Candidates who despise the office

If my pastor got up some Sunday and said,
"I am not a pastor. I'm just a regular person," I'd respond like this: "Well, we
hired you to be a pastor, and if you have a problem with it you should find
another line of work."

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann said
something similar after finding out she came in dead last in
Iowa yesterday: "I am a very real person, I am not a politician. Nor do I
ever hope or aspire to be a politician."

But Bachmann is a politician, quite apart
from whether she's suited for the office of congressperson, much less the
presidency. She's served three terms in Congress, and until she dropped
out of the race today she aspired to be the president of the United States.
Why denigrate the very role you play? This only adds to people's cynicism about
the political process and about politicians themselves.