{"id":23421,"date":"2016-08-08T15:03:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T22:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23421"},"modified":"2016-08-08T15:03:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T22:03:49","slug":"when-having-a-cool-calm-collected-president-is-critical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/08\/when-having-a-cool-calm-collected-president-is-critical\/","title":{"rendered":"When Having a Cool, Calm &#038; Collected President Is Critical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that Hillary ad back in 2008 about a 3 A.M. phone call coming into the White House?&nbsp; Well &hellip;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s rare that we citizens get a chance to visually compare and contrast how two candidates react in a real-life threatening crisis situation &ndash; but this year happens to be one of those rare times.<\/p>\n<p>Both <strong>Trump<\/strong> and <strong>Hillary<\/strong> have had protestors actively and forcefully charge them while speaking at a rally &ndash; and both required their Secret Service guards to intervene.&nbsp; I think it&rsquo;s illustrative of how one flinches and the other stays focused.<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s the GIFs of each:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Trump_Secret-Service_Flinch.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump_Secret-Service_Flinch\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23423\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Trump_Secret-Service_Flinch.gif\" width=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Trump_Secret-Service_Flinch.gif 720w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Trump_Secret-Service_Flinch-300x168.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Hillary_Secret-Service_Calm_01.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hillary_Secret-Service_Calm_01\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23424\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Hillary_Secret-Service_Calm_01.gif\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Hillary_Secret-Service_Calm_01.gif 640w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Hillary_Secret-Service_Calm_01-300x169.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s a YouTube video comparing them:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a3JPuH9Toqo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here&rsquo;s a great Tweet that compares them side-by-side.&nbsp; (Unfortunately, I believe the Tweet graphic is formatted as Flash, and I haven&rsquo;t figured out how to save it.&nbsp; So it comes w\/ the Tweet)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hillary Clinton: tested, steady, fearless.   Donald Trump panicked, afraid &amp; chaos. Compare Secret Service videos.   <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/np0yyZZz9X\">pic.twitter.com\/np0yyZZz9X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RiotWomenn (@RiotWomennn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RiotWomennn\/status\/761547612084285440\">August 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So, who do YOU want to have access to our Nuclear Codes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that Hillary ad back in 2008 about a 3 A.M. phone call coming into the White House?&nbsp; Well &hellip; It&rsquo;s rare that we citizens get a chance to visually compare and contrast how two candidates react in a real-life threatening crisis situation &ndash; but this year happens to be one of those rare times. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/08\/when-having-a-cool-calm-collected-president-is-critical\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}