Clinton Response to Obama’s Accusation of Scare Tactics

Obama = Whiner
He’s crying about a political ad when he should be telling us how he will lead. How he intends to keep us safe and secure.
“No Sudden Moves” Obama has been moved off message and this is the best he can do?
Keep playing to your base Mr. Obama, the youth movement that was 10 – 14 years old when 9/11 happened.
Some of us actually remember how frightening and devasting it was to see NYC attacked and our fellow Americans killed.
Hillary Clinton went to Ground Zero the day after 9/11. What did you do Mr. Obama?
Believe me I HOPE he knows what the he!! to do if we are naieve enough to vote for him.

I heard the Clinton team tried to raise the bar today on the March 4 votes…somneone needs to point out to those rocket scientist that the front runner can raise the bar but the guy trailing? Can’t….well I guess they can try but they still come out looking like they are grasphing at straws.

You are right OhioNative, he must be living in a fantasy world to not remember the world that we live-in today. He should be answering with solutions but first he must convene his speechwriters and consultants to tell him what to say.

Did anyone in the Obama campaign not mention that answering those three am calls in the White House is the job of a president? If he is afraid to mention or know what this job demands of him then he isn’t fit to be considered for the job. That’s not fear mongering Obama, that’s the job description of the job itself.

Right, Jack V, another brilliant comment by an Obama fan. Try dealing with the issue itself then maybe we have something to say to each other.

Honestly, I know that the media would twist this all around some way to Obama’s benefit, but I just would once like to hear a response to Obama’s statements regarding Hillary’s vote with “Really, you would have not voted for authorizing military force? How would we really know? Whenever your back is to the wall, you are either not there to vote, vote ‘present’, or say ‘I pushed the wrong button’. And as far as the decision itself is concerned, it is all well and good for folks now to look back and say they would not have authorized it, especially for those who did not have to make any decision because – you guessed it, they were not a member of Congress (can you say Obama?). We had been attacked, were being lied to by our President with regard to the threat (and given Sadaam’s past, it was certainly believable – he had continued to assert hostile intentions, and refused the weapons inspectors). So while any idiot can look back and say we should not have invaded, most need to dig deep and wonder if they really would have not voted for the resolution themselves.
As for Obama, he did not show up for the recent vote on Iran’s military guard – as he seems want to do whenever there is a critical and difficult decision to be made.
I don’t expect our leaders to be perfect, but I do expect them to lead. His stance on this vote issue makes me all the more want to support Hillary.
We need real leaders, not empty suits and rhetoric.

Mike: I don’t think Obama is aware of National Security is he did not know about the situation in Iraq. How would he handle the war? Oh yes, bring all the troops home at one time, that put them back if needed. That’s what inexperienced candidates should teach the American people at voting time and he is not the one to vote for. Before you know it they would be bombing us and he would be hiding underground. What a total mess this country would be in. If Hillary does not get the nomination I hope her voters will vote for McCain and block the presidency from Obama because he does not deserve it.

Fantasic ad!
I don’t know if they have tea in the senate armed services committee meetings, but HIllary has been on that committee for eight years, and shown up, and done the work, and voted.
Contrast this to Mr Obama who made a speech once, when he wasnt in the senate and has been too busy running for President to convene the committe that oversees NATO and the Afghan mission. Or to bother with a silly vote on Iran. He’s just too busy, but he’ll use Afghanistan and Iran in his stump speeches.
The man doesn’t know the first thing about foreign policy. He says what his speech writer tells him to say.
Hillary will be answering that phone. Thank GOD!

F (failed) : undeniable record of Hillary’s Red-Phone test
..as did Bush and McCain.
Sorry Hillary/McCain/Bus, all of you have lost any credibility to lecture anyone on national security…because of your F grade in that matter….. let alone qualify for commander-in-chief position.
If I were any of them I would but out…unlike some people who prefer being kicked out… well have it your way.

It amazes me that obama constantly gives the impression that he voted agianst the Iraq war. He did no such thing. His every vote in the US Senate was to support the war. He did give a speech ( words again) against the war when he was a rookie state senatorbut this is a speech that doesnt make sense because i would have expected anyone who had intelligence reports that Saddam hussein had WMD to vote for war. But BHO spoke against the war without the benefit of any intelligence reports. In other words he is basically a pacifist anti war candidate. Maybe he is ALL KNOWING. You expect this guy to keep you save and you call this speech good judgment !! On the contrary I think it was very poor judgment because it was not based on the facts but what he thought might be a popular position then. Of course when he realised that the war was supported by the majority of Americans he quickly pulled all references to the speech from his web site. This guy is another FLIP FLOPPER. No way is he ready to be President.

Why are people so scared of WAR if the enemy was about to bomber your home again???? Good judgement is to protect your people at all cost!!! Our soliders are not here doing show, they are to protect people!!!!

and “s.b.”
I don’t know if you have notivced the job the senate armed services committee has done for the armed services for the past eight years…but I would definitely not be touting that too much.
Serving on a committee…even showing up (half of the time) doesn’t mean the person was good at it. The armed services are struggling and it was Obama (you know the guy that hasn’t done anything) that was the first senator who brought Walter Reed and the veterans out of shadows. It was Obama that said our veterans lives are worth more than this war.

She’s acting out of desperation. That’s not a good sign.

Ref: The VA situation was made public to me via MSM outlets. Since then many, many law makers and private citizens on both sides of aisle acted. At no time did I ever see the Name Obama until now. So, he’s taking credit for fixing that now too, is he?

No I am saying check Hillary’s website because you obviously don’t. Look at her track record over how many years in the senate. …and this was a woman who was looked at as the “inevitable” President and see even with that power how much she launched and got passed in congress.

Who is she fooling. “FEAR” A woman who can’t make-up he mind and unsteady. It won’t work Hillary. Give it up! I’m tired of all this negative whispers and talk toward Barack Obama or his Wife Michelle… They have run a very clean campaign!

When was the last time that scenario actually played out? NEVER! I fear a 3:00am now phone call a lot less than I did during the cold war when an all-out nuclear holocaust could wipe out the entire human population of the globe. Let’s have a little perspective here.

Dave come on, buddy. Do you honestly claim you believe anything the media claims about which individual was unstoppable before anyone voted? However, I do know Hillary’s campaign team of Penn and company have done her no favors, believe me. I don’t mind speaking facts even if its not nice to my own candidate. Penn and company dropped the ball even back in Iowa and often since then. Hillary is better than the team around her. Not a good choice. Poor ground game, yet somehow Hillary is hanging in despite the Penn and company idiots.

Obama is right.

“Whether someone knows the world’s leaders, knows the military, someone tested and ready to lead. It’s 3am and your children are safe and asleep. Who do you want answering the phone?” the ad concludes.
TESTED!? When was she tested? Has she already received one of those 3:00am phone calls?

It’s not a question of attacking with this one… it is not based in policy…and it’s not that it just attacks Obama… She is using fear.
I think all would agree this ad uses fear in a distasteful manner. …and fear, I would hope, all (atleast democrats) would agree was used last time… and look where that got us.

Obama supporters will learn a big lesson that words are cheap and worth nothing to an ordinary people like you and me. I used to be a supporter of McGoven and Mondale. Thresults were the same. Both were buried in earthquake! If Obama wins the Dem. nomination, I predictit that we will not able be to see a first femail president in 20 years, and of couse no any non-white president before there is a female president! It is shamefult for the USA. This election is about change. It is time to have a female president in USA. This is the real change.

That ad is no different than the ad that was once used its 12 O’ clock do you know where your children are?
Its an ad to make you think of the possibilities of if something was to go wrong, and Obama’s response to it was silly in asking who had the right answer.
He may believe he had the right answer on Iraq but the phone was not ringing in his house now was it, he did not have a phone at that time or the authority to answer one.
The fact of the matter is if that phone rings at 3 am something is wrong and the President will have to pick up the phone and act.

I am just not interpreting this ad with any sense of “fear.” As Senator Obama stated at the beginning of his response to the ad, it’s a legitimate question. And as such, Senator Clinton is posing the question to the American people and leaving it up to us to make that decision.
I can’t think of anything more important to me than my family, so ANY decision I make in life will be based on what’s best for me and my family. I see no fear tactics here, just folks trying to spin it that way. But to each his own.

K people>>>>> How can you not fund a war where our guys and gals lives are at stake..HUH???????He din’t vote to go to war but you sure as hell have to fund it with our troops in it>>>>

Don, actually, that’s exactly what we will be betting if we go for the alternatives.

If flordia an Mi didn’t have a problem and the media was fair Obama would never have been where he is now.

HRC will never forget 911. Texas, don’t you ever forget that day.

Hey, New Yorker, I hope you do not think that way about your mother. Of course Hilary will age “before your eyes” but I have no difficult with magnificent ladies who age? I can deal with that. But I can’t deal with a school boy playing president and who said on the “Ellen” show when asked what he would do his first day in office, he answered, it would be so cool. Perhaps Obama aught to age a little himself.

New Yorker: Making a valid point by denigrating a candidate doesn’t make me want to listen. I am happy to converse on the subject, which is why this is a great forum; however, calling names just makes you look stupid.
I would agree with you that her campaign was not optimally run after Super Tuesday. She took a gamble on a strategy that didn’t pan out. Everyone pretty much agrees with that. So noted, move on. As Albert Einstein said, “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” I think what Senator Clinton demonstrated was that she can flexible and adaptable to the changing environment (she replaced her campaign manager). And hopefully, the outcome will be different in the upcoming primaries.
She has shown she is indeed a leader and made changes to steer her campaign in a different direction (possibly too late in the game). This is what I would expect of a leader. One could make the argument that Senator Obama hasn’t had to do that because he made better decisions to begin with. However, here is the reality: life throws curveballs at you all of the time and how well equipped are you to deal with an ever-changing landscape?
I think if anything, she strengthens her argument for the nomination as she is adept at confronting challenges and shows a willingness to try something new to attain her goals. That’s leadership that will be ready on Day 1.

If Obama has a Achilles heel its this Rezko stuff

Wll do you think he can win Iowa in Nov.

I keep hearing about FL & MI … I would really feel bad for the Florida voters if the democrats would have unaminously voted against it … For the record, the original house vote was 115-1, the final vote was 118-0 and the senate passed the bill 37-2. Not much of a effort to even make a statement. As for MI, they made their decision knowing full well what the outcome would be. I would have loved to see the results had all the candidates participate in both states. I believe that HRC would have won FL but by a smaller margin but MI would have easily been Obama territory… Sad, we will never know.

LOM … I agre with you … this has gone beyond respectful disagreement … I am an Obamacan but I can respect any intelligent argument … this blog has degraded to a very sad low … see ya in another blog

Lou: Why an Obamacan? I find this so intriguing. Core Democratic values differ so vastly from core Republican values. I would love to hear the the argument for this type of support. The two democratic candidates are almost identical on the major issues–so why Obama over Clinton? With platforms like universal health care (big government), I’m not sure I understand how any Republican would support a Democrat!?

How dare Clinton say this, about the 3 am call, “There isn’t any time to convene your advisors, to do a survey on what will or what will not be popular. You have to make a decision. And in the world that we face with both the challenges and opportunities we need a president who picks up that phone ready to decide.”
Wow! Don’t want to check with advisors, don’t want to do survey (that made you wonder how Bill Clinton decided everything according to polls). She said,
“…we need a president who picks up that phone ready to decide.”
Not too long ago someone pointed out that she said she was ready to “rule” this democratic country and we have problem with the word, “rule”.
Absolutely.
I have a huge problem with her picking up the phone and wanted to decide on the spot to either cry, throw a fit, or congratulate Russia for bombing us.
Hillary, I have two words for you, but I won’t say them, what I will say is, “Go home!”

Hillaryspeaksforme.

Dina says – “Actually a vote for Obama is a vote for McCain”
Ha! Independents and non-wingnut libertarians will vote for Obama. They won’t vote HRC. That is why all the Red State Dems have ran to Obama. They see a big “thumpin” coming down if HRC is on the top of the ticket. Dino, it is called negative coat tails. People the closest to the carnage got a clue. But not you.
You Hillbots got your mind made up and got your girl’s back because after she plays herself as a Constant Victim. So go ahead and vote for your 100 years of war, babe. After all, HRC, facilitated and enabled GWB and his pet war from the start. So there you go Dino.
A vote for Obama is a vote against GWB.

I now know why I dislike O”bama” so much–as an LSU fan I hate anything with the words “bama” in them!!
Geaux Hillary!!

Hilliary is DESPERATE and deserves to lose. If she can’t manage her campaign, she sure can’t manage the country. Thank GOD Bill won’t be pulling the strings, since Hilliary won’t be getting the nomination. There IS hope for America, after all…

Hillary absolutely has the point.
I am tired of his Good Judgement claim. I was as much antiwar as he was, but I don’t dare to claim I had a good judgment. It must take a very GOOD Judgement of him to be associated with Tony Rezko for so long and so deep.
ObamaRezko

I say let the people vote no one should quit or be forced out of this race until some one has reached the correct count. the party heads should stay out of it they have made a big enough mess .

Obama on Iraq troop withdrawal: We will withdraw before we will return to Iraq. This guy is a joke!!

As my better half suggested, perhaps Senator Clinton’s camp should copy his edited copy of her ad (since they are once again illustrating he is nothing but a copycat), then add on a call from him to her to get advice (since he always looks to her to answer the tough questions)… and then reemphasize the point that putting him in the White House would create a middleman (wasting time while the enemies attack).

I don’t know if anybody has looked at Hillary’s voting records in the senate, it is the same as McCain. Yes she was there and voted Yeah for evertything Republicans voted for. So democrates have to be careful because a vote for Hillary=a vote for McCain=a vote for W third term. Looking at the legacy of Bill itself, the reality is that he had a Republican Congress which did the real job: balancing the budget, creating a surplus and jobs, etc. These are not Bill’s achievements who because of his personal actions has given the presidency to the Republicans. To sum up under Bill’s presdiencu the democrats have lost the congress and the senat and the presidency. Poor Al Gore.

Try using vote smart organization website to compare voting records and interest group ratings. Obama and Clinton voted 90% the same on all votes. Last I looked, Clinton did not vote 90% the same as McCain. Not sure what your sources are but those are unbiased facts on that website. Very nicely put together along with all the other data rich details. Clinton and McCain are both moderates who work across party lines. Clinton leans her votes in the interest of the people while McCain leans his vote in the interest of business. This is just party-line stuff. Obama speaks as a leftist liberal but that is not what his record indicates, his votes that differ from Clinton were pro big business, ie. increases money for oil and nuclear companies. Hmm no wonder his following includes the richer educated Dems, ie. Reagan Dems.

Hillary: “The American people … want a president with the strength and wisdom to take those challenges and dangers head on.”
Wisdom? The simple fact is that at the critical moment–deciding whether we should go to war in Iraq–Obama got it right and Hillary got it wrong.
When the bat phone rings next time, I want Obama picking up the receiver.

It is sad but true that the media and entertainment industries have changed the presidential contest into an entertainment show. It appears to have become another American Idol contest. Whoever wins the election needs to have more than good looks and a glib tongue that can snow us. Too many of us don’t take the time to check one’s sincerity but rely on the biased media to interpret. The candidate must be able to answer a question no matter how complicated because they know about how they would solve the problem. The script writer isn’t always on top of feeding the anticipated right answers. Hillary does know of what she speaks, whether we agree or not, but she is out there on the limb that her so called friends have cut out from under her. One thing she knows is where the turn coats are. On the other hand, Obama can’t ad lib and it is very noticeable when he has to answer off the cuff. He leaves himself plenty of carefully planned leeway so he is safe, no matter which way the wind blows. Giving Obama the presidency is like putting a semi-trailer truck in the hands of an inexperienced teen age driver. She is a candidate of action…he is a candidate of words. We need experience in these hard times. Vote Hillary!

Notice Hillary says Obama voted just like she did, when he came in the senate. And this is supposed to be a negative on Obama, and a sign of a failure to “take charge”. So her slogan is “Don’t vote for him, he voted the way I did in the senate.”