Barack Obama Exposed As An Ambitious Man

This might come as a real shock, so I hope everyone is sitting down while reading this. The Chicago Sun-Times has confirmed that people who are leading contenders to become president are very ambitious and, as shocking as this may sound, even desired to become president for many years, often since they were young.

The Sun-Times report:

… a new book reveals a reason Obama joined a politically connected law firm: to give him entree to the powerbrokers in Chicago’s elite liberal political community who helped elect Mayor Harold Washington — a job the new lawyer had his eye on.

Obama actually pondered a political career early on, even telling Craig Robinson, his future brother-in-law, he might get into politics after Harvard and “maybe I can be president of the United States.”

This supplemental, more opportunistic narrative comes as Obama is relying intensely on his biography to propel him to the White House. It is delivered in a copy I obtained of Obama: From Promise to Power, by Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendell to be published in August.

Of course it doesn’t stop with Obama. Recent books discussed how Bill and Hillary Clinton discussed long ago how each would have a turn as president. John Edwards certainly showed ambition when he won a Senate seat and quickly turned that as a launching board to run for the 2004 nomination. I bet it wouldn’t be hard to find similar evidence of ambition in every other candidate.

Edwards had the easiest course of the three top tier Democratic candidates. He only stuck it out in the Senate for one term before making campaigning for the 2008 nomination his full time job. Regardless of whether it was from ambition to ultimately run for president, Obama did spend the time as community organizer, professor of Constitutional law, member of the state legislature, and now Senator. As for Hillary Clinton, we all know what she had to put up with before becoming a two-term Senator.

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