If the war didn’t get you, then can Washington hope to kill you?  In my opinion, not this guy.  Everything I read about him makes me think, Petraeus is one tough old man.  I’ve never met him personally, but from what I understand I wouldn’t want to mess with the man.  Rick Atkinson’s book In The Company of Soldiers basically chronicles Petraeus’ command through the Iraq Invasion with the 101st Airborne Division (Rick Atkinson was embed with Petraeus).  To drive the nail in that he’s tough as them; he’s been known to run his lieutenants into the ground (He was in his 50s, LTs are usually 22 to 28).  Maybe this is a case of ‘They just don’t make them like the used to.’

He fixed Northern Iraq as the commander of the 101st.  He then fixed Iraq as the commander of CENTCOM.  Could he fix America as president?

From my personal experience, every general is paving the way for some kind of electoral position.  I’ve noticed the second they take off the big-bird rank and put on a star; they stop yelling and start shaking the hands of the men they meet under their command.

He said in 2007 he wasn’t interested in running.  However, it’s probably prudent for a general to keep his mouth shut until he gets out of the service.  I mean if Obama knew that he would run against him in 2012.  He would undoubtedly make sure until that time he was reassigned to the worst assignments. After that Obama would hope he doesn’t get anymore political coverage.  Plus, it’s bad for a general to undermine a political leader (I’m pretty sure it’s against the UCMJ).  If he said he wanted to run it would basically be saying, “Hey you guys aren’t cutting it.” Which is the truth, but once again, UCMJ.

In 2012 I would like to see Bobby Jindal and Petraeus compete for the Republican Ticket.  Frankly, if Bobby is going to have any kind of chance he has to do better speeches than he did after Obama won the presidency.  To be fair, all of his other speeches sounded great!  Maybe, he should fire whoever wrote that speech about him being a child and his father telling him, ‘Americans can do anything.’  Before, I felt like Bobby was a very intelligent person who treated me, the viewer, as an intelligent being.  After that speech, I felt like he was talking down to me, or speaking directly to children because all of their hippy parents were celebrating ‘The Ones’ nomination.

Leave comments if you got them!?  Who’s your presidential hopeful and how badly do you think they are going to compete against Obama? (That’s if they let him take the democratic ticket)