This is just . . . weird
Democratic VP candidate, Joe Biden:
from FOX NEWS:
“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.” he told a fundraising crowd in the Pacific Northwest on Sunday. “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.”
“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.”
What will happen if we don't have a crisis? What will Joe Biden say then?
2 comments:
he will always find something to say, he will be VP then
The effects of failing such a test are drastic. The presidency is not high school algebra where the teacher allows you to retake the test and average your two scores. Obama’s youthfulness and message of hope remind some of former President Kennedy. Read what author and historian Michael Dobbs writes about Kennedy’s previous mishandling of a summit meeting with Khrushchev leading up to the Cubin Missile Crisis:
“Their single summit meeting-in Vienna, in June 1961-had been a brutal experience for Kennedy. Khrushchev had treated him like a little boy, lecturing him on American misdeeds, threatening to take over West Berlin, and boasting about the inevitable triumph of communism. Most shocking of all, Khrushchev did not seem to share his alarm about the risks of nuclear war, and how it could be triggered by miscalculations on either side...'Roughest thing in my life,' Kennedy had told James Reston of The New York Times, after it was all over, 'He just beat the hell out of me.' Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was contemptuous of his boss's performance. 'Khrushchev scared the poor little fellow dead,' he told his cronies....As Kennedy later confessed to Reston, his superpower rival had no doubt concluded that 'I'm inexperienced. Probably thinks I'm stupid. Maybe most important, he thinks I have no guts.’”
America faces large challenges in the coming years. We need the strong leadership of someone who has already been tested and found proven.
The presidency is not even calculus. It’s much harder!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92749411
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