He made the speech, but she NEVER picked up the phone. First ladies dont do that.

Yeah, my mom knew what it meant when the phone rang at 3:00 a.m. for my dad, who was the fire chief for my town. It meant someone's house was on fire and he had to leave to go put it out. Being in the bed when the calls came in didn't make her a fireman. Had she decided to join the department herself, the fact that she'd been there when the calls came would not have subtracted a single minute from her training requirements. And, indeed, the fact that he would often talk with her about the fires, the things he had seen and the decisions he had to make did not, in any way, make her qualified to put on the white helmet herself.

My moms is the bomb, but she ain't no fireman.

THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!

Honestly, is this not the same approach she has tried everywhere else to this point, to little obvious effect? Was that not the whole point of the "ready from day one" and "roll of the dice" memes that she was projecting at every possible occasion starting in Iowa?

I support Obama, so I am perfectly content to watch her repeat the same mistakes again and again, but I would have to imagine that this is a painful business for Clinton supporters to watch.

Once again, every aspect of that ad was designed to maximize its visceral fear response in the voter, as I've noted in my complete point by point analysis (including a look at Hillary's next fear-ad):

http://thepersonalispolitical.tumblr.com/post/27622528

What is she talking about? What crisis has she ever managed at 3 AM? Heck, what crisis has McCain ever managed at 3 AM?

You know, the fact that she's able to draw these "contrasts" without any challenge sort of puts the lie to the notion that Obama has been getting preferential treatment. That's not to say they're Clinton biased. Just, if Clinton were not the nigh-presumptive nominee, I have to think the press would finally be putting a microscope to all these claims of experience.

I mean, damn, Hillary, you'd make a fine president, but you need to, you know, cite things from *your* record to substantiate this rhetoric. I honestly just don't know what the heck you're talking about.

Oh.

Wow.

Nothings wrong with the ad except it's a ripoff of a McCain ad...

I did not see that a minute ago before I posted.

Wow.

Couldn't they have at least changed the time to, say, 4am?

What the hell are they paying all of this money to consultants for?!

That campaign just sucks.

And I'm okay with that.

Alas, when will Hillary drop the pillow talk?

In the sound track, the phone keeps ringing and ringing. Does this an inadvertently bad message? Was Hil picking out her pearls first, before answering the phone?

" By 2004 he was saying he wasn’t sure how he would’ve voted because he never had to vote and that he basically agreed with the way President Bush was conducting the war. And by the time he got to the Senate, he voted exactly as I did"

She is lying and someone needs to call her on this. Obama has not once ever said he agreed with how Bush was conducting the war...but Hillary DID!
He voted exactly as you did Hillary because you made sure to FOLLOW his votes, so you could claim the same record.

The truth is that 127 DEMoCRATS voted AGAINST the war and you voted EXACTLY as they did, because there are only so many options for ENDING the WAR.

Hillary is trying to blur the lines between GOING to war and ENDING the war.

She is conflating the issue to make herself sound like Obama's judgement is the same as her and it is a SPECIOUS argument.

Like Obama said in the debate it was a huge strategic blunder, they drove the bus in the ditch and Hillary was one of the drivers of the bus...and now they have to get the bus out the ditch and there are only so many ways to get the bus OUT.

So, of course, in HINDSIGHT Hillary's votes are exactly the same cause there are so few options.

I can't STAND this LYING Heffa!!!

It's more of the shotgun approach that will never work. It might have worked if she'd hammered Obama on it for weeks, but one ad will serve only to muddy her message, if she can even be said to have a message at this point.

Yep, the pundits are already noticing that when Hillary answers the phone at 3am in her ad, she is fully dressed with make-up and jewelry. The ad is typical of Hillary, contrived and untrue.

Hmmm if there's a 3 am crisis, will Hillary have time to call her pollster or assemble a focus group?

Hillary Says It Herself: I Know What It Means When That Phone Rings At 3 A.M.

And she knows how to handle those calls:

"Don't you ever call this number again, you trailer trash Bimbo"

My very first reaction to Hillary Clinton more than a year ago was a cringe response to hearing her voice tonality. After so many years of listening to Bush's stick-up-his-b#tt forced-toughness utterings, I remember thinking, 'oh no...... I do NOT want to have to listen to Hillary's voice for four years'.
Yeah, I castigated myself for being so shallow about voice tones, and went on to study and review her candidancy in more sensible terms. Then, I noticed that her voice improved over time, which really, at some visceral level, pleased me inasmuch as back then, I thought she probably would become the nominee and the president.
But in this posted clip of her today, yikes, its completely the old finger-on-blackboard voice tones resurrected. What happened?

I also understand completely what it means when that phone rings at 3 a.m.

As anyone who was the parent of a teenager would know...

There isn’t any time to convene your advisors, to do a survey about what will or will not be popular – you have to make a decision.

If only Hillary had run her campaign that way...

..we need a president who picks up that phone ready to decide.

Refreshing honesty. Hillary decided on the AUMF without having to read pesky National Intelligence Estimates. She was "ready to decide."

Kinda sounds like how GWB made decisions.

I guess that's why they were on the same side of the issue.

There’s a big difference between delivering a speech at an anti-war rally as a state senator and picking up that phone in the White House at 3 a.m. in the morning to deal with an international crisis.

Very true. Obama made a speech as state senator. Neither he nor Hillary has ever had to pick up a phone.

I feel absolutely comfortable standing on that stage with John McCain and going toe to toe about national security.

Of course you would, Hillary.

As long as you weren't asked a question first.

Man but the Clinton campaign is on the downhill jog to the crapper! They're beginning to make Republicans look dignified. No wonder Ann Coulter has endorsed Clinton. They speak each other's language.

I feel dirty.

Vicissitudes you are a clown.

I'm a man that knows that men that run off at the mouth like you never get their dead asses out of bed to "see what is wrong". Take your act back to the street corner you came from.

The candidate you claim to support would slap the hell out of you for saying that sexist stupid shit. Huckabee really needs your backwards-ass vote. You're doing Obama no favors.

"James Brown said..."?! "James Brown said..."?!

WTF?!?!

The Hillary campaign was asked today which international crisis she had handled that prepared her to answer the red phone and be commander in chief. Couldn't come up with one.....

I have to think people are scratching their heads. In today's world there's a threat of war, an international incident, a terrorist strike... who does the National Security Advisor or the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs call? Why Laura Bush of course.. She's the most qualified to handle a national security crisis. She should be running for president now. (In her case she is probably more qualified by disposition, temperament, and intellect than W.)

For fans of David Letterman:

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/02/one-ringy-dingy-two-ringy-ding.php

" There isn’t any time to convene your advisors, to do a survey about what will or will not be popular – you have to make a decision."

Interesting that doing a survey to figure what would be most popular seems to be standard operating procedure during regular business hours.

The difference between Clinton's and McCain's ads is that Clinton's ad has living, breathing people in it. With not one living soul in McCain's ad, it has a spooky, deserted look—like everyone's already dead. Even the WH windows are black. Message misfire, if you ask me.