Clinton Launching National Security Case Against Trump in California Speech
Politics is neither sport nor game; who we select as our leader this election affects all future generations, and I cannot in good conscience select a blustering fool to lead our military and represent our strategic needs at world summits. The more Trump struts and blusters, the more ignorance he displays is just the more that the leaders of our enemies and nominal allies salivate at the possibilities.
Retired Army Col. Peter Mansoor plans to vote for Hillary Clinton for president this year, but not because the longtime Republican and former top aide to then-Gen. David Petraeus has had a political conversion. He just thinks Republican Donald Trump is too dangerous to be president.
“It will be the first Democratic presidential candidate I’ve voted for in my adult life,” said Mansoor, a professor of military history at Ohio State University.
Clinton’s campaign hopes that there are many more national-security-minded Republicans and independents who would vote for her, even grudgingly, rather than see Trump win the White House. Those voters are an important part of the audience for her case that she is fit to be commander in chief and that Trump is not.
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