Leading Ladies?

If there is a lady, head of state, that has all my admiration, it's Angela Merkel. Okay, we've had Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher and Benazir Bhutto at the helm of governments before, but no of them ever came close to the German Chancellor.

As the world is now looking with interest on Hillary Clinton's future, the French are beginning to talk about, and virtually “draft”, IMF's chef, Christine Lagarde, as they future candidate for president in 2017.

Well, if she were interested and got elected, she'd probably do better than Mr. Hollande and even Sarkozy, who both didn't achieve much, but her challenge would still be to drastically reform the country and go far beyond her honorific role at the IMF where talk is easy and loans are cheap.

It would require huge amounts of humility and common sense on her part to wow the French, that would have to tighten their belt and the entire legislature that would be asked to do some real work.

The same could easily be said about Hillary's Clinton assignment here in America. Mrs. Merkel has the right profile for the job and also has these skills dialed-up, but I'm not sure these two other ladies are even close to their German model...