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Here Comes Obama's 3 AM Phone Call By James LewisFebuary 27,2012 In the next 60 days Obama's presidential career will finally meet that concrete wall of reality. He will either fail or survive. Trouble is, he might take many innocent people with him if he fails. So far, the most hyped-up and unqualified president in US history has shown no capacity at all to act, in the face of a do-or-die challenge. This is the ultimate test of character, the one that John F. Kennedy met well enough in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. This is the test that Jimmy...

I wish I had a cigarette. I know I told the people of America that I quit but hell, I've told them so many things that were not true, how's a measly cigarette going to make a difference? It's my health, isn't it? And, talking about contradictions, I was smoking a pack a day when I gave the country Obama Healthcare. I admit 57 percent of the country didn't want my kind of healthcare. That's why I had a Congress I controlled shove it down their throats. By 2016 we will have the same healthcare as Canada-lousy, but cheap. I...

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's foreign minister has confirmed claims by an exiled Iranian opposition group that a factory west of Tehran is manufacturing centrifuge parts. Ali Akbar Salehi, quoted by the state news agency IRNA, says the facility is no secret and that many other facilities in the country are involved in manufacturing parts for Iran's nuclear program. Iran has long said it produces centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium, a process that the U.N. has demanded Tehran halt. Two days earlier, the exile Mujahedeen-e Khalq group said its spies identified the factory, called the TABA facility. Iran says...

A prophetic insight. Video at link...

One of the issues raised in the run-up to our last presidential election was the question "Which candidate is best qualified to handle a '3 AM moment'?" America now has a partial answer. It isn't President Obama. Last Friday was Day 4 of the ongoing protests in Egypt, where tens of thousands Egyptians took to the streets to demand the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. As the situation reached a flash point, with a mounting death toll and Egyptian tanks in the streets of Cairo, President Obama maintained his silence. Well, not quite. He did Twitter, by proxy.

The White House Phone Rang at 3 a.m. Posted by Erick Erickson Sunday, April 11th at 9:43PM EDT Remember back during the 2008 campaign Hillary Clinton ran that ad asking who you’d want to be in the White House when the “3 a.m. phone call” came? 3 hours after midnight Eastern time this past Saturday, that 3 a.m. phone call came. The President of Poland, his wife, major government and military leaders, and others all died in a horrible plane crash in Russia. In Europe, the rumor is rampant, without any evidence, that Vladimir Putin was behind it. The confirmed...

WASHINGTON -- Turns out Hillary Rodham Clinton was right all along. During the nastiest battle of the entire 2008 presidential race, she aired an alarming television commercial warning voters that they would come to regret nominating Barack Obama to occupy the White House. If -- in a national security crisis -- the "red phone" rang at 3 a.m., the ad intoned, Obama would not hear it.

Turns out Hillary Rodham Clinton was right all along. During the nastiest battle of the entire 2008 presidential race, she aired an alarming television commercial warning voters that they would come to regret nominating Barack Obama to occupy the White House. If -- in a national security crisis -- the "red phone" rang at 3 a.m., the ad intoned, Obama would not hear it. Or he would fail to answer it. Or he would be on vacation. In any case, an Obama White House would so diminish the threat of terrorism that the government's focus would shift away from the...

Top aides to President Obama say that, yes indeed, he did have that 3 a.m. phone call that then-rival Hillary Rodham Clinton warned he couldn't handle. Before the Texas Democratic primary last year, Clinton aired a provocative TV ad that showed children sleeping peacefully and asking voters who they would trust to deal with a middle-of-the-night crisis. Senior adviser David Axelrod, communications director Anita Dunn, and press secretary Robert Gibbs told CNN that it happened in April, when Obama was in Prague and North Korea tested a long-range missile. "I think it was about 4:00 in the morning we were...

This guy is worse than Carter. He can't make a tough decision to save his life. Afghanistan in particular. Iran in particular. Sit back and wait. that way you can't be criticized by anyone, he hasn't made a decision yet. Obama's ego is such that he must be loved by everyone. He cannot handle anyone who doesn't. He's got ALL the mainstream media in print and tv and cable for him. The MSM gives him daily Lewinskis but the two things he constantly bitches about like a little girl are Fox News Channel and conservative talk radio. God help this...

It occurs to me that the last person in the whole wide world that I'd like to talk to at three in the freakin' morning would be Hillary. On a bunch of different levels. As the SecState, well, she's probably not going to tell you what a great job you are doing. As the professional woman, she's going to loudly speculate about the anotomical deficiencies of all of these foriegn policy czars running around on her turf. As the liberal idealogue, she'll be bitching about policy wonk details and staying on message. And, almost worst of all, her screech meter...

Conservatives 4 Palin put together an excellent video on the famous 3:00 AM phone call Obama has been getting weekly.

Follow link and click to watch video. It's good. Short and sweet. http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/08/obamas-300-am-call.html

ON first watching Hillary Clinton’s recent “It’s 3 a.m.” advertisement, I was left with an uneasy feeling that something was not quite right — something that went beyond my disappointment that she had decided to go negative. Repeated watching of the ad on YouTube increased my unease. I realized that I had only too often in my study of America’s racial history seen images much like these, and the sentiments to which they allude.

Clinton: Obama has proven his toughness, international savvy Posted: 10:34 AM ET WASHINGTON (CNN) — Hillary Clinton is convinced. After questioning Barack Obama's international savvy and toughness while campaigning against him last year, the secretary of state said Sunday she has seen plenty of both from the president so far. "Those were appropriate issues to raise in the campaign," Mrs. Clinton said Sunday on the NBC program "Meet the Press." She went on to declare: "I'm here to say that I think his performance in office has been incredible." Asked specifically about her campaign criticisms, Mrs. Clinton said, "I don't...

"The reality is that these times bring not only dangers but also opportunities." - VP Dick Cheney, August 27, 2002, VFW speech Father's Day arrived early for the Obamas: ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The first family was in the mood for something sweet _ something like vanilla custard, fudge and sprinkles. On a muggy Saturday just before Father's Day, President Barack Obama took Sasha, 8, and Malia, 10, to The Dairy Godmother, a frozen custard shop just outside Washington. The president snacked on vanilla custard with hot fudge and toasted almonds in a cup, said the shop's owner, Liz Davis....

President Obama is feeling the heat lately for his limp foreign policy postures, showcased now more than ever with the increasing violence and chaos following Iran’s presidential election. Surprisingly, the critique is stemming from both sides of the aisle and is beginning to crescendo. Since the announcement of Ahmadenejad’s victory, Obama’s response has been more than unimpressive, it’s been plain impotent. If Iran is the ringing red phone, Obama is putting the call straight to voicemail. Apparently in this administration, forceful, timely responses have been reserved for houseflies instead of our most threatening enemies. The president believes that we shouldn’t...

Clinton: Obama has 'absolutely' passed '3 a.m.' test Posted: 09:49 AM ET WASHINGTON (CNN) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says President Obama has answered the central question that she raised about him when she was his chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination. In an interview with ABC's "This Week" broadcast Sunday, Clinton was asked about her famous "3 a.m." ad last year, which questioned whether Obama was the right candidate to handle a middle-of-the-night international crisis. "Has the president answered it for you?" host George Stephanopoulos asked. "Absolutely," Clinton replied.

While President Obama was speaking in Prague about nuclear disarmament, North Korea delivered the most tellingly timed comment on The Trip. The Pyongyang rogue regime -- proprietor of a nuclear arsenal -- defiantly launched an intercontinental multi-stage rocket in violation of an explicit U.N. Security Council resolution.  The President used strong words about the rocket launch:  "Rules must be binding.  Violations must be punished.  Words must mean something."  Obama flunked his first 3 A.M. test. Tragically, there were no actions to match Obama's words.  This President prefers to use the United Nations, rather than U.S. power, to protect world peace.  Ludicrously,...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hillary Clinton said there would be days - and nights - like this. For the second time in four days and with less than three months in office, President Barack Obama has received the "3 a.m. phone call" that Clinton warned about. In their bitter presidential contest, Clinton suggested that her young rival was not ready for a national security crisis. His tests are coming early: first from the borderline rogue government in North Korea, then from stateless bandits preying on shipping lanes off the East African coast.