Former ambassadors

[billyerock1991]

Former ambassadors back Clinton in letter saying Trump ‘comforted our enemies’

Liz Goodwin
Senior National Affairs Reporter
September 22, 2016

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Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign stop in Orlando, Fla. (Photo: Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
Seventy-five former ambassadors, including 57 appointed by Republican presidents, released a letter Thursday endorsing Hillary Clinton and criticizing Donald Trump as “entirely unqualified” for the office.

“As career officers, we have served every President since Harry Truman, and have proudly represented every President since Richard Nixon as ambassadors or senior State Department officials in Senate-confirmed positions,” the letter obtained by Yahoo News reads. “We have served Republican and Democratic Presidents with pride and enthusiasm.” The Washington Post also reported on the letter.

But the diplomats said this election is different, with one candidate “unqualified” to serve in part because his rhetoric has “comforted our enemies.” They highlighted Trump’s praise and “admiration” for Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as the mogul’s recent remark that U.S. generals have been “reduced to rubble” under President Obama.

One of the career diplomats who signed the letter, Ryan Crocker, was picked by George W. Bush to be his ambassador to Pakistan and then Iraq. Another of the group, Daniel Kurtzer, was Bush’s pick for ambassador to Israel.

Trump, they wrote, is “ignorant of the complex nature of the challenges facing our country, from Russia to China to ISIS to nuclear proliferation to refugees to drugs, but he has expressed no interest in being educated. In his frequent statements about foreign countries and their citizens, from our closest friends to our most problematic competitors, Mr. Trump has expressed the most ignorant stereotypes of those countries; has inflamed their people; and has insulted our allies and comforted our enemies.”

The letter comes a day after 15 retired generals and admirals released a video endorsing Clinton, part of a broader push by the Clinton campaign to make inroads among conservative voters turned off by Trump. The former secretary of state has been endorsed by 110 retired military officials, while Trump has been endorsed by 120. Clinton has also picked up public endorsements from dozens of former Republican politicians and national security experts, while privately, former President George H.W. Bush is reportedly voting for her.

Read Thursday’s letter below:

STATEMENT BY FORMER CAREER AMBASSADORS AND SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS

The undersigned have each previously served the people of the United States as career diplomats in our nation’s Foreign and Civil Services. We have each had the privilege of being nominated by the President, and confirmed by the United States Senate, to represent our nation abroad and at the highest levels of our foreign policy and security organizations.

• Together, we have represented the United States as ambassadors in 52 countries or international organizations. We have hundreds of years of combined service.
• As career officers, we have served every President since Harry Truman, and have proudly represented every President since Richard Nixon as ambassadors or senior State Department officials in Senate-confirmed positions. We have served Republican and Democratic Presidents with pride and enthusiasm.
• None of us will vote for Donald J. Trump.
• Each of us endorses Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine. Because the stakes in this election are so high, this is the first time many of us have publicly endorsed a candidate for President.

Very simply, this election is different from any election we can recall. One of the candidates — Donald J. Trump — is entirely unqualified to serve as President and Commander-in-Chief. He is ignorant of the complex nature of the challenges facing our country, from Russia to China to ISIS to nuclear proliferation to refugees to drugs, but he has expressed no interest in being educated. Indeed he has recently demonstrated he entirely misunderstands and disrespects the role of the very officials who could educate him: the senior career officers of our intelligence services and of our military services (whom he has characterized as “rubble”).

In his frequent statements about foreign countries and their citizens, from our closest friends to our most problematic competitors, Mr. Trump has expressed the most ignorant stereotypes of those countries; has inflamed their people; and has insulted our allies and comforted our enemies. Shockingly, he has even offered praise and admiration for Vladimir Putin, the leader of Russia whose international activities and reported intrusions into our democratic political process have been among the most damaging actions taken by any foreign leader since the end of World War Two.

We fear the damage that such ineptitude could cause in our closest relationships as well as the succor it might offer our enemies.

By contrast, Hillary Clinton’s handling of foreign affairs has consistently sought to advance fundamental US interests with a deep grounding in the work of the many tens of thousands of career officers on whom our national security depends. Not every one of us has agreed with every decision she made (and the same would be true of every one of her predecessors), but we have profound respect for her skills, dedication, intelligence, and diplomacy.

In this election there is only one team to represent our nation and lead our career foreign policy and security professionals in a manner befitting our role as the world’s sole superpower. Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine are the candidates we support.

Globalists all.

so i made you think ...

Think what?

BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”\
Don't even recognize your own shit

 

[Bush92]

Former ambassadors back Clinton in letter saying Trump ‘comforted our enemies’

Liz Goodwin
Senior National Affairs Reporter
September 22, 2016

View photos
Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign stop in Orlando, Fla. (Photo: Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
Seventy-five former ambassadors, including 57 appointed by Republican presidents, released a letter Thursday endorsing Hillary Clinton and criticizing Donald Trump as “entirely unqualified” for the office.

“As career officers, we have served every President since Harry Truman, and have proudly represented every President since Richard Nixon as ambassadors or senior State Department officials in Senate-confirmed positions,” the letter obtained by Yahoo News reads. “We have served Republican and Democratic Presidents with pride and enthusiasm.” The Washington Post also reported on the letter.

But the diplomats said this election is different, with one candidate “unqualified” to serve in part because his rhetoric has “comforted our enemies.” They highlighted Trump’s praise and “admiration” for Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as the mogul’s recent remark that U.S. generals have been “reduced to rubble” under President Obama.

One of the career diplomats who signed the letter, Ryan Crocker, was picked by George W. Bush to be his ambassador to Pakistan and then Iraq. Another of the group, Daniel Kurtzer, was Bush’s pick for ambassador to Israel.

Trump, they wrote, is “ignorant of the complex nature of the challenges facing our country, from Russia to China to ISIS to nuclear proliferation to refugees to drugs, but he has expressed no interest in being educated. In his frequent statements about foreign countries and their citizens, from our closest friends to our most problematic competitors, Mr. Trump has expressed the most ignorant stereotypes of those countries; has inflamed their people; and has insulted our allies and comforted our enemies.”

The letter comes a day after 15 retired generals and admirals released a video endorsing Clinton, part of a broader push by the Clinton campaign to make inroads among conservative voters turned off by Trump. The former secretary of state has been endorsed by 110 retired military officials, while Trump has been endorsed by 120. Clinton has also picked up public endorsements from dozens of former Republican politicians and national security experts, while privately, former President George H.W. Bush is reportedly voting for her.

Read Thursday’s letter below:

STATEMENT BY FORMER CAREER AMBASSADORS AND SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS

The undersigned have each previously served the people of the United States as career diplomats in our nation’s Foreign and Civil Services. We have each had the privilege of being nominated by the President, and confirmed by the United States Senate, to represent our nation abroad and at the highest levels of our foreign policy and security organizations.

• Together, we have represented the United States as ambassadors in 52 countries or international organizations. We have hundreds of years of combined service.
• As career officers, we have served every President since Harry Truman, and have proudly represented every President since Richard Nixon as ambassadors or senior State Department officials in Senate-confirmed positions. We have served Republican and Democratic Presidents with pride and enthusiasm.
• None of us will vote for Donald J. Trump.
• Each of us endorses Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine. Because the stakes in this election are so high, this is the first time many of us have publicly endorsed a candidate for President.

Very simply, this election is different from any election we can recall. One of the candidates — Donald J. Trump — is entirely unqualified to serve as President and Commander-in-Chief. He is ignorant of the complex nature of the challenges facing our country, from Russia to China to ISIS to nuclear proliferation to refugees to drugs, but he has expressed no interest in being educated. Indeed he has recently demonstrated he entirely misunderstands and disrespects the role of the very officials who could educate him: the senior career officers of our intelligence services and of our military services (whom he has characterized as “rubble”).

In his frequent statements about foreign countries and their citizens, from our closest friends to our most problematic competitors, Mr. Trump has expressed the most ignorant stereotypes of those countries; has inflamed their people; and has insulted our allies and comforted our enemies. Shockingly, he has even offered praise and admiration for Vladimir Putin, the leader of Russia whose international activities and reported intrusions into our democratic political process have been among the most damaging actions taken by any foreign leader since the end of World War Two.

We fear the damage that such ineptitude could cause in our closest relationships as well as the succor it might offer our enemies.

By contrast, Hillary Clinton’s handling of foreign affairs has consistently sought to advance fundamental US interests with a deep grounding in the work of the many tens of thousands of career officers on whom our national security depends. Not every one of us has agreed with every decision she made (and the same would be true of every one of her predecessors), but we have profound respect for her skills, dedication, intelligence, and diplomacy.

In this election there is only one team to represent our nation and lead our career foreign policy and security professionals in a manner befitting our role as the world’s sole superpower. Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine are the candidates we support.

Ambassadorships go to the largest political donors. It's a politicized post. Also a Democrat has been POTUS for 8 very long years. Hence more former ambassadors nominated by Democrat President.

 

[billyerock1991]

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[Bush92]

whats interesting here is the majority of all the generals in this country currant and past support Hillarty ... the majority of the ambassadors of this country currant and past support Hillary ... can you say land slide

sure..."Landslide for Trump."

 

[billyerock1991]

whats interesting here is the majority of all the generals in this country currant and past support Hillarty ... the majority of the ambassadors of this country currant and past support Hillary ... can you say land slide

can't stand it when you get mad huh

 

[billyerock1991]

whats interesting here is the majority of all the generals in this country currant and past support Hillarty ... the majority of the ambassadors of this country currant and past support Hillary ... can you say land slide

sure..."Landslide for Trump."

BWAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[Granny]

Ambassador STEPHENS will NOT be endorsing Hillary Clinton....

He'll probably be voting democrat

Probably not ... Ambassador Stephens was slaughtered in the attack at Benghazi. On the other hand ... if he comes back that should at least prove life after death ... but he'll still probably not vote democrat. I sure as hell wouldn't after an experience like that.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

whats interesting here is the majority of all the generals in this country currant and past support Hillarty ... the majority of the ambassadors of this country currant and past support Hillary ... can you say land slide

can't stand it when you get mad huh

"Mad" is not a word I would toss about lightly, were I you.

 

[billyerock1991]

whats interesting here is the majority of all the generals in this country currant and past support Hillarty ... the majority of the ambassadors of this country currant and past support Hillary ... can you say land slide

can't stand it when you get mad huh

"Mad" is not a word I would toss about lightly, were I you.

tuff !!!! you're Mad ... you can't help yourself