The US has had a number of military men as presidents, only one of which distinguished themselves in their job as president--Gen George Washington. I don't think anyone is knocking retired military men robinia. I think some of us are rightfully skeptical about their abilities to hold the highest civilian office in government. I mean, we are already having serious problems with the current Oval Office executive, who thinks he is CEO of the world's largest corporation. Government isn't a business. The whole Republican ideology that it can be run as such has been widely discredited, yet it doesn't stop the Republicans from still thinking inside their same ole shoe box.

It is true that military men do learn to administrate and act in an executive capacity in their general jobs. It is also true that they are political animals. But the military bureaucracy is but one part of the entire federal bureaucracy, it operates quite differently than the civilian bureaucracy, and the political and administrative process is different, despite both being a federal job.

So my question about Clark is, how effective will he be in ousting Bush? Because at this point, I think the nation could much more easily survive an ineffective president than the destructive administration we have in there now. More than anything, we need to get the country out of the ditch the drunk frat boy drove us into, as quickly as possible. If that means getting someone who won't do anymore damage, but at the same time, doesn't effect any real change, I'm OK with that. The country has seriously gone to hell in a hand basket as they say, and the current administration is on the top three list of the most destructive and malevolent administrations in US history, if not at the very top of the list. And their ideology! Religious nationalist militarism, and a president with a messianic complex to equal Hitler.

I intend to vote for almost anyone to run this administration, and rescue the nation from the disastrous place they have put us. I'm guessing even the Republican right wing won't think much of their beloved Crusader, once North Korea starts blowing off a few nukes to get our attention.