Martin--

Your 2 examples are Republicans, Grant and Eisenhauer (sic)--(your care in writing is only equalled by your mastery of logic).

Are we then to believe that if a president is Republican, even serving in the military won't save them from being mediocre or worse? (Eisenhower is questionable here, though that's a topic for another thread). If so, why should anybody vote for Bush, who, according to his apologists, did serve his country as an officer? (we'll mercifully omit any mention of the fact that Mr. Bush primarily served his country as an officer by leading men from one bar to the next, and by working in the campaigns of conservative politicians--- while the vast majority of his fellow pilot trainees actually did fight.)

And now he's graduated to Hypocrite in Chief.