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Topic: General Petraeus Gave Jill
Kelley A Medal For Schmoozing |
General Petraeus Gave Jill
Kelley A Medal For Schmoozing
Business Insider, by Henry Blodget
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Posted By:PageTurner, 11/22/2012 10:03:13 AM
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| Did you know you can get a medal from the U.S. military for schmoozing? Apparently you can. At General David Petraeus´s recommendation, the Joint Chiefs of Staff gave Tampa Bay socialite Jill Kelley the country´s second-highest honor a civilian can receive, reports Jeane MacIntosh of the New York Post. Kelley received the award from Petraeus himself in a ceremony in Washington DC last year.
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Comments:
Eeew.
Holly, meanwhile, got nothing, not even the loyalty she was entitled to.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Scribelus, 11/22/2012 10:32:18 AM (No. 9029224)
Did this have anything to do with exceeding a certain number of Kama Sutra positions?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
goose, 11/22/2012 10:45:07 AM (No. 9029240)
And the Nobel Committee gave Obama the Peace prize for....?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
earlybird, 11/22/2012 10:46:28 AM (No. 9029247)
Having lived in two communities where the Navy and Marine Corps, respectively, represented a fair amount of the population but were shunned by the regular residents, I can see how what she did was commendable. And it didn´t involve just the officers. One early report, before the mud started flying, told of her raising funds so that lower echelon military personnel could attend the military balls.
I refuse to judge her. It was her telling her friend, a well-respected FBI agent with major accomplishments on his record, about the disturbing emails she´d been receiving. And the emails mentioned General Petraeus. It was her FBI friend who determined the emails warranted FBI attention. No one knew they were from Broadwell - just some anonymous woman making threats. And mentioning a four-star general.
Thus Kelley pulled the first thread in unraveling this strange story of Petraeus and Broadwell, which led to his resignation, and which may finally lead to his being the key to finding out who in the White House was playing games with truth after the Benghazi murders. We have a pretty good idea who the mastermind may be.
So I´m not judging Kelley.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
NYBruin, 11/22/2012 11:05:54 AM (No. 9029294)
I thought she was awarded four Purple Hearts?
Oh wait, that was that other social climbing phony. . .
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JAN, 11/22/2012 11:06:30 AM (No. 9029297)
Holly got a $187,000 a year gummint position.
That buys a whole lot of forgiveness, I suppose.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Mai Bad, 11/22/2012 11:15:58 AM (No. 9029324)
Yo...yo...How the heck did Holly get that. Job???? Wasn´t from GOBBLING!!!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Mai Bad, 11/22/2012 11:17:08 AM (No. 9029326)
Yo..yo...That Jill must be good at GOBBLING!!! She got the MEDALS to prove it!!!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
planetgeo, 11/22/2012 11:41:46 AM (No. 9029369)
Yes, I believe it was that new medal, the Purple Ladypart.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Grambo, 11/22/2012 11:51:53 AM (No. 9029387)
I’ve seen no evidence that Kelly did anything immoral or illegal, but there are plenty of people making those insinuations on this forum. Perhaps I’m missing something. I hope so, because gratuitous mudslinging is more saloon than salon.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
dr.lakerman, 11/22/2012 12:11:55 PM (No. 9029429)
Makes me wonder if Petraeus got some three way or four way action...
And for those of you who think that I am making idle speculation, once he admitted to the first one, anything is possible.
Twins! Imagine the possibilities! (From the movie Manhattan, Woody Allen)
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Spidey, 11/22/2012 12:46:16 PM (No. 9029480)
If the government was so fond of her outreach parties,why didn´t they underwrite their costs? Maybe they wouldn´t be millions in debt.The only thing I have against her is getting Petraeus and Allen to intervene in a custody fight.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Emerson, 11/22/2012 1:13:10 PM (No. 9029510)
The great minds are loose on Thanksgiving, of all days. One wonders what they are doing with THEIR turkeys.
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