Another Gift From Joe

For the second time in less than a week, John McCain’s floundering campaign received a gift yesterday from a guy named Joe.   This time the gift came from Joe Biden, Barak Obama’s running mate, instead of from Joe the Plumber, who asked the question to Obama that produced last week’s gift. 

Here is what Joe Biden had to say at a fund-raising function Sunday night: 

"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 going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.   I promise you it will occur.  As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it's going happen.   I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate."

After realizing what he had said, Biden, who has a reputation for sticking his foot in his mouth, added, "I probably shouldn't have said all this because it dawned on me that the press is here."  Notice he didn’t say the statement was wrong—only that he shouldn’t have made the statement in the presence of the news media.

As you may recall, Biden was selected as Obama’s running mate because he is a foreign policy expert and has extensive knowledge and experience in international affairs.   So here we have Obama’s running mate and foreign policy expert guaranteeing the American public that we will have a major international crisis if Obama is elected President because the bad guys will want to test Obama’s mettle.   If Biden is the foreign policy expert that Obama and his supporters claim that he is, then we need to take his prediction seriously.   With the guarantee of an international crisis, are we supposed to vote for Obama with the hope that he will rise to the occasion?    Does it occur to you that it might be best to avoid the need for a guaranteed international crisis by electing a President who would not need to be tested because the bad guys would know how he would react?    Think about it before you cast your vote.

If a Republican had made Biden’s comment, he or she would have been crucified by the news media and by the members of the Obama campaign.    Because the comment was made by Biden, the media will probably pay little attention to it.

McCain and Biden have both talked on numerous occasions about their long-term friendship and respect for each other.    It appears to me that the Vice Presidential candidate who is helping McCain the most is Joe Biden.    Perhaps their friendship is genuine after all.