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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2313)	8/14/2008 1:52:09 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6579

Obama Fails Real Life 3AM Phone Call Test - Big Time Posted on August 12, 2008 by Texas Hill Country From Jonah Goldberg in the LA Times: The Obama campaign has for months pursued the odd strategy of having the junior senator from Illinois act as if he were already kinda-sorta president of the United States. In June, it tried sticking a quasi-presidential seal on his lectern. Then in July, he conducted what seemed like official state visits with foreign leaders and delivered something like a “prenaugural” address in Berlin, inviting comparisons to JFK and Reagan. Now fate has given Obama a chance to be presidential rather than pretend…. Obama’s response? First, late Thursday evening, he gave a conventional written statement calling for calm, U.N. action and “restraint” from both sides — followed an hour later by a slightly stronger condemnation of Russian aggression and a call for a cease-fire. During Obama’s make-believe presidency, we’ve heard about bold action, about the courage to talk to dictators. When faced with a real “3 a.m. moment,” Obama — who boasts about 200 foreign policy advisors, broken into 10 subgroups — proclaims, “I’m going to get some shave ice.” WOW… maybe we should actually put someone up for nomination that would be President, not someone that pretends. We would do well to remember that this is a man with VERY few actual accomplishments professionally either in politics or in academia. As the Editor of the Harvard Law Review he managed to avoid publishing even one article, and at my Law School it was impossible to become Editor without publishing so I have no idea how he managed that. As a Lecturer at the University of Chicago, he did not publish one piece of academic work, but did manage to take a year to write his book about himself… in Bali…. He was a State Senator for 8 years, which is a job that meets only 65 some odd days a year, and did not pass even 1 piece of legislation for the first 5 years in office, and only started passing bills when they were essentially handed to him at the finish line. He was also a US Senator for ONE year before he decided that he was qualified to be President, with his lack of accomplishment in the Senate that astounds, not to mention the fact that he is one of the least bi-partisan people in the Senate. Essentially, the only thing he has done is write books about himself and win elections. That’s it. And yet, because we HOPE and BELIEVE, we are supposed to trust that this man is able to handle that 3AM phone call? Well, Obama has failed a real test of what a 3am phone call is. And failed big.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2313)	8/15/2008 12:53:07 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6579

But three months later, on April 1, 2007, the committee made another payment to Midline for $14,086, which coincided with the receipt of $14,035 by the committee from Mr. Edwards’s presidential campaign to cover the cost of office furniture, according to Federal Election Commission reports. The infusion of cash from the presidential campaign was necessary to make the payment to Midline, because the committee began April with only $7,932 in the bank, the reports show. The only other money the committee took in during that quarter was donations totaling $18,000 from Mr. Baron’s wife and three other people. A senior official in the Edwards campaign, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the final payment to Ms. Hunter covered the cost of video clips she took of Mr. Edwards under her 2006 contract. The payment did not occur until April because it took that long for the committee to get Ms. Hunter to turn over the video, the former official said.