December 06, 2009 01:00 PM
Petraeus admits he didn't vote for McCain
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Gen. David Petraeus may be registered as a Republican but he didn't vote for John McCain for president in 2008. When Petraeus became a two-star general in 2002 he stopped voting. "When I was promoted to major general, it seemed like a quiet thing at the time, but it's perhaps taken on bigger ramifications," Petraeus told Fox News' Chris Wallace Sunday.
But the general continues to speak to partisan orgianizations. "I've spoken to AEI before. I've spoken to the Heritage Foundation and I've spoken to elements on the other side of the spectrum," said Petraeus.
"Petraeus admits he didn't vote for McCain"..
Petraeus is looking to run on the republican ticket in 2012... The military and people around Petraeus say he is very ambitious for achievement or power.
Lets face it our nation has also become a nation which looks at the military as Gods...
When in fact like Ike stated the industrial military complex is looking for and has gain to much power over our policies..
We need a strong leader FOR the people and their concern , which knows how to select the information needed and necessary to determined if military action is really necessary and what TYPE to use if any...
Personally I would not be very comfortable with Petraeus ,, Stanley McCrystal and other military personal in charge of our Presidency... It shows now what type of actions dealing with war would happen.... We no longer have leaders like IKE , which could separate the military actions , from the sound decisions of President of U.S to determined which steps to take..
None
WHO GIVES A CRAP!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7l6jg4Hlog
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
'elements on the other side of the spectrum' ... what an odd phrasing
Linda,
I caught that too.
It makes it sound like he's cutting deals with the Taliban, NO?
... Maybe he can list those, 'elements'?
Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
i took that "other side" to be the left side...
but, elements? sounds like a chicken shit way to half admit he's "fair"...
(see below comment)
He voted for palin?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
ysb,
he doesn't vote anymore. "Not since 2002..."
Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
Bush 18 times in Baghdad and 42 times in Kabul, he, he.
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THE WAR GENERAL DOES NOT CARE TO EXORCISE THE VERY FREEDOM THAT WHICH HE FIGHTS FOR...
... DEMOCRACY!
FIRE HIS A$$!!!!!
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... Feed Americans.
difference.
a bunch of you said you weren't going to vote in some of the future elections.
Although Petraeus' position is an indictment of the shitty Republican lot. He's a damned righty...period.
Here in Illinois very few Republicans running for office in 2010 acknowledge their party affiliation when advertising.
... you've noticed that too...?
a lot of blue signs also... heh...
Republicans are so ashamed here.
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Dear C&L,
The headline is wrong...
... PETRAEUS DOESN'T VOTE. PERIOD!
Not for McCain; not for Palin; not for Obama; not for Biden; not for anyone!!!
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
Glad somebody else shares my thoughts here. This isn't Petraeus knocking McCain or the Republican Party at all.
And I guess I shouldn't be surprised to see it still being used, but you're automatically a scumbag to call him Betrayus.
"you're automatically a scumbag to call him Betrayus."
lol... okay, if you say so.
some folks don't get it. BETRAYUS was part of the losers.
Remember how Patton treated LOSERS? HE FIRED 'EM.
That is interesting since I tend to think that people that defend Petraeus' ineptness are automatically stupid.
Not in a house, not with a mouse.
Not in a box, not with a fox.
Actually this used to be a tradition in the military. They would remain fastidiously neutral. Check out George C. Marshall. Now there was someone to admire. And I'm a life long Democrat.
I think it's safe to say that George C Marshall was a Democrat. And when you combine the Marshall plan with the Truman Doctrine, we see probably the greatest successes in preventing war, and not resorting to war, we can find in modern American history.
Sad that many G(no)P will hold him up as an example of a nonpartisan type.
Ummm... Democracy IS about exercising one's voice through the vote process.
I don't care who he votes for...
... Just that he practices what he fights for.
... Or maybe this whole charade isn't about a "FREEDOM AGENDA" to bring them "DEMOCRACY" after all.
I'd say a chip in the plaster just fell off. A rip in the curtain at Oz.
Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
for some reason, I have a hard as hell time believing he did not vote because he was promoted to major general.
That doesn't smell right to me either.
After all, it's only one vote, it's actually for the elector and not the candidate, and it's done by secret ballot
No better and no worse than anyone else.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
that he can't remember where the lies end and the truth starts, at this point.
I think it is a slap in the face of every person in the military to not vote especially if one is a member of the military.
What is really inappropriate is to even ask a person in the military who they voted for.
"admits"? why would this guy have to "admit" he didn't vote for an incompetent candidate? An obvious hostile candidate with a death wish for the American middle class.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
We all know what a hostile witness is. I submit that the Republicans have become a hostile party.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
He doesn't vote because no candidate was pro-war enough to get him excited.
He never took "Bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran" seriously.
And he would never answer to VP Palin - the generals would coup first.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
What does that mean? And which groups is he referring to?
Collusion with think tanks has a much greater influence on national elections than a single vote, btw.
Personally I think not voting is not the same thing as announcing that you don't vote. One might be noble, the other is just personal PR.
"Look at me, I being so strongly in separating civilian from military leadership I don't vote. Aren't I just wonderful!!"
Then he goes and gives undoubtably pro military industrial complex speeches to various right wing think tanks. Oh, and sometimes he also gives speeches to the enemy, or at least that's the implication.
This is the antithesis of nobility. But it's central to what a politician would do. Thus, it becomes more and more clear what Petraus is up to. The Republican nominee for President in 2012.
Petraus is an embarrassment and a fraud.
Again.
Na, Cheney conspired to defraud the Federal Government.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
"... and I've spoken to elements on the other side of the spectrum,"
really... do tell... where?
i don't remember hearing about any speeches... surely we would have heard about that...
He doesn't vote....then he doesn't count! Just doesn't seem to matter, does it?
ljmel
He spoke to the Heritage Foundation, that's all I needed to know.
I love his smack down!!! "What about 'no' do you not understand" bwahahaha you could see the tears welling up in poor little Chris Wallace's eyes.
I had the unfortunate opportunity to listen to this because my two-year old grandson fiddled with the remote and I was too lazy to get up and change it. The audio was on but the video wasn't and I didn't care.
Anyway, through most of the "interview" Wallace kept badgering Petreas about the "victory of the surge" and whether or not it worked and whether or not Obama "acknowleged that fact" to him or anyone else. Petreas tried to get him to back off by saying that he was "looking forward" not backward, but Wallace didn't want to stop.
Wallace just kept badgering Patreas on any angle he could come up with that would pit Patreas against Obama. Which of course, I think was the origin of the statement highlighted up front when Petreas kept trying to get Wallace off his back about taking political sides and cheap-shots.
Wallace is a tool and I was impressed with Petreas' unfluffed decorum throughout the "interview".
I hate generals, unless our country is really on the line.
What makes me so sick about post 9/11 is, all of this brouhaha about how our asses are so much on the line. The War on Terrorism. Iraq. Afghanistan. The day will finally, finally come, when the 9/11 attacks will be seen for what they truly were. I'm not going to say it. You know (I hope).
Obama has decided to let the generals do what they please. He has decided to give the generals what they want. This is a sad, sad day. We need a President who will stand up to the military. At least stand up to them, even if he does in the end play along. This is the problem with Obama: he's not only playing along, he's playing dead. He is just not seeing that the people he's playing dead for really want him dead, in fact.
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