The 3 o clock in the morning call came and unfortunately it went straight to voice mail
How can we forget the Hillary Clinton ad and Barack Obama’s response back during the hard fought presidential race? “It’s 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep.” The announcer says “But there’s a phone in the White House, and it’s ringing – something’s happening in the world. Your vote will decide who answers that call.”
Of course Obama was not happy with that ad at all and issued a rather terse statement:
“I don’t think these ads will work this time because the question is not about picking up the phone. The question is, what kind of judgment will you exercise when you pick up that phone. In fact, we have had a red phone moment: it was the decision to invade Iraq.”
“Senator Clinton gave the wrong answer. George Bush gave the wrong answer. John McCain gave the wrong answer. I stood up and I said that a war in Iraq would be unwise. It cost us thousands of lives and billions of dollars. I said that it would distract us from the real threat that we face, and that we should take the fight to al Qaeda in Afghanistan. That’s the judgment I made on the most important foreign policy decision of our generation”….. The only problem with Obama’s stand against taking out Sudam is that Obama was dead wrong and Bush, McCain and Clinton were right. Sadam defied the U.S. and the U.N. flipping off resolution after resolution. It’s not like we just attacked Iraq. Also, Obama seems to forget the terrorist training camp, Salmon Pack, which trained hijackers to get on passenger planes. I also interviewed General George Assada, an Iraqi who worked directly for Sadam Hussein. He stated on my show that Saddam had killed 2 million of his own people, planned major revenge on the U.S. and was within a year of going nuclear. Once again, this is the horrifying judgment we are seeing now as Obama completely ignores the growing threat of N. Korea.
“I will never see the threat of terrorism as a way to scare up votes, because it’s a threat that should rally the country around our common enemies. That is the judgment we need at 3:00 am and that’s the judgment that I am running for as president of the United States of America.”
Is anyone home at the white house? Van Hipp, the former Deputy Secretary of the Army and President of American Defense International www.americandefense.net said it best this week on Fox and on my national radio show, “The 3 AM call came and it went straight to voice mail.”
Van was referring to the complete absence of a proper response to N. Korea for their continued nuclear tests, threats to our military ships and to our allies in South Korea. Naturally it doesn’t mean that North Korea’s latest nuclear test will cause a nuclear attack but given their defiance to the west and the world, they have declared nuclear ambitions of equipping terrorists to attack us.
Van Hipp was one of the first defense experts who pointed out the close interaction and history of sharing missile and nuclear technology between N. Korea and Iran. The world watched and did nothing as the sharing of missile technology escalated. Now, N. Korea is dramatically more threatening, nuclear, still involved closely with Iran and a SERIOUS national security threat and……………………………….The 3 o clock in the morning call came but unfortunately it has gone straight to voice mail.
Apparently this administration is too busy on the phones figuring out how to take over more automobile companies and banks. Of course, then there is the national emergency of nationalized health care. Let us hope someone at the White House listens to the answering machine sometime soon, preferably before the next trip to New York, Broadway show, and international apology tour.
