I'd happily listen to someone with a British accent read the phone book, but it's even better when the speaker is an articulate politician slicing through the politi-babble:
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That was great!
Watching and admiring the politics, I couldn't help but to think of that old joke about Canada:
In a perfect world Canada would have the politics of England, the culture of France, and the ingenuity of America. As fate would have it, they ended up with the politics of France, ingenuity of England and culture of America.
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