US politics should not lend themselves as a model
January 17, 2021 in Opinion Letter from America: with KENNETH MUFUKA
Unaware that the audios were still on, former British Prime Minister David Cameron complained bitterly to his mates. They had just concluded a meeting of the G-8. Then US President Barack Obama, Cameron said, was the most narcissistic leader he had ever met. He never lost an opportunity to lecture them on the virtues of the US democracy, which he believed to be the mother of all democracies. “My foot,” Cameron said, “does not the young man know that the UK is a thousand years old?”