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Jim Lynch May 4th, 2008 2:14 pm

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Shakespeare’s Macbeth

It seems as if Barry O. is just a degree or two from breaking into a full boil.

Michelle Obama lifted the lid on the irritation felt by the leading Democrat candidate for the White House at the way anti-American outbursts by his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, have dogged his campaign.

He is said to be itching to turn all his fire on John McCain, the Republican candidate, who is benefiting most from Mr Obama’s protracted tussle with Hillary Clinton.

Mrs Obama told a rally in Durham, North Carolina, on Friday that only her husband’s desire to change US politics had helped him to control his feelings: “Barack is always thinking three steps ahead – what do we need to do to make change.”

Her husband was thinking “I can’t let my ego, my anger, my frustration get in the way of the ultimate goal,” she said.

This has been an underlaying theme with the Obama campaign, that the ultimate goal is power not service. Of course the desire for power is always a part of anyone who has the “audacity” to run for president. The question is, are you resigned to serve so you can have power or seeking the power so you can serve. Both Obama and Clinton fall into the former category to a degree that has never been so obvious.

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