Letters to the Editor
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It's 3 am a phone is ringing in the White House...
..."Madame President! The economy is in the crapper!!"
I can't picture that really happening.
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Could happen!
3 am in D.C. is the middle of the day in China, you know, the guys currently holding the IOU's for our economy.
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why?
Why does everything always happen at 3 am?
i realize that she got alot of traction with the first 3 am ad, but man, now she's just flogging a dead horse!
(nice to see her attacking the republican for a change though...atta girl Hillary! Attack McCain!)
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What - the - f***.
It's 3 a.m., and somebody is calling the White House about an economic emergency?
Ummm, can't it wait until business hours?
What is Clinton going to do, send a fleet of tanks to attack the Securities and Exchange Comission?
(And say, why is there SUNLIGHT at people's houses at 3 a.m.!!!???)
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If you can't understand the metaphor . . .
. . . you may want to ask you school for a refund, or bother mother nature with a warranty claim.
The 3AM means that you are unaware or mildly aware of the crisis, the phone ringing is McCain's announced position of not doing anything about it.
But like I said, if you can't understand the metaphor . . .
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Go Girl!!
OK, Hillary is FINALLY getting the message. ATTACK MCCAIN. Go girl.
I'm an Obama fan (for now) but this strategy makes me like Hillary a lot more. I've heavily and severely criticized her on this board, almost relentlessly, for her double-talk and low blows to Obama.
I hope she keeps this up. This way, she definitely will get more votes, her star will rise, she will seem more presidential, more of a leader, more of a Democratic team player, whether she gets the nomination or not. If she finishes with a flair, she'll be much better off.
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always time for a crisis
"It's 3 a.m., and somebody is calling the White House about an economic emergency? Ummm, can't it wait until business hours?"
Umm, Hutman, d'you think Enron and Worldcom and Bear Stearns, etc., waited until 9am Monday morning to tell the powers that be they'd imploded? Or d'you think there was a quiet, one-on-one, "head's up" conversation after hours?
And, as someone pointed out, it's not 3am all over the global marketplace. 3am EST is 8 am in London, 9am in Germany, midday in the Middle East, 2pm in India, 3pm in China .... lots of places where a crisis could seriously impact the American economy.
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Come on, fellow obamabots
This is exactly the sort of ad we should be encouraging, not deriding.
At least it goes after the right person: McCain.
I think it's a smart ad for her to run, because (a) polling shows that she has an edge over Obama on whom voters trust to deal with economic issues, so it reminds them of one of her perceived strengths without really attacking Obama and (b) because it attacks McCain instead of Obama it signals a shift away from inter-party divisiveness, a trend I hope will continue.
I imagine that at this point she knows that whatever happens is going to be settled in convention and the best way to reap good-will among superdelegates is to show that she's a team-player by going after the common enemy.
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Something seems very wrong...
Always awake, fully dressed at 3:00 AM... what is she, the reincarnation of Count Dracula?
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Clinton people
C'mon, now. Are you actually paid to defend, spin, and explain every little thing, every comment that doesn't unquestionably glorify your candidate? Yes, we all get it's a metaphor...but kind of a silly one after all. Especially after it's been parodied out the gazoo, you would think the campaign would come up with something new but, hey, sticking with what works has been the hallmark of the Clinton campaign.
We all are glad that she's chosen to attack McCain a bit. It makes her seem...presidential.
PS: By now I'm sure WES has made his obligatory remark about what a bad bowler Obama is, although it has nothing to do with the original post or, until now, any comment made to it.
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Probably is the call from Bejing
Agree that the 3:00am "metaphor" for fear of the unknown and things that go bump in the night is getting a little stale. But fear of the Chinese credit monster is all too real. Though they are probably polite enough to wait until normal business hours for total capitulation .
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...he'd let the phone ring.
No, he'd answer it and give the order to bomb Al Qaeda in Iran. Then, Lieberman would detach his lips from McSame's anus and whisper into his ear to bomb the Revolutionary Guard in Iran.
Crisis averted.
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And that is the sort of ad the democratic candidates should be running
Editorial comments aside -- attack the Republican nominee.
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@ meffert
I haven't received a red cent but I don't blame you for thinking that. I guess is the difference between being passionate about something, unlike "you people" with your inspired imagination and washed, very washed brains.
I could only imagine how rich you'd all be if you get paid for trashing, bashing, smearing and ridiculing everything Hillary does.
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I'm Hillary Clinton and I improved this message
"There's a phone ringing in the White House ..."
Hillary's Montana ad:
"... but this time the crisis is education."
Hillary's West Virginia ad:
"... but this time the crisis is clean coal."
Hillary's South Dakota ad:
"... but this time the crisis is lower-than-expected wheat harvests in the northern Midwest."
Hillary's North Carolina ad:
"... but this time the crisis is a sophomore All-American from Duke is declaring early for the NBA draft and there's nobody on the bench."
Hillary's Kentucky ad:
"... but this time the favorite in the derby has a leg strain and state officials need to know whether it's still going to go off at 5:2."
Hillary's Oregon ad:
"... but this time last call is in 15 minutes and the Dandy Warhols are rocking too hard to stop."
Hillary's Guam ad:
"... but this time the crisis is tropical killer snakes."
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thank god
I hate the ad but thank god HIllary has come to her senses about WHO the real adversary is.
Probably had to do with the polling results and the superdelegate 'movement' toward Obama after that stint of divisiveness a couple weeks back which didn't help her at all.
There's no reason we cannot continue on this vein until June 3rd. The democrats will have a nominee way before he convention, though.