THEY'LL LOVE THIS AT THE WHITE HOUSE – AT 5:41 P.M. ET:  Charles Hurt, in the New York Post, asks the question many Democrats must be asking quietly:  Was Hillary Clinton right about Barack Obama?  We can imagine Hillary bookmarking this on the office computer:

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.

Or he would fail to answer it.

Or he would be on vacation.

Ah yes, I remember it well. 

Obama lashed out at Clinton, dismissing her and accusing her of desperation and playing upon people's fears.

"Sen. Obama says that if we talk about national security in this campaign, we're trying to scare people," replied Clinton, appropriately mystified.

Well, yesterday those chickens came home to roost.

Well, we can't say chickens.  Might be sexist.  Let's just say, "those intellectual concerns."

On a day when the administration desperately hoped to calm America's fears that a soft-headed, bumbling raft of politically correct peaceniks had taken over and fallen asleep at the national security switch, there wasn't much to see in the White House other than bungling of previous bungles.

Wonderfully stated.

In the future, Obama said, "we must follow the leads that we get."

You think?

"We can't sit on information that could protect the American people."

Seriously?

"We must do better in keeping dangerous people off of airplanes."

You don't say!

But why should we be surprised?

Never will be forgotten Obama's trip to Cairo last year to address the Muslim world, when he said that he believes it is "part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear."
Forget for a moment that such folly appears nowhere in the American president's job description.
If you have time for such nonsense, then you are not spending enough time thinking about how to thwart this enemy.

But it is not like we weren't warned by Hillary Clinton.

I have to admit it, I have to concede it.  I never thought I'd commit such heresy.  Am I spiritually lost?

We know we're in trouble when we look to a sixties radical feminist, anti-war activist for guidance on national security.  But she was right.

January 8, 2009