There is no politician more studiously boring then Angela Merkel.
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Yet her deliberate, cultivated, dullness seems to be the key to  getting things done in an orderly, patient, step-by-step way - like the fable of the tortoise & the hare.
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Yes, there are a lot worse things than being boring.  The world would be a much better and safer place if all political leaders were as dull as Angela Merkel.