New Zealand's Opposition Leader John Key has compared himself to US Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama. His intention was to suggest that he’s not a political insider, but the comparison implies other similarities that simply don’t exist.
Obama went from university to community organising, passing up big-paying corporate jobs. Key went to work as a highly-paid currency trader for many years. Obama is trying to bring change to America, while Key claims that he’ll do almost nothing differently than Labour (which is part of what fuels the continuing talk of the National Party having a secret agenda). Obama also opposed the Iraq war, while Key backed it.
The Financial Times article in which Key made the self-comparison, also noted that if his party wins the next election, it would make Key “the most inexperienced politician to lead New Zealand in more than 100 years”, far less experienced than Obama is.
With an election coming sometime in the next eleven weeks, Key and the National Party have yet to offer a reason why they should form a government, apart from the fact that they’re not the New Zealand Labour Party. But that’s simply not good enough. And neither is claiming to be something you’re not.
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