Obama and the Red Phone
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has taught us much. I've long wondered why it is that, when our brain surgeon retires, we are so quick to let his wife take up the bone saw and scalpel.
It turns out it's because we have the common sense to recognize her experience. She has lived with a brain surgeon. She has attended seminars at his side, sometimes in his stead. She might as well have been a brain surgeon herself.
It's the same reason we put the son of a president in charge of our country. It's just smart.
We have also learned -- from that same trove of experience, no doubt -- that a big part of the president's job is sitting around the White House waiting for the phone to ring.
In fact, the president is expected to be there all night! Man, that is one tough job. One can only wonder, why haven't insomnia and light-sleeping been presented as major strengths in past elections? A foolish oversight on the media's part, I'm sure.
In response to this revelation, we rounded up the wives and sons of the best members of our film crew, and we did a little investigative journalism. Our short film exposes the truth about the now-mythic 3 AM phone call.
One should also note that we thought the fruits of our labor might make an excellent campaign ad for MoveOn.org's OBAMA IN 30 SECONDS contest.
We made a short version for them.
Alas, it seems they are not familiar with the well known defenses of the Errol Morris style of dramatized re-enactment. They felt our illustration of the honest concerns of our interviewee constituted an "attack."
And they rejected it.
This is MoveOn.org's loss.
The truth is never an attack. The truth is incapable of taking pot-shots at anyone. The sniper fire you hear is not real.