Yes…He Really Did Say It

Is Joe Biden for real? Sometimes I have to wonder if he really believes Obama is the best man for the job. Can he really be that stupid? I hope so? Keep talking Joe...please, keep talking.

Here's the latest gaffe, compliments of Senator Joe Biden.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, on Saturday, October 18, 2008; during a speech in front campaign donors in Seattle, Biden 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."

Although the main stream media was slow in reporting this major gaffe, they finally came around. It may have not made the front page of the major newspapers (like it would have if Sarah Palin had said the same thing about John McCain), but at least many of the major news channels were covering it on both Monday and Tuesday.

Thank you Joe for accomplishing something John McCain has been unable to accomplish. Thank you Joe for helping to bring national security and national defense back to the forefront of this election...or at least into the national debate.

Biden continued his ramblings by saying, "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. 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."

I don't know about anyone else, but if I were an Obama supporter I would be scratching my head, wondering if I'd made the right choice. This guy is telling his supporters that "The One" who is supposed to restore America's standing around the world...the liberal "Messiah" who is supposed to be "The Healer" of the nation (and the world)..."The Unifier"...is going to be so unpopular in his first two years that their poll numbers will plummet.

Why? What decisions will he make that are going to be so unpopular?

• Could it possibly be Obama's tax increase on small businesses which will not only cost jobs, but damage our fragile economy?
• Could it be that Obama's tax increases on energy providers...like large oil companies...will raise the price of gasoline to historic highs that will make the national all time high average of $4.10 in August of 2008 pale in comparison?
• Will the "believers" finally realize that not only were taxes raised on the "rich" but on everyone else as well in order to provide the increased social welfare programs Obama is promising?
• Will everyone finally believe the conservatives warning about Obama's socialist programs?
• Will Obama's gutting of our national defense capabilities bring terrorism to our doorstep for the first time since September 11, 2001?
• If we are attacked, will Obama do what Clinton did....nothing?
• Will he be the "Great Appeaser"?

With only two weeks left until election day, these comments by Joe Biden have to be making Obama supporters shutter, while hopefully giving undecideds more reason to look at the McCain/Palin ticket.