Hugh Hewitt commenting on Joe Biden’s convoluted warning that “we’re gonna have an international crisis [within six months of Obama’s inauguration], a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy . . . we’re gonna need 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.”
Translating Joe Biden is sometimes impossible, but not these remarks. Senator Biden has been receiving the sorts of briefings that nominees receive, and he’s been to the sort of meetings where our allies talk candidly of the gathering storm they see coming closer.
And Biden suspects that Obama will react to the coming crisis in a way that demoralizes the country and which shatters public confidence in Obama.
Biden dismisses the ability of the American military to deal with far flung threats, tells the audience “Mark my words,” and then preemptively implores them to “be prepared to stick with us,” after telling them “we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him.”
The most obvious interpretation of this ramble is that an Iran-Israel confrontation is coming, and that if Obama is president,
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[Victor Davis] Hanson knows what Joe Biden almost bluntly declared and certainly implied: A President Obama will blink when
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There’s a reason why the Obama campaign has tried to silence the debate within the American Jewish community. Any sustained conversation about what is going to happen in 2009 drives serious voters to John McCain.