1 - the bombing of vacant buildings or aspirin factories;
2 - declarations of war from the press room against Osama bin laden;
3 - refusals to allow the killing of said Osama for fear Arab potentates or children would be collateral damage; and, finally, when said calls concerned a certain ceasefire violating Saddam Hussein,
4 - Desert Fox, i.e. days of massive bombing of Iraq followed by an Oval Office speech declaring that the US and UN must prevent Saddam from allying with al Qaeda with weapons of mass destruction against us.
Despite President Clinton's anemic responses to phone calls at 3, and any other am and pms, or maybe because of same, I give Hillary a pass, especially after her affirmation of President George Walker Bush's request for a Declaration of War (and that is what it was and I'm not arguing that point on this blog even if called names by mbecker), that she is better prepared to answer White House phones than her opponent for the democratic party presidential nomination i.e. the junior senator from Illinois, all of whose names have the potential to be used in an offensive and bigoted manner, who is married to the 44-year old Michelle that only recently was proud of America when watching women faint at the sight of her husband and who recently pleaded with poor clack women to eschew legal and corporate careers to stay barefoot and pregnant or empty bedpans.
I think, after 911, and the consequent guilt felt by President Bill Clinton knowing all the times he could have acted to prevent same, that he and Hillary learned a lesson: Our legacy can be restored by winning wars, not by approval polls born of inaction.
The policies that Michelle's husband would advance in foreign policy would make 3am phone calls advising him of Americans dying at the hands of our enemies more frequent.
Michelle's husband has declared to the world that he would allow Husseins to defy ceasefires achieved by the deaths of brave America soldiers with impunity.
He would reward 28 years of war by Iran's mullahs against the US with a meeting to discuss their role in Iraq, with no precondition that they stop waging war against us in Iraq.
I endorse Hillary to be John Sydney McCain, III's opponent on Election Day 2008, not because she would be easier to beat (and not just because I no longer believe that), but because he would be a much better Commander in Chief phone answerer that Michelle's husband.
[UPDATE]
Hillary Clinton Talks to The Brody File
I think that there is a certain phenomenon associated with this candidacy, and I am really struck by that because it is very much about him and his personality and his presentation. And that's perfectly legitimate in politics, or any other walk of life, but I think it dangers or oversimplifies the complexity of the problems we face, the challenges of navigating our country through some difficult uncharted waters. We are a nation at war. That seems to be forgotten.
Hillary says "We are a nation at war" with conviction.
Michelle's husband says it as throwaway line.
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
The HinzSight Report
The Minority Report
Race 4 2008
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson