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Bob Gates: Donald Trump “unfit to be commander-in-chief”
CBS News ^ | Sept. 17, 2016

Posted on 09/17/2016 7:52:06 PM PDT by Rennes Templar

Former Defense Secretary Bob Gates savaged Donald Trump in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Saturday, declaring the Republican presidential nominee “unqualified and unfit to be commander-in-chief.”

“At least on national security, I believe Mr. Trump is beyond repair,” Gates wrote. “He is stubbornly uninformed about the world and how to lead our country and government, and temperamentally unsuited to lead our men and women in uniform.”

He offered some gentle criticism of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, urging her to be more candid on how she’d deal with China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. He also suggested she suffers from “credibility issues” on national security and transparency, but he argued she “has time before the election to address forthrightly her trustworthiness, to reassure people about her judgment.”

Gates, now the chancellor at William & Mary, offered no such optimism on Trump, describing the GOP nominee as “naïve and irresponsible” on Russia, “oblivious” on the fight against ISIS, and “willfully ignorant” about foreign relations and the military.

“The world we confront is too perilous and too complex to have as president a man who believes he, and he alone, has all the answers and has no need to listen to anyone,” Gates wrote. “In domestic affairs, there are many checks on what a president can do; in national security there are few constraints. A thin-skinned, temperamental, shoot-from-the-hip and lip, uninformed commander-in-chief is too great a risk for America.”

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To: kiltie65

Ooooops, I think I got the wrong Gates, too.


41 posted on 09/17/2016 8:10:26 PM PDT by kiltie65
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

You nailed it.


42 posted on 09/17/2016 8:10:39 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Rennes Templar

Hillary “has time before the election to address her trustworthiness and reassure people about her judgment”???

She’s a liar. How do you fix that? How many people trust liars?


43 posted on 09/17/2016 8:13:36 PM PDT by ZagFan
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To: Kickass Conservative

“why didn’t you volunteer to join the Trump Team...?”

Once a globalist, always a globalist. No going back, no disloyalty to the cause.


44 posted on 09/17/2016 8:14:10 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (President Trump: It's all over but the counting)
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To: Rennes Templar

Say good-bye to our William and Mary donation...


45 posted on 09/17/2016 8:14:35 PM PDT by MHT (,`)
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To: Rennes Templar
Gates has his fingerprints over so-many unfortunate policy decision I'm surprised he thinks he has something relavent to say. He is a supreme Ruling Class, Butt Kissing Putz.

The serially corrupt brain-damaged Hillary is obviously his perfect candidate. Keep-on talking Gates...Please! You only help The Donald's candidacy because all people remember from you is failure!

46 posted on 09/17/2016 8:16:21 PM PDT by WRhine (Truth is Treason in an Empire of Lies)
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To: Rennes Templar

Bob Gates after being head of the Boy Scouts of America: “... the organization is well-positioned for the future after deciding to allow openly gay adult leaders in its ranks...”


47 posted on 09/17/2016 8:16:58 PM PDT by Duke of Milan
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To: murron

Sorry that Trump used “crooked” instead of “incompetent “ to describe Hillary...


48 posted on 09/17/2016 8:17:25 PM PDT by MHT (,`)
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To: Rennes Templar

yes and H Clinton knows so much that she let people die in Benghazi, lied about it, set up her server in her basement, sent classified info on it, and then lied again.
Middle east in flames, people lost their homes in their millions, Russia re-set is a failure, Africa in turmoil.

Oh yes Gates she knows so much about foreign affairs.


49 posted on 09/17/2016 8:18:33 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Voluntaryist

Yeah Gates took a swipe at all the presidents he worked for but seemed to have a fondness for Obama. Likely he was afraid of being called a racist if his criticism rose to the same level as he had for Bush as an example. Which makes me think he really just comes across as an arrogant know-it-all POS.


50 posted on 09/17/2016 8:19:38 PM PDT by Lent
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

Go to hell Gates. You mean nothing to anybody. Who the hell are you?


51 posted on 09/17/2016 8:22:26 PM PDT by WENDLE (Hillary's favorite pizza ---- LITTLE SEIZURES)
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To: Voluntaryist
When one of these DB political/media/celebrity types said things like that in the past, they could count on their target to roll up into a fetal position so they wouldn't antagonize the bully, while everyone else supporting the bully would nod to each other and say: "He's right, you know. [insert name of target here] is [insert favorite liberal derisive term here]..."

I think the target just fired back.

52 posted on 09/17/2016 8:23:37 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Rennes Templar
"has time before the election to address forthrightly her trustworthiness, to reassure people about her judgment."

ROFL, this has to be one of the most insanely idiotic statements ever uttered by someone prominent in public life. A person with fundamental failings of trust such as Shrillary does not get to just "address" those failings in a few weeks before an election. What does she say, "trust me this time, folks"!!?? Face it Gates, she is a pathological liar and you are a liberal globalist idiot no matter how much "experience" you can boast.
53 posted on 09/17/2016 8:25:22 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: ealgeone

You have a good memory.


54 posted on 09/17/2016 8:27:27 PM PDT by map
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

BoBo said that? Hillaryous!

HOORAY Trump


55 posted on 09/17/2016 8:28:59 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Rennes Templar

Being denounced by Robert Gates [and GWB too] is quite an honor.


56 posted on 09/17/2016 8:29:33 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Pence, 2016)
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To: Rennes Templar

One has to wonder how much the Boy Scouts paid Bob Gates to come into their organization and clear the way for openly homosexual men to lead boys.


57 posted on 09/17/2016 8:30:09 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: Voluntaryist

Democrats very excited that the George W Bush guys back Hillary.


58 posted on 09/17/2016 8:30:09 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Hillary's nominatin = 60's Violence. "Constant conflict is actually often good politics"-Clinton)
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To: ealgeone

Reagan was called thin skinned and temperamental? I thought he was called a dumb B movie actor trying to bite more than he can chew.


59 posted on 09/17/2016 8:30:57 PM PDT by sagar
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To: Enchante

They’ll say anything as they have to get her in at all costs. If she’s half-dead they don’t care, they can still run their agenda through her and keep the gravy train chugging.


60 posted on 09/17/2016 8:31:21 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (President Trump: It's all over but the counting)
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