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As everyone knows the primal reason why to become a polititian is that you get to see art. But there is also a more secret reason why to become a politician. And this is the reason that you get the chance to become a curator.

Since in ancient times a ›curator‹ was someone with a responsibility for certain public affairs. And I am sure, yes I am sure, that many of today’s politician have a very serious sense and a very serious notion of such public responsibility. And are dedicated to the common good.

›Laugh now… Laughing!‹

I am not forcing you to laugh by writing this, and I mean this very seriously. But speaking of ›forcing someone to laugh‹ I feel like taking a look at one politician forcing another one to cheer. To laugh. To rejoice. ›Laugh now‹, the one politician (on the left) is barking. But the other one doesn’t seem to feel like, and does not react at all (at first). And Joschka Fischer, the one on the right, did give his interpretation of this incident in hindsight by saying that he was sensing, then, what was ahead, after winning an election (and there was, indeed, much ahead). And that he did not feel like laughing. (And, by the way, forcing someone to laugh, is, at least in my opinion, something really coarse in general).

As her favourite picture in the White House
she named the portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart
(a copy after the National Gallery version),
also because, during the 1812 war,
it was rescued by Dolly Madison
(picture on the left: amazon.com).

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