Calls at 3 am

Hillary asks who do you want to answer a call at 3:00 am when there is a dangerous crisis facing the country? I am at a complete and utter loss to think of a single reason to answer that question with the name Hillary Clinton. You would hope that a president would be able to respond quickly to changed circumstances and surprises. Yet Hillary constantly is unprepared to deal with the unexpected developments. Whenever anyone challenges her, whether the insurance companies in the 1990s or Barack Obama in the current campaign, she becomes indignant and unable to respond effectively. In both situations (the two times in her public life she was put in charge), she was constantly outmaneuvered and defeated by her opponents. When things go wrong, she responds by complaints, self-pity and emotional outbursts. Compare how John McCain kept soldiering on when his campaign was thought to be dead in the water last Fall. Clinton may be more moderate than Obama but the though of her in the White House is much more frightening. I hope next week any danger of that situation occurring will be over.