One is a leader who admirably resists the race for the gutter. The other joined in the smearing of Sadiq Khan just a few days ago. What a depressing contrastHere comes the most dignified,intelligent and thoughtful American president of modern times. He arrives as a reminder that amid Tea Party craziness and Trumpery, hysterical slanders, and racist smears and savage politics,a man can not just survive and thrive, but walk tall without descending in to the gutter with his opponents.
Those who watched Norma Percy and Paul Mitchell’s magnificent BBC four-parter, and Inside Obama’s White House,will have advance away with an enhanced sense of how a expedient perhaps a considerable – man, can keep his head when all approximately are losing theirs. This he does in a political system that now thwarts whatever plans a president is elected to implement. In the middle of the razzle-dazzle of the US election campaign, and we should remember how empty the power bestowed on inauguration day can be.
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Source: theguardian.com