” Presidents, in my view”
That’s a rather stupid view. Driving is more dangerous than being president.
Driving is necessary. Being president is not.
Driving is more dangerous than being president.Presidents, in my view, put themselves in harm’s way by accepting that office. Either mothers can put themselves in harm’s way, or they can’t.
I doubt that you can make that case statistically.OTOH, even if that has danger associated with it, there is a difference between a woman becoming POTUS and a woman going into harm's way as a policewoman, a soldier, or (in this case) a foreign correspondent. The difference - so obvious that it goes unmentioned - is in the value to society of the woman's service in each of those professions.
With all due respect to those other professions, what does one cop or soldier more or less recruited into the ranks matter compared to one mother lost to her children? The possibility of loss of the mother of several children is still grevious in the case of a president - but the value to society of a President Palin rather than a second term of President Obama is on a completely different scale from the value of one more cop or soldier.
bfl