Originally posted by plawolf
in this day and age, how much ‘tallent’ does a leader really needs to have? all their speaches are drafted for them, all major decisions come abt as a result of weighing up all the proposuls put forward by advisors and choosing the ‘best’ one, even their ‘image’ is created for them. what a good leader needs most of all is to be able to put a face on that political machine that the ppl can trust, and maybe some experience in living and working in this kind of environment. hillery has that.

The way you put it a national leader doesn’t need to have much talent at all. The problem with all the major national leaders around at the moment is that no trusts them, no one really believes them.
Look at Bliar – if there was an election tomorrow would he still be in power the following day? Probably, since there is no one to challenge him, but the percentage of the eligible voters voting would be down in single figures.

Flood.