Susan Rice admits that BO is not ready for the 3 am phone call

[Mags]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TumIz2bajus

[babylonsister]

1. What did she say AFTER that statement? I notice it's conveniently

missing. :eyes:

[Mags]

4. don't know. that was all that the video showed.

[babylonsister]

22. Here's the full video on youtube:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x101660

[barack the house]

13. Sound bite email to camp Obama immediately, for them to debunk.

[durrrty libby]

29. Can't debunk the truth unless you mean LIE. PU ..BO is such a fraud.

[olkaz]

39. I have no idea what this even means.

Are you saying that it is unobjectionable fact that Obama cannot answer the phone at 3:00 AM?

/facepalm

[jakem]

2. edit: susan rice says both clinton and obama are not ready.

and, realistically, wtf is?

dont go making something that isnt there.

[JaneQPublic]

9. I saw the interview on Tucker. She also said McCain isn't ready, either.

Sitting in the Senate for decades crafting legislation doesn't make him any more prepared to handle an emergency as President.

I thought she did an excellent job making her point. She also pointed out that Obama has more experience in foreign affairs than did Bill Clinton when he ran in 1992.

[leftofcool]

3. In fairness

she did not say he wasn't ready, she admitted he lacked foreign policy experience. Let's get it right.

[theboss]

5. Who is Susan Rice?

I'm not being an asshole. I honestly have no idea who she is.

[Mags]

6. his foreign policy person

[YOY]

8. Well then. He needs to get another foreign policy person

Preferably one not with the last name "Rice" by my personal tastes.

[oviedodem]

16. Back to the "name" thing get a life

[YOY]

21. Yeah...Thanks 200 posts. You turned a joke on a Republican scumbag into an insult to me.

You sure you're in the right place?

Take your 10 second soundbyte and leave. You are not helping the democratic party.

[babylonsister]

24. No. She's brilliant. She can stay.

:P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_E._Rice

[YOY]

31. Thanks Babylonsister I stand corrected

Forgive my initial post based on the gut reaction from the OP's 10 second soundbyte (leaving out all other information) drive-by-posting.

[babylonsister]

32. See post #22 for the full video, with the sound bite in context. It does

tell a whole 'nother story. :hi:

[karynnj]

42. That is dumb - in 2004she was one of the most effective and itelligent

people speaking on foreign policy for Kerry in the general election. (I have no idea if she were withh him in the primaries.)

[YOY]

43. See post #31

n/t

[Zueda]

7. One of his foreign policy advisors.

[frazzled]

19. She has quite a strong bio (good enough to work for Clinton and Kerry)

From 1993-1995, she was Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping at the National Security Council. Between 1995 and 1997, she served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the NSC. After that, she served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1997 until 2001. During the 2004 presidential campaign, Dr. Rice served as a foreign policy adviser to John Kerry.

Rice attended the National Cathedral School for Girls in Washington, DC, then earned her undergraduate degree at Stanford University, during which time she was elected a Rhodes Scholar. She went on to receive a D.Phil in 1990 from Oxford University, earning the honor of most distinguished International Relations dissertation in the UK from the Chatham House-British International Studies Association.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_E._Rice

You, too, can google if you want to find something out.

You can also find that she was a strong opponent of the Iraq war, which is why she was one of the many former Clinton State Dept. people who went into the Obama camp.

[golddigger]

23. She's Condisleeza's Rice sister.

[JTFrog]

28. Oh JFC... get a clue. Do you really expect to be taken seriously? n/t

[golddigger]

37. NO!

[babylonsister]

35. She is not and you're lame. nt

[golddigger]

38. It was a joke and your lame.nt

[babylonsister]

41. Oh. Ha ha. nt

[Greyskye]

45. I swear I'm going to pull this car right over to the side of the road

And you kids will be sorry then!



:eyes:

[barack the house]

10. ....

[godai]

11. Not smart of her to say 'they're both not ready for that 3 am phone call'.

The Clinton campaign will say...speak for yourself. I support Obama but he needs to tighten up the campaign...too many loose cannons out causing him grief.

[Renew Deal]

12. What does she say after that?

Sounds like selective editing to me.

[Inuca]

14. Completely misleading OP

I saw the interview. She said that nobody who has not been a president can claim to be "ready" based on their experience. Not Obama, nor Clinton (yes for Bill, so maybe she would like to claim that she would just pass the phone to him if he happens to be around :evilgrin:), nor McCain. SUsan Rice seems very smart and has a clear, no-nonsense way of explaining things. She was very good in explaining the whole NAFTA-Canada thing.

[dkf]

25. Was Bill good at the red phone moment?

Did he even get one?

I'm guessing Oklahoma bombing, where he was kind of a consoler in chief.

WTC #1, where we treated the incident as more of a police incident.

Really, what did he do?

[Inuca]

34. I do not know the answer

I simply meant that he at least would be able to claim relevant experience.

[karynnj]

44. In reality the red phone moment has NOT happened in the decades it has been used

This is a bogus - cold war remnant answering the question of whether with missiles said to be on the way towards the US, does the President push the button to sent nuclear missiles towards the USSR.

WT1 was not one - once it happened it happened and everyone knew what it was. It happened in day time and Clinton had his staff with him to respond.

The Balkan decisions, like the Cuban missile crisis were all not immediate decisions - and the team provided input and teh president decided.

[elleng]

15. Please don't play media games;

10 seconds DOES NOT INFORM.

[dkf]

17. The only thing that helps in the 3 am call is good judgment

[Benhurst]

26. How about a trundle bed for Ms. Rice?

[locker13]

18. here is the whole video

http://presidentobama2008.blogspot.com/2008/03/more-susan-rice-on-obamas-foreign.html

[Abacus]

30. Wow, I've never seen her before, she speaks impressively. /nt

[Mass]

20. She says that they both are NOT ready, and ads in the part that is conveniently missing that McCain

is not either.

[whatchamacallit]

27. 1. who believes this red-phone-answering-president actually makes some kind of instant, critical,

foreign policy decision, alone?

2. why do people discuss this scenario as if it's real?

No wonder this country is fucked.

[dkf]

36. Too much 24.

[whatchamacallit]

40. No shit huh

:crazy:

[cooolandrew]

33. BO is a great abbreviation for (b)rillant (o)rator. Nice to see your appreciation.