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Title: Gen. David Petraeus floated as possible Romney running mate
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The Daily Caller
URL Source: http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/07/g ... -possible-romney-running-mate/
Published: Aug 8, 2012
Author: Alex Pappas
Post Date: 2012-08-08 00:58:42 by Hondo68
Keywords: Central Intelligence Agency di, Petraeus his VP nominee, a shrewd Romney choice
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With a vice presidential announcement expected in the coming days, Gen. David Petraeus is now being floated as possible dark-horse option for Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. The possibility that Petraeus, the Central Intelligence Agency director who oversaw American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, could be chosen by Romney as his running mate surfaced Tuesday on the Drudge Report. The news website quoted a “top fundraiser” to President Obama saying the president thinks Romney wants to name Petraeus his vice presidential nominee. “The president wasn’t joking,” the insider told the Drudge Report. The website added that, “Romney is believed to have secretly met with the four-star general in New Hampshire” and the “pick could be a shrewd Romney choice.” “A Petraeus drama has been quietly building behind the scenes.” White House press secretary Jay Carney dismissed the report Tuesday. “I can say with absolute confidence, such an assertion has never been uttered by the president.” Carney said. And Romney reportedly ignored shouted questions at him Tuesday about whether he has met with Petraeus. Two years ago, Petraeus said he would never run for office. “I am not a politician,” he said on Meet the Press in 2010, “and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.”
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
And just when I thought this election couldn't get any worse.
"If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave." Samuel Adams, Rights of the Colonists, 1772
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