Tuesday, October 21, 2008

International Crisis if Obama elected?

If I told you that someone said that we were going to have a crisis if Obama was elected, you might think that I was a McCain supporter. However that comment came from Joe Biden. Apparently we are going to have a staged crisis to show what a great leader Obama is, if he is elected. Below are the actual quotes:

“Mark my words: It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy,” Biden told the crowd. “The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Watch, we’re going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

“He’s going to have to make some really tough - I don’t know what the decision’s going to be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it’s going to happen,” he said.
A generated crisis? What does he have in mind? Another 9/11? It seemed to work well last time. The Bush Administration was able to get laws passed that otherwise would not have and to boot was able to start a war. So if Obama wants to show his leadership abilities through a war, I would advise people to stay out of tall buildings for the time being.

 

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