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McCain keys off Biden remarks
Politico ^ | October 20, 2008 | Ben Smith

Posted on 10/20/2008 3:04:03 PM PDT by NCjim

From McCain's prepared remarks for an event in Belton, Missouri, where he hit Obama's foreign policy instincts:

The next President won’t have time to get used to the office. We face many challenges here at home, and many enemies abroad in this dangerous world. Just last night, Senator Biden guaranteed that if Senator Obama is elected, we will have an international crisis to test America’s new President. We don’t want a President who invites testing from the world at a time when our economy is in crisis and Americans are already fighting in two wars.

What is more troubling is that Senator Biden told their campaign donors that when that crisis hits, they would have to stand with them because it wouldn't be apparent Senator Obama would have the right response.

Forget apparent. Senator Obama won’t have the right response, and we know that because we’ve seen the wrong response from him over and over during this campaign. He opposed the surge strategy that is bringing us victory in Iraq and will bring us victory in Afghanistan. He said he would sit down unconditionally with the world's worst dictators. When Russia invaded Georgia, Sen. Obama said the invaded country should show restraint.

We cannot spend the next four years as we have spent much of the last eight: hoping for our luck to change at home and abroad. We have to act. We need a new direction, and we have to fight for it.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; biden; mccain
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To: NCjim

Where’s the picture of Biden with his foot in his mouth?


21 posted on 10/20/2008 4:17:55 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: Lets Be Frank
The tale of two Joes.

It was the best from Joe. It was the worst from Joe....

22 posted on 10/20/2008 4:19:30 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: Portrait of a Lady
He credited Senator Obama with making the statement instead of Senator Biden. Maybe it was a trap as if the BHO campaign brings it up, they are giving more air time to the original comment.
23 posted on 10/20/2008 4:51:42 PM PDT by LA Woman3 ("The gloves are off, the heels are on!" Sarah Palin)
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To: NCjim
I'm having a tinfoil hat moment...

What if the amazing Joe Biden has intel that says Israel will attack Iran right after an Obama win because they know president Obama is backing islam after January 21st. So, Joe is expecting huge blowback as the world demands prez O do something but his islamic buddys tell him not to act. Could be a huge test for the 47 year old president elect. Bush could trigger WWIII and then leave for Texas with the O proclaiming...ah, ah, um, um, ah, the world, ah, um...

24 posted on 10/20/2008 6:23:16 PM PDT by April Lexington (I'm voting for McCain in 2008 and Jefferson Davis in 2012)
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To: Lets Be Frank

A cuppa joes.


25 posted on 10/20/2008 6:38:54 PM PDT by keats5 ("I hope for his sake, Joe Biden got that VP thing in writing."- Rudy)
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To: mlocher; keats5

clever posters here!


26 posted on 10/20/2008 7:13:26 PM PDT by Lets Be Frank
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To: NCjim

Needs to be a video ——FAST!


27 posted on 10/20/2008 10:25:37 PM PDT by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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