Isn't politics remarkable?

  I recall when I was still in school and thought government was about
managing a country and looking after the people, providing services such
as transport, medical care etc...

  Our pollies, colourful though they be, have mostly been eccentric in
proportion to our scale to the world.  We just sit and marvel at the
sheer breathtaking scope of presidents elected on the basis of their
career in the movies, their prowess as an adulterer (with the staff
allocated them), or the vision of election to the senate on the basis of
sympathy for the wife of such a former.

  Isn't politics remarkable?
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  Cheers,
        Paul B.