[Texan5]

I’ve read bits of Greek history that say Alcibiades was a hell of a soldier, along with that business about the Spartan king’s wife-some say he fathered a kid on her-he also had a wife, and may have kept an official mistress, too-but that wasn’t exactly unusual for powerful and well-off men in Greece at that time...

[pepsi_junkie]

Yeah, Alcibiades differs from current political opportunists in that he had real talents outside politics and when he defected from your camp (or was driven away) you were far worse off for it.

But politics is such that real world ability and skill are not actual prerequisites for the job, in fact having them is a liability. Other politicians will get jealous and have you exiled. Heck, look at what they're doing to Trump now for an example of how it never changes.