New Clinton Ad Prompts Reply From Obama
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Playing on anxieties about national security, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has produced a “red phone moment” advertisement that suggests she would be better able to respond to a crisis than Senator Barack Obama.
“It’s 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep,” says a narrator as threatening music surges over dark black-and-white images.
There’s a world crisis and the White House phone is ringing. “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.”
It ends with a photo of Mrs. Clinton wearing glasses and picking up the phone.
Mr. Obama, responding to the ad during a stop in Houston, said it raised “a perfectly legitimate question.”[..]
“In fact, we have had a red phone moment,” Mr. Obama 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.”
And not only that, let’s quote Bill Clinton, stumping for John Kerry in 2004.
“If one candidate is trying to scare you, and the other one is trying to make you think, if one candidate’s appealing to your fears, and the other one’s appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope.”
update: Here’s the official campaign response from Obama:
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:57
And Obama gave the wrong answer.
So, after all, all gave the wrong answers. I think we should put a ten years old kid on the phone, whose answer would be “We could bake some mud cake, what do you think?”