He may have started off flowery and verbose -- "Leaders are much like eagles, they don't flock. You find them one at a time" -- but soon was going for the easy laugh. "I'm proud and pleased and privileged to have my name be placed in nomination ... I offer my ability to fight the good fight, my capacity to bring about a consensus ... my sense of humor to disengage tension and bring about a sense of levity. And lastly and finally, my ability to amalgamate words and phenomalgate words that can sometimes boggle my own mind...
"As I close, I will simply leave you with the immortal words of the founders of Bartles & Jaymes: Thank you for your support."