Obama on Biden’s “Gaffe”: It Was Rhetorical…
October 22, 2008 by PUMA Pundit
Being a prolific liar, here is how Obama defended Biden’s “Gaffe”:
“Joe sometimes engages in rhetorical flourishes. But I think that his core point was that the next administration is going to be tested regardless of who it is,” Obama told reporters after meeting with his national security working group. “The next administration is going to be inheriting a whole host of really big problems and so the president is going to be tested and the question is will the next president meet that test by moving America in a new direction by sending a clear signal to the rest of the world that we are no longer about bluster and unilateralism and ideology but we’re about creating partnerships around the world to solve practical problems.”
Problem is, this spin has absolutely nothing to do with reality. Here is what Joe Biden had said:
“And here’s the point I want to make. Mark my words. Mark my words. 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. And he’s gonna have to make some really tough - I don’t know what the decision’s gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it’s gonna happen. I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate. 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. Because all these decisions, all these decisions, once they’re made if they work, then they weren’t viewed as a crisis. If they don’t work, it’s viewed as you didn’t make the right decision, a little bit like how we hesitated so long dealing with Bosnia and dealing with Kosovo, and consequently 200,000 people lost their lives that maybe didn’t have to lose lives. It’s how we made a mistake in Iraq. We made a mistake in Somalia. So there’s gonna be some tough decisions. They may emanate from the Middle East. They may emanate from the sub-continent. They may emanate from Russia’s newly-emboldened position because they’re floating in a sea of oil.”
Hotair says it best:
…His point clearly was that enemies will try to take advantage of Obama’s inexperience to see what he’s made of. Say what you will about a former POW and 20-year veteran of the Senate known to sing, “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran,” but deciding whether to “test” him isn’t a matter to be undertaken lightly. Or are we now so far through the looking glass spin-wise that the guy who’ll meet with anyone without preconditions (even if they won’t meet with him) is the one to be feared while the war hero whom, the left periodically assures us, out-Bushes Bush for sheer bellicosity is the easy mark?
Folks, I don’t know about you, but I don’t think we should be electing a man the world shall feel compelled to test. Even if the man wins, we shall still lose.
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Heads up on Hawaii!
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 (excerpt)
Honolulu news conference today releases “secret truths” about Senator Barack Obama
Honolulu News Conference: Wednesday October 22 (#1 of 3 releases)
A Honolulu news conference will disclose startling new details about the “secret truths” of Senator Barack Obama,
The presidential campaign is sure to be impacted
Is the release of these facts the real reason Obama has suspended his campaign and is heading home to Hawai’i?
Does Obama fear a “dying declaration” by his grandmother?
ANDY MARTIN
Executive Editor
ContrarianCommentary.com
http://contrariancommentary.blogspot.com/
Since LADY HAWK posted the link the other day, I have read Andy Martin’s stuff on ContrarianCommentary.com and I am quite disappointed. The guy may or may not be on to something, but he spends way too much time teasing us with promised updates and upcoming news conferences to be credible. Every one of his posts is finished with links to purchase his book. It looks like he’s just generating publicity to make sales. It is no wonder the MSM won’t cover this - he sounds like a crank. Don’t hold your breath that Martin has anything on Obama. The Berg case is far more credible.
Okay, I’m sorry. I tried to understand what the ire and anger of P.U.M.A.s are all about, but the impression I came away with after studying your website is that you are all headed toward lives obsessed with paranoia and conspiracy theories. You have lost all sense of proportion and priority. Senator Clinton lost a close and exciting race but it was not because of sexism or some evil empire. She lost because, while she claimed to be the candidate of “change,” her record did not support it. I am sorry you are all disappointed a woman will not be in the White House the next four years. But your support of John McCain and Sarah Palin is irrational. You are simply contenting yourselves that with the notion that you can still make a difference, so you are trying to punish the democratic party and the rest of America by throwing a trantrum. Either admit that your strategy is to get McCain elected so that Hillary can run against him in four years, or involve yourselves in more pleasant endeavors like searching for Unicorns.
Do you think if Palin said the same thing that Biden said she would be the lead story on all the major networks?
Some other Biden classics:
“Look, John’s last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs.” –Joe Biden
“A man I’m proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States — Barack America!” –Joe Biden, at his first campaign rally with Barack Obama
“I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb, and 9/11 in it. I was wrong. He called me to tell me after Pat Robertson’s endorsement, there’s an Amen in every sentence he says too.”
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” –Joe Biden on Barack Obama
“I got tested for AIDS. I know Barack got tested for AIDS. There’s no shame in being tested for AIDS. It’s an important thing.”
“You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent…. I’m not joking.” –Joe Biden
Let’s stop Obama:
http://www.rallycongress.com/constitutional-qualification/1244/stop-obama-constitutional-crisis/
Whatever happened to Michelle? She was going to be the new Hillary but for some reason O’Bama has been hiding her for the last six weeks.
Hello
I normally come here to read and keep up with what is going on. In my neighbourhood people tend to come to me to find out what is “really” going on or for my opinion. (shrug) I don’t know why.
Anyway, I have loved this site and all of you for quite some time now but recently something on the site bothered me.
While browsing the Home page I hit F5 to refresh the page. And O’s smiling reclining photo momentarily showed on the page! What’s with that? Is it just my computer/browser or are any of you also seeing that face flash?
Thank you for all your great researching and support.
Beth
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