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For the first time as well as the last, I point out that every sitting elected official in history, who ever chose to run for higher office, abdicated his seated position to do so.

(There's that word "abdicated" again. Y'know, the one you never used?)

Let's see now, "every sitting elected official...." All that's necessary to prove you don't know what you're talking about is to find one candidate who remained in his current office while running for a higher one, right?

- Senator Lieberman has already been mentioned. But you wouldn't acknowledge your blunder.

- Senator McCain has been mentioned. But still you persisted in your error.

- How about Senator Kerry? Will that be the one that prompts you to admit your mistake? Or are you simply a dishonest supporter of Sarah Palin?

Just to avoid having to repeat myself to your numb pals, please tell them all to read this. They quite obviously follow your marching orders. I'll use mostly small words. When any, and every, sitting politician announces their intention to run for a higher/further/different political office than the one they currently hold, they are announcing two things:

1) That they intend to win election to a different office. This announcement alone qualifies as an abdication of their existing office. Merely in order to run for that further office will require their total involvement in a series of activities which will require them to cease performing the duties they were elected to perform. A willful abdication of their elected position.

2) That while they might appreciate the high honor bestowed upon them in their current elected role, it is not what they aspire to. Whether they win the new position and do not return, or lose the new bid and later return egg-faced, that have already let their constituents know that, given their druthers, they'd be elsewhere. A de facto abdication.

Slice it, dice it, spin it up, down or sideways, it is an abdication when you seek any higher futher/different office than the one you now hold.

Period.

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