It's 10 AM. A Phone Is Ringing. And Obama Has to Apologize for 'Hair Trigger' Response

Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

It was more like 10 AM than 3 AM. Somewhere, a phone was ringing to announce the news that John McCain had selected Sarah Palin as his running mate. And Barack Obama's operation immediate response was intemperate and inappropriate. Obama found himself apologizing, calling the reaction "hair trigger." He and Biden subsequently made the more gracious kind of comment that should have been made in the first place. Senators get to "revise and extend" their remarks when they've said something dumb on the floor. That's not always the case for presidents. A "hair trigger" reaction to a real crisis could have disastrous consequences.

Said Obama spokesman Bill Burton snidely when the news broke:

"Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCain's commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush's failed economic policies -- that's not the change we need, it's just more of the same."

Compare and contrast with the gracious, statesmanlike ad McCain aired on the day of Obama's acceptance speech.

Obama eventually realized that his campaign's intemperate reaction was out of line. According to the AP, Obama "blamed the mixed messages about McCain's choice, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, on campaign aides with a "hair trigger."

What does it say about Barack Obama that he has surrounded himself with these kind of aides? What does it say about Barack Obama that when his operation slips up, he blames his aides? Whatever happened to "the buck stops here?" What would happen if the phone rang in an Obama White House at 3 AM with news potentially much more lethal than the naming of a fine lady from Alaska?

[j_tull]

The 11pm news was full of local communists, I mean our demonrat Congressional delegation, decrying Gov. Palin’s lack of “foreign experience.” With a straight face, no less.

[Dawn531]

I think the “zero foreign policy” part of the statement came back to bite them in the rear end when McCain’s aides started answering the TV anchors who asked about the statement with “our VP nominee has more experience than your Presidential nominee.” That’s why I think they were quick to retract it.

[Son House]

incompetent, inexperienced and unscrupulous.

.
Found it on fox too,

Obama Campaign Sends Mixed Messages About McCain’s New VP Pick

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/29/obamas-mixed-messages/

Obama said, “I think, you know, campaigns start getting these hair triggers.

[Coldwater Creek]

Your points really should be put into a nonstop running ad.

[Eye of Unk]

I see the “messiah” has doubts of his supremacy.

[wita]

We all know what it says about Obama. He’s incompetent, inexperienced and unscrupulous.

...and hopefully some of the millions that voted for him in the primaries, will have the same enlightening experience.

[Brilliant]

“Mr. President, it’s 3 am, and the Russians are invading Poland. What should we do?”

“Issue a statement that says, ‘Today, Vladmir Putin’s Russia has invaded Poland. This is precisely the kind of politics that we don’t need. It’s more of the same tired old Bush policies of the past.’ Now let me get back to sleep, and don’t bother me with this kind of thing again at 3 am.”

[BulletBobCo]

Obama sees a meteor and thinks it's an incoming ICBM and immediately pushes the button.

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[trisham]

Obama said, “I think, you know, campaigns start getting these hair triggers.

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His does, at any rate.

[Arrowhead1952]

A "hair trigger" reaction to a real crisis could have disastrous consequences.

I do NOT want the BO in charge of the nuclear football and happen to have a "hair trigger" reaction, especially at 3 AM.

Governor Palin shares John McCain's commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush's failed economic policies -- that's not the change we need, it's just more of the same."

Yeah BO, you selected one of the longest serving and the #3 liberal senators as your running mate. You call THAT change?

According to the AP, Obama "blamed the mixed messages about McCain's choice, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, on campaign aides with a "hair trigger."

I tell you, it ain't my fault. It's that ah, uh, you know.

[oblomov]

It’s always someone else’s fault with Barack O-blame-a.

[trisham]

...and hopefully some of the millions that voted for him in the primaries, will have the same enlightening experience.

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I am also hopeful that they will, especially as we get closer to November.

[edpc]

Obama found himself apologizing, calling the reaction "hair trigger."

Really....? I thought only John McCain shot from the hip. The erudite, deep, and wise Obama always mulls things over carefully before making a response.

[Son House]

Obama said, “I think, you know, campaigns start getting these hair triggers.

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Obama is intentionally using triggers for a purpose because his sentence is incoherent otherwise, he wants sympathy, and he wants McCain to do a Robert Byrd.

[arthurus]

“Hair trigger” should now be incorporated into some short punchy ads.

[wita]

that know-nothing, embarrassing loud-mouthed Nancy Pelosi being TWO heartbeats from the Presidency doesn’t bother them one bit!

that know-nothing, dumb as a box of rocks, with apologies to the box and rocks, embarrassing loud-mouthed, traitorous, Nancy Pelosi being TWO heartbeats from the Presidency doesn’t bother them one bit!

There, fixed it.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

“I thought only John McCain shot from the hip. The erudite, deep, and wise Obama always mulls things over carefully before making a response.”

He does. It’s just that he can’t control the top people he has chosen to surround him. Reassuring, no?

[edpc]

Actually, I’m more concerned it really is a nuclear missile and he just dismisses it as a meteor.

[tsmith130]

He’s a victim of aides. ;o)

[governsleastgovernsbest]

LOL. Full-blown at that!