Petraeus In 2012? Speculation In Washington That General Will Run

New York Times:

Gen. David H. Petraeus, the face of the Iraq troop surge and a favorite of former President George W. Bush, spoke up or was called upon by President Obama "several times" during the big Afghanistan strategy session in the Situation Room last week, one participant says, and will be back for two more meetings this week. [...]

The change has fueled speculation in Washington about whether General Petraeus might seek the presidency in 2012. His advisers say that it is absurd -- but in immediate policy terms, it means there is one less visible advocate for the military in the administration's debate over whether to send up to 40,000 additional troops to Afghanistan.

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Comments

[mapmaker515]

Everyone Bush touched is poisoned. That's why Dems are the "Supermajority". Sorry Dave.

[mcmutter]

GOP getting desperate. Don't they realize the Iraq War was an unpopular mistake for most Americans.

[mergina]

Just what this sick world needs, our nuclear arsenal in the hands of a general.

[ciscoguy]

At the rate Obama is going, virtually anyone we put up there will beat him, but I think Petreus would wipe him out. Do Americans want a grounded, proven military commander or a indecisive, na.rcissis­tic and c0rrupt community organizer from Chicago?

[Querent]

We voted for the guy we want last time. Nothing's changed.

[ciscoguy]

Nothings changed for you, maybe. The independents who elected him are running from him like a burning building.

[Bobzmcishl]

Petraeus seems more like a MacArthur than Eisenhower, whom Goldwater called a "socialist".

[THE JEDI 69]

Dear Gen "P"....ple­ase run...so Obama can crush you like the fake Ike the GOP are trying to make you..if this is the best they have the rethugs are in serious serious trouble.

[notyouraveragebear]

So the GnoP STILL has no one to run in 2012. Not surprsing.

[treat2day]

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching
spiritual death.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967

[tel8034]

This is proof of how NARROW and how FULL OF SPLINTERS the rethuglican bench is.

Obviously there is NO RETHUGLICAN who is Governor, or who is in the House and Senate who is deemed by the GOP to be fit and capable of running for president in 2012.

First the rethugs went after C.B. "Sully" Sullenberger to try to get him to run for a congressional seat in California (and who knows, maybe later for a seat in Congress and maybe even a presidential candidate). ..........­.......... It's not as if the rethugs are all about experience .......... Just look at the Quitter From Wasilla.

Now they are after Petraeus to run in 2012 for president?

But there seems to be little or no interest in the GOP's request from either of them ..........­...... Is it because that Sullenberger and Patraeus have no interest in having their names and reputations tarnished by being associated with the NEW RETHUGLICAN PARTY? ..........­.... The party of infantile teabaggers, birthers, deathers, and hateful racists, who obviously have no interest in COUNTRY FIRST.

[Okieborn]

General Petraeus has worn out his welcome, the same old Bush logic more troops more war !!
Fire this guy and give him an office job or his retirement papers !!!

[H321]

He'll have as much promise as Gen. Wesley Clark did... and that's nada.
It will be Mitt Romney. Lets just hope his Just for Men Hair dye doesn't drip under the hot lights.

[ciscoguy]

not really...l­ibs like military guys like conservatives like community organizers. apples to oranges.

[nexxtep54]

He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.

[ciscoguy]

yeah, he really sold us out when he won the war and saved countless american lives.

[lthuedk 1]

The Dictatorship's favorite son.

http://www.light-to-dark.com/the_petraeus_insult.html

Go ahead, run.

[mcantwell]

Nice.

[mapmaker515]

This is just a Republican wet dream. Go back to sleep guys.

[TiffanyHusseinBanned]

Overrated. clap-clap-­clap-clap-­clap Overrated.