the gift that keeps on giving

The Siths milled about nervously and then, "He's coming. He's coming!" barked the bearded Sith. I placed my video camera on a nearby stairwell to record the event of our interview. One of the Siths came to me and positioned me at the shoulders as though I were a mannequin in a window display. I laughed. But standing square-shouldered would not be the greatest compromise that I had ever suffered. And then he came.

Hahahaha! LOL! Sorry. That was dirty, and a bit out of context. I'm really not sure what the Sith have to do with anything either. Oh well. Enjoy the rest of the paragraph, which is just as awesome.

White turban, white robe and his famously thin beard. He was guided to me. We shook hands. And then we were repositioned for what seemed more a photo op than an interview. I began by asking a simple question related to a New York Times article where he was quoted comparing our two democracies but favoring his own. He basically repeated what I had read in the New York Times -- that they had eight candidates for president where we only had two legitimate ones. Simple as his answer was, he eluded the heart of my question. So I repeated it in different words. "What is it that you consider to be the core of democracy?" His answer: that they had more candidates than we do. That was pretty much it.

"He was guided to me." So best.