David Petraeus resigns as CIA Director over extramarital affair

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Timing is rather suspicious. Maybe Obama is using this as a pretext to get rid of him?

Nonsense.  Petraeus is a great public servant and Obama is losing someone special at the helm over there....this is nothing that benefits the President.

Damn stupid reason to have to resign too.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Timing is rather suspicious. Maybe Obama is using this as a pretext to get rid of him?

Nonsense.  Petraeus is a great public servant and Obama is losing someone special at the helm over there....this is nothing that benefits the President.

Damn stupid reason to have to resign too.

It does make sense from the perspective that if Petraeus has been sleeping around, he could be blackmailed, which is dangerous for a CIA Director.  Nevertheless, once you admit you've had the affair, aren't you blackmail-proof over it?

Attempted blackmail may be why he resigned.  He would never give into a blackmailer.  I guess it's ok to get knob jobs at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but not in Langley

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

But I do feel that affairs are more than a good reason to disqualify one from service. If one cannot maintain their fidelity and loyalty to the person they swore to "to hold, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health," then how on earth can they be expected to be constant or loyal to anything (which is everything) less?

It's a great shame, but it was the only proper course of action.

The affair was going on for 37 years.  In that time he turned around Iraq and laid the ground work for us getting out of Afghanistan.  What have you been doing with your high horse for the last four decades?

Here's the resignation letter  it went on for 37 years?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

But I do feel that affairs are more than a good reason to disqualify one from service. If one cannot maintain their fidelity and loyalty to the person they swore to "to hold, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health," then how on earth can they be expected to be constant or loyal to anything (which is everything) less?

It's a great shame, but it was the only proper course of action.

The affair was going on for 37 years.  In that time he turned around Iraq and laid the ground work for us getting out of Afghanistan.  What have you been doing with your high horse for the last four decades?

Here's the resignation letter  it went on for 37 years?

My bad.  I read that wrong.  It did NOT go on for 37 years.  I skipped another report and misread it.

I wasn't trying a "gotcha"    It is a shame to lose a good D/CI

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Alert for conspiracy theorists: he was supposed to testify to Congress about Benghazi next week

They can't still summon him?  I'll bet they can.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

He of all people is the last person I would suspect to have an affair.

That's how he got to where he got in the Army and CIA.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

This story gets more and more hilarious by the hour. Read the second letter here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/magazine/a-message-from-beyond.html

Wow, just wow

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

For pictures...

Paul Broadwell, the biographer for Dave Petraeus

This is emerging to be the funniest affair in a long time.



His mother... erm wife.

I will not post a reply to these two posts for a couple of reasons...

1)  I don't want to be hit with 10 death points for being "inappropriate" (code word for speaking the truth about the elephant in the room).
2)  I don't want an absentee mod who doesn't bother to read 99% of my posts to come in and read a factual objective statement by me to summarily declare I want to kill all females.

Elephant is an interesting choice of words   But no matter, Badg and Moderate are as reasonable as it gets....so post away

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Broadwell has bigger problems now....classified material she stole was found in her home.  This is also very bad news for Petraeus.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

This isn't a bombshell......but it looks REAL bad

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

And Broadwell was at the White House too.....ugh

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

The real elephant in the room is, of course, that perceived physical attractiveness neither justifies nor excuses otherwise unjustified or unexcused adultery.

No need.  It is monogamy which needs to be excused.

It's easy enough to 'excuse' monogamy, since it is currently normative and if anything needs to be made more normative than it already is.

In case opebo is busy -  "Prude".