Why Hasn’t Anyone Asked This Question?
Everyone in the Right Blogosphere is buzzing about Sen. Biden’s gaffe about there being an international crisis within the first 6 months of an Obama administration. That’s a legitimate thing to question. The Politico’s Roger Simon has an article posted that says Gen. Powell has “dropped the hammer” on John McCain’s presidency.
Later today, I’ll fisk Gen. Powell’s statements. For now, though, I’ll simply focus on how Gen. Powell’s statements are overshadowed by Sen. Biden’s “mark my words” predictions. Here’s a refresher on what Sen. Biden said:
“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “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,” Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. “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.”
Let’s be clear about something. I don’t disagree with Sen. Biden. I really do think that Sen. Obama is that inexperienced and that unqualified. I’d bet the proverbial ranch that Ahmadinejad, Putin and Chavez have noticed this. The thing that the pundits haven’t talked about is the Biden Factor. An Obama campaign staffer told American Spectator that picking Sen. Biden became necessary after Sen. Obama’s European trip flopped badly:
In selecting Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate, Sen. Barack Obama may have selected the safe pick, but according to several campaign insiders, Biden wasn’t necessarily his first or even his personal choice.
“He really wanted [Kansas Gov. Kathleen] Sebelius,” says one Obama insider with knowledge of the Democrat candidate’s vetting process. “And if our European tour had played better here at home, she might have been the pick.”
But, says the insider, the campaign’s internal polling indicated what the public polling indicated, that Obama failed in his European sojourn to build out his foreign policy credentials. “We needed the foreign policy on the bottom of the ticket more than we want to admit,” says the insider.
It shouldn’t be ignored that Sen. Obama failed miserably when Russia invaded Georgia. These missteps forced Sen. Obama’s hand. The conventional wisdom was that those things forced him to pick a foreign policy expert. The CW also said that Sen. Biden would be the perfect choice to fill the VP slot.
Lost in all this is the why question: why hasn’t anyone asked if this isn’t exactly the reason for Biden being picked as Obama’s running mate?
If Sen. Biden is this great foreign policy expert, wouldn’t Ahmadinejad, Putin and Chavez tread lightly? That’s the historical precedent. During the Iran Hostage Crisis, Ayatollah Khomeini didn’t take Jimmy Carter seriously. Five minutes after Reagan’s inauguration, Khomeini released the hostages. The last thing he wanted to do was confront someone didn’t back down. The last thing Ayatollah Khomeini wanted was to lead a full frontal assault against a president that didn’t tolerate inaction.
If world leaders don’t respect an Obama-Biden ticket, the other question that should be asked is whether they think that Sen. Biden is a pacifist. It’s quite possible that Biden is both a pacifist and a foreign policy expert in the eyes of the Agenda Media.
Technorati Tags: Joe Biden, Foreign Policy, National Security, Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Putin, Ayatollah Khomeini, Reagan, Iran Hostage Crisis, John McCain, Election 2008
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
October 21st, 2008 at 11:45 pm
I think it’s time you pull your head out of the toilet and stop flushing. Gee, what would make Biden think that a new president might be tested shortly after taking office? Maybe 9/11. Nah, couldn’t possibly be that… after all, we’ve sure shown those terr’ists, haven’t we!
Conservative principles aren’t the answer; they’re the problem.
Oh, and the answer to your question: well, duh.
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:48 am
And how did the terrorists fare after that episode “Rocky?” What a cute name for a Demopussy. You know they are fearful of the jihadist Hussein! Right?
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:00 am
Biden’s statement is setting up for the groveling we’ll see. Which of course will “appear” to be the wrong move because it would be if we were still the USA and had any guts.
Obama’s job will be to respond to the manila line knotted tightly around his balls by the corporate and media globalists who set him up. No room for an independent acting USA in their weltenschaung.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:28 am
I’m troubled by the support that Obama is garnering among Arab/Muslim leaders such as Qaddafi. I’m not saying Obama is a Muslim, but I suspect there are many in the Middle East and Muslim-dominated nations who hope that Obama harbors a deep-seated sympathy for their world view because of the childhood influences of his Muslim father and step-father. This does not bode well for Israel who in all likelihood will be the target of that “international crisis.”
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:32 am
SEW(what): Umm, the terrorists have regrouped along the Pakistan/Afganistan border, stronger than they were prior to 9/11. That’s what happened (since the criminal Bush took us on the great Iraqi misadventure). And bin Ladin? Still free.
TA: What are you babbling about? Put down the crack pipe!
But upon a quick re-read of this piece, I have to say: don’t you think the Ayatollah might have had an interest in seeing Reagan elected? Afterall, it was during Reagan’s years that we trained and supplied bin Ladin against the Russians in their march through the Middle East… thus saving and protecting Tehran. But that doesn’t fit with the conservative world-view, does it?
Oh, I forgot: Conservatism isn’t the solution, its the problem.
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Rocky, in all honesty, your the textbook example of the stupid, dumbed down American whose getting us into this mess, by blindly voting your “heart” instead of your head, which you seem to have firmly cemented up your alpha gadget.
Whats the difference between Obama, Biden, Kennedy, Hillary, George Bush and McCain?
Answer: none, zero, zit, nada.
Oh yeah, McCain has a conservative streak, and your right about one thing, McCain would continue the neo-con policies of G W Bush. Beyond that, he like Obama is a globalist, manuevered into place by the socialist industrial complex you like to rant about so much as a hedge in the event Obama slips up looses to him.
What do you think they are stupid too?
They always hedge their bets. They selected Obama AND McCain the same way, they did Bush - Kerry, Bush - Gore, and Clinton - Dole. They aren’t stupid! We Americans are and have been with all this Democrat/Rpublican/liberal/conservative bullshit! You think, when the end of America comes, they will say
Oh beg your pardon Mr Rocky, you voted for Obama, you get to set in the front row!
Wake the hell up!
(if you can handle it)
http://www.mcalvaney.com
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:00 pm
NO ON 8!!! stop the hate!
remember when women couldn’t vote?
when african americans were slaves?
let’s stop the discrimination!!!
October 23rd, 2008 at 10:40 am
Oh, now I understand TA… you’re one of those NWO freaks. I’ll bet you’re a Scientologist, too.
And your link goes to a parked portal page, home of viruses, worms and trojan horses. Somehow, that makes sense.
October 24th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Yeah, I know! Pissed me off too first time or two I read McElvany’s report, but he was spot on about the market crash/credit crises.
And when people realize what a egomaniac dictator Obama Hussein really is, they are all going to be pissed.