Reply #96: The reason he's not well-liked by some of his peers, [View All]

so I've heard, is that he's one of those confident, smart cookies that went up through the ranks like a bullet. Just like a lot of smarty-pants/golden boys, he probably annoyed the crap out of a lot of his peers just for being so <i>the shit</i>. Heck, I missed out on a Rhodes in the final round and I gotta admit I'm still a bit bitter--if I didn't think Clark would make a great candidate and president, it'd be tough to resist the urge to go smack something everytime I heard that part of his resume.

:hurts:

(heh)

He's also pretty strong-minded and quite slick (a nicer word might be "polished" or "political"), which are probably among the most common strengths and weaknesses of "born leaders."

Usually, the virtues of good leaders are often in tension with the virtues of plain old friendly good neighbors. I'm sure that people can dig up some dirt, but I doubt there's much that's too damning--at worst, it couldn't have been so bad that he couldn't have made SACEUR and 4 stars with it in his background...