10 Reasons Why I Want Barack Obama Answering the Phone at 3 a.m. in the Morning

Hillary asks America a provocative question to scare up some votes:

The Politico points to the video that the ad is based on:

Here are 10 reasons why I want Barack Obama answering the phone at 3 a.m. in the morning.

• Hillary Clinton voted for the Iraq War, while Barack Obama opposed the war from the start. I want my President to have good judgment at 3 a.m. in the morning.
• Hillary Clinton did not read the National Intelligence Estimate report before voting to send troops to Iraq. I want my President to have weighed all the evidence before acting at 3 a.m. in the morning.
• Barack Obama agrees that America should talk to countries that are our foes, while Hillary Clinton takes issue with his position. I want my President to have relations such that their word is more powerful when dealing with other nations at 3 a.m. in the morning.
• Barack Obama understands the basic facts about Pakistan’s electoral system better than Hillary Clinton at 3 a.m. in the morning.
• While Barack Obama has proposed a detailed foreign policy plan, Hillary Clinton has not provided Obama’s level of detail. He will probably then have addressed the issues directly during the day time and have fewer phone calls with problems at 3 a.m. in the morning.
• Hillary Clinton’s current foreign policy advisers were largely supportive of the war in Iraq. Obama’s current foreign policy advisers are more “forward thinking” and generally did not support the war. We need people advising our president who have good judgment on foreign policy, not people who carry the old conventional wisdom. I don’t want Bush lite people advising my President at 3 a.m. in the morning.

And from Frank Rich…

• Hillary does not plan as well at 3 a.m. in the morning: “The Clinton camp was certain that its moneyed arsenal of political shock-and-awe would take out Barack Hussein Obama in a flash. The race would “be over by Feb. 5,” Mrs. Clinton assured George Stephanopoulos just before New Year’s. But once the Obama forces outwitted her, leaving her mission unaccomplished on Super Tuesday, there was no contingency plan. She had neither the boots on the ground nor the money to recoup.“
• I worry about Clinton’s advisers at 3 a.m. in the morning: “And no matter how much bad stuff happened, she kept to the Bush playbook, stubbornly clinging to her own Rumsfeld, her chief strategist, Mark Penn. Like his prototype, Mr. Penn is bigger on loyalty and arrogance than strategic brilliance.“
• Barack Obama is better at executing a plan for action and managing a budget at 3 a.m. in the morning: “The gap in hard work between the two campaigns was clear well before Feb. 5. Mrs. Clinton threw as much as $25 million at the Iowa caucuses without ever matching Mr. Obama’s organizational strength. In South Carolina, where last fall she was up 20 percentage points in the polls, she relied on top-down endorsements and the patina of inevitability, while the Obama campaign built a landslide-winning organization from scratch at the grass roots. In Kansas, three paid Obama organizers had the field to themselves for three months; ultimately Obama staff members outnumbered Clinton staff members there 18 to 3.“
• Barack Obama knows how to organize better at 3 a.m. in the morning: “Perhaps her people can borrow the road map from Obama’s people. In Vermont, another March 4 contest, The Burlington Free Press reported that there were four Obama offices and no Clinton offices as of five days ago. For what will no doubt be the next firewall after March 4, Pennsylvania on April 22, the Clinton campaign is sufficiently disorganized that it couldn’t file a complete slate of delegates by even an extended ballot deadline. This is the candidate who keeps telling us she’s so competent that she’ll be ready to govern from Day 1. Mrs. Clinton may be right that Mr. Obama has a thin résumé, but her disheveled campaign keeps reminding us that the biggest item on her thicker résumé is the health care task force that was as botched as her presidential bid.“

Barack Obama for President at 3 a.m. in the morning!

P.S. The feminization of the Mondale ad by the Clinton camp is really unfortunate.