07-28-2016, 11:37 PM
(07-28-2016, 11:32 PM)Mav link Wrote:No doubt the Yanks are better at the preacher-style of uplifting and florid oratory. But I suspect that Australian audiences don't warm to it. You can imagine that attempts to duplicate this style in Australian politics would be met with blunt assessments that the speaker was being a wanker.
Got it in one! Words are maybe just about tolerated but if there's no subsequent delivery on them then the flak is merciless, and rightly so IMO.
Reality always wins in the end.

