[Redleg Duke]

I met Clark at an AUSA Show once while he was a 4-star and I was still a Reserve O-5, albeit in civilian clothes. He asked me what I was showing and as I started to answer, he cut me off, brow beat me, insulted my company, sneered at me and strutted off.

I asked his harassed-looking aid if he always treated Lieutenant Colonels and Civilians that way and the aid sincerely apologized and implied that Clark never felt adequate unless he could humiliate someone, anyone.

Clark is short, with a short man's complex. He might be very intelligent, but he is short on common sense and totally ego-centric.

[mnehring]

Clark is short, with a short man's complex

You are right on this. I always thought he was a tall, imposing figure like the media seem to make him out to be. I never realized this until I saw him at the Peabody in Little Rock about a year ago. He has to be 5'7" or less, but the way he controls the people around him (making people in the bar move so he can sit where he wants for example) screams Napoleon complex.