Clinton Questions Role of Obama in a Crisis - New York Times: I don't know about you but I've seen how Senator Clinton responds to crisis. She puts on identities, the way other women change wardrobes. If she can't manage a campaign, how on earth will she manage the real threats we face? Her campaign for the nomination bears an uncanny resemblance to Bush's plans for Iraq after Saddam. Basically, we deserved better then and we deserve, and require, better now. How can you be ready on Day One 2009, and be so unready in February and March 2008.
Alfred Ingram
"With four days to go before voters in Texas and Ohio could determine the fate of her presidential bid, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday all but declared Senator Barack Obama unprepared to serve as commander in chief.
Mrs. Clinton has stopped short of asserting outright that he is not qualified, lest it come back to haunt her and the Democratic Party. But she released an advertisement Friday that used the symbolic “red phone” in the White House to cast doubt on his ability to respond to a crisis at 3 a.m. And she made a withering speech here in which she pronounced him “missing in action” when he had a chance to assert himself on international matters.
“It’s 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep,” says the narrator in her commercial, while ominous music surges over dark black-and-white images. An undefined world crisis is brewing, and the red phone — a relic of the hot line to Moscow during the cold war — rings.
“Your vote will decide who answers that call,” the narrator says. “Whether it’s someone who already knows the world’s leaders, knows the military — someone tested and ready to lead in a dangerous world.”
The commercial drew an immediate response from Mr. Obama, as the campaign released a similar red phone advertisement highlighting Mr. Obama’s opposition to the Iraq war.
Speaking in Houston before veterans, he said, “We’ve seen these ads before. They’re the kind that play on people’s fears to try to scare up votes.”
“In fact, we have had a red phone moment,” he said. “It was the decision to invade Iraq. And Senator Clinton gave the wrong answer, George Bush gave the wrong answer, John McCain gave the wrong answer,” voting to authorize force in Iraq. (Mr. Obama was not in the Senate at the time.) "
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/us/politics/01campaign.html?ex=1362114000&en=e734197611ff84ff&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
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