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Author Topic: American Election Megathread - It's Over  (Read 770142 times)

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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9120 on: November 09, 2012, 04:05:16 pm »
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9121 on: November 09, 2012, 04:13:54 pm »
Oh, I can't wait to see what Alex Jones says about this.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9122 on: November 09, 2012, 04:15:45 pm »
That has to be one of the most ridiculous excuses for resignation ever.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9123 on: November 09, 2012, 04:19:03 pm »
Petraeus 2016, perhaps?
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9124 on: November 09, 2012, 04:20:06 pm »
GreatJustice I'm sure that nobody wants to hear us prattle on about economics, but if you want to take this into another thread I guess that I'll follow you. However you're not going to get a better answer for 1920-1928 besides "A huge-ass bubble burst and nothing could stop it from bursting."

Quote from: kaijyuu on November 09, 2012, 04:15:45 pm
That has to be one of the most ridiculous excuses for resignation ever.

Well, he is the director of the CIA. Who knows what juicy secrets he could give up on the pillow?
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9125 on: November 09, 2012, 04:22:51 pm »
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on November 09, 2012, 04:13:54 pm
Oh, I can't wait to see what Alex Jones says about this.

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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9126 on: November 09, 2012, 04:23:43 pm »
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on November 09, 2012, 04:19:03 pm
Petraeus 2016, perhaps?

Possibly... although there was also speculation about him running in 2012, and furthermore I think this kind of incident would damage his chances for any future political involvement.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9127 on: November 09, 2012, 04:25:20 pm »
Quote from: SealyStar on November 09, 2012, 04:23:43 pm
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on November 09, 2012, 04:19:03 pm
Petraeus 2016, perhaps?

Possibly... although there was also speculation about him running in 2012, and furthermore I think this kind of incident would damage his chances for any future political involvement.
After Newt Gingrich?
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9128 on: November 09, 2012, 04:28:44 pm »
Quote from: kaijyuu on November 09, 2012, 04:15:45 pm
That has to be one of the most ridiculous excuses for resignation ever.
Not really. Having an affair (and being found out) can pretty much destroy your intelligence clearance, because of the potential for blackmail. You don't get much higher clearance than the director of the CIA. Plus, from what I know of him (secondhand from a few friends/colleagues that have met the man), Petraeus is a good guy. If anything, he was probably holding this until after the election to keep it from becoming a problem for the administration before the election.

As much as I'd kind of hope for a Petraeus run in 2016, I don't see it. Everything I've ever read about the man says he has no aspirations to political office.

It's a damn shame. I thought he was our brightest general in the field in Iraq, and then in Afghanistan, and I liked him a hell of a lot better as CIA Director than I did Leon Panetta. I was hoping maybe Petraeus would become SecDef second term, but I guess not.  :(


EDIT: Gaaaah, and already hundreds of dumbasses all over the Internet are screaming "It's all about Benghazi!". As if the Director of the fucking CIA is going to make up having an affair in his resignation, to "cover-up" a relatively minor event. If this was a forced resignation (or even a voluntary one over some internal political conflict), it'd have been the standard "spend more time with the wife and kids".
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9129 on: November 09, 2012, 05:53:54 pm »
Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on November 09, 2012, 04:20:06 pm
Well, he is the director of the CIA. Who knows what juicy secrets he could give up on the pillow?

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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9130 on: November 09, 2012, 06:07:33 pm »
The best part is that the CIA having killed Tupac would be way more of a controversy than if the Benghazi conspiracy theory was true.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9131 on: November 09, 2012, 06:16:13 pm »
I support Petraeus for everything. That is one awesome name.

Unfortunately, it's also a villain's name. So I also asupport him for everything.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9132 on: November 09, 2012, 06:28:02 pm »
Hey, just look what else the general public doesn't care about - planning for the war in Iraq having begun in 2000 (!), all that jazz in southern America, politicians calling science "lies straight from the pits of hell" (only in Texas :D ) , ...
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9133 on: November 09, 2012, 07:09:08 pm »
Quote from: scriver on November 09, 2012, 06:16:13 pm
I support Petraeus for everything. That is one awesome name.

Unfortunately, it's also a villain's name. So I also asupport him for everything.

No, no, you're thinking of General Betrayus.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9134 on: November 09, 2012, 07:09:26 pm »
Quote from: Nadaka on November 09, 2012, 11:11:45 am
http://news.yahoo.com/darwin-gets-4-000-write-votes-against-ga-232412954--election.html

Charles Darwin, the long dead biologist, won over 4000 write in votes in the the uncontested election of Paul Broun, who is notable for calling science "lies straight from the pit of hell" and for being on the House of Representatives Science Committee.

That thing is an idiot, plain and simple. How on earth does something like that get a position on the Science Committee?

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