Posted on 10/25/2008 3:00:56 PM PDT by kathsua
Sen. Joe Biden speaking to Democratic donors in Seattle has revealed a major secret that Sen. Barack Obama didn't want revealed.
Biden warned supporters that our enemies would very likely test Obama within the first six months if he is elected president, much like Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev tested newly elected president John Kennedy. Biden also warned that Obama might not handle it well. Obama's "gonna need your help to use 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."
For those unfamiliar with the Kennedy administration, Khrushchev decided he could take advantage of the young president because Kennedy appeared weak at a summit meeting and had mishandled an invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. Khrushchev responded by constructing the Berlin Wall and preparing to place missiles in Cuba. Khrushchev eventually pulled the missiles out of Cuba after moving to the brink of nuclear war, but he got what he wanted with a guarantee of a communist regime headed by Fidel Castro in Cuba. The Berlin Wall remained until 1989.
The pro-Obama New York Times attempted to minimize the significance of the remarks by quoting Obama's efforts at damage control.
“A period of transition in a new administration is always one where we have to be vigilant, we have to be careful,” Mr. Obama said. “We have to be mindful that as we pass the baton in this democracy that others don’t take advantage of it - that’s true whether it’s myself or Senator McCain.”
One likely test of Obama would come from Osama bin Laden. Obama said in the second debate: "And if we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then I think that we have to act and we will take them out."
If Obama is elected, bin Laden may challenge Obama by saying "here I am. Come and get me." He will know Obama's statement saying he will order Pakistan to turn over bin Laden will prevent the Pakistani government from moving against him.
Obama doesn't understand that the government of the nation of 145 million people will not give in to any American ultimatum like it were some tiny Latin American country. Pakistan has nuclear weapons and can easily destroy any attacking force. Any Pakistani government foolish enough to appear to be taking orders from the U.S., which many Muslims refer to as "The Great Satan", would be overthrown by radicals. Many of these radicals would be willing to take a chance on a nuclear war with the U.S. because they would not mind dying to further their "jihad" to help radical Islam take over the world.
If Obama were foolish enough to attack Pakistan by attacking bin Laden, Pakistan might feel it had no choice but to destroy the base that launched the attack or even declare war on the U.S. Pakistan might even secretly provide al Qaeda with one or more nuclear weapons.
If Obama backed down from his threat, bin Laden would portray it as a sign of weakness and use it to increase recruitment and plan for terror attacks against the U.S.. Bin Laden might also be able to use Obama's apparent weakness to increase recruitment for new operations in Iraq.
Obama: "I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems, ....I will not weaponize space...
I will slow development of future combat systems...
I will institute a 'Defense Priorities Board' to ensure the quadrennial defense review is not used ...."
I won’t tax your income. I’ll just tax your savings and retirement savings. B. Hussein 0bomber.
When bin biden says that we won’t be behind it at first or will have to stick with him, he’s sending a cryptic message that obama will neutralize Israel so that the Arabs are no longer threatened.
Change.
“Obama doesn’t understand that the government of the nation of 145 million people will not give in to any American...”
Well Obama did go to Pakistan back in the early 80’s when Obama was an Indonesian citizen. Americans were not allowed to go to Pakistan. Maybe they will see him as the Indonesian citizen he really is.
Obama’s “gonna need your help to use 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.”
Thanks, Joe - really looking forward to helping your unqualified, narcisistic fraud feel good about himself.
This was a given without Joe the mouth telling us.
I could not any way to argue with his theory.
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