About Dr. Steinberg (Dean)

After making little headway with much of the American public as the wing nuts kept pointing out that Howard Dean's wife is (as they whisper) "a Jew", they've now turned on her because she hasn't dropped her entire career and home life to join her husband on the campaign trail. Even Maureen Dowd - who can be a fairly bright, savvy columnist many times but occasionally seems to lose her senses - has jumped on this bandwagon.

Why doesn't Dr. Steinberg Dean have a right to her life? She spent many extra years in school to become a doctor (and unlike Mr and Mrs Bush, she apparently paid attention in class and learned something), she apparently provided a great deal of the financial support of her family while Howard Dean worked at the rather low paying state positions of Lt. governor and then governor, she has patients she cares for and a son she wants to raise, and she sounds far too talented to just evolve into one of those characteristic political wives.

Anyone who has a problem with this is, sadly, one of those folks who has a problem with any intelligent person pursuing their own life. That she's a woman makes these people all the more sanctimonious, just as they were with Hillary Rodham Clinton.

I'm as sick of hearing about the "selfish nerve" of Dr. Steinberg as I am of all the political pundits focusing on the Democratic candidates' wardrobe choices. Try listening to what they have to say rather than whether one's wearing a mock turtleneck and another has on a 15-year-old suit.