Obama Advisor: ‘They’re Both Not Ready’
Susan Rice, Barack Obama’s chief foreign policy adviser, agrees her candidate isn’t ready to answer that 3 a.m. phone call — but says Hillary Clinton isn’t, either:
“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.”
I’m glad she cleared that up.*
via Kate Phillips
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*For the record, I think the whole “3 a.m.” meme is silly. While I think McCain’s foreign policy experience and military training has better prepared him for crisis situations than either Clinton or Obama, crisis decision making is done by committee. It’s the longer-term foreign policy visions of the candidates that the voters should be worried about.
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Then why should anyone vote Democratic in November…
Senators Obama and Clinton might be best advised to put a muzzle on their campaign people. Statements like this from Susan Rice, Barack Obama’s chief foreign policy adviser, help neither……
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First an Obama supporter can’t articulate any accomplishment of Obama that led him to support Obama other than “gosh hes inspiring’ and now a rice adviser says that he is not ready to handle the sudden crisis.
Of course given how Obama is fumbling handling the dangerous Canadians, I suspect she may be right.
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McCain’s foreign policy experience has lead him to be right once in the last 8 years- when he condemned the use of torture.
Every other position he’s taken has been a continuation of Bush’s massively failed policies.
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What a doofus.
Train of change has infinitely stalled.
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So Obama’s foreign policy advisors are two women (Rice & Powers) who haven’t actually haven’t worked in or accomplished anything in foreign policy. He sure is putting a lot of trust in “Hope as a Method”…
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Make a good commercial for McCain, EXCEPT the Republicans are too weak/stupid to use it.
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Ms. Rice immediately went on to say that neither Clinton, Obama, nor McCain has had that “3 o’clock phone call†— more or less restricting that phrase to mean a call that could only be received by a sitting president:
Obama’s relevant experience, however, can be written on half a matchbook cover. Most of that will read: “Chaired an important Senate oversight subcommittee on Afghanistan that he never bothered to convene for a single meeting.”
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“”Obama Advisor: ‘They’re Both Not Ready’”"
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Did she mean that “neither is ready” or is she saying that “together they wouldn’t add up to one president”
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