Bye Bye David Petraeus - resigns over extra-marital affair

[malaise]

Karma is everywhere

[bayareamike]

1. Andrea Mitchell is on the verge of tears. WTF?

[malaise]

2. And I'm ROFL

Life is funny

[Control-Z]

3. Yeah. What's with her?

Andrea is a strange one.

[gateley]

4. Wow! I'd just crawled into bed with my iPad and saw this. Thanks for the

Heads up, malaise.

What was the speculation about Petraesus's meeting at the WH? Weren't people wondering if he was going to come into takeover the SOS slot? I was only half listening this morning.

[malaise]

11. I'm sue this is more about Benghazi than the affair

We'll see

[gateley]

13. I think they would have come up with a lame -- and transparent -- "reason" if that were

were the case. Why put his wife and family through this unless it was imminent he was about to be busted? Maybe Obama was relieved that this took care of a tough decision for him.

[Gin]

5. Wasnt he known as "betrayus" ?.........that fits with his wife now.

[malaise]

8. Ding ding we have a winner

[speedoo]

6. Karma? Why?

[bluestate10]

10. I agree with the question. People are being hurt here. His wife is a prominent consumer advocate

who works for the Consumer Protection Agency and worked for Elizabeth Warren. It is not karma to see that woman hurt.

[bluestate10]

7. I am not sure whether Patraeus is a conservative, even though the extra marital problem is horrible.

His wife is a big time consumer advocate that worked for Elizabeth Warren. Patraeus and his wife have been married for 37 years. I would guess that Patraeus is at least a moderate politically, possibly left of center.

[malaise]

9. The marriage part is heartbreaking for his wife n/t

[jmowreader]

12. He's a retired general, and most generals are conservative

Wes Clark is the only non-conservative general I know of, and he's a centrist. Generals are typically Eisenhower-style classic conservatives.

A general can't be a teabagger because teabagging is incompatible with the spending levels required by the military, but they can be pro-life, anti-weed conservatives.

[Ruby the Liberal]

15. Mrs Petraeus set up the Military Assistance division at CFPB

She really has a heart for our service members. I heard her give a talk about the horrific things that happened while people were deployed (foreclosures, forced bankruptcy). Glad she is at the helm on this. Sorry she is now having to deal with this louse.

[Gin]

14. I want all the details since I was force fed every damn thing about Clinton

Who was the woman/man? Was he being blackmailed?

[malaise]

16. Same here n/t