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American Presidential elections 2008: two candidates; one party – Hillary Clinton first woman to be nominated by a party for presidential race, but a woman. On the other hand, Barack Obama, a man whose race made him stand out as no one thought that an African-American can ever become the POTUS.
Both belonging to the same party – Democratic – but that didn’t stop them from running a nasty campaign against each other in the primaries. They said things that would make them hate each other.
America gets done with elections choosing its first African-American President – The Barack Obama beating the woman, his party fellow candidate Hillary Clinton. Now begins the interesting part of the story.
Obama reaches the oval office and there he has to choose his cabinet. And he chooses none other than Hillary Clinton to be his ‘Secretary of State’ – one of the key positions in his cabinet. That’s strange – this man was just running a full-fledged campaign against her only a few weeks ago.
What is even more bizarre; that same Hilary Clinton who was calling Obama a drug addict and what not while running against him, just accepted the offer and became The Secretary of State in Obama’s administration for the next four years. And this is how the ‘Team of Rivals’ came into being. The team was not just formed but it proved to be a great duo in the office for the country.
Both talked it out, forgot all the differences. Bruised egos and all the bitter memories were buried and left behind. Hillary and Obama followed hand in hand the larger interest which was serving the country and the people.
In ‘Hard Choices’ – a memoir authored by Hillary Clinton – she tries to explain the readers how hard the choices get when one is in politics; by starting off with the chapter about her ’Team of Rivals’.
American democracy taught us a lesson! Politics before the elections and politics after the elections is and should be different. But this lesson, I assume, is only for those who wish to learn.
Khan’s ‘Team of Rivals’
If we compare this with Pakistan; all the parties have factions – just like in America. So does the ruling party ‘Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf’. In the beginning there were only two prominent factions: Tareen and Qureshi. After the PTI won and the government was formed this divide went beyond the party. It soon gave rise not just to further factions within the ruling party but the divide between bureaucracy and the elected representatives also started to emerge very visibly.
Read full article here:
Imran Khan & his ‘Team of Rivals’
American Presidential elections 2008: two candidates; one party – Hillary Clinton first woman to be nominated by a party for presidential race, but a woman. On the other hand, Barack Obama, a man whose race made him stand out as no one thought that an African-American can ever become the POTUS.
Both belonging to the same party – Democratic – but that didn’t stop them from running a nasty campaign against each other in the primaries. They said things that would make them hate each other.
America gets done with elections choosing its first African-American President – The Barack Obama beating the woman, his party fellow candidate Hillary Clinton. Now begins the interesting part of the story.
Obama reaches the oval office and there he has to choose his cabinet. And he chooses none other than Hillary Clinton to be his ‘Secretary of State’ – one of the key positions in his cabinet. That’s strange – this man was just running a full-fledged campaign against her only a few weeks ago.
What is even more bizarre; that same Hilary Clinton who was calling Obama a drug addict and what not while running against him, just accepted the offer and became The Secretary of State in Obama’s administration for the next four years. And this is how the ‘Team of Rivals’ came into being. The team was not just formed but it proved to be a great duo in the office for the country.
Both talked it out, forgot all the differences. Bruised egos and all the bitter memories were buried and left behind. Hillary and Obama followed hand in hand the larger interest which was serving the country and the people.
In ‘Hard Choices’ – a memoir authored by Hillary Clinton – she tries to explain the readers how hard the choices get when one is in politics; by starting off with the chapter about her ’Team of Rivals’.
American democracy taught us a lesson! Politics before the elections and politics after the elections is and should be different. But this lesson, I assume, is only for those who wish to learn.
Khan’s ‘Team of Rivals’
If we compare this with Pakistan; all the parties have factions – just like in America. So does the ruling party ‘Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf’. In the beginning there were only two prominent factions: Tareen and Qureshi. After the PTI won and the government was formed this divide went beyond the party. It soon gave rise not just to further factions within the ruling party but the divide between bureaucracy and the elected representatives also started to emerge very visibly.
Read full article here:
Imran Khan & his ‘Team of Rivals’
