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"Who could possibly fill the clown-sized shoes of the presidency?"

Let us please not forget that these shoes are both clown-sized and clown-shaped. If there is, as some theologians have said, a "god shaped" hole in the hearts of modern man, then there must surely be a clown-shaped hole in our political imaginations.

Indeed, the size of a typical clown is rather small, and his or her shape is far more interesting a feature of him (or her) than that of his or her size.

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