicians have such rotten marriages.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Rep. Tim Mahoney seems to have lost track of how many affairs he's had: "You're asking me over a lifetime?'' Trick question, I guess, for the Florida Democrat, who ran on "faith, family and personal responsibility'' two years ago, replacing underage House page hound Mark Foley. One mistress who does stick in Mahoney's mind is the county official whom he helped get FEMA money to remove hurricane debris from gated communities near Palm Beach. Another is the girlfriend he put on the government payroll then let go when she broke up with him. "The only person that matters is guess who? Me,'' he told the woman, who took the hush money but also hung on to an audio tape of him firing her in a rage.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2202952/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Melinda Henneberger</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:15:25 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Why the Clintons will stay married, win or lose.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  When Bill and Hillary Clinton's friends say they are exactly the same in public and private—well, except for the F-bombs—they tend to mean it literally: "I don't think I've ever heard them talk about anything but politics," says a friend who has known them since the McGovern campaign. Many a public person seems to feel cozier in crowds, abler at rope lines than at intimacy. But former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta describes the Clintons' entire existence as the constant forward motion of two people who are "living, eating, drinking, and breathing politics"—to the point that Bill was always trying to line up recreational Democratic meet-and-greets even when he was supposed to be on vacation. "It's very surreal. You see a lot of drive and ambition" in Washington, of course, "but never like the Clintons, where it's ceaseless." Asked whether the president and the senator are at all distinguishable in that regard, Panetta says, "Probably she more than he—she being a human being, after all—it takes a toll on her." Yet even when the more flesh-and-blood half of the entity known as Theclintons does take a night off, it can turn into a busman's holiday, as when, according to their biographer Sally Bedell Smith, they spent their 25th anniversary, in October of 2000, at home in Chappaqua, N.Y., watching a Bush-Gore presidential debate. Which is not at all to say that their marriage is the dispassionate alliance some critics take it for: Would you accuse two hard-core philatelists of only being in it for the stamps?<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2188751/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Melinda Henneberger</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:29:24 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The fascinating marriage of Mike and Janet Huckabee.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  When I ask Mike Huckabee's best friend since second grade what his buddy's marriage tells us about the kind of president he'd be, Lester Sitzes III, a dentist in their hometown of Hope, Ark., answers, "Those two folks were virgins when they got married, I can tell you that.''<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2182953/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>first mates</category>
  <author>Melinda Henneberger</author>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:46:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Why Elizabeth Edwards isn't Hillary Clinton.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  I've got John Edwards on the phone, and he gets exactly four words into his first answer—"I think she thinks''—before his wife Elizabeth stops him. "She just said she hates any sentence that starts like that," he says, laughing. "I cannot even tell you how many times she interrupted me at the town meeting tonight. And now I've got her cackling on this end and you cackling over there. Oh, God."<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2180460/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4925" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4925" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
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  <author>Melinda Henneberger</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:26:43 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Inside the Edwards marriage.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  This is the second installment in Slate's First Mates series, which examines the marriages of the presidential candidates. Read Melinda Henneberger's introduction to the series here. Click here for the first installment, about Michelle Obama. In today's piece, Henneberger looks at Elizabeth Edwards' role in her husband's life and campaign. Tomorrow, she talks to John Edwards about their partnership.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2180459/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>first mates</category>
  <author>Melinda Henneberger</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:34:45 EST</pubDate>
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