Paul Freedman is an associate professor in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at ..UVa

[underpants]

Can you spot the problem in the beginning of this analysis?

By PAUL FREEDMAN
TIMES-DISPATCH COLUMNIST
Sunday, May 04, 2008

CHARLOTTESVILLE While children sleep, a phone rings in the middle of the night. There is danger afoot, perhaps a national security crisis. Whom do you want picking up that phone? Think carefully, the outcome of the Democratic presidential nomination depends upon your answer.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Fear is the message of Sen. Hillary Clinton's now famous "red phone" ad, which aired during the Texas primary and has spawned countless blog entries and YouTube parodies. (To set the record straight: The phone was actually white and the sleeping girl in the ad's 10-year-old file footage is now a teenager who supports Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nod.) Afraid, according to the Clinton campaign, is precisely what you should be at the prospect of an Obama presidential candidacy. Obama, the Clinton camp informs us, is simply too inexperienced to be trusted at the helm of the ship of state, particularly when it comes to national security.

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