What was surprising was not the number of words, but the ripe edges and polished pauses created by their wine consumption.
Normally these “leaders” were boring, uninspiring and when they spoke they sounded like they were reading an instruction manual absent mindedly.
Perhaps it was the green silk robes, or the exotic cars they rode in, yet today they made us all feel we could create galaxies, eat cream scones and still be ready to defeat crime, medical and scientific problems.
We could make the impossible easy.
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