Mr. "Handwrite a strong letter of protest to Deadeye, then file it in a secret place"?

His would be an endorsement I, were I a candidate, could do without.

But my other reaction has been to the idea that Clinton shouldn't do this because McCain will.  WTF?  First of all, McCain won't be this kind. Clinton's ad doesn't specifically say that Obama is unqualified to take those calls, only that she is.  That Obama isn't is, admittedly, implied.  But it won't just be implied in McCain's ads.  And, second, if Obama's campaign craters over this mild of an ad, he's dead meat in November and so Clinton would be doing the Democratic party a tremendous favor by showing that now.

I cannot help but note that experience is usually a very important qualification for president, even among democrats.  It was one of the reasons why Kerry got the nomination last time.  It's funny that the one year so many Very Important Bloggers have decided that it's inappropriate to talk about experience is the year the woman is the one who has it.  Because nothing reminds me so much of my every day life as seeing youngish cool guys given the nod over more experienced women because suddenly expierence, the criteria used to previously deny the women the jobs, doesn't matter any more.  It's just odd how it always seems to work out that way.  A coincidence, I'm sure.  

Finally, I also always suspect that whenever the Obama folks scream about the unfairness of a criticism, it indicates the criticism scares the hell out of them.  If they weren't worried this ad will be effective, they would be laughing it off instead of screaming about how unfair it is.

Or maybe a speech Deval Patrick made two years ago.

Is this his answer for everything?

As a Democrat, I'm really happy to see this ad, because Obama has to deal with these questions.

"If one candidate's trying to scare you and the other one's trying to get you to think, if one candidate's appealing to your fears and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope."

Then she went on to talk abt the his Iraq war fairy tale, missing Kyl-Lieberman, and his loser chairmanship of euro-affairs committee.

Obama seizes the moment?  Mmmmm...I'm not impressed in the least with Obama's judgment.  That he opposed the war in 2002 is not any kind of a ticket to the Good Judgment Club - he's failed to lead on the issue since, he's totally neglected a subcommittee that could have been a useful tool with our allies.  Not good signs, in my book.

Whether I was offended . . . not really.  but using children, the dead of night while everyone is comfortably sleeping and a phone ringing for some unknown reason is tired and suggests amateur hour.  Where's the mushroom cloud, in your head.  It's like the cutting off the ear scene in Reservoir Dogs -- better if just left to the imagination.  

IF they were trying to create fear, they failed, because they used the wrong kind of images. You don't use sweet, sleeping children to create fear. You use them to create identification. (Remember the Republican ad with the wolves? Now that was scarey.)

I'm not a fan of this kind of advertising; target group + imagery they are likely to relate to. It's simplistic and formulaic and banal. It's too busy saying "we know who you are" to allow any room for saying something memorable.

I can't tell you how many times I've thought to myself that the Clinton campaign makes it hard to be a supporter.

What I don't buy is the notion that Hillary is "more experienced" and qualified to become president.  Where exactly does Hillary have the executive experience in which she has made critical decisions which have solely impacted the course of history?  Neither Obama, nor Clinton, have this experience, nor does Senator McCain.  BTW, Hillary watching Bill make these decisions, when he was in the White House, is NOT personal experience.  

And when Hillary did have a slight input in the course of history (voting for the authorization to use military force in Iraq and the Kyl-Lieberman resolution), she failed miserably in making the right decisions.

So when the phone rings at 3am in the White House, I believe Obama will make the better decision on national security.

1. Hillary answers: Help Line (someone who knows what they're doing who can answer your questions based on their knowledge)

2. Obama answers: Sex Line (basically telling you what you want to hear, then you pay for it)

3. McCain answers: Who is this? Is it time for my pills? Mommy?

4. Bill answers: Shelly, I told you not to call this number!

The Left blogs are in an uproar over this ad

Sometimes my imagination offends me.

Sometimes it comforts me.

National security depends on our knowledge of foreign policy. It was kind of scary realizing the other night, in the Russia part of debate, that neither Obama nor Clinton currently have enough hours in the day to stay on top of world events.

Ring, ring. Who's that? Medvedvedved--whatever. How ya doing?