Posted on 11/14/2012 1:49:25 PM PST by neverdem
Well put ‘Frog. Yep, sold to us as so smart, the ‘Top Spook’ if you will, but to damn stupid to be able to figure out how to bang a chippie broad or two on the sly without getting caught. This very well could be a classic Honey Pot. I read a story earlier today that really layed out some interesting things about those 2 sisters and their connections to the middle east.
Oh he'll bounce right back!
Hell; even Slick Willy got re-elected!
I’m sure the fact that his wife is a leftist harridan had nothing to do with it. Talk about just giving up and letting yourself go. That doesn’t excuse his behavior, but it does make it more likely to happen in the first place.
Is the Old Testament the same in every version?
The author is too cerebral in his analysis. Sexual attraction is designed to overpower the rational mind, and it is exceedingly difficult to maintain moral purity. That’s why there are many moral strictures to act as a bulwark against that kind of temptation. This is especially true if you’re a man in the presence of an attractive, smart, and aggressive woman who is obviously willing to become physically intimate. Yes, many man do pass by the temptation, but I’m willing to be that those who do reject it spend much of their lives imagining what might have been. The rest succumb to temptation.
That’s not where my mind went with this. The first thing I thought about were the sheer volumes of Democrat horndogs who have mounted everything this side of a knot in a tree and been richly appreciated by their party and the media. The double standard floors me. Second, I was thinking about Alinsky’s rule about punishing your enemy with their own rules. Petraeus was talked about as a Republican presidential candidate; now this. Third, I know Obama has a long history of destroying opponents with revelations about private sex lives. This fits the pattern.
God help us.
“...willing to BET....”
Need a better editor (in my brain).
The candy in checkout lanes is for men. We’re impulse buyers. The bigger question is, “Why risk your family and career?” Why bring her back for more?
Sure, but was it “All In”? ;)
I hope her husband kicks her dirty whoring *ss to the curb, takes her children, and her book royalties, too! Then you’ll see how much that “rack” will get her.
Well, he’s also had prostate cancer and probably has hugh problems with his sexual performance. Takes a strong women to help him with his penis pump.
Tomorrow he could surprise me, but I'm thinking he'll just lie his pathetic old rear end off to save Obama.
Excellent overview.
This is not as widely known as it should be.
I've been running for over 40 years, and Petraeus by all accounts was near fanatical in his obsession with running..far more than I. Over the age of 40, and especially over 50, the physical distinctions and capabilities between those who are fit, and those who aren't, are far more apparent. People who don't run, do NOT understand how important it is to those who do. That's why we run in the rain, in the snow, why we get up at the crack of dawn, even after having gotten home at 2am that same night. Why when we're away on a business trip, we take out running gear.
Holly Petraeus is a lovely lady who does wonderful work with the troops, and has been the perfect military spouse as Petraeus climbed the ranks. However, it's obvious from pictures that she probably couldn't walk a 5k. They couldn't share his greatest passion.And she wasn't always like that, their wedding pics show a slender woman; indeed, their daughter's wedding's pics, from last year, mirror the mom's..a slender, trim, attractive woman.
The wife, for whatever reasons, let herself go over the years..failed to take care of herself...and that can, and has, killed many a marriage, when one spouse falls badly out of shape. Some may call that sexist, to me, it's just reality.
The fact that Broadwell could run, and even keep up with him, was, IMHO, the ultimate contributing factor..she could share, participate in, something that is very important to him.
Ahitophel, who sides with Absalom (he is the one who suggests that Absalom sleep with David's concubines) but later commits suicide when his advice is rejected, was the grandfather of Bathsheba...so the great-grandfather of Solomon, who would never have reached the throne if Absalom had succeeded David.
You make sense.
RE: #34, that makes as much sense as anything I’ve read about this affair.
Broadwell is a woman with a husband and two kids. If it were a honey pot, a more logical and so more likely seductress would have been an attractive single woman.
Furthermore she allegedly still had papers on her when the affair became public. That is not the hallmark of a pro operation.
Please don't ask me how I know.
Who ever respected BetrayUs?
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