Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 121-129 next last
To: sagar
I seem to remember him being cast as a cowboy who was ready to blow up the world.

He was also classed as dumb.

I like the Dean Martin roasts on youtube. Watch the one on Reagan when Don Rickles does his roast of Reagan. He is advancing the narrative Reagan was dumb. And this was around 72 or 73 IIRC.

61 posted on 09/17/2016 8:33:09 PM PDT by ealgeone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies]

To: Rennes Templar

I went for a walk earlier, and I stepped in a pile of Bob Gates.


62 posted on 09/17/2016 8:33:37 PM PDT by kiryandil (m)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rennes Templar

Gates a total insider and weak as a wet noodle.


63 posted on 09/17/2016 8:34:44 PM PDT by Red Steel
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rennes Templar

He’s peripatetic


64 posted on 09/17/2016 8:35:57 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: oldbrowser

Over time, the assholery at the core of the DC culture has metastasized into various categories. Two come readily to mind:
The Bush Buffoons, for whom DC was a mere hiring hall where they awaited a call; alerting them that it was their turn to run.
Another is a schmuck like Gates, your eternal political flunky, who accomplished absolutely nothing during his tenure in office; yet remains a useful idiot for the frenzied left.


65 posted on 09/17/2016 8:38:55 PM PDT by Arrian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: Rennes Templar

Robert Gates....isn’t he the idiot who was the head of the Boy Scouts of America and thought it was A-OK to have homosexuals as scoutmasters?

Adult homosexual “men” in the woods with teenage boys....what possibly could go wrong? sarc/


66 posted on 09/17/2016 8:41:20 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (You can't spell TRIUMPH without TRUMP)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rennes Templar

Bob Gates just manifested he is not competent to hold any office in the USA. His prior political appointments were obviously corrupt.


67 posted on 09/17/2016 8:43:10 PM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Last Dakotan
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.

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

68 posted on 09/17/2016 8:43:26 PM PDT by kiryandil (m)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies]

To: Rennes Templar
Ok, who are you going for Hillary?? Or Johnson or Stein?? Or maybe you are going for Egg McMuffin..

I'll ask the people at McDill who they want...

69 posted on 09/17/2016 8:46:42 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The RELIGION of PEDOPHILIA...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rennes Templar
Mr. Gates, where the f__k were you in 2008? You are now part of Obama’s failed foreign policy. Go to hell.
70 posted on 09/17/2016 8:55:21 PM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rennes Templar

A lot of generals disagree with him. They support Trump.

Here is the actual letter and the names of the generals who signed it:

https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/MILITARY_LETTER.pdf


71 posted on 09/17/2016 9:03:42 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rennes Templar

Enjoy your retirement, Mr. Gates.
We are doing fine without your advice.
Was it fun helping Obama to weaken the military?
Is this part of your audition to work for Hillary too?
Go fly a lead kite, Mr.Gates.


72 posted on 09/17/2016 9:07:00 PM PDT by lee martell
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Last Dakotan
57 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.

Gates was an Eagle Scout as a youth and much later in life served as the volunteer president of the National Eagle Scout Association. BSA paid him zip. The die had already been cast by the ~27 officers of the BSA National Executive Committee back in 2013 - mostly executives of Fortune 500 companies. Gates just provided the final gravitas, while serving as the volunteer BSA National President, for the vote at the 2015 BSA National Council meeting to permit adult homosexual membership within BSA units.

He really is a little man who has helped severely damage his country.

73 posted on 09/17/2016 9:09:06 PM PDT by MacNaughton (" ...it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism." Whitaker Chambers)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies]

To: Rennes Templar

Dear Mr. Gates, Mr. Trump has surrounded himself with some of the best and brightest minds in the military and intelligence fields. That, sir, is what a leader does. There didn’t seem to be much outcry over ‘lack of experience’ when Zero was a candidate. So, sit down.


74 posted on 09/17/2016 9:12:00 PM PDT by blueplum ((March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rennes Templar

Yeah, another Hillary loving Republican.


75 posted on 09/17/2016 9:18:32 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump made his money and went to D.C., Hillary went to D.C. and made her money.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: Rennes Templar

Dunno, Bob - a bunch of military folks are saying otherwise.


76 posted on 09/17/2016 9:18:39 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rennes Templar

So Bobby. Tell us what you think of the sickly and frail old hippy being our president.


77 posted on 09/17/2016 9:19:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I may be deplorable but I've never had to plead the Fifth Amendment like so many Democrats are doing)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rennes Templar

Bob “Apple bobbin’” Gates is unfit to use my bathroom.


78 posted on 09/17/2016 9:21:51 PM PDT by ShivaFan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rennes Templar
In the name of national security, Gates would have us vote for an individual who intentionally skirted well established InfoSec practices for her personal convenience, and more likely, to avoid oversight.

What a douchebag.
79 posted on 09/17/2016 9:21:51 PM PDT by indthkr
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LucyT; melancholy

Trump’s unfit but jug-ears and cankles are?

Shove it, Gates.


80 posted on 09/17/2016 9:25:17 PM PDT by azishot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 79 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 121-129 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson