Here we are in the thick of presidential campaigns to elect who should succeed Barack Obama next year to fill the most powerful job in the world, but listening to the level of debates from both parties you would be forgiven to mistaking them for high school debate contests.
Raunchy does not begin to describe what has come to pass for debates on national television. Both parties are at fault, though not so bad with the Democrats, even though Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have not exactly shown grown-up behavior.
Take real estate mogul and billionaire businessman, Donald Trump referring to fellow contender and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio as “little Marco”, a reference to his height.
Not to be outdone, Sen Rubio makes fun of Trump’s “small” hands and wonders what else is small on his anatomy. Really?
That’s not all: Trump and Cruz last week started fighting about whose wife is better looking — this, in what is tooted as the world’s biggest democracy and in a debate to fill the most powerful position under the sun?
In the meantime ISIL is threatening our very existence here in the Homeland, and Paris and Brussels have been hit by devastating terrorist attacks. Yet presidential contenders are worried about whose wife is hotter and whose anatomy is bigger?
We can aspire to be the world’s policeman, but this street-like behavior by presidential contenders is the writing on the wall, if this is all we have to offer.
That’s not all. Money is corroding and corrupting American democracy. That it takes well over $900 million to occupy the White House is not good prognosis for the state of our Union.
In 2000, the U.S.Supreme Court stole the election away from Al Gore who received more votes than George Bush by declaring Bush the winner. Such a bloody eye and bruised conscience on our democracy.
Yet America goes around the world teaching good governance and dictating how elections should be conducted. Let’s clean our own very messy house before we preach to Rwanda how to conduct a referendum.
Donald Trump in the White House is more dangerous than the Bay of Pigs was to world peace.
A RWANDAN VOICE-and Perspective on Global Issues-Willis SHALITA 
Competing economies like India and China must be having a hay day
watching this spectacle behind closed doors. If this is what America has
to offer in leadership, then the end of empire is upon us.
If Trump is the nominee for the republicans, then Clinton would be the lesser
of two evils.
The expression “Only in America” has never carried more weight than it does
in this election.