He continued: "Bits of it they put up, these awful faceless office blocks, complete concrete hell.
There are small parties all over the world, of every political stripe, whose supporters don't vote for them for fear of putting someone really awful into office.
At best, citizens will cast their ballots in abeyance, a stop gap to keep the truly awful out of office in anticipation of the day that the system itself comes to an end.
What the professionals will not tell you is just how awful running for office can be; being lied about, being besmirched, having your private life picked over, having your spouse examined as though he or she were the candidate.
Saeb Erekat, one of the officials of the Palestinian Authority who visited Mr. Arafat today, said he had found the conditions in Mr. Arafat's offices "awful".
Bukowski was a drunk who spent all day at the bar and the track and took an incredibly awful job at the Post Office.
As Gergen points out, that was hardly the only reason Clinton had an awful first year in office.
His business trip consists of the same robotic, tedious chain of events: business-class flight, limo, awful business hotel, limo, office, limo, business-class flight.
It had been an awful day at the office for the German but, creditably, he possessed sufficient class to recognise that this was potentially a watershed moment for an old Bundesliga adversary.
