Watching the news, it’s hard to avoid the US political conventions. Ignoring politics, Clinton is an amazing speaker.

I remember years ago, on my graduate training scheme, we had a day of learning presentation skills. That evening, we had to prepare a presentation to give to everyone the next day. I was up, er, a little bit late, writing and practising my stunningly exciting presentation on the modulation of neutrophil function by anti-proteinases and caught one of Clinton’s State of the Union addresses. One of the things we were told on the course was to try to reduce the number of pausing words in a presentation. You know, the ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’. I counted them in his speech. Zero. Reeto.

On the other hand, HKMacs has some Bush quotes.