Politics

I was just telling the senior staff about how I don't really like bringing up political stuff but here goes anyway.
Try not to read too much into this.

The candidacy of John Edwards is interesting to me. The reason, is that he lost his last re-election campaign for the Senate seat he was trying to keep.

I was struck by how interesting politics is/are in this regard. I mean, in a sense he was "fired" from his last job and is now trying to "move up" to a "higher" position without anything to bridge the gap.

Imagine working your way to supervisor of one department of your company. Then you get fired. Then after a short period of time, just go ahead and apply for CEO. Is there anything else that works this way? Only Isiah Thomas has pulled this off outside of politics.

Ok so I understand the analogy isn't completely accurate. But still it's fun to think about. Also, just so you know, I know politicians lose all the time. Lincoln is famous for how many times he failed prior to becoming president. Actually he's famous for other things, but that is brought up too. The current president lost an election or two also. But the difference is that usually they work off of a recent win.

Anyway, if you ever get fired, just apply for a higher position and see what happens.