He was the Captain of a ship. If you were not "mean and bossy" with a crew of half starved drunken sailors you would find yourself being fed to the sharks and your ships sold to pirates. If your crew did not fear you, then you had a lot to fear from your crew.
I wonder how "Captain" Obama would have done.
21 posted on 10/11/2009 8:41:25 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault
(The Obama magic is fading.)