“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.”
Not only will the next administration have to deal with foreign affairs issues, Biden warned, but also with 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.”
“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,” the Senate Foreign Relations chairman said of Obama. “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’,” Biden continued. “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.”
Biden emphasized that the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border is of particular concern, with Osama bin Laden “alive and well” and Pakistan “bristling with nuclear weapons.”
“You literally can see what these kids are up against, our kids in that region,” Biden said in recalling when his helicopter was forced down due to a snowstorm there. “The place is crawling with al Qaeda. And it’s real.”“We do not have the military capacity, nor have we ever, quite frankly, in the last 20 years, to dictate outcomes,” he cautioned. “It’s so much more important than that. It’s so much more complicated than that. And Barack gets it.”
All of his words said are here.While I think it was a really bad time for him to say something like that(or good depending on who you are), every nation,that can, has probably heard and seen everything going on in this election. What are the thoughts of those that might be wanting to start something? Are terrorists thinking that it may be easier to get away with something because we might be more vulnerable with the change in the Presidency? Wouldn't you want to avoid any such worries in a champaign?It has been said that with every new President something has always happened in the first year, so I guess we'll see.There are a lot of questions out there on the internet and in many other places about this. There is confusion, separation and a lot of anger in our country right now. Other countries see this, as do our own people. It was a speech that people have been and will be thinking about in the next few weeks.
Again with all this being said I really do agree that with McCain's leadership of this Country(if he wins) that he is perfectly capable of not only being able to handle the threats that are out there, but also be able to deal with them head on if any does happen against our Country!
This is a great video as to why I too think that McCain will be great under any sort of attack. It's an oldie but goodie.
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I found the part where he mentions the most popular ideas are often not the most sound and you have to do what is right not what is popular no matter what the polls say - to bit a little ironic. Isn't that a perfect reflection of what has happened to Pres. Bush and the choices he made concerning Iraq?
That part stuck out to me too, Shaina ("if they’re popular, they’re probably not sound."). Though I was thinking of Obama when I read it. Voting for him might be a popular choice, but it's not a very sound choice for this country.
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