Post Military POTUS
Watching BHO speak to a convention of disabled veterans, the thought hit…BHO is the first post military President in modern history. He was born in 1961, and would have hit draft age in 1980, when America was not at war. The draft ended in 1973. BHO never had to make the decision that has scarred so many older men. ( Even though the military now has lots of women, compulsory military service has historically been for men.)
The two presidents before BHO certainly had military issues. Both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush came of age during Vietnam. Mr. Clinton played games to stay out of the draft, while Mr. Bush was in a reserve unit. ( There is some controversy about his service.) Mr. Bush defeated Vietnam Vets in both of his elections to the White House.
A look at the Presidents going back to World War 2 shows all of them serving, some more than others. The only World War 1 combat veteran to become President was Harry S Truman. Mr. Truman led a senate committee investigating wartime waste in World War 2, which may have been a profound service to the war effort. We could use a Truman Committee today.
Several of the post WW2 POTUS were in the Navy. Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and G.H.W. Bush all served in the Navy. (Carter went to the Naval Academy. He resigned from the Navy in 1953, after serving six years.) Kennedy and Bush saw life threatening duty, and were lucky to survive.
BHO is presiding over two wars ( that we officially know of). He has opposed the war in Iraq, while supporting the fighting in Afghanistan. The use of drones to kill has been increased, and the conflict continues to spread into Pakistan.
Chamblee54 
Every sixteen years we elect a President who represents a new generation.
He’s always renowned for his charisma, is pious at the right times in a phony secularist sort of way, left-wing as all holy get-out, something of a race-warlord, possesses a distinctive speaking style, works hard to destroy the military and the people in it, locks up votes with his personality rather than with his position on the issues. Some kind of Republican revolution always follows in his wake. In the long run he is a tremendous disappointment even to his ideological compatriots. It’s the heartbeat of stupid.