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Robert Gates on the current presidential candidates

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[h=1]One of America's most respected former military officials is worried about the 2016 presidential field[/h]
Gates served as the US secretary of defense under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and is the only person to have held that position under two presidents of two different political parties.
Yet just more than a week before the first votes are cast in the presidential primaries, none of the current crop of candidates, Gates told Business Insider, stands out as especially presidential.
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"People are making a lot of grandiose promises and pledges to do one thing or another, either on domestic affairs or on foreign policy," said Gates, who is promoting his new book, "A Passion for Leadership."
"But I haven't heard anybody really talking about how they would fix some of the problems that they're describing and how they would actually implement them," he added.
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Gates has it right. None of the candidates are "presidential", nor do they have real solutions to actual problems.
 
Dittohead not! said:
[h=1]One of America's most respected former military officials is worried about the 2016 presidential field[/h]





Gates has it right. None of the candidates are "presidential", nor do they have real solutions to actual problems.
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Anyone at all interested and armed only with a micro-brain has known that for months. Not one candidate with any chance at all is less than high risk in security and only the one that smells of corruption has the experience required for foreign policy. And this is not as simple as it was in the cold war. We are on the verge of real change.
 
joG said:
Anyone at all interested and armed only with a micro-brain has known that for months. Not one candidate with any chance at all is less than high risk in security and only the one that smells of corruption has the experience required for foreign policy. And this is not as simple as it was in the cold war. We are on the verge of real change.
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and not necessarily change for the better.
 
Dittohead not! said:
One of America's most respected former military officials is worried about the 2016 presidential field







Gates has it right. None of the candidates are "presidential", nor do they have real solutions to actual problems.
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None? Are you sure? Not a fan of Clinton but she seems to have put forth the status quo. That is wasting lives, time, and money in the middle east. She was a big part of the Iran deal -- at least according to her.

As far as Trump, "You're going to love my foreign policy. Wait and see" is pretty skimpy.

The only one that seems to get the mistakes we've made and not to repeat them is Bernie.

If Gates is so unhappy why didn't he run for president?
 
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