WASHINGTON — Paula Broadwell, whose affair with the nation’s CIA director led to his resignation on Friday, was the valedictorian of her high school class and homecoming queen, a fitness champion at West Point with a graduate degree from Harvard, and a model for a machine gun manufacturer.
It may have been those qualities — and a string of achievements that began in her native North Dakota, where she was state student council president, an all-state basketball player and orchestra concertmistress — that drew the attention of David H. Petraeus, the nation’s top spy and a four-star general, as the two spent hours together for a biography of Petraeus that Broadwell co-wrote.
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Is it just me, or does "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus" now sound like the title of a porn movie?
It's not just you, and, in fact, I DO see a movie here.
I had apparently overlooked the title of the book until this article/pic. I'm pretty sure I just woke the dog up with my laughter. I know nothing of the lives of the Petraeus's or the Broadwell's but as one who grew up in the shadow of a infidelity, I do feel very badly for the balance of the both families. Still I'll be waiting for the comedic gold that's sure to follow.....
It is a sad commentary on our society that people we hold as role models (or now, apparently, self-proclaimed role models like Broadwell) pontificate that they are all about family, yet then destroy two families by being weak and giving in to primal urges. Now she is on the pecking order with hamsters which have sex with multiple partners.