It is hard to imagine the plain-spoken Mr Bernanke following Mr Greenspan's circumlocutions.
The members of the 13-person cast double as the onstage orchestra, and their performances are as plain-spoken as the show itself.
On the eve of her abdication, Queen Beatrix said that marrying the plain-spoken German nobleman had been the best decision she ever took.
Acting decisively in firing his two erstwhile colleagues typifies the management style of Mr Liveris, an Australian every bit as plain-spoken as the blokes back home in Darwin.
Voters wanted a change, they blamed the socialists for Romania's corruption, and they saw the plain-spoken Mr Basescu, a former sea captain and mayor of Bucharest, as a rare honest man.
Now that conservative orthodoxy has collapsed in a heap of complex derivatives, I can't help but think what a refreshing dose of plain-spoken Midwestern reality Mr. Geoghegan could bring to the nation as a whole.
But they would vote for Mr Obama if he ran with another plain-spoken warrior, especially if that warrior questions the ban on school prayer and has a union card, two Purple Hearts and three tattoos.
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His mild-mannered and plain-spoken style, combined with his instinctive cultural conservatism, will make it harder for the Republicans to present the Democratic Party as the tool of bossy people from the east coast or the west.
Compared to Greenspan's restrained, often-cryptic assessments of the economy, Bernanke's three-year tenure as a Fed governor, from 2002 until last May, has shown him to be both outspoken and plain-spoken with his views on inflation and the economy.
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