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Obama's senior foreign policy advisor says Barack is not ready to have 'that 3:00am phone call'. WOW. Expect that to get some airtime this Fall, should Hussein Obama pull the upset and beat Hillary.
What came after that comment? I have a sneaking suspicion that it's being taken out of context without hearing the whole thing first. Gee...imagine that coming from the triplets.
Here's the entire 8 minute MSNBC interview with Susan Rice: <iframe height="339" width="425" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/23490306#23490306" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
She says baby Its 3am I must be lonely When she says baby Well I cant help but be scared of it all sometimes Says the rains gonna wash away I believe it
SUSAN RICE, OBAMA SR. FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR: Good to be with you again. CARLSON: So Hillary Clinton runs this ad, the famous red phone ad, that says when the phone rings at 3:00 in the morning, you know, who do you trust to make those snap decisions that could hold all of our lives in the balance? And the Obama campaign, I thought very wisely, came back and said, name one that you—you know name a situation where you‘ve judged a foreign policy crisis, and she couldn‘t. I‘m going to ask the same question to you. Where has—Barack Obama been in a position where he has to make those kinds of decisions? RICE: He hasn‘t and he hasn‘t claimed that he‘s been in a position to have to answer the phone at 3:00 in the morning in a crisis situation. That‘s the difference between the two of them. Hillary Clinton hasn‘t had to answer the phone at 3:00 in the morning. And yet she attacked Barack Obama for not being ready. They‘re both not ready to have that 3:00 a.m. phone call. The questions is and what Barack Obama raised is, when that phone call is received for each of them for the first time, who‘s going to make the right judgment? Who is going to make the right decision? On the critical foreign policy issues of the day, whether it was a decision to go to war in Iraq or the decision to give President Bush the benefit of the doubt and beat the drums of war with Iran, Hillary Clinton has made the same wrong judgment as John McCain and George W. Bush. Barack Obama has made a very different judgment. So neither one of them, and nor John McCain for that matter, have had that 3:00 phone call that others have had. And I think we have to be honest about that. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23503309/
What about the phone call at 3PM to wake McCain up from his nap? Nobody in the race has had to deal with a foreign policy crisis in the same capacity a sitting President would have to. As for me, I am a lot less afraid to have Clinton or Obama have a late night phone call about Iran or North Korea, than I am to give the Republicans a chance to replace more aging Supreme Court and Federal judges and further take a weed whacker to the Constitution.
The whole 3am call thing is so dumb. It perputates this idea that we live in a 24 society now. If any President gets a call at 3am about a world crisis, the Joint Chiefs, the National Security Advisor, Homeland Security, the CIA, etc. are all going to be advising on any decisions. Not only that, we have contingencies already in place for any already known potential trouble spots in the world. We have protocols and plans already devised. Obama will not have to draw up the invasion of NK at 3am on a Tuesday night. Give us all a break with these scare tactics already.
Anyone else wonder why the phone rang so long before Hillary answered it in the commercial? I mean, it's the national security hotline... You'd think she'd pick it up in two to three rings tops, before finding her lipstick and glasses. This thread useless without levity.
