Thursday, March 06, 2008

New York Times’ Caucus Blog: Obama Aide: Neither Candidate Ready For 3 A.M. Call - By Kate Phillips

… and you know most Americans want John McCain in the White House to answer that phone …

From the NY Times.com.

As Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton prepares for an afternoon news conference here in Washington, where she is to be surrounded by “military officers,” her campaign has put up a YouTube moment that you can bet will be replayed over and over.

In it, Susan Rice, a foreign policy adviser to Senator Barack Obama, discusses the foreign policy credentials of both Democrats against the tableau of Mrs. Clinton’s 3 a.m. phone call
advertisement about who would be best prepared for an international crisis. (While your children are safely asleep.)

“Clinton hasn’t had to answer the phone at
three o’clock in the morning and yet she attacked Barack Obama for not being
ready,'’ Ms. Rice said. “They’re both not ready to have that 3 a.m. phone
call.”


(The exit polls from Tuesday in Ohio and Texas showed that voters favored her more as commander-in-chief. Perhaps her 3 a.m. ad broadcast only in Texas but widely publicized helped to sway voters. Mr. Obama quickly released a response ad last week.)

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