Neither.....

Some 72 hours ago, the Democrat and Republican presidential candidates, sensationally referred to as possible commander in chief, were briefly held up for questioning by a cross section of the public  in a town hall forum. No earth shaking discovery was found in the personae of both candidates, as they all danced around direct questions with different adroit. Donald Trump’s inexperience in both public life and governance at any level was again laid bare by stinging questions, while Mrs Clinton’s wanton mistakes in her rich public life cast a doubt over her preparedness for a job with zero tolerance for errors. In between the two, Americans are expected to pick one person that will control an over 10 trillion dollar economy, direct what is arguably the largest military might on planet earth, finance an over 17 trillion dollar debt profile and manage a security network that has the entire world as its constituency. Some job descriptions and faced with the prospect of election of either of the two, the line of undecided voters continues to grow.

In as much as I do not want to draw comparisons between leaders like Trump with Putin and brother Obama (in more sensitive clime, which is tantamount to treason), it is still pertinent to this discourse that we separate quality of individualism from political characteristics. Some politician once remarked that it is strange how we take them seriously when they talk, since they hardly take themselves seriously. In other words, politicians are the same everywhere on the globe. The major difference between our leaders and theirs here is simply the absence of conscience.

At home, we finally got a leader in PMB that has conscience but he is at best a temporary leader and an extreme person that is daily finding it difficult to trust the people available to work with him. The economy is in a free fall and at the mercy of a largely ignorant finance minister. Besides our financial woes, there are contending issues far too numerous to mention here. However, in another two years, we will, like America, be at the point of electing leader that will steer the nation and we must not limit our choices to the political class and business sector alone. Sincere and true leaders are going into extinction in those over recycled constituencies of our country. It is high time we have independent candidates that are truly independent in all ramifications to shake the almost predictable nature of our political front.