Everybody wants to rule the world

The more that I see of Obama and his coterie, the more I have a feeling of increasing unease. Leaving aside all policy issues, it is alarming that his whole career, political and otherwise, has been crafted to the dynamics of achieving the presidency of the USA. I am not floating a lunatic conspiracy theory, it is merely unsettling that he has wanted the presidency so much. Every vote, every position has been structured for years in preparation for this launch to power. Some reports even have him saying he wanted to be president when writing an assignment in grade school in Indonesia.

In my experience, when someone has desperately wanted a job or task, and they are prepared to do almost anything to get it, those are precisely the people who should be barred from the position. Some sacrifices must be made in order to obtain high office, I am just troubled that Obama seems to have stuck to a plan for decades whilst planning his ascent to the loftiest post. Clearly, he has demonstrated a ruthlessness indicating that anyone, and anything, may be up for sacrifice in his quests for whatever it is that he wants. And if most of Europe wanted him to be elected, then that is the clinching concern for me.