Interesting point of view from
Amy Davidson in the latest issue of The New Yorker:
"Measuring risk is what politicians do for a living—from when they decide
to run, to voting to hire policemen or teachers or to go to war. One
doesn’t want them to be completely, or even mostly cautious: politicians
who never say anything that causes anyone to cringe, and never take a
political risk, are useless. . . . That is why it is, sad to say, a matter of legitimate interest that
Weiner’s wife was pregnant when he sent those tweets. It widens our
sense of just how careless he is with the lives of others, particularly
those of people who are more vulnerable than he is. That is good to
know about a politician; it is distinct from the question of whether
someone who lies to his wife will lie to the public and, I’d argue, is
more important."
And here's a rogues' gallery of, er, risk takers.
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