There is a slight but crucial difference. Raila operates with / within the party. Whether he learned it from the father or Moi or The King of Morocco I do not know. The other people you mentioned need political parties to climb to a position and then abandon them.
ODM is a movement with devoted supporters cutting across tribe. Watch Ahmednasir tell Koinange the same yesterday. As a party we have certain values that glue the membership together. Raila as President will know that any violation of these core values and he will be alone.
Maybe.
I have nothing against the supporters of ODM. Like I mentioned, I was one of the most passionate supporters and almost had ODM tattooed on my chest.
My problem is whether the leadership of ODM truly believes in the values they keep churning out.
There's this exchange from the old series The West Wing which I've never forgotten:
Toby Ziegler: These guys [the Belorussians] have to walk out of here on Friday with a set of laws to take back home to Minsk.
Lawrence Lessig: Not a set of laws, a sense of the rule of law.
Toby Ziegler: You're saying the document is irrelevant?
Lawrence Lessig: No - I'm saying the document is just the beginning. A constitutional democracy succeeds only if the constitution reflects democratic values already alive in the citizenry.
I
know just by looking at how each of the parties operate that the ODM leadership, just as with Jubilee's, don't have a sense of the rule of law.
