Sky-guy...

That it takes some sort of massive business acumen to successfully lead the United States is, IMO, a big fallacy.

Which business did Abraham Lincoln run again before he was President? How about Dwight Eisenhower...another business genius? JFK?

Which Presidents have had that acumen for 'business' of which you speak?

Reagan?

Is a multi-trillion dollar deficit any way to run a business?

Roosevelt??

Being a an officer in the military, especially such a high ranking one requires much more than the skill of an average infantryman, that required to engage a downrange target as you put it. Let's not oversimplify this....I suggest taking a much closer look at what General Clark brings to the table before dismissing him out of hand....

To attain the rank of general, especially in the Army, takes massive poilitical maneuvering and skill. It means compromising ones personal values from time to time to in order to do what's right for the organization as a whole...it means making life and death decisions in regards to our soldiers, our brothers and sisters in the field. Personally, I think this is the heaviest a decision a president can ever make, and feel that someone who has actually carried out those orders is more suited making that decision than say a Dean or a Leftywicz....

I'm just interested at this point....but I feel so strongly about the negative direction this country has headed since APPOINTING a Republican president that I am going to get involved this time on some level....for a candidate I believe in...right now as I said I am still only interested.