Reply #35: whom people wanted to make king. Yuck. That's not democracy. [View All]

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America has rewarded a few generals with the presidency who were in service during times of huge crisis wand were, beyond any doubt, victorious: Washington, Grant and Eisenhower. Two of them were relatively lame presidents and were mostly rewarded for past service in a time of relative calm.

Clark doesn't fit the bill for either part -- time of calm or extremely successful -- and I suspect that's why he's not really capturing people's imagination.