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Originally Posted by Seaver
Um... no career military man is rich. My father served as an Officer for 23 years. With Hazard pay, flight pay, and as an XO of a base of 30k people below him he got paid $50k. I make more than that with my first job out of college.
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No, but when you leave your sick wife, and run off and marry the heiress to the Budweiser fortune (whom you started dating, and
then asked your wife for a divorce, in the opposite order to which good family values indicates you should do it if indeed you do it at all), you tend to be pretty well off.
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Oh yeah, and if you want to point out graduating at the bottom of classes.... look at our country's history. Grant
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Who won only because he vastly outnumbered the south.
Who got the idea that his sailors would be just fine facing Typhoon Cobra, a gross lack of judgement that killed 800-odd men, destroyed 146 airplanes, and sank three destroyers.
Who earned his nickname by standing like a "stone wall" instead of leading his troops to come to the aid of the Bee and Bartow brigades when they were under heavy fire.
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all graduated at the bottom of their class.
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Real winners you've chosen as shining examples of what "bottom rungers" can do.
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Hell Carter finished 7% of his class and we see how crappy of a Presidency he had.
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So. . .what you seem to be postulating here is that only abject failures can possibly have a chance at success in the White House? That we should purposely find the dumbest guy we can dig up and elect him to the presidency? We've tried that for 8 years and look where it's gotten us.