Bhutto's Son Addresses the World

[truthisfreedom]

Source: Time

Accompanied by men more than twice his age, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari sat through his introduction with the downward gaze of a sullen teenager. But when it came time to speak, he looked up with the same large brown eyes that from underneath her headscarf helped make his mother famous, and which now seem to reflect the gaze of the world.

"This is a new experience for me, and I'm a bit nervous," he said.
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But what was clear, both in Bhutto Zardari's words and unsure delivery, is that this would-be savior of a Muslim nuclear state on the verge of disintegration is exactly what he appears to be: a teenager nowhere near ready to lead a student union, let alone a country. "Unless I can finish my education and develop enough maturity, I recognize that I will never be in a position to have sufficient wisdom to enter the political arena," Bhutto Zardari himself conceded.
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The BBC reporter fired back: "What does it say about a party that it can be handed on like some piece of family furniture?"

"They asked me to do it," Bhutto Zardari countered, in a reference to his appointment by the party's central committee. "They represented the whole federation and they asked me to do this."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1701371,00.html

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It takes a certain level of maturity to realize that one does not have a certain level of maturity.

Unlike our boy king, this kid seems well on his way.

[demnan]

1. What is it with people

this poor child has just lost his mother and they can't find a competent person to take her place but must burden this grieving child?

[Javaman]

2. Welcome to third world politics...

where instead of trying to find a competent replacement, they just go to the next relative.

I won't say a thing more other than...

bush, clinton, bush...

[closeupready]

3. Bilalwal should have fired back: "Perhaps you should direct those questions to Clarence House."

n/t