God bless Joe Biden

speechlesstx · Oct 20, 2008, 02:00 PM

You gotta love the guy for speaking his mind...

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"Mark my words," the Democratic vice presidential nominee said at a Seattle fundraiser 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, including 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."

Biden also mentioned the current economic crisis. "Gird your loins," Biden told the crowd. "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."

The garrulous Biden said that he's "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."

If he's so brilliant and so prepared, why is Biden already begging for help? Why is he already predicting low poll numbers? This is the guy that "has it" and this is his running mate?

Reportedly Biden added, “I probably shouldn’t have said all this because it dawned on me that the press is here.”

NeedKarma · Oct 21, 2008, 10:25 AM

You started changing the subject here: Ask Me Help Desk - View Single Post - God bless Joe Biden so I thought it was ok to follow your lead.

tomder55 · Oct 21, 2008, 10:38 AM

Palin on Biden's comment :

The "International Crisis" Obama may face His running mate Joe Biden may speak again in public and that would be an International Crisis!".

edit :

here is Palin's remarks today :

Two weeks from today, Americans will be asked to cast their vote for the next president of the United States. There’s no time to wait. Let’s get right to it.
Did you hear what Senator Biden said at a fundraiser on Sunday? He guaranteed that if Barack Obama is elected, we’ll face an international crisis within the first six months of their administration. He told Democrat donors to mark his words – that there were “at least four or five scenarios” that would place our country at risk in an Obama administration. Thanks for the warning, Joe!
He didn’t specify what all those four or five scenarios will be, but for clues, let’s review the Obama foreign policy agenda.
Our opponent wants to sit down with the world’s worst dictators. With no preconditions, he proposes to meet with a regime in Teheran that vows to “wipe Israel off the map.” Let’s call that crisis scenario number one.
Senator Obama has also advocated sending our U.S. military into Pakistan without the approval of the Pakistani government. Invading the sovereign territory of a troubled partner in the war against terrorism. We’ll call that scenario number two.
He opposed the surge strategy that has finally brought victory in Iraq within sight. He’s voted to cut off funding for our troops, leaving our young men and women at grave risk. He wants to pull out, leaving some 25 million Iraqis at the mercy of Iranian-supported Shiite extremists and al Qaeda in Iraq. By his own admission, this could mean our troops would have to go back to Iraq. Crisis scenario number three.
After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama’s reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence – the kind of response that would only encourage Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine next. That would be crisis scenario number four.
But I guess the looming crisis that most worries the Obama campaign right now is Joe Biden’s next speaking engagement. Let’s call that crisis scenario number five.
The real problem is that these warnings from Joe Biden are similar to his earlier assessment of Barack Obama. It wasn’t so long ago that he said Barack Obama wasn’t up to the job, and that, quote, “the presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.” The same Joe Biden said he would be honored to run on the ticket with John McCain because, quote, “the country would be better off.” And here we have some common ground. I want a president who spent 22 years in uniform defending our country. I want a president who isn’t afraid to use the word “victory” when he talks about the wars we are fighting. I want a president who’s ready on Day One. I want a president with the experience and the judgment and the wisdom to meet the next international crisis – or better yet to avoid it. I want John McCain as our commander-in-chief.

speechlesstx · Oct 21, 2008, 10:41 AM

Nice try, NK, that was a response to your earlier post that was absent an actual response to the questions I asked, just prior to your changing the subject. Do you have an actual response to the OP?

NeedKarma · Oct 21, 2008, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by tomder55

Palin on Biden's comment :

The "International Crisis" Obama may face His running mate Joe Biden may speak again in public and that would be an International Crisis!".

That doesn't sound like a person who is ready for the position she is running for. It sounds like unrestrained water cooler talk. There is a reason they don't let out in front of the press.

NeedKarma · Oct 21, 2008, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by speechlesstx

Do you have an actual response to the OP?

Yes, I agree with you: God bless Joe Biden.

speechlesstx · Oct 21, 2008, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by NeedKarma

Yes, I agree with you: God bless Joe Biden.

So the answer is no.

NeedKarma · Oct 21, 2008, 11:40 AM

Ok steve-o.

speechlesstx · Oct 21, 2008, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by NeedKarma

There is a reason they don't let out in front of the press.

Let's call that another lapse in Obama's judgment, first he picked the guy that said he wasn't qualified but his opponent is to be his running mate, and then he failed to keep Biden from being "out in front of the press."

speechlesstx · Oct 22, 2008, 06:23 AM

The media finally admits what some of us have said all along. Note the following exchange in an interview of Sarah Palin by CNN's Drew Griffin:

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Palin, asked if Biden gets a pass: "Drew, you need to ask your colleagues and I guess your bosses or whoever is in charge of all of this, why does Joe Biden get a pass on such a thing? Can you imagine if I would have said such a thing? No, I think that we would be hounded and held accountable for, what in the world did you mean by that, VP ... candidate? Why would you say that mark my words, this nation will undergo international crisis if you elect Barack Obama? If I would have said that, you guys would have clobbered me."

Griffin: "You are right."

excon · Oct 22, 2008, 06:48 AM

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Originally Posted by speechlesstx

The media finally admits what some of us have said all along.

Hello again, Steve:

I'm not quite sure what you're saying.... I never know what you guy's are really saying, because you don't really SAY it. You INFER it.

So, what are you inferring????? That the media is liberal? Duh.

That Sarah Palin is equal to Joe Biden??? Dude! They ain't equal. Oh, they both got mouths, alright, but that's it.

excon

PS> Biden at least UNDERSTANDS what the job of VP is. But, like some of us have been saying, Sarah Palin doesn't have a clue. Yesterday, she said that she would be in CHARGE of the Senate and she'll be able to get down with senators to help make good laws....

What??????

She even said she can see Russia from the Senate.