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Petraeus’s Bathsheba Syndrome - Why did a man we so respected succumb to temptation?
National Review Online ^ | November 13, 2012 | Mackubin Thomas Owens

Posted on 11/14/2012 1:49:25 PM PST by neverdem

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To: Mamzelle

No, I don’t excuse Petraeus, or Clinton, or any of the other cheaters. I wouldn’t have defended GHWB, had he cheated, and there were rumors to that effect. That’s about 10 times I’ve said that now. One last time: I DO NOT EXCUSE GENERAL PETRAEUS FOR CHEATING ON HIS WIFE. Got it? He needs to ask her forgiveness, and that of whom I hope is his Savior. She should forgive him, and leave him. From the very beginning I have said that his behavior is without excuse.

You are suspecting incorrectly. You don’t know a thing about me, other than I think that Holly Petraeus completely let herself go, and that it made her husband’s infidelity more likely. Feel free to honestly disagree with that; most women will miss the point on it, and think it’s about who looks better between Holly and Paula. It’s not.

I think you are probably right about Rush.


81 posted on 11/15/2012 12:31:42 PM PST by cdcdawg
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To: AnonymousConservative

That all sounds chillingly plausible. I saw variations on it back when I handled divorce cases (dark days). The wife wasn’t the primary target because she didn’t see her as a threat, and couldn’t overplay her hand yet. She had already pealed him away from the wife in any sense that was meaningful to her. She had to hold off the other vultures. Paula Broadwell reminds me of the woman who gets murdered in Presumed Innocent.


82 posted on 11/15/2012 12:42:57 PM PST by cdcdawg
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To: cdcdawg
Honestly, dear, if the hot hot hottie Paula lives long enough, there will be a time that she must "let herself go." Then she will be thrown on the mercy of her husband's wedding vows, "for better or worse."

Just like all men, if they live long enough, will get prostate cancer.

I think it's just such a shame men let themselves go like that, getting cancer that pretty much puts them out of the sex game without medical devices. The idea of having intercourse with some of these devices can be pitiful to hilarious, depending on how you look at it. It might take a woman who took a vow of "in sickness or in health." But what value does that have?

At that point in time, it would be nice if the guy who let himself get cancer had someone who gave a damn about him other than the bling on his chest. Or perhaps just a woman dutiful to her promises. Which might be a woman who has no access to the fountain of youth.

83 posted on 11/15/2012 1:40:00 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: Mamzelle

You are talking about the fountain of youth, and cancer; and I’m talking about walking a few times a week, eating better, getting some more flattering clothes, a new hairdo, and some better looking glasses or contacts.

As to your prostate cancer-filled revenge fantasies, I’ve got nothing. Seek help.

Now, I’m off to Walmart to marvel at how many of the people would have been leaner and better dressed a generation ago, but can’t be because we have since lost the fountain of youth.


84 posted on 11/15/2012 2:04:48 PM PST by cdcdawg
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To: Delta Dawn
No matter how far up the ladder one gets, there is always someone higher.

Five Star Gen Douglas MacArthur didn't believe this, until Harry S Truman showed him.

MacArthur thought God reported to him.

85 posted on 11/15/2012 3:47:03 PM PST by Ole Okie
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To: cdcdawg

get lost loser


86 posted on 11/15/2012 3:47:55 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: cdcdawg

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah crybaby, you aren’t used to someone pointing out your shallowness are you? everybody has to agree with you, go away


87 posted on 11/15/2012 3:50:12 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Mamzelle

Don’t tell me his dyed comb-over doesn’t do something for you.


88 posted on 11/15/2012 3:52:54 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: cdcdawg
So all the sixty-yr old Holly had to do is take a walk and get a makeover.

Don't think so. She might be able to look a little better, but I never thought she was as ugly as you seem to think she is. She'd still be sixty.

There is no competing with a younger woman if a younger woman is what the husband wants, whether he's left the keys in the car or whatever. As for revenge fantasies, Paula has to turn sixty, also, someday if she is fortunate enough to. Maybe we'll check back in to find she's finally transformed into a man to match her manhands, biceps and manjaw.

Duty, honor, country. What a crock.

89 posted on 11/15/2012 6:50:54 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: yldstrk

Awwww, the liar doesn’t like being called a liar. Has to come back and call names to try to cover up the lying. Liar.


90 posted on 11/15/2012 7:55:56 PM PST by cdcdawg
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To: cdcdawg

yeah, believe what you want loser.


91 posted on 11/15/2012 7:59:25 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Mamzelle

Yes, she’d still be sixty, look a whole lot better, and feel a whole lot better about herself. You think that Holly would have needed to look “hotter” than Paula. I’m not suggesting that, and I’m repeating that point ad nauseum. You disagree. So be it.

Your revenge fantasies are really out there. Unless you are Holly, or a close friend, or a family member, let it go. It cannot be healthy. Paula will probably look at sixty like the women that age that I see at races on weekends, very fit for her age. And she will still be a really nasty individual, if my read on her is correct.


92 posted on 11/15/2012 8:51:12 PM PST by cdcdawg
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To: yldstrk

I won’t believe anything you say, because you are a liar.


93 posted on 11/15/2012 8:57:30 PM PST by cdcdawg
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To: cdcdawg

no, but you are an insufferable bore and I don’t give a hoot what you believe


94 posted on 11/15/2012 9:02:05 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Jeff Head
When you consider that the leading General in charge of all of Africa, and the Admiral in charge of the CSG operating in the Med were stood down/relieved in conjunction with, or soon after Benghazi, and now this occurs to Petraeus just before he is scheduled to testify before congress on Benghazi and the US General in charge of all NATO forces in Afghanistan is now being dragged into the scandal...it’s just too many very top people going down all at once for it to be coincidence to me.

I think you broke the code there, Jeff. My tagline is a quote from the Libya security chief in his testimony before Issa's committee last month.

I think Al Qaeda had another strike on us, and it sounds like a Valerie Jarrett operation.

95 posted on 11/15/2012 9:11:12 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: exit82
Absolutyely. The Muslim Brotherhood who helped give birth to Al Quida is definitley in the House...as in the White House.

The stench of treason is heavy in the air.

96 posted on 11/15/2012 9:24:36 PM PST by Jeff Head
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks neverdem


97 posted on 11/16/2012 3:36:31 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: cdcdawg

“The wife wasn’t the primary target because she didn’t see her as a threat, and couldn’t overplay her hand yet....She had to hold off the other vultures.”

Probably right. And at the same time she’s plotting, she’s on a romantic vacation with her hubby, who proably has no idea he’s already got a pink slip.

God bless those kids and protect them.


98 posted on 11/16/2012 9:23:14 AM PST by AnonymousConservative (Why did Liberals evolve within our species? www.anonymousconservative.com)
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