About Those 3 AM telephone calls

The following came from The Chicago Tribune's The Swamp blog, Fearmongering' and loathing on Sunday talk shows:

"But then pressed on the matter, Bayh said he just meant that 'Our intelligence people have said that publicly,' and that the point he was trying to make is that voters should think seriously about which presidential candidate will handle the terrorist threat properly."

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But Sen. Chris Dodd argued that Obama is the guy you want, and not just because he has the "character, integrity and life experience" called for.

For authority he invoked another Senate committee, and another Indiana senator. He noted that Dick Lugar, when he was chairman of the Foreign Relations committee in 2005, picked Obama as his travel partner to Russia to visit nuclear and biological weapons destruction sites.

"It's not just who picks up that phone," Dodd said, "it's what they say."

I really do think Dodd nailed it with that last quote. Sorry about the tardiness in getting this one posted.