Leading ambitions

Neo-neocon looks at the will to power that drives both Clinton and Obama. This on Obama:-

“Ambitious” and “power-mad” aren’t words ordinarily used to describe him. But it’s hard to escape the idea that they would be highly appropriate. Obama’s charm—a quality Hillary singularly lacks—plus a purposefully ironic and slightly self-deprecating detachment whereby he mocks his own hype while simultaneously and slyly encouraging it, act as effective smokescreens to hide the ambition that must be a good part of what drives him,