Punter & the Next President of the United States

Hillary Clinton, Ricky Ponting are both on a search for the First Class Temperament of our times. An impossible search? When they find it, their futures' will be assured!?

Hillary Clinton and Ricky Ponting have a lot in common these days. It doesn’t matter what they do, they get hammered for it. Welcome to the public arena. Act tough and you are branded hard-hearted. Act soft and you are branded a woos. The important thing for a person in public life to remember is that first class temperaments are forged in this cauldron of public scrutiny and you have to keep your sense of humour and laugh at yourself as much as possible. In the realm of impossible media demands, truth and temperament ultimately do emerge. Clinton and Ponting are both tenacious winners. I suspect that Clinton and Ponting’s opponents may have done them both a favour by giving them new challenges to rise above.

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