Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Joe Biden Endorses John McCain

Well, Biden didn't exactly endorse McCain, but his statement yesterday doesn't inspire confidence in Obama as leader.


It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking.... 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… 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.

I'm not the first to point out that John F. Kennedy had a disasterous "no preconditions" meeting with Soviet leader Nikita Kruschev five months after Kennedy's inauguration. That meeting led directly to the building of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis. If Kennedy had not been assassinated, he most likely would have been an unpopular one-term president rather than the hero Dems consider him today. It sounds like Biden is warning that the same will happen in an Obama presidency.

The difference, of course, is that we seriously can't afford an Obama-type mistake in dealing with our enemies, particularly not a mistake we're not even going to agree with at the time.

Is this an endorsement of Obama's uber skilz? Sounds to me like even Biden is arguing that McCain would be a better president.