Don't mark his word because he meant to say...

At a press conference yesterday, Barack attempted to cover up and limit the damages of Joe Biden's comments Tuesday about the world testing the Obama presidency in the first 6 months. In the words of Senator Biden:

Read the full Biden quote

"And here's the point I want to make. Mark my words. Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. And he's gonna have to make some really tough - I don't know what the decision's gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it's gonna happen. I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate. And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you, not financially to help him, we're gonna need you to use 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.”

The press conference followed a foreign policy meeting that he had with several top democratic security advisors including senators Sam Nun and Gary Hart. According to the Huffington Post this meeting was planned a couple of weeks ago with the goal of showing his team was not "so focused on the economy" that he stopped "keeping pace" with challenges pertaining to Afghanistan, Al Qaeda and Iraq.

You know, this just does not pass the smell test. Surprisingly enough, if this was planned in advance, the one person that Barack should have required to attend would be the chairman of the foreign relations committee who just so happens to be his running mate Senator Joe Biden. After all, one of the main reasons that he was picked to be the VP running mate was to lend creditability and experience to Barack's foreign policy. If he wants to show his team is not just campaigning on the current state of the economy, and is still concerned with foreign policy, shouldn't his team be present? According to his campaign, Joe Biden attended by phone and was not present. I think a preplanned campaign event like this would have including the more appropriate scheduling. Moreover wouldn't the press conference that followed have all their foreign policy talking points? In view of all of this, I believe this was a hastily conceived last second event to cover up the gaff and refocus the presses attention to what Barack wants them to see.

I just happened to listen to the press conference that followed and as Ronald Regan once said: “There you go again”. Barack once again only vaguely addressed foreign policy with a couple of lines before speaking about his plans for the economy. On the generated foreign threats guaranteed by Biden, Barack said the following which pretty much made up what he said on foreign policy. He then used this to lead into his talking points on the economy and continued attacks on John McCain and “Joe the Plumber”.

“Look, as I said before, you know, I think that Joe sometimes engages in rhetorical flourishes, but I think his core point was that the next administration is going to be tested, regardless of who it is.”

If this is true Barack, why would Joe directly address you and your presidency? Did he not say that they would test your mettle? I think Joe knows exactly what he said, and meant it. After all, in his presidential campaign he was making these same comments about you and your readiness for command. He did not address these concerns against Hilary Clinton nor John McCain.

Although, I have to give it to Barack. Like the character in Oliver Twist, he has earned the title of “The Artful Dodger”. Not only is he an artist with great ways of avoiding questions by using a dictionary full of meaningless flowery words to say nothing, but he is able to do this while picking your pocket with his income redistribution aspirations. He has constantly used this technique of misdirection throughout his campaign, and therefore I have to repeat those famous words, “There you go again”.