I hate to say it, but I think that I understand the grumpiness that some ex PM’s must feel when they are booted out of their spot as the country’s leader. From the video (http://youtube.com/watch?v=uJ77kN8Yh2Y) it is apparent that Jean Chretien is bitter towards his successor, but is it political reasons or is it solely because of ego damage? Being the leader of a country is a very powerful position and only a select few ever get to experience this kind of power, but getting thrown off your thrown by someone of the same party, especially if you’ve been working side by side with them, when the time runs out, maybe not the most favorable exit strategy. I, not being the most politically aware person in the world, would imagine the bitterness coming mostly from the social and egotistic shots of having someone else take over your job and criticize your work.
A Prime Minister, as I see it, goes from being in the newspapers daily, to nothing! Do people even care about ex PM’s unless it’s for a history project or when they write a controversial memoire? One is forced to ask, why would a ex PM even write a memoire? Why does anyone write a memoire? I think it’s to spark up conversation about their name, about their history and to bring them back into the public eye. One lesson that needs to be learned by a few people is that once you are out, you rarely come back in. And, is it really worth it, writing a book about it, bashing your old party and supporters to get one article written about you, one news minute spoken about you?
After you get your news minute or your article and have raised a fuss, is your reputation even made better? Or is it damaged? Do fifteen minutes of fame turn your whole career into a forgotten and only let the public remember your bitter defeat?
A Prime Minister, as I see it, goes from being in the newspapers daily, to nothing! Do people even care about ex PM’s unless it’s for a history project or when they write a controversial memoire? One is forced to ask, why would a ex PM even write a memoire? Why does anyone write a memoire? I think it’s to spark up conversation about their name, about their history and to bring them back into the public eye. One lesson that needs to be learned by a few people is that once you are out, you rarely come back in. And, is it really worth it, writing a book about it, bashing your old party and supporters to get one article written about you, one news minute spoken about you?
After you get your news minute or your article and have raised a fuss, is your reputation even made better? Or is it damaged? Do fifteen minutes of fame turn your whole career into a forgotten and only let the public remember your bitter defeat?
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