A quote from October:
“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.”
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It’s a pass/fail test. So far, it’s not looking good for Obama. Or the world.
Since I first heard that statement in October, I’ve always wondered about the phrase “a generated crisis”. In particular, does he mean an artificial crisis, that would not exist if not for deliberate action by polititians?
Personally, I think a lot (not all, of course) of the problems we’re facing today were created (or at least made worse) by Congress’s actions. And I think (based on Biden’s statement) that he was in on the plan from the beginning, but (obviously) couldn’t be trusted to keep his mouth shut.