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I, Condit
Robert Graves had the Emperor Claudius make this same remark, I believe in Claudius the God. I believe I've heard it elswhere as well.
It is for this reason that I support a limit of one term for any federal office and wish the qualifying ages for Representative, Senator & President to be raised significantly. No one who hasn't retired from a real career in the real world should suckle at the federal tit or pull the puppeteers strings.
What does it tell you that Gary Condit's father was a Baptist minister whose three sons were a convict with a 20 year rap sheet, a married senator with a murdered girlfriend, and a disgraced cop who literally shot himself in his own ass?
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The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enought to run for it probably shouldn't have it, either. Government office should be received like a child's Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it.
