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cali

(114,904 posts)
Sun Feb 9, 2014, 09:01 PM Feb 2014

Yeah, this convinces me. Not. Petraeus says Hillary would be a tremendous President

Among Republicans, there is no more popular general than David Petraeus, the commander credited for salvaging the Iraq war and the architect of the counter-insurgency strategy pursued by President Bush. Petraeus has always shied away from politics, but in a new book he is quoted lavishing so much praise on Hillary Clinton, he seems to be endorsing her as a candidate for President.

“She’d make a tremendous president,” Petraeus says in the new book “HRC” by Jonathan Allen and Aimee Parnes.

And for Petraeus, Exhibit A in why she would be a tremendous president is the very thing for which Republicans most aggressively attack Clinton: her performance as Secretary of State when the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked.

“Like a lot of great leaders, her most impressive qualities were most visible during tough times,” Petraeus tells Allen and Parnes. “In the wake of the Benghazi attacks, for example, she was extraordinarily resolute, determined, and controlled.”

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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/02/did-petraeus-just-endorse-hillary-clinton/

though I will enjoy the gnashing of teeth that this will cause repukes.

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Yeah, this convinces me. Not. Petraeus says Hillary would be a tremendous President (Original Post) cali Feb 2014 OP
But, but, but... Hillary is a far left wing liberal according to some here. RC Feb 2014 #1
The same way she can be a hard-right corporate lackey to some here. 11 Bravo Feb 2014 #2
i don't know anyone who claimed she was a far left liberal JI7 Feb 2014 #3
Oh, but there is. RC Feb 2014 #4
which post ? JI7 Feb 2014 #5
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