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ABC News' Matthew Jaffe Reports: ==Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on Sunday guaranteed that if elected, Sen. Barack Obama., D-Ill., will be tested by an international crisis within his first six months in power and he will need supporters to stand by him as he makes tough, and possibly unpopular, decisions.
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"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."
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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.
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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.
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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. *He is telling us that we are going to be very, very unhappy with Barry. *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 than that.
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So Biden is essentially saying, "Obama is really going to mess up but you just hang out long enough and he'll mop it all up. Whatever "it" is. Doesn't sound real good to me.
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After speaking for just over a quarter of an hour, Biden noticed the media presence in the back of the small ballroom. *"I probably shouldn't have said all this because it dawned on me that the press is here," he joked. *"All kidding aside, these guys have left us in a God-awful place," he then said of the Bush regime, promptly wrapping up his remarks. "We have the ability to straighten it out. It's gonna take a little bit of time, so I ask you to stay with us. Stay with us."
October 20, 2008 7:35 AM
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Does Joe Biden just open his mouth and let stuff spill out willy-nilly? Sounds that way to me.
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From Across the Pond
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On Wednesday MPs will vote on a bill which would allow the creation of human/animal hybrid embryos to be used for stem cell research, change the conditions for granting IVF, and possibly liberalise the abortion laws. Telegraph.co.uk
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2 comments:
Sounds that way to me too! He is just trying to scare people to vote for them.
What an obamanation!
Hugs!
Sounds like a tough decision.
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