Sir Hillary Rodham Clinton Ad Suggests She Would Be More Cheerful And Alert At Three O’Clock In The Morning When “The Red Phone” Rings Than Barack Obama Would Be
From TPM Election Central:
Obama Responds: I Will Never Use “Threat Of Terrorism To Scare Up Votes”
By Greg Sargent
Okay, Obama has now directly responded to Hillary’s ad asking who you want in the White House at 3 A.M. when the red phone rings and your kids are safely asleep.
And his reply suggests that the Obama camp is grabbing at this as an opportunity to draw the contrast yet again that they’ve been drawing throughout the campaign — that judgment, rather than the reflexive use of force, is what’s required most in national security crisis situations. …”
(Snip!)
“… I do want to take a moment to respond, because the press is, I’m sure, curious, to an ad that Senator Clinton is apparently running today. It asks a legitimate question. It says, who do you want answering the phone in the White House when it’s 3:00 a.m. and something has happened in the world. It’s a legitimate question. And we’ve seen these ads before. They’re usually the kind that play upon people’s fears and try to scare up votes.
I don’t think these ads will work this time because the question is not about picking up the phone. The question is, what kind of judgment will you exercise when you pick up that phone. In fact, we have had a red phone moment; it was the decision to invade Iraq.
Senator Clinton gave the wrong answer. George Bush gave the wrong answer. John McCain gave the wrong answer. I stood up and I said that a war in Iraq would be unwise. …”
Correct — Those “Red Phone” moments are just a TAD bit more important than “Bad Hair” moments these days…
The fact is, Barack cannot possibly have a “bad hair” moment — he jumps out of the shower, towels off; he’s done. Hillary, on the other hand, has been photographed MULTIPLE times with bad hair. And, I’m sorry, but the whole “visual” of Hillary crawling out of bed, shuffling across the floor in her bunny slippers toward “The Red Phone” with a torqued off attitude and a vodka hangover is nothing less than a “turn-off” to me.
Ann Coulter can have her as far as I’m concerned.
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H/T to MemeOrandum…
See also: The Moderate Voice; The Mahablog
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6:31 am on March 4th, 2008 1
Where do you see a RED PHONE in the ad?
Your perceptions are off; check on that.
The phone is white; the message is one of calm handling of the situation; of problem solving through pre-existing relationships with leaders; of maternal protection.
There is no rush; no terrorist attack; no nuclear threat implied. The words, if you will listen, say “Something’s happening in the world.”
The phone is not RED. Fear isn’t even present. Seems to me it is the media/blogs/Obama people who have hyped this. They, not Clinton, have interjected “fear mongering.”
Beware! Because those who cannot see reality as it is will also lack good judgement, it doesn’t matter how inspired the unreality is.