Obama’s own foreign policy adviser, Susan Rice, says he’s not ready to answer that 3:00 a.m. call.
Of course, she says Clinton isn’t either, but that isn’t so convincing when
you listen to all the flag
officers sing her praises.
General Wesley Clark: “She has done her homework on
national security and I know from my personal discussions with her and with
many other friends that go in and brief her in her role in the Senate Armed
Services Committee. She knows the facts, she knows the details, plus she has
the big picture. She is a strategic thinker but she has the building blocks
of the strategy in her personal knowledge. This is someone that when she is
president our military is going to respect very highly, and when our Senior
Officers brief her and meet with her they are going be very, very impressed
by what she knows and the intelligence that she brings to these problems.”Brigadier General John Watkins, Jr.: “As I think about
the challenges facing the nation and having been in uniform for almost thirty
years, worked with a number of presidents to include the last four, I can’t
think of a single person – those generals included – who is better
qualified to walk into the Oval Office than Hillary Clinton. I don’t
make that statement very lightly. She is more qualified, in my view, than
her husband Bill was when he entered the office. It is no surprise to me that
you would have as many flag officers who serve this country and Secretaries
of the Army and Navy who have served this country who would come out and support
Hillary.”Major General Paul Eaton: “On a personal note, I have a Special
Forces Captain son and a Sergeant Paratrooper both in Afghanistan
and I find Senator Clinton the perfect choice to be their Commander-in-Chief
and to display the loyalty to command our armed forces and to rebuild them
after the conflicts in which we are engaged right now.”Lieutenant General Claudia Kennedy: “I support her
because I trust her. I trust Hillary Clinton because of her judgment and her
leadership. I have confidence that she is responsive to the needs of people.
I believe that she understands leadership the way we do in the Army and that
is that it’s about building connections and relationships and establishing
guidance and leadership for others. I think she’ll rebuild relationships
with other countries that have been suffering for the last seven or eight
years; those relationships have really been strained beyond anything I would
have anticipated. Another part of Hillary Clinton that I think is just tremendous
is that she knows our reality. She is in touch with people, she listens to
people. She decides what she believes about policy based on what’s right,
she has integrity, and on what works, so she’s practical.”Lieutenant General Frederick Vollrath: “I support
Senator Clinton because I believe it’s time for change in our country,
a new direction. And I know change carries with it risks. Senator Clinton
is the candidate, in my opinion, with the proven experience that truly understands
the risks and how to possibly cope with those risks to get the job done. We
shouldn’t shirk from change because of the risks, but we absolutely
have to have a leader with the proven experience. America, in the area of
national defense, must be successful and Senator Clinton has that experience
to create change, to understand the risk, and to get the job done.”Admiral William Owens: “In this world that we face
today, very complex as all of us know, I think experience will be really at
a premium, especially at the level of the Commander-in-Chief. There’s
not time to learn. The phone rings and you have to be ready. You have to ready
with intuition, with experience and with skills. And this world will have
the complexities that perhaps we’ve never before seen. I’ve been
impressed with and admire Hillary Clinton for her work in the Senate. And
we need people with great judgment. I think she brings the best of talent,
intuition and experience to handle these unknown threats in the future.”
There are a lot more where these came from.
But you’ve got to start wondering about Obama’s advisers. First, Goolsbee has a back channel conversation with Canada that blows up, and now Rice undermines her boss on TV by saying he’s unprepared to be commander-in-chief. That covers two of the most critical issues we face, economics and national security. It doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.
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