The blog I am commenting on is entitled Obama Aides: VP Talk is a Ruse, and it was posted on March 10th. It can be found at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/10/obama-aides-vp-talk-is-a_n_90825.html.
As the title suggests the blog is about Hilary Clinton suggesting that Barack Obama would be a good vice presidential running mate in November. Obama blasted this report by asking it he wasn’t ready to be the President how could he be ready to be the Vice President? If Clinton were to be incapacitated Obama would assume the office. The blog has some of his aides mirroring what he has said in various speeches since Clinton made that comment.
Susan Rice said that “the Clinton camp is trying to suggest that Sen. Obama is not ready to be commander in chief, they are touting him as a potential a running mate, which puts him a heartbeat away. He is not going to be a running mate. He is going to be commander in chief."
It is also suggested in this blog that as President Obama would be able to get more people to recruit for all branches of the armed services. Obama is leading in the youth demographics who also make up a majority of the people being recruited to fight in Iraq. This makes sense because not only does the youth trust him Obama has promised to be out of Iraq. So, the people who get recruited could be being signed up for other postings in a post-Iraq war scenario. In my opinion they would most likely be deployed to find Osama Bin Laden and win the war in Afghanistan. The blog questions whether or not Clinton would redeploy combat troops because they said that Clinton hasn’t said anything definitive.
Another part of the blog was a response to the Clinton had about the call at 3am in the morning. Rice says that she doesn’t believe Clinton is qualified to answer the call just because she was first lady. Handling a critical situation is a lot different than watching somebody else handle it. Rice who is a former Clinton aid added : "We continue to ask the question as to what exactly is the experience that Sen. Clinton can point to that indicates that she has had real crisis management experience? And when asked that question we get 20 seconds of silence.”
This Sam Stein Blog was very text heavy, and didn’t have a video unlike that last one I reported on. I was somewhat disappointed with the lack of convergence on this blog, but it still was loaded with useful quotes. It would have been better to hear what Rice was saying instead of reading it, but it was still effective.
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