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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Mon Sep 19, 2016, 07:36 AM Sep 2016

Thank me for my military service by voting for Hillary Clinton

Thank me for my military service by voting for Hillary Clinton: Frank Biggio (Opinion)

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There are many things to consider when heading to the polls in November. One of those is who should command the nearly 2.2 million members of our active and reserve military forces; who should be the elected leader with the authority to put their lives in jeopardy to protect American interests against evolving threats around the world.

Will we elect a man who, without offering any clarity, boasts that he "will be so good at the military, your head will spin,"
as if his high school graduation from a military academy validates that claim, and hopes that the electorate will simply trust that will be so? Whose behavior and public comments cause a collective group of 50 foreign policy experts, most of whom are from the Republican Party and have at one time sat in the White House Situation Room and contemplated the implications -- and repercussions -- of deploying our military, to publicly denounce him and the security and foreign policy positions he has proposed?

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We have an alternative to the embarrassment that is Donald Trump, a candidate who, though not flawless, has actual experience and demonstrated pragmatism, is known and respected by military and civilian leaders in America and abroad and is capable of decisiveness and restraint as the situation requires. I'm with her.

This Election Day, please thank me for my service by voting for Hillary Clinton as our president and commander in chief.



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Thank me for my military service by voting for Hillary Clinton (Original Post) kpete Sep 2016 OP
I swore to defend the US Constitution against foreign and domestic enemies TexasProgresive Sep 2016 #1

TexasProgresive

(12,157 posts)
1. I swore to defend the US Constitution against foreign and domestic enemies
Mon Sep 19, 2016, 08:40 AM
Sep 2016

So to be true to that oath I must vote for Clinton.

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