Blind ambition is not a presidential job qualification

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Are you depressed about the shape of the 2012 presidential race? Maybe you’re not depressed enough.

Nobody who wants the presidency too badly ought to be trusted with it. George Washington struck the right note in his first inaugural: “No event could have filled me with greater anxieties” than learning of his election.

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