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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (160279)	7/12/2001 7:30:52 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Except for ambition. Ambitious career politicians do not have this countries best interests at heart, IMO. I think W has the countries best interests at heart. Ben Franklin had some neat things to say on the subject. From his essay "To Those Who Would Remove To America", "Of civil offices, or employments, there are few; no superfluous ones, as in Europe; and it is a rule established in some of the states, that no office should be so profitable as to make it desirable." Franklin goes on to quote from the 36th Article of the Constitution of Pennsylvania: "As every freeman, to preserve his independence, (if he has not a sufficient estate) ought to have some profession, calling, trade, or farm, whereby he may honestly subsist, there can be no necessity for, nor use in, establishing office of profit; the usual effects of which are dependence, and servility, unbecoming freemen, in the possessors and expectants; faction, contention, corruption, and disorder among the people. Wherefore, whenever an office, through increase of fees or otherwise, becomes so profitable, as to occasion many to apply for it, the profits ought to be lessened by the legislature." Main Entry: am·bi·tion Pronunciation: am-'bi-sh&n Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin ambition-, ambitio, literally, act of soliciting for votes, from ambire Date: 14th century 1 a : an ardent desire for rank, fame, or power b : desire to achieve a particular end 2 : the object of ambition 3 : a desire for activity or exertion <felt sick and had no ambition> - am·bi·tion·less /-l&s/ adjective synonyms AMBITION, ASPIRATION, PRETENSION mean strong desire for advancement. AMBITION applies to the desire for personal advancement or preferment and may suggest equally a praiseworthy or an inordinate desire <driven by ambition>. ASPIRATION implies a striving after something higher than oneself and usually implies that the striver is thereby ennobled <an aspiration to become president someday>. PRETENSION suggests ardent desire for recognition of accomplishment often without actual possession of the necessary ability and therefore may imply presumption <has literary pretensions>.