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Recall.. It’s 3 a.m. Who do you want answering the phone?

Sep 30, 2016 6:44AM PDT
It’s 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep
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
Whether it’s someone who already knows the world’s leaders, knows the military — someone tested and ready to lead in a dangerous world
It’s 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep
Who do you want answering the phone?

That, of course, is the script from Hillary Clinton’s now famous (or infamous) “3 a.m.” television ad that ran in Texas just ahead of the March 4 primary. At the end of the ad, Clinton answers the phone.


Donald Trump goes on 3 a.m. tweetstorm to attack former Miss Universe Alicia Machado: “Check out [her] sex tape”

Would TheRUMP be too busy to answer the phone?

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I wouldn't go there
Sep 30, 2016 12:05PM PDT

I think she's already been tested in that regard and reports seem to be that she failed. She's also been reported to have contributed to the event by her inaction and then tried to blur what happened by blaming it on some video. I don't claim to know the facts. Like the rest of us, I know only what the news wires offer for feed.

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I just heard
Sep 30, 2016 12:32PM PDT
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PS
Sep 30, 2016 12:48PM PDT

When it's 3am EST in the White House/East coast of America...The workday has already started in parts of Russia.

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I'm with Reagan in at least on regard
Sep 30, 2016 1:01PM PDT

Others have said much the same.

http://platinumstrategies.com/10-inspiring-quotes-true-leaders/

Reagan didn't act as though he was an expert at everything. He picked the people he thought were best for the task at hand. I think we expect too much of our presidents. IMO, they should be more like managers of policy rather than dictators of it. I wouldn't expect the president to know what to do if a threat occurred but I'd expect him/her to know who they could call on to handle it. Hillary was called upon. Unless you're a computer hacker, you and I have access to the same information as to her performance. Other than complete destruction of a compound and the death of a few Americans on foreign soil, how did she do?

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RE: He picked the people he thought were best for the task
Sep 30, 2016 1:22PM PDT
He picked the people he thought were best for the task at hand.

AND I don't think there is anything wrong with that.

That's what TheRUMP plans on doing....

He claims he knows who is best for any job....BUT everyone that he has hired AND fired...WILL be sued IF/WHEN the say anything against him. ALL(even people that do menial jobs in Trump Hotels) required to sign non-disclosure agreements...Makes me wonder about HIS integrity.

That Corey guy...He's gone/fired?...still on the stump raving how great Donald is....What's wrong with that picture?

He WAS working for free? and gets fired...and he's still raving how great TheRUMP is?
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You don't like Trump...that's a given
Sep 30, 2016 1:29PM PDT

How do you feel about Hillary? Has she done great and wonderful things that make her deserving regardless of Trump being her opponent? I'll repeat part of the question from my last post "...how did she do?"

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RE:how did she do?"
Sep 30, 2016 1:39PM PDT

I "better off now" than I was 10 years ago.

How bout you?

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It's not about me. It's about Hillary
Sep 30, 2016 3:24PM PDT

The biggest favor she's done for me is to display just the kind of attitude that I need to eliminate her from my list of potential presidential candidates. She has clearly become a party puppet.

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RE: It's not about me.
Sep 30, 2016 7:10PM PDT

Interesting/confusing.

She has clearly become a party puppet.

Vote for TheRUMP and YOU are HIS puppet?

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It looks like, once again,
Oct 1, 2016 3:39AM PDT

you choose to not answer a question relative to its subject. Rather, you answer with another, IMO, absurd question. I do remember mention of certain people being among the "un-redeemables". I suppose this person was speaking about coupons that had expired. If she was speaking about people for whom there was no hope, the word would have been "irredeemable". Just another Clintonism I suppose.

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YOU said
Oct 1, 2016 4:46AM PDT
It's not about me. It's about Hillary

"about Hillary"?

ONLY Hillary?

About what YOU think Hillary will do to/for "We the people"?

Are YOU one of "We the people"?

I know YOU are. (American citizen)

So, it is about YOU, even if it's just that you don't want to have her running the place.
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RE: "un-redeemables". Just another Clintonism I suppose
Oct 1, 2016 5:30AM PDT

Did she say/spell it out with a hyphen?


Not ONLY a Clintonism?

Synonyms and Antonyms of unredeemable

Synonyms incorrigible, incurable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreformable, irremediable, irretrievable, unrecoverable, hopeless

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RE: ..how did she do?"
Oct 1, 2016 5:35AM PDT

Better than I think TheRUMP would have in the same situations.

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"I think"?????
Oct 1, 2016 6:32AM PDT

Since he has no record to brag about with regard to those situations and SHE does, how did she do, in your opinion? Don't duck and dodge it.....answer the question.

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RE:Since he has no record to brag about
Oct 1, 2016 6:46AM PDT

The one he does brag about isn't THAT impressive.

Especially when he doesn't want to "PUT UP"...he won't SHUT UP about his record, But he won't "PUT UP".

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As usual, duck and dodge/divert and deflect
Oct 1, 2016 3:27PM PDT

You just can't bring yourself to actually answer a direct question.

Bye........

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RE: how did she do, in your opinion?
Oct 1, 2016 7:11PM PDT

In my opinion?

Better than TheRUMP would have done.

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And you know that how?
Oct 3, 2016 6:21AM PDT

Remember, BO had no record either when he won, and everybody had to wait and see (didn't turn out so well for him though) and they were willing to take that chance against McCain's record and experience, especially with foreign affairs.

So, in your opinion, you would rather 'take a chance' with someone who has a really, really, really BAD record and experience AND can't admit that she put the USA's national security at risk for the entire four years she was SoS PLUS the two years AFTERWARDS that she kept those records on her private server AND had them wiped out AFTER getting a Congressional subpoena to preserve them? Thank GOD you are not able to vote in our elections.......

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RE: McCain's record and experience, especially with foreign
Oct 3, 2016 7:29AM PDT
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Trump being stubborn hasn't killed people.......
Oct 3, 2016 10:40AM PDT

And again, you dodge the questions..........

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RE: Trump being stubborn hasn't killed people.......
Oct 3, 2016 11:17AM PDT

Do YOU want to take that risk?

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Yes,,,,
Oct 3, 2016 12:24PM PDT

I'd rather take the unknown and hope for the best than take the known and KNOW she's dangerous because she's proven it beyond a shadow of a doubt.

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(NT) Well then
Oct 3, 2016 12:44PM PDT
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Well then
Oct 3, 2016 12:46PM PDT

There's no accounting for bad taste/choices.

TheRUMP?...the UNKNOWN?

Women? pigs, fat slobs....the c word?

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Look up all the words that hilLIARy
Oct 4, 2016 4:03AM PDT

used against the women who accused her husband TRUTHFULLY of various acts of infidelity, abuse, rape, etc. You can forgive HER of her actions against women but not Trump....why? Because you see it as a 'woman against woman' verbal assault so that makes it OK?

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RE:Look up all the words that hilLIARy
Oct 4, 2016 4:51AM PDT

NO>>>YOU look them up...It's YOUR claim not mine.

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RE:Don't duck and dodge it.....answer the question.
Oct 1, 2016 6:50AM PDT

Do you know what HE would have done in "those situations"?

Is THAT how he got your vote?

Tell everyone what HE would have done.

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PS
Oct 1, 2016 8:28AM PDT

I forgot...HE won't tell what he would do...You're "the enemy".

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Your life in Canada is THAT boring?
Oct 3, 2016 3:54PM PDT

I could care less if Canada is there or not, but YOU can't keep your nose out of other nation's business, can you? Why not take up a hobby, go fishing, golfing, or selling snow cones in winter?

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RE:Your life in Canada is THAT boring?
Oct 3, 2016 7:41PM PDT

Is THAT why YOU never respond to TONI?...YOU consider it boring?

YOU think I have a boring life? And you're here to cheer me up?

YOU think I have a boring life? And you're going to make my life more boring?

MY life is boring?...And I am the only person in SE that you respond to? Without me YOU wouldn't be HERE?

I could go on...but this is getting boring.