Keeping it alive
Bookworm on Oct 22 2008 at 2:31 pm | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters
The MSM has been remarkably cavalier about Joe Biden’s bizarre statement regarding the “fact” that America will be attacked six months into a Barack Obama presidency and that people will be shocked and disappointed by Obama’s response (meaning that he’ll either collapse in a sobbing heap, thereby horrifying most Americans, or launch a nuclear missile strike, which will alienate his base).
In the interests of keeping the story alive, I’ll try to run Biden’s statement here periodically, just so we don’t forget what the wanna-be VP (and current chair of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee) had to say about the future and about his running mate:
“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.”
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Joe Biden said, “Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking.”
Joe Biden is saying, after we elect Obama (assuming we do) and that he is sworn in as POTUS that a situation will occur that will make people second guess their vote and maybe even Obama himself, because change can be confusing. He is warning us not let this knowledge keep us from doing what we know is right (voting for Obama). But we must be prepared to stand the course. “Gird up your loins” means prepare oneself for a fight. The word fight means a testing, not necessarily a war. He is saying that if (when) Obama is elected and sworn in, the world will not suddenly be free of problems. Obama will be tested, and voters may doubt—thinking they should have chosen otherwise—but in the long run, they will have chosen wisely.
Biden is using Biblical imagery to speak prophetically. He’s saying just because the future will hold a setback doesn’t mean we’ve chosen the wrong leader. He isn’t talking about Obama making a “wrong decision” but rather one that will be difficult or misunderstood. Everything Biden is saying is shows that Obama is just a man. None of this Messiah-non-sense for him. Obama is a man with a vision for America, and a plan to implement it, nothing more, nothing less.
Having faith in the future seems to parallel making a decision to live as a Christian no matter what. Right now few Christians are coming to my blog. So, should I change my story? I don’t think so. Why is it conservative Christians think they understand the Bible more than others? Separation of church and state doesn’t mean, segregate the sections of your brain; it means there’s a time and a place for given activities.
Some have suggested that Obama might be the cause of this “situation.” Like the world hasn’t known problems until now.
Interesting also is the comparison to John Kennedy.
“Say it ain’t so, Joe.” Ah, but it is.
Can you imagine if Bush had worked to ensure that all domestic questioning of WMDs were silenced by appealing to individuals in America that supported him before and during OIF 1, Book?
It is quite clear, Book, that Democrats do not care how many people die or suffer so long as it presents them a historic chance to make themselves look good.
Only the sociopath and the psychotic go looking for wars and problems. They will believe flat out and have faith that Obama is right regardless of whether they or others have doubts. Biden calls for people to believe in their Fuhrer, right or wrong, because the flaw is in the people, not the leader. The leader is “right” and will always be right, but it may not be apparent to Americans so you, the Obama supporter, must ensure that there is no doubt.
Helen, #1:
> Some have suggested that Obama might be the cause of this “situation.” Like the world hasn’t known problems until now.
That may be true, but no one here in Book’s domain is saying that.
Some foreign entity will be the cause of the situation.
That foreign entity will be reacting directly to Barack Obama’s perceived a) weakness or b) inexperience.
To claim that Obama might then be the cause of the situation – merely because of how the triggerman is perceiving Obama – is ridiculous. Because you can then go back a further step and state that McCain’s bipartisanship or weak campaign style got Obama elected, therefore McCain is the cause of the situation. Or McCain’s momma is the cause, because she spanked him once when he was two and made him cry.
Joe is being Joe. He attended a briefing a few days ago, with, like all such briefings, the understanding that the information imparted ought not go beyond the room. This is, of course, impossible for Biden, who is just bursting with the idea that he knows something the rest of the world doesn’t. He CANNOT shut up. But in this case he also can’t talk openly, and the cognitive dissonance this must be causing him probably rises to the level of physical pain. Thus the circumlocution. He absolutely MUST let us all know that he knows something – so he has to couch it in weirdness.
The comparison with Kennedy is apt, by the way: does anyone suppose that Kennedy actually passed his test? Khrushchev walked away from the meeting thinking “twerp,” and thus the whole Cuban situation. If Kennedy’d been tough to begin with, there is ample evidence in the history books to indicate that it all might have been avoided.
I suspect you’re absolutely right, Helen: Obama will walk away leaving everyone thinking “twerp,” and it will lead to something.
But, “Biden” and “bizarre” go together like ham and eggs, and Joe’s just letting you know how important he thinks he is.
Posted before:
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/biden-remarks-worse-than-just-a-gaffe
This is the second time he’s said the same thing. It wasn’t a gaffe. He meant to say what he said.
What that indicates, I don’t know.
This was a must read for me. Jim Treacher has the lowdown: Joe Biden has clarified his remarks, to explain the gaffe:
http://jimtreacher.com/archives/001788.html
Highly recommended.
“…people will be shocked and disappointed by Obama’s response…”
“..disappointed?..”
What frightens me is that it may mean that Obama plans to have no response to an attack. nada.
In the remote possibility that there will be a response, the response may well be a presidential invitation to the very attackers to sit down for serious negotiations over “grievances”.
That strategy would be strangely like Senator Kerry’s naive portrayal of terrorist attacks as “a nuisance” for America, during the 2004 presidential campaign.
Helen –
You are giving Biden waaaaaay too much credit. Really.
Mike D – I read Treacher and that is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. He nailed Biden.
Deana
Deana,
God yes it was hilarious, wasn’t it?!?! I didn’t want to tell everyone it was a joke, cause you have to get about 1/4 of the way into Joe’s “explanation” until you realize it’s a joke. I was laughing harder and harder the further I read.
>>Biden is using Biblical imagery to speak prophetically.>>
I doubt it. Biden is theoretically a Roman Catholic. Of all the Christian faiths, RCs are less inclined to quote the bible than any others, I think. Quoting the bible, or using Biblical imagery is just not something I’d expect from him. Not that it’s impossible, I grant, but unlikely, imo.
>>Quoting the bible, or using Biblical imagery is just not something I’d expect from him. Not that it’s impossible, I grant, but unlikely, imo.>>
That would be a gaffe.
Biden would then have to say during his next stump speech:
“Well, folks, I just gotta let you know when I said, ‘Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.’, and that was why I wanted them to be patriotic, you know, so via their taxes they could, um, enter paradise, well I thought I was quoting the Koran! Camels and all that, you know. God bless me, I never thought I was quoting the Bible, and I really want to apologize to everyone for it.”
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