I've had the same thought. The way Biden blurted out that Obama would be tested within the first 6 months ... I don't know, that seemed like something more than just the typical Biden flub.
Something can only be a test if one understands and/or cares about the consequences of failure. The Left would be thrilled if the U.S. were brought down to the status of, say, France or Italy. We're about to find out what hides behind the Obama mask. Is he the Marxist he claimed to be in one of his multitude (seems like a multitude) of autobiographies? Is he the post-American "man of the world" he claimed to be during his Berlin speech? Or is he the garden-variety center-Left American politician analgous to Bill Clinton, which the media has told us his cabinet appointments indicate?
Who is this man? What will he recognize as a "test" of his presidential leadership? Biden, for all his pathetic nature, is a bit closer to an old-fashioned patriotic Democrat than many of his former senate colleagues. So I agree, Jonny, I wonder what he saw in the threat assessments that caused him to share with us such a moment of clarity.