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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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.
I went for a walk earlier, and I stepped in a pile of Bob Gates.
Gates a total insider and weak as a wet noodle.
He’s peripatetic
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.
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/
Bob Gates just manifested he is not competent to hold any office in the USA. His prior political appointments were obviously corrupt.
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...
I'll ask the people at McDill who they want...
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
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, another Hillary loving Republican.
Dunno, Bob - a bunch of military folks are saying otherwise.
So Bobby. Tell us what you think of the sickly and frail old hippy being our president.
Bob “Apple bobbin’” Gates is unfit to use my bathroom.
Trump’s unfit but jug-ears and cankles are?
Shove it, Gates.
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