Clinton's speech today came as something of a surprise to a lot of people because it was billed as a foreign policy speech but was actually a bill of indictment against Donald Trump's incoherent worldview. If you didn't see it, it's worth watching.
Trump tried a preemptive strike on Clinton’s speech this morning, saying that “Crooked Hillary, who I would love to call Lyin’ Hillary, is getting ready to totally misrepresent my foreign policy positions.”
What he meant, of course, was that all Clinton or anyone else has to do at this point is repeat his positions accurately.
Clinton listed most of them, including Trump’s casual approach to nuclear weapons; his utter ignorance about the role of U.S. alliances; his creepy man-crush on Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his insistence that he would respond to ISIS either by handing over Syria, using nuclear bombs, or murdering the families of terrorists in the outright use of war crimes.
Trump’s policies, as Clinton said, are not even policies. They are just a series of “bizarre rants, personal feuds and outright lies.”
None of this will matter to Trump’s supporters, who think that sweaty-faced bellowing into a microphone is the same thing as a policy. But Clinton raised the one image that should give everyone else outside the Trump Cult serious pause: the idea of Trump in the White House Situation Room, “making life or death decisions on behalf of the United States.”
If you can get that image out of your head, you’re made of sterner stuff than I am. I worked in Washington in 1991 during a war. My boss, a senior U.S. senator, met on several occasions, often privately, with the President. Their conversations were the serious discussions of serious people who knew what was at stake.
Donald Trump would have had no business being in those rooms with any of those people.
This man loathes Clinton and especially bemoans her ridiculous insistence on squishy lefty issues like caring about LGBT rights overseas. But at least he knows Trump is a fatuous blowhard who has no business being anywhere near real power and responsibility. I don't know how many of them are out there --- it doesn't appear that there are very many. But let's hope there are enough to ensure he never gets anywhere near the White House. I wish I was more sanguine about that.
