I'm doing the giddy dance!

Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13541.html

How John McCain lost me
By ELIZABETH DREW | 9/17/08 4:57 PM EDT

Quote of McCain:

"In his 2002 memoir, “Worth the Fighting For,” he wrote, revealingly, “I didn’t decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president. . . . In truth, I’d had the ambition for a long time.”

Game set match. That quote goes to the heart of the debate right now. That would be devastating in a commercial.

...most people who run for president do it for the power, not because they want to help Americans.

president because he's putting country first and Obama only cares about winning elections. This shows that he doesn't give a fuck about this country...only his rich friends. Yes, most people run because they want the power but I hope that it is also because they truly care about governing. He only cares about winning and enriching the lives of his corporate. Don't confuse the two.

...about how he was running for president for the right reason, and so this is relevant.

"I'm not running for president because I think I'm blessed with such

personal greatness that history has anointed me to save our country in

its hour of need.

(APPLAUSE)

My country saved me. My country saved me, and I cannot forget it. And

I will fight for her for as long as I draw breath, so help me God."

or, vain...that would make a good balanced ad. Just sayin'.

Laura Chase, the campaign manager during Ms. Palin’s first run for mayor in 1996, recalled the night the two women chatted about her ambitions.

“I said, ‘You know, Sarah, within 10 years you could be governor,’ ” Ms. Chase recalled. “She replied, ‘I want to be president.’ ”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1221343324-tGxa66AkDRYq1tsNYpjoIw&pagewanted=all

Their egos will eat them up.

anyone who wanted to listen for over a year. Mockery of McCain's personal foibles aside, I have never seen any candidate less enthusiastic about running for the highest office in the land. His heart just simply is not in this. McCain no longer has the emotional or physical reserves to even fake it. His time has passed and he knows it. Rather than seeking out a running mate who could balance out some of his serious debits, he found one whose brow is equally unfurrowed by the real problems facing this country. The only thing binding McCain to Palin is naked ambition; power for its own sake. Ambition is a good servant but a bad master, and it's swallowed them whole.

but that will be unprovable until too late.

:kick:

Also, I suspect most people's reaction would be "well, duh".