Originally Posted by
Rick Scarf
The comments were in regards to the qualifications to handle a crisis as President. It started by the republicans saying it first, to scare people a la the "3AM call" commercial, into thinking about how an inexperienced Obama would handle a crisis. The democrats turned it back around on them to make people think about what would happen with a level-headed person like Obama at the helm.
It's just scare tactics to use the emotion to fear to get people to vote the way you want them to. It's unfortunately a pretty common political attack tactic.