The Big Lie

Not too long ago, Senator Clinton released a t.v. ad with children asleep in their beds and a voice-over alluding to her readiness and Senator's unreadiness to handle a foreign policy crisis in the middle of the night.

The Big Lie is not about whether Obama is ready to handle a crisis (based on how he ran this campaign, I think he is ready for just about anything). The Big Lie is that Hillary Clinton says she is ready...and capable...of handlng a crisis. If her campaign is evidence of anything, it is that this politician can't see beyond her own ambition. She did not anticipate that Obama, who was doing boring wonkish town halls in the towns of Iowa, could rise above substance and reach into the hearts of Americans of varied ideologies. She mocks hope...ironically the name of the town from which her former president husband hailed and which they promoted in the 1992 campaign. She had no plan beyond February 5. She had no plan to deal with caucus states. She finds a reason to blame her failure on everything but herself. She can't think in three-dimensional terms.

Do we need this in the Oval Office, at 3 a.m., which a crisis happens...a president who can't see beyond her own needs and her own ambitions.

I trust McCain with the red phone.

I trust Obama with the red phone.

I do not trust Clinton. Her campaign's incompetence is a sign...don't think that these people would not be running the White House if she won. I'd rather roll the dice with Obama.