Ever since I became addicted to the West Wing sixteen years ago, I have been fascinated by American politics. There is a level of reverence and awe about American Presidents that simply doesn’t exist in Australia. While almost everyone in the world knows that George Washington was the first President of the United States, probably only 10% of Australians would have a clue who our first Prime Minister was. As I watched Barak Obama give quite a moving speech endorsing Hillary Clinton, it became clear to me that one of the primary benefits of being an American national leader is the clearly defined national “myth” or story. Theodore White wrote: A myth…