Posted on 10/20/2008 8:13:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Joe Biden's warning that Barack Obama's election will precipitate an international crisis included these words:
"It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy."
While Kennedy is fondly remembered today, it should be noted that during his presidency, America came closer than we have ever come to nuclear war.
As Michael Dobbs implies in his new book, "One Minute to Midnight," the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred -- at least partly -- because of Kennedy's previous mishandling of a summit meeting with Khruschev (remember how Obama wants to meet with everyone without pre-conditions?):
"Their single summit meeting -- in Vienna, in June 1961 -- had been a brutal experience for Kennedy. Khruschev had treated him like a little boy, lecturing him on American misdeeds, threatening to take over West Berlin, and boasting about the inevitable triumph of Communism."
... It's not hard to imagine Ahmadenijad schooling Obama like this. Dobbs goes on to write,
"... 'Roughest thing in my life,' Kennedy had told James Reston of The New York Times, after it was all over, 'He just beat the hell out of me.' Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was contemptuous of his boss's performance. 'Khruschev scared the poor little fellow dead,' he told his cronies."
... It's not hard to imagine Joe Biden saying (or at least, thinking) the very same thing of Obama.
Dobbs adds,
"As Kennedy later confessed to Reston, his superpower rival had no doubt concluded that "I'm inexperienced. Probably thinks I'm stupid. Maybe most important, he thinks I have no guts."
...Yes, it's true, foreign leaders pay attention to which leaders they deem to be weak and/or inexperienced. They size-up their adversaries, and determine whether or not they can take the next step. In this instance, Kennedy's perceived weakness and inexperience emboldened Khruschev.
And while Kennedy's inexperience fortunately did not result in a nuclear war, it did lead us to the brink of nuclear war -- a situation which would never have occurred if Eisenhower had been in office -- or if Nixon had succeeded him...
My point here, was comparing Obama to Kennedy, an experienced honorable military combat veteran, was a terrible analogy on the authors part.
I wonder what islam thinks of Angela Merkel?
Yeah, and the Arabs always knew that Golda Meier was a total pushover.
Here’s a clue: The terrorists see everyone here as a dhimmi to be pushed around...unless they have reason to fear a particular individual. They will fear McCain, and if the only reason they don’t fear Palin is her lack of a penis, then we would have them right where we want them: overconfident and eager to expose their operations.
Man, you’re a total double-bacon genius burger.
Regardless of what anyone thinks of Kennedy, the U.S. and the world came very close to an all out nuclear war.<<<<
I well remember was a young teenager all the waiting for the crisis to go one way or the other. My neighbors had brought out guns, which was so strange to me as I had never seen one in the neighborhood or even up close. I wondered what they thought they would use them for if we got bombed.
People were nervous wrecks, and everyone was gathered around radios and TV to see what was going to happen. No ‘net, no cable stations, no cell phones, LOL, just the newspapers, TV and radio.
Dude...find new friends. Not over their politics, but over their sloth.
Ahmadinejad has already reached these conclusions about Obama. If Barack wins, shortly after he takes office Iran will claim to have nuclear weapons capability. Obama will agree to meet with him and will grant them much of what they demand in exchange for agreeing to not sell or even test the weapons or attack any other countries. It will never be conclusively verified that they have nuclear weapons and no live nuclear tests will be demonstrated. Iran will be considered a nuclear power and will be able to dominate the Middle East while we will be required to pull all troops out of the region. Barack will comply as he had intended to do that all along and he will claim we have achieved an agreement with Iran that Bush failed to even attempt.
Within months of our complete withdrawal, Iraq will be toppled and Israel threatened sending oil prices skyrocketing. The economy that appeared to be on the road to recovery will crash even harder because of energy rationing and newly implemented carbon controls.
Al Qaeda begins to poke and prod at the US and our allies causing further chaos and instability. Afghanistan and Pakistan heat up into a full scale war with large numbers of troops being moved into the region.
Four years of Obama with a compliant Congress and a supportive media who dare not criticize him could be a long, long time.
Well heck, let's just elect Keith Ellison president. He'll seem really strong and godly to them, and they'll be far less likely to attack us.
Yeah, you're a double-bacon genius burger all right.
In addition, this comment is really stupid. Kennedy did not tell the Soviets to install nuclear weapons in Cuba. He was faced with this threat *after* they were discovered. Kennedy was the President that oversaw the removal of those weapons.
The fact is, we can all thank God the Soviets did not believe Kennedy was weak and just playing tough. If that were the case, there would be damn good chance that both of us would not be alive.
Most today don't realize, and many at the time didn't realize that we had warships out there dropping depth charges on top of Soviet submarines...That had nuclear missiles on them... Even our commanders didn't know this until much later.
We, and the world, were truly on the brink.
an event of that magnitude
would certainly demand extraordinary
measures by comrade obamao!
Do Muslims oppress women because women are weak, or because they're afraid that--absent oppression--women would become stronger?
Here’s some stuff that might work on left-leaners for Obama and Biden -
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081020114146AAW6G1d
“What the He** is joe biden talking about a generated CRISIS?? are they going to purposely cause a crisis?”
and Digg
http://digg.com/politics/Political_Radar_Biden_to_Supporters_OBAMA_WILL_BE_TESTED_B
and a free translation of Biden’s remarks
http://www.waronfreedom.org/dox/biden-blurts-tarpley-tells.html
No, that would be Bill Clinton.
A female president would be unpredictable; she could just go loco any moment and respond in some Outrageous manner to something that the Middle Eastern Mind just meant as a "test".
You Just Don't Know What You Might Be Getting With A Female.
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