General Petreaus and the American People

[erpowers]

This morning on the Today Show Laura Inghram make the statement that General Petreaus was more popular among the American people than George Bush and the Congress. Matt Lauer seemed to chime in and agree. I am not sure if they both did not try to say the same thing at the same time and just ended up agreeing with each other. However, I was thinking just a moment ago is Petreaus being more popular than Bush and Congress really that big of a deal considering their approval rating. Bush has an approval rating of 22% and Congress has an apporval rating of about 11%. It seems that even Barry Bonds could have a higher approval rating than Bush and Congress. It is not like Petreaus is competing with someone who, like Bill Clinton, had/has a 60% approval rating. So, should General Petreaus's approval rating ever be brought up.

[hobbit709]

1. Syphilis has a higher approval rating.

[Totally Committed]

2. Another article about Petraeus:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3538122

TC

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. NEVER attempt to apply logic to a PR campaign being run

by the White House, its sycophantic media puppets like Laura, and paid script readers like Matt Lauer.

This is week two in the PR campaign to shove the good name of Betrayus down our throats, all facts to the contrary. In fact, not one MSM presence will dig into his real record of failure and mistakes. No, he is the "author of the book on civil wars", he made peace in Anbar, he is brilliant, and he is popular with the troops. (who happened to give him his nickname in the first place.

[rasputin1952]

4. I have always found the claim that he is "The author of the

definitive book on civil war/insurgency/whatever", somewhat lame. All books get edited as times and tactics change. I always figured that Sun Tzu wrote the definitive book on all types of armed conflict...:D

Every Feild Manual I looked at/studied in the Army had numerous edits and most had massive changes as new technology appeared and old tactics were changed. What works in one situation, fails in another...you'd think people would undestand that....but they just ride along w/whatever is being laid out at the time...:(

[hobbit709]

5. He didn't write it

He signed off on the editing changes others did the work on. He took the credit as usual.

[rasputin1952]

6. That's how it always goes...

he was a LtGeneral at the time, I'm sure Majors, LT Col's and perhaps even a couple of Captains put it all together. No LTG is going to sit down and write a book, they have other things to do....:)