David Gergen actually said...

"if there's one man who can turn it around, if there's one leader who can turn it around, it's David Petraeus."

"I think it's very much worth remembering that counter heat brought counterinsurgency to Iraq in a war that look hopeless at the time is -- we're in a much, much better place there because of his leade..."

"he's a great patriot."

"The President's dilemma is that he said, you know, Tony Hayward, from BP, if he worked for him, he would have been fired a long time ago for some of the dumb things he has been saying."