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The news from the campaign trail consisted of Barack Obama squelching talk of the Dream Ticket from Hillary Rodham Clinton. All three networks--ABC's David Wright (embargoed link), CBS' Jim Axelrod, NBC's Lee Cowan--ran Obama's sarcastic soundbite ridiculing the idea that he might become her running mate: "I do not know how somebody who is in second place is offering the Vice Presidency to the person who is in first place." Making fun of Rodham Clinton performed the double duty of undercutting her claim in that ubiquitous 3am telephone ad that Obama is unseasoned to be Commander in Chief: "I do not understand. If I am not ready how is it you think I would be such a great Vice President?" NBC's Andrea Mitchell characterized Rodham Clinton's tactics as "a sly putdown of the frontrunner" and ran a clip of the parody of that ad on her own network's Saturday Night Live. Rodham Clinton does indeed answer the phone at 3am, but as a mere housewife, face daubed in white cream: "What do I do? I am in a panic, a blind unreasoning, inexperienced panic!" moans a President Obama. "For God's sake, Mr President! Man up, calm down and listen," instructs the junior senator from New York.
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