Today Senator McCain weighed in on Hillary Clinton's campaign ad that asks voters who they'd want in charge in the event of a real crisis situation.

“I think many Americans, when they consider the three of us, I would believe that my knowledge and experience and background clearly indicates that if the phone rang in the White House and I was the one to answer it, I would be the one to best address a national security crisis,” McCain said in response to a reporter’s question this morning.

McCain noted that he’s been involved in virtually every national security crisis that has come along in the last two decades, something he stressed throughout the Republican primary race. Asked whether Clinton and Obama were unqualified to answer the phone in the middle of the night, McCain demurred.

“I’m not running against their qualifications, I am running for mine,” he said. “My knowledge, my experience, my background, my relationship with the world’s leaders…I’m not the youngest candidate, but I’m certainly the most experienced and qualified to answer that phone and act in America’s best security experience.”

When asked what he considered to be his own “red phone moment” qualifying him to respond to the ring, McCain paused and then cited two examples, ranging from the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 to his push for a counterinsurgency strategy involving a surge of U.S. troops in Iraq.

McCain pointed out that he was “sitting in the cockpit” of a Navy jet aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise off the island of Cuba shortly after U-2 spy plane photos revealed missile bases under construction just miles from American soil.

“I didn’t have anything to do with the decision but I was ready to be at the point of the spear,” said McCain.

It's pretty much a no brainer folks. Neither Hillary or Obama comes close to the background of experience that Senator McCain has.