Remember Biden’s prediction?
He was wrong about the time frame. He was wrong about the “brilliant” part; we could fill in with a lot of other adjectives, and “inexperienced” and would be among the kindest. Also, perhaps “generated”—with its implication of “manufactured rather than real”—wasn’t the best word, either.
But otherwise, Joe Biden had the right idea when he said in 2008:
“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.”
“I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate,” Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities.
How about both?
And yet in 2012 they mocked Romney for saying that Russia was our greatest geopolitical enemy, and for predicting that Obama’s complete abandonment of Iraq would have dire consequences.
You can combine the two issues, too. For years, Russia took the position that the Gulf War ceasefire was effectively unenforceable (ie, no military action allowed) beyond an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait while Russia was also busting the lower level enforcement level of sanctions as a party to the Oil for Food scandal. The popular anti-OIF narrative was made in Russia. Of course, Russia is a permanent member on the UNSC. Basically, Russia aided and abetted Saddam to breach.
Biden thought BHO more than “brilliant”….. “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy, I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” Joe was of course wrong as usual. BHO is not mainstream, brilliant, articulate without a teleprompter, and ‘clean’. In fact he’s rather haughty and vindictive.
“that’s a storybook, man.”
It’s about the narrative.