Just in time for today’s primary, Watching America.com is featuring this piece from one of the best U.S.-watchers who writes for the Netherlands’ Elsevier newspaper.
A couple of interesting observations from the piece.
In her book, “For Love of Politics,” Sally Bedell Smith describes the Clinton’s as a major enterprise, with Hillary currently as chairman and Bill as the head of the Supervisory Board . They regard the emergence of Barack Obama somewhat like a shareholders revolt that drives the top of the enterprise mad.
Although the relationship between a man and his wife is different from that between a son and his father, it still must be said that the first president George H. W. Bush—himself defeated by Clinton in 1992—handled it in a different way. When his son George W. in the year 2000 challenged Gore, father Bush, with the aristocratic style of a real New Englander, kept far away from the battle area.
Read the whole article, translated from Dutch, on WATCHINGAMERICA.com
Robin Koerner is a British-born citizen of the USA, who currently serves as Academic Dean of the John Locke Institute. He holds graduate degrees in both Physics and the Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge (U.K.). He is also the founder of WatchingAmerica.com, an organization of over 100 volunteers that translates and posts in English views about the USA from all over the world.
Robin may be best known for having coined the term “Blue Republican” to refer to liberals and independents who joined the GOP to support Ron Paul’s bid for the presidency in 2012 (and, in so doing, launching the largest coalition that existed for that candidate).
Robin’s current work as a trainer and a consultant, and his book If You Can Keep It , focus on overcoming distrust and bridging ideological division to improve politics and lives. His current project, Humilitarian, promotes humility and civility as a basis for improved political discourse and outcomes.