Petraeus Sec of State???

Aren't you jumping the gun, he hasn't appointed anyone yet.  

I will agree however, not my first choice.

He shouldn't even be being considered, he's still on probation!

Oh the irony.

Wasn't it far more that e-mails ? He passed notebooks of highly classified information to his biographer/mistress and admitted that he knew what he was doing did he not?

Hypocritical is an understatement ! There's a big difference in being " careless" which is doing something unintentionally by not giving your actions sufficient attention, which is what HRC did  and actually deliberately passing those notebooks to a 3rd party IMO.

If this appointment comes about I wonder what the allied countries that share intelligence with the US will think of it?.....not very favourably I would imagine.

No, not okay. They might be apples and oranges but another fancy phrase we like to throw around in government is the "image of impropriety." By demonizing Hillary and then claiming that Petraeus wasn't equally demonic is not okay. It opens up a can of worms fraught with the good ol' boy club. The image of impropriety is too strong with this one for it to be a good idea.

The man was removed from service wasn't he? Removed. And we're bringing him back and we're going to focus on the relation to HRC? That's absurd.

I finally got to use Trump speak in a sentence today   Nice to see yours!

I read the first article you linked (which is a little out of date) and I agree it is apples to oranges, but not in the way you suggest. This quote as at the bottom of the article:

In a July 7, 2016, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, Ranking Member Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) asked FBI Director James Comey whether he agreed with the claim that Petraeus “got in trouble for far less” than Clinton.



“No, it’s the reverse,” Comey said.



The Petraeus “illustrates perfectly the kind of cases the Department of Justice is willing to prosecute,” he said: A combination of obstruction of justice, intentional misconduct and a vast quantity of classified information. Petraeus admitted he knew that was the wrong thing to do, Comey said.

Yep yep yep. And don't forget about Flynn.

I completely get the hypocrisy of nominating Petraeus but I'd rather have him than Guiliani.

I have always suspected Petraeus was overly enchanted with himself and was trying to show off. NOT saying that's OK, just musing aloud. I have a friend of a friend kind of thing where someone knows him and says he's a good guy IRL. I don't know if that's true or not, and it doesn't change that we got lucky that nothing serious happened to us as a nation when he did a very awful thing...but as others said, if I have to vote and it's him over Giuliani, so be it.

In a funny aside, I was once copied on a social email that was just CC'd, not BCC'd, and included Petraeus' personal email. Aren't I special? We only realized it because the sender sent out a followup asking us to ignore the recipients list, so of course we all had to figure out why.

I remember when this happened and thinking that he was just stupid, not nefarious. It shows a lapse of judgement, which is problematic, but even with that I would feel better with him than Guiliani. 

Of course it’s hypocritical. There’s hypocrisy on both the Republican and the Democratic fronts. When has the fear of being called a hypocrite ever stopped politicians from doing what they want to do? I’ve been voting since 1976 and every single president we’ve had since then has had instances when he has been called a hypocrite, whether by the media or opponents or the public, justified or not be damned. At the end of the day, what matters in the White House and Capitol is who can push his/her agenda through Congress with as little bloodshed as possible.

Does it bother me that Petraeus handed over confidential info? Yes, just as much as it bothers me that Clinton used a private server while Sec of State. Even the “experts” are debating whose breach is more egregious. (In the meantime, we have a Medicare crisis looming in the horizon, with Paul Ryan chomping at the bit, hell-bent on seeing his 1999 dream of privatization come to fruition. All of us here have differing opinions, but one of our equalizers is that we’ll all grow old and need healthcare, if we’re not already there. Do we want Medicare or do we want coupons?)

If given a choice, I would much rather have Patraeus, who is eminently qualified, than the others being considered. It’s politics – no one has clean hands.

(If it matters any, I’ve never had allegiance to either party – I’ve voted Democrat 7 times and Republican 3 times.)