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Barack Obama will face an international crisis early in his presidency, Joe Biden warns, fueling Republican charges that the Democratic presidential candidate's own running mate admits Obama is a blank slate in the face of coming national security threats.
Speaking in Seattle on Sunday, Biden said he could guarantee that the world will want to find out if Obama is up to the job, which he assured voters he is.
"Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking," Biden said.
"Remember I said it standing here. if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. And he's gonna have to make some really tough -- I don't know what the decision's gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it's gonna happen," Biden continued.
The Delaware senator's remarks were the second of their kind over the weekend. At a fundraiser in San Francisco, Biden said Obama's challengers will "find out this guy's got steel in his spine" whenhe is tested.
The McCain campaign jumped on Biden's remarks, saying the next president "won't have time to get used to the office."
"Just last night, Senator Biden guaranteed that if Senator Obama is elected, we will have an international crisis to test America's new president," reads a memo from the McCain campaign. "We don't want a president who invites testing from the world at a time when our economy is in crisis and Americans are already fighting in two wars. ...
"Senator Obama wont have the right response, and we know that because we've seen the wrong response from him over and over during this campaign. ... We cannot spend the next four years as we have spent much of the last eight: hoping for our luck to change at home and abroad. We have to act. We need a new direction, and we have to fight for it," the statement said.
During a McCain campaign press conference on Monday, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani also weighed in on the Democratic vice presidential candidate's remarks, saying they reveal that "Biden continues to harbor doubts that Obama is ready to be commander-in-chief."
But Democratic aides said that Biden was merely reciting history and assuring supporters that Obama is the man for the job.
"Sen. Biden was making it clear that history has shown presidents face challenges starting on day one, and with our nation fighting two wars and 21st century threats abroad, we know that we need steady leadership in tumultuous times, not the erratic lurching and stubborn ideology of John McCain," said Biden spokesman David Wade
Democratic strategist and pollster Doug Schoen said Biden's comments are "probably an uncomfortable truth, certainly not what you want as a Democratic strategist for your vice presidential candidate to say....
"But he probably is going to be tested and he hasn't had experience and I'd like to think he'll be up to the task with whatever we face, but politics is about making choices. But the question is given the failures of the Bush administration ... do we want to go in that direction or do we want to go in a different direction?" Schoen asked.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/20/biden-obama-tested-world-months-admin...
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BARACK OBAMA THE MARXIST COMMUNIST!by Jwriter4870 views
No, i dont know.
Ya know.
Crailair 1 year ago
Yes, but, the true definition still stands. It can be used as an insult, to someone who knows. But that's all I have to say about that.
Devdraco 2 years ago
@Devdraco Haven't you ever heard that for every gal there is a dude.?. i thought it was actually more like saying hey man, or, dude, where's my car? will make a pointed effort to cease and desist. so sorry!
medini2 2 years ago
Did you know a "dude" is a farm hand, which picks cotton and the such?
Devdraco 2 years ago
Dude, he talked about a generated international crisis, and that they would be voting on rfid chips, and I'd really like to hear the 4 or 5 different scenarios in which this would happen. This might have happened if the bird flu in the baxter vaccine had actually gotten out. I think Biden is the power behind the 2 and he had prior knowledge of certain events. I think comparing him to JFK was foreshawdowing events to come & he didn't know he was being taped.
medini2 2 years ago
I now believe that Joe Biden was using a fearmongering tactic to convince us whether we voted for Obama or not to do exactly what he says and accept whatever he gives us no matter how evil it is.
4LOSTSOULSONLY 2 years ago
They say Biden always say radicule things though
MalcomAP 3 years ago
why would joe even say that about his own running mate that was a bonehead move
disneydiva21 3 years ago
Great video, Biden said in a fundraiser in Seattle this week that the world would quickly throw up a test for Obama, much as president John F. Kennedy was tested by the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Achievement101 3 years ago
LOL
GTFOH
termanology85 3 years ago