CIA chief Petraeus denies interest in elected office

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON | Wed Aug 8, 2012 3:55am IST
(Reuters) - CIA director General David Petraeus has no plans to become a candidate for vice president or run for any other elected office, a spokesman for the spy chief said on Tuesday.

"Director Petraeus feels very privileged to be able to continue to serve our country in his current position, and, as he has stated clearly numerous times before, he will not seek elected office," CIA spokesman Todd Ebitz told Reuters.

The agency issued the statement in response to rumors which appear to have originated with a report on the widely read website Drudgereport.com, run by Internet gossip Matt Drudge.

Drudge claimed in an "exclusive" report that President Barack Obama this week "whispered to a top fundraiser" that he believed presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney wanted to name Petraeus, a highly decorated former combat commander, as his running mate.

The report said that Romney had secretly met with Petraeus in New Hampshire, an assertion which government officials said was false.

Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/07/us-romney-petraeus-idINBRE8761HD20120807

[lsewpershad]

1. What will

the general bring to the ticket...how to create and "win"more wars?

[earthside]

4. Military, foreign policy experience.

I posted about Petraeus as a possible Rmoney veep on July 13.

Face it, Rmoney is such a poor nominee that he has nada in one of the areas that Repuglicans always claim as a strong point: no military or foreign policy experience of any kind (not even as member of a Congressional committee).

So, Petraeus would bring all of that to the Repuglican ticket -- and since this is going to be a base-turnout election, I think Petraeus would excite the GOP faithful.

Frankly, I think it would be a good pick for Rmoney.

And I remember back during the Iraq war years when it was talked about that Petraeus did have political ambitions.

[grasswire]

2. trial balloon? n/t

[MidwestTransplant]

3. More like Pimp My Site by drudge.

[maddezmom]

5. my thoughts as well

[grantcart]

7. nope just a right wing lie.

[MADem]

6. Petraeus wouldn't bite the hand that feeds him. He got the job he's in--a very good job it is, too-

from a gent who is his boss, a fellow by the name of Obama.

This is an idiotic, desperate, flopsweaty assertion, designed to try to fire up a dejected and disinterested wingnutty base.

Obama may well have been whispering "The Mittwit wants Petraeus!" like he'd whisper "The Mittwit wants the Easter Bunny!"

Romney-Hoppy 2012! Hopping Down the Road to a Greater America For the Us Rich Folks! Come on, "You People," vote for the Funny-Bunny ticket!

[Historic NY]

8. Whispered my a@@..

Sludge don't know how to play the game.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Another scrap of shit pulled from the festering bunghole

of Matt Drudge, almost certainly "leaked" (from nowhere but Drudge's colon) for the sole purpose of stirring up positive interest in Mittens' campaign and taking attention away from the tax return contretemps.

[Festivito]

10. Intelligent countries DO NOT ALLOW intelligence-officers to become country's leaders.

We can't even learn from our mistakes.

[Sgent]

11. We've done it before

with Bush I, also a bunch of Generals -- Washington, Grant, Ike, etc.

The Democrats almost selected our chief counter-intel guy in Bobby Kennedy.

[Festivito]

13. GHW Bush 1, yes. The rest, no. Bush 1 was bad enough.

CIA started under Ike. Who then warned us about MIC.

JFK tried to shut it down, but died before he could, which could be related to each other.

Generals are not a problem. They generally know war. People who have been to war do not want to start wars.

Our current problem period begins with Reagan. GHW Bush was the VP and probably more in charge than Nancy's astrologer.

[lib2DaBone]

12. Obama’s Feckless Blunder: Making the Neocon Petraeus Great

From 2010 ... http://tarpley.net/2010/06/23/towards-the-eighteenth-brumaire-of-general-david-petraeus/



In addition to all this, important results of the McChrystal ouster will probably be seen in US domestic politics. Obama has now committed the absolutely idiotic blunder of making General Petraeus far greater and far more important than he already was, despite the fact that General Petraeus is his most likely and credible Republican presidential challenger in 2012, and the one most capable of defeating Obama, as postings on this site have already made clear. As outlined here, Petraeus has clearly emerged as the preferred candidate of the entire neocon camp, including William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, Max Boot, Frank Gaffney, the American Enterprise Institute, the Weekly Standard, and many others. Obama can usefully be compared to the earlier Democratic party Wall Street stooge and puppet, President Harry Truman, who destroyed what was left of his own popularity by firing General MacArthur in a dispute about the limited war policy in Korea in April of 1951. The beneficiary of the public revulsion against Truman was General Eisenhower, who became president in 1952 after Truman had dropped out of contention in despair over his abysmal poll numbers.
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April 28,2011

President Obama names Gen Patreaus as Director of CIA.