"It's three A.M. and your children are safe and asleep.... "

" ...But there's a phone in the White House and it's ringing.... Who do you want answering the phone?" (Clinton campaign spot, 2/29/08)

...Really? You do? Him? Hmm. Okay, well... Okay, so wait. Wait. Let's say it's like... It's like FOUR in the morning. Okay? And your children are safe and asleep, and they've got the puppy in bed with them. Right? The puppy, and the bunny from your daughter's homeroom. Okay? Kids, puppy, bunny. And there's a knock at the White House door. It's a delivery from the Chinese place. Who do you want answering the door? You want the one who's gonna check the order, right? And make sure they didn't give you the Orange Chicken again, instead of the General Tso's. Like they did that time? Remember? You think Obama's gonna check the order? Please, he'll be so high on ganja he'll just tear into the bag without looking and you WON'T EVEN GET ANY. And then where'll you be? Hungry and alone at four in the morning, with the wrong entree and a bedroom full of animals. Rabid, angry animals.

I'm Hillary Clinton, and I approved my advisers' wishes that you be terrified by this message.

(Cross-posted from billbarol.tumblr.com)

Comments

[NABNYC]

Why was Hillary Clinton wearing a business suit with jacket and necklace at 3:00 a.m. in the White House? With her hair done, and make up on? Is she there as a visitor? Were she and Bill invited to some function that went late into the evening?

If someone called me at 3:00 in the morning, I'd be wearing PJs.

So, is Hillary suggesting that someone else won the election, like Obama, and he gave her a job answering phones at night? Because of Nafta, maybe, she lost her day job, or she lost the one that paid well, so now she's got two jobs. One at night answering phones in the white house? It seems like silly commercial to me.

I've got a better question for Hillary and all her top-dollar strategists. Why is it that people only get the stomach flu at 2:00 a.m. (When the commercial said 3:00 a.m., I immediately thought someone's throwing up). Why can't you just get a good night's sleep, get up the next day, start your morning, maybe get the stomach flu at noon, after you've got something in your stomach. Then by 9, 10:00 that night, you can go to sleep, the worst part is over. But it never happens like that. Instead, it's always 2:00 in the morning, so you lose a whole night's sleep on top of everything else, and it takes days to recover.

Anyway, I guess I must have missed the point of this commercial. In fact I think I've missed the whole point of Hillary's campaign. Maybe I'm just not quick enough to keep up with the changing messages.

[trevor01]

If Obama wins the nomination this and worse is what he'll face from McCain. Should McCain's campaign falter and it begins to look like a close thing his victory will hinge on this - who do you want in the Oval Office when the shit hits the fan? Many Americans living outside of megalopolis will respond as desired and we will have another Republican administration. Obama has to handle this question now. Is he a hawk or a dove? How would he have handled 9-11? How would he handle an attack on Formosa? On Kosova? On Kuwait? These are legitimate questions for voters now and in November.

[DemandTruth]

Asked and answered.
Obama has said time and again that the people who attacked us were from Afghanistan, and our distraction in Iraq is hampering our efforts to go after the REAL threat. He already gets it. Apparently it's you and Bush who still don't get it. AND he has recognized that we have serious issues with terrorists in and the president of Pakistan. And he is ready to confront and deal with those issues - while our current president just wants to prop this man up and send him billions of OUR money to funnel to the terrorists! Obama gets it already. Why don't you? AND he answered wisely in the last debate - to Russert's ridiculous hypothetical question - that as CIC, it's his job to protect American interests and lives, and he will take whatever steps necessary to do that. But he won't get us into foolish quagmires that alienate our allies and drain our resources and distract us from the real job at hand.

Asked and answered. Where have you been?

[Countess]

We don't want another Bush and that is why Hillary Clinton will not be the democratic nominee and maybe she should try to be the republican candidate the next time around.

[cynmanna]

Quite simply, I do not want Hillary and Bill Clinton.

The End.