I can only hope that both Whitman and the California news media draw some lessons from the Oakland debacle: For Whitman, that if she wants to be elected to high office, she needs to start acting like a public servant and not a corporate chieftain.
Extolled as perhaps no churchman in modern times has ever been, he never lost his graceful simplicity; the gentle dignity and quiet self-respect with which he bore his exalted rank as a prince of the Church rested serenely upon the conscious certainty that his high office neither needed nor suffered any self-assertion.
Last week, Warner lectured the House of Representatives about the responsibility of high office and the need for proper accounting.
But if she does have ambitions for higher office, she needs to convince more than the faithful that she's worthy of the job, and making her case through the lamestream media — print, broadcast and digital — is still the most effective way to do that.
While scandals involving Labour politicians should ideally revolve around money and show noble ideals corrupted by high office, a Tory scandal needs sex, preferably with someone trashy.
Khan argues that he would be Pakistan's first national leader not to need high office in order to get rich or win fame.
Other rich men have offered, even tacitly, a less crude version of the same argument: that they don't need high office, that they'd happily walk away.
Virtually every office has a copier these days, and almost every office needs a high-quality printer for its personal computers.
David Plouffe, a senior adviser to President Obama and one of the chief architects of his 2008 victory, accused Mitt Romney of trimming his views for political gain and lacking the conviction needed to hold high office.
Vice President Al Gore, meanwhile, began his campaign with pointed comments about the need for character in high office, explicitly seeking to distance himself from Mr. Clinton.
