Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
That's silly. Where on earth would we be if enterprising men and women didn't step up to bat now and then and say, "I'll do it!" We'd still be a bunch of hunter-gatherers, that's where we'd be.
Not that I want the post, but surely then we should all be allowed the opportunity to nominate ourselves and then have a vote, to allow the most enterprising person to get the job.

I'd put it to you that we'd be even further down the evolution chain were we to always give positions of authority to the first person who asked, especially if that position of authority was created by suggestion of said person. That in itself is a conflict of interests, self-promotion always is.

I don't want anyone to take any of this personally, but I think if we are going to elect someone for this post, we ought to it fairly and correctly.