Clinton pillories Trump’s foreign policy, but history says it won’t help
Tribune News Service
Lesley Clark
WASHINGTON — Presidential contenders often tout their foreign policy credentials. But that may matter little to voters.
In a speech Thursday, Hillary Clinton mocked and pilloried Donald Trump and charged that the real estate magnate is a dangerous threat who can’t be trusted with nuclear weapons. But history shows that in the past 40 years, the candidate with the robust foreign policy portfolio often has lost to the one with the arguably thinner international resume.
In San Diego, the former secretary of state unleashed a torrent of criticism against Trump, calling his ideas a “series of bizarre rants, personal feuds and outright lies.”
She declared him “temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility.” And she warned that his election “would set back our standing in the world more than anything in recent memory.” She accused him of picking fights with U.S. allies while praising dictators and of basing his foreign policy credentials on his experience running the Miss Universe pageant in Russia.
“Imagine him deciding whether to send your spouses or children into battle,” she said. “Imagine if he had not just his Twitter account at his disposal when he’s angry, but America’s entire arsenal.”
But consider history: Gerald Ford had served more than two decades in the House of Representatives, had been vice president and then president — all giving him considerable experience in foreign policy and national security.
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Yet he was defeated in 1976 by Jimmy Carter, a relatively unknown former one-term governor of Georgia with no international experience.
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that support them and ignore those that don't.
This phenomenon may be exacerbated by computers and the Internet. It reminds me of the quoting of statistics and records in sports, e.g. "Doe just hit the very first grand-slam home run in the fourth inning of a seventeenth game of the season south of the Mason-Dixon line."
