Obama on 3 a.m. phone calls if elected

Does this sound familiar?

MATTHEWS: Let me give you a scene that may face you in the next year or two, where the national security adviser calls you at 3:00 in the morning and tells that you a couple of jet—commercial jets have been hijacked. And they believe it is al Qaeda. And, as we know, al Qaeda always tries a second time. They tried for the World Trade Center after ‘93. They came back in ‘01.

They’re heading for the Capitol. What do you do?

OBAMA: Well, look, I am hesitant to engage in hypotheticals like that, because...

MATTHEWS: But it has been predictable.

OBAMA: Oh, well, the—I don’t think anybody predicted 9/11. And, so, we don’t know what kinds of circumstances are going to come up.

Maybe because we've heard it here:

DR. CONDOLEEZZA RICE: "... I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile."

What was Obama thinking? The 9/11 Commission discredited Rice's comment, and Kristen Breitweiser at Huffington Post reminds us about "the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing titled, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S."

As I've said before, Obama is clearly not ready for prime time.