September 14, 2012 - 8:53 am
Remember the 2008 Democratic primaries when Hillary Clinton released an ad implying that her opponent Barack Obama was not prepared to take that legendary 3am phone call to defuse an international crisis? :
Turns out she was 100% correct. Obama snoozed through the night of the Benghazi and Cairo attacks after ignoring clear warnings 48 hours in advance that they were going to happen.
Not only was Obama unprepared to answer that call — he didn’t even pick up the phone.
And in the biggest irony of all, it is once again Hillary herself, now in her role as Secretary of State, trying to manage the crisis which Obama continues to flub with each passing hour.
I always thought that ad was asinine. Hilary Clinton SLEPT with the President – at least, I’m assuming she did, occasionally, in the midst of his many infidelities – but she was not the decision-maker in the Situation Room. Was she even PERMITTED in the Situation Room during various crises, let alone influential on the decisions taken there?
But even with those observations out of the way, I have no doubt that Hilary would at least have picked up the phone and been involved in the decision-making.
That doesn’t mean she’d make any different decision than Obama given their ideological similarity but I do expect that she’d have actually been involved in the process, which is apparently a lot more than we can expect of President Empty Suit.
now in her role as Secretary of State, trying to manage the crisis which Obama continues to flub with each passing hour
She’s flubbing it to, not DOING anything, just talking ABOUT it. Hillary hasn’t the first conception of what her job is supposed to be. Do you think she’s advising Obambus or the other way around? Either way, OMG.
Note I said “trying” to manage the crisis — I didn’t say “succeeding.”
Obama isn’t even trying. I think he’s glad to see America degraded and attacked, to be frank.
-Note I said “trying” to manage the crisis — I didn’t say “succeeding.”
WADR, this was the weasel excuse that BJ Clinton’s Sec. State Madeline Albright gave to Yasir Arafat when suicide bombers were plying their trade almost daily in Israel. She claimed that the Palestinian Authority should be judged on “maximum effort, not maximum results”. That the PA was actually seeking neither was either totally lost on Maddie or malevolently ignored.
I do not give anyone in such a position of power the benefit of doubt on these sorts of considerations as bad outcomes can be deadly. QED.
Ditto! Her claims in the embedded ad about knowing the world’s leaders, militaries and interests are being shown as quite hollow in her management of the crisis. Sharing a belated holiday brunch with the leaders of a country whose citizens just killed our ambassador? Did HRC kiss them on the cheek? The mouth? The correct response to all of this would be to call the Lybian ambassador into the Oval Office and have him face down on the carpet giving 25 pushups!
HRC is proving to be an incompetent leader herself in a time of crisis. So much for the “greatest wartime president ever” claptrap we heard from some quarters back in ’08. When O is retired in January the entire Administration needs to go out to pasture with him!
Sssshhhh….don’t wake Huma
That is totally unfair! I’m sure he has taken several 3AM phone calls from donors!
Because where they were calling from, it was afternoon.
Ba-da-bing!
Where’s the like button when I need it?
OK, so he didn’t pick up the call. He has an answering machine — what more do you wingnuts want?!
I personally will settle for a president that puts America first….is non-mooslim….believes in capitalism….heterosexual(all the time)…doesn’t allow Americans to be murdered by guns he is running to Mexico….doesn’t rob the treasury blind with crony kickbacks to political allies….will work for American energy independence….Hey – that sounds like MITT ROMNEY!
That’s the problem right there. Answering machines are completely 20th Century. They haven’t heard of voice mail, apparently. Then again, this is a man who still uses a Blackberry and has trouble with an iPhone so this is simply part-and-parcel.
An empty chair never sleeps.
Never wakes up either.
If Her Thighness truly was ‘the smartest woman in the world’ and wanted to set herself up for a 2016 presidential run, she would immediately resign and expose these infantile, incompetent, imbeciles and the disastrous influence of Hilary’s partner Huma and other mooslims influencing our foreign policy. I am even more pissed off now than I was on 9-11-2001….because these p^ssies REFUSE TO STAND UP FOR AMERICA! I do not want platitudes and bromides or apologies and negotiations….I want REVENGE. But, the American Ayatollah laughs it up on the campaign trail while the complicit, lapdog media covers for the first gay mooslim president; truly historic, and sad…
He was down at the craps tables and kept rolling snake eyes.
Obama didn’t answer the call, didn’t pick up the phone, can’t make the bed any better than his youngest daughter, can’t butter the toast, and skips his first class on intel briefings, skips a meeting with Israel’s leader, doesn’t call Libyan’s newly elected head of government, can’t name the capital of Israel, doesn’t know whether Egypt is an ally or enemy, hangs out with rappers and the pimp with a limp and goes to Vegas, looks for a golf course and then takes a vacation.
We’re in the middle of a stoner movie.
Mr. Slacker goes to Washington.
Democratic operatives try to cover for him, saying things like “he’s so smart he doesn’t need briefings, he just shows up at the final and aces it”. Other Democratic operatives parse words and mumble “Well, Jerusalem is a city and the city is in Israel and whether it’s a capital is a question about the city, which Israel and Obama have long defended, in questions about the city” or “Egypt is not an ally…depending upon the meaning of “is” and “not” and “ally”, but it is not an “enemy”, because Obama has not gone on Spanish radio about them.
Democratic operatives look deeply into the eyes of those important questions and then ask Putin, Hu Jintao and Chavez who they favor in the upcomping election.
The American media and Democratic operatives (but I repeat myself) have found an answer to all this.
Mitt Romney’s tax returns contain all the answers. The Choom Oracle, sort of like the Holy Grail of Kush…contained inside ten years of Romney 1040 and K1 filings.
If Barry and Joe’s wild adventure has a sequel, I’m rooting for the Mayan calendar.
Did the call actually come? If not, why not?
– now as well run as Vallejo.
If we download the Koran on to our iPads, Kindles, or Nooks, then delete the Koran . . . is that blasphemous? We need a coordinated Delete the Koran Day, with videos of the deletions posted to YouTube and Vimeo. Much like we had an Everyone Draw Muhammad day. Maybe find Koran apps for your iOS or Android device, delete the app, and take screen shots of “The Koran and all its contents” being deleted.