Chris Stirewalt: Campaign hounds didn’t bark at Petraeus’s Senate hearing

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Gen. David Petraeus’ Senate testimony on the war in Iraq was less political theater and more kabuki theater, an elaborate production in which everyone already knows the outcome.

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., aware that many Democrats in the upcoming states on the primary calendar happen to take a rather high view of the military, was working hard to avoid another blunder like the one last year when she told Patraeus that reading his report required the suspension of disbelief.

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