Biden Admits Obama’s Inexperience Will Draw ‘Testing’ From World
Monday, October 20, 2008 at 11:50PM “Oh, and I’ve forgotten how to do foreign policy!” Biden also promised that when elected, their popularity will plummet in the polls… but just remember the campaign momentum and tell yourself it was worth it!
ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe Reports: Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on Sunday guaranteed that if elected, Sen. Barack Obama., D-Ill., will be tested by an international crisis within his first six months in power and he will need supporters to stand by him as he makes tough, and possibly unpopular, decisions:
JOE BIDEN: “Mark my words, it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. 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.”
“I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate. And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you - not financially to help him - we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”
“Gird your loins. We’re gonna win with your help, God willing, we’re gonna win, but this is not gonna be an easy ride. This president, the next president, is gonna be left with the most significant task. It’s like cleaning the Augean stables, man. This is more than just, this is more than – think about it, literally, think about it – this is more than just a capital crisis, this is more than just markets. This is a systemic problem we have with this economy.”
“I’ve forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I’m not being falsely humble with you.I think I can be value added, but this guy has it. This guy has it. But he’s gonna need your help. Because I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, ‘Oh my God, why are they there in the polls? Why is the polling so down? Why is this thing so tough?’ We’re gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years. So I’m asking you now, I’m asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point because you’re going to have to reinforce us.”
“There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go, ‘Whoa, wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don’t know about that decision’. Because if you think the decision is sound when they’re made, which I believe you will when they’re made, they’re not likely to be as popular as they are sound. Because if they’re popular, they’re probably not sound.”
“I probably shouldn’t have said all this because it dawned on me that the press is here.”
“All kidding aside, these guys have left us in a God-awful place. We have the ability to straighten it out. It’s gonna take a little bit of time, so I ask you to stay with us. Stay with us.”
Good Lord. No wonder Biden lost every campaign he’s ever run. And it looks like Sarah Palin is more qualified than both Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
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I laughed my ass off when I heard Senator Biden say this, but I have to say that I agree with him.
If the Obama does get elected, he will be tested and pushed by our enemies. And this is a bad thing. Considering that the economy will still be in a lurch a major confrontation around the world is something we don't need. One half of the Obama/Biden ticket has just acknowledged that the Obama is "perceived" as weak. Where is the in depth analysis by the MSM??? Not a peep...
It reminds of the SNL skit with the "cowbell".
"I've got a fever. I need more Joe Biden quotes..." heheheh
Biden says Obama will need support. I doubt if he means the kind of "support" they gave Bush.
If Sarah Palin had said this.....
He's a ramblin' man, there's no doubt about it. But he's not saying that Obama's weak or will be perceived as such, he's saying with the current geopolitical climate, there is bound to be a crisis that happens in the first 6 months that will be a situation Obama's never had to handle before. This would be daunting for any new president. That's true of most presidents in this situation--NOTHING in Bush' experience could have prepared him to handle 9/11 and he initially handled it admirably. I can list off countless other examples where presidents--old or younger had to deal with crises they had never handled or could not have anticipated. Biden's point is that Obama's mettle will be tested but that he'll come through. He said it in a very akward way, but that's what I took away from that.
He's a ramblin' man, there's no doubt about it. But he's not saying that Obama's weak or will be perceived as such, he's saying with the current geopolitical climate, there is bound to be a crisis that happens in the first 6 months that will be a situation Obama's never had to handle before.
MD in Ohio
Respectfully, MD now you're projecting what you "hope" he was saying. I've been watching all the MSM shows this morning and where is the follow up? Nothing but silence from our media that's suppose to be the guardians of the truth. The Obama made a tacit admission when he chose Joltin Joe Biden. He was weak on foreign policy and needed help. Now his running mate has just admitted that the Obama is going to be tested. Why?
"Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on Sunday guaranteed that if elected, Sen. Barack Obama., D-Ill., will be tested by an international crisis within his first six months in power"
Good Grief that is a potential for any president and it does not mean they are not qualified.
"Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on Sunday guaranteed that if elected, Sen. Barack Obama., D-Ill., will be tested by an international crisis within his first six months in power"
Good Grief that is a potential for any president and it does not mean they are not qualified.
An estimated 100,000 people showed up in St. Louis last Saturday morning to hear Obama speak at the Gateway Arch, unbelievable…I know you all are going to jump down my throat but Sen. Obama's strength is his perceived sincerity and he is pragmatic. Sen. Obama seems to be fair, inspirational, energetic, and contrary to the cultish right, he is patriotic if the blinders are taken off. He is the candidate who has built his formidable war chest with small contributions. He has moved 1000's of young and old American a like to volunteer for a cause, I have witnessed this in many states, personally. A cause the right disputes, egads, I have recently read an article from a conservation republican group that liberals cannot be Christian, and you cannot be a true Christian if you are a republican. Of course, they do not realize because of their narrow viewpoint that Jesus Christ was indeed a conservative morally, but he has quite a liberal socially in the true since of meanings of the words. After all, Jesus Christ did not come to fulfill any political agenda.
You can bark if you want, because that is all we have heard so far; if one really wants to be effective and intelligent they can list positive qualities of the candidate of their choice and talk about their vision for the future. All I have heard is babbling of unsubstantiated smears. People are cutting and pasting all over the internet and the other side have chosen to avoid this, but those involved cannot see this because the hate blinds them. That is so hard not to do because many have become agents of hate and live in a blur. I fear in the closing hours of this election that hate will expose it ugly head unlike we have seen in many decades.
I am not writing this because I feel above all of this, actually, I feel less today. I have many struggles like many others...I am just an Ed, not a Joe Plumber.
I challenge you to stop the hate and write things that are positive. What is the good you see in your candidate? How will your candidate shape your future, the future you want to see and try to be that change yourself.
~ Just Me
Good Grief Ed, I am writing inbetween programming and I got lost where I was at...putting on my lead underwear as I write, ouch.
I challenge you to stop the hate and write things that are positive.
Ed
Whoa, that diatribe reminded me of that scene in Ghostbusters when they were in the hotel dining room capturing Slimer. Bill Murray turned to Dan Akroyd and said "Nice, shootin Tex."
Please elaborate on the "hate" that Amy and I have been spreading.
Pete Dawgy Dawg: My point is exactly what Ed said: being "tested" in the first 6 months of a presidency is a potential for any president and it does not mean they are not qualified. I think you and Amy are the ones reading into his words too much and the reason the media isn't jumping all over this is b/c there's nothing to jump on. We are clearly interpreting his statement weakly, but nothing about the statement screams: "I think my running mate is a weakling".
As I've said "MD you are projecting." and that's understandable the Obama's already got you vote. Biden said during the Democrat primary he said to Newsweek "I think he can be ready, but right now I don’t believe he is." Why would Biden even mention a "perceived weakness" of the Obama? I thought the Obama was going to change the world. The world we love us again. Hasn't he stated that he's willing to talk to our enemies? So unless Biden knows of a natural disaster coming up, what's the deal?
Please excuse my writing errrors.
Biden said during the Democrat primary to Newsweek "I think he can be ready, but right now I don’t believe he is."
The world would love us again.
That is what I wanted to say...
PD: First of all, that's a comment Biden made well over a year ago, a lifetime ago. Secondly, are you seriously asking why Biden would have tried to paint Obama as not being ready in the primaries a year ago? Could it be, oh I don't know, because he was running against him perhaps? Think of all the things that many of you might have said about McCain a year ago when you were rooting for Huckabee or Romney. In fact, since you brought this up, one of the most ironic things I take away from the Republican primaries is when McCain told Romney during a debate: "You're just a former Governor from Massachusetts--everyone knows that Governors have no foreign policy or national level experience. You may require on-the-job training, but I'll be ready on Day One". Yet he ends up choosing the least experience governor of all from the smallest state as his running mate. Huh? My point here is, don't take things that others have said about each other in the heat of a primary battle out of context b/c I'll come up with as many examples if not more of where McCain has completely contradicted himself over the last year.
So if testing comes every six months, Bush has kept us safe for seven years. Where is the gratitude from the Left?
I think Biden knows that the countries currently held in-check, will "test" Obama as Russia "tested" Kennedy.
Every administration has its first test and it will be different depending on the dynamics of what is going nationally and in the world.
I hope that there are no "oh sh_ts" in our near future.
Depending on how you look at things, 01/20/09 will be the end of an era or the end of an error...
It is interesting to note that a Greek slave "Aesop" somewhere around 600 BC said, "United we stand, divided we fall."
~ peace
So everyone, what do you make of Ken Adelman's endorsement of Obama? He's a neocon and friend of Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz. See his reasons below:
"When the economic crisis broke, I found John McCain bouncing all over the place. In those first few crisis days, he was impetuous, inconsistent, and imprudent; ending up just plain weird. Having worked with Ronald Reagan for seven years, and been with him in his critical three summits with Gorbachev, I’ve concluded that that’s no way a president can act under pressure.
Second is judgment. The most important decision John McCain made in his long campaign was deciding on a running mate. That decision showed appalling lack of judgment. Not only is Sarah Palin not close to being acceptable in high office—I would not have hired her for even a mid-level post in the arms-control agency. But that selection contradicted McCain’s main two, and best two, themes for his campaign—Country First, and experience counts. Neither can he credibly claim, post-Palin pick."
Wow, pretty strong. He said his main reasons were Obama's cool-headed temperment and judgment and McCain's lack there of.
You guys were all A-OK when Bush was tested and failed.
Right, except that Bush was tested and passed the test.
It's like this: Bush is like the parent and the Democrats like the spoiled, bratty kids who dont' want to do the right thing and are more interested in eating Pringles and playing Nintendo.
Sometimes doing the right thing doesn't make you popular, but it's still the right thing to do.