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Sad Sack
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Sad Sack
who can’t do anything right. [Comics: “The Sad Sack” in Horn, 595–596]

Sad Sack
hapless and helpless soldier; resigned to his fate. [Comics: Horn, 595–596]

Sad Sack
whose travails reflect those of all soldiers. [Comics: Horn, 595–596]


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After Ford was filmed stumbling as he walked down the steps of Air Force One and tumbling on a ski slope, the comedian Chevy Chase began lampooning him on SNL as an uncoordinated bumbler.
As Nacho, a half-Mexican, half-Scandinavian monastery cook, Black plays a classic comic role -- a bumbler on the outside with delusions of being a superhero on the inside.
Popular history largely ignores the important policy linkages between Jimmy Carter, the deregulating architect of the anti-Soviet proxy war in Afghanistan, and Ronald Reagan, the bumbler behind the "Reagan recession" and the disastrous mission in Lebanon; but in retrospect there are important ways in which Reagan's revolution preceded his presidency.
 
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