Weiner is and always was a waste of breathe. Whizzer writes "The texts themselves are a personal issue and completely irrelevant to what he could have done as a politician."
I disagree strenuously - the texts show a lack of self-control, arrested personal development, and a puerile obsession with the juvenile trappings of sexuality ("Ooo! Naughty photos of genitalia!"*) - who wants that in a community leader? Just as Spitzer's failings weren't just personal, but showed an enormous character flaw of hypocrisy - excoriating prostitution while at the same time hiring prostitutes. Immaturity and hypocrisy are not leadership qualities.
But then, I'm beginning to think that anyone who wants to be a politician probably shouldn't be allowed to.
Updated On: 9/22/16 at 11:20 AM