Biden’s Hint-President Obama was likely to be tested in his first six months.

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Biden’s Hint
It’s all tea leaves and chicken entrails, and none of it is pretty.

By Bill Whittle

A few days ago, Joe Biden was trotted out to make his monthly gaffe. Last time — I think it was last time; it’s hard to follow without a program — it was about how Hillary might have been a better VP candidate. This time he mentioned that a young President Obama was likely to be tested in his first six months. Anyway, that’s what he said, before being rotated back to the Cone of Silence. The thing I actually like about Joe Biden is that these gaffes of his are actually just the product of a man speaking his mind, and some of the time, he happens to be correct.

There have been a lot of guesses as to what shape this “test” might take. But what really interests me is what Sen. Biden had to say later in the same discussion, speaking “off the record” to Democratic-party stalwarts.“Gird your loins,” he begins — not good! — and then it gets really interesting…

“I’ve forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I’m not being falsely humble with you. “

Sure you are, Joe. Like I said, there are things I like about Joe Biden. But this perpetual, essential need to puff himself up really tells me the man has serious insecurity issues. But we digress.
“I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, “Oh my God, why are they there in the polls? Why is the polling so down? Why is this thing so tough?” We’re gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years. So I’m asking you now, I’m asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point because you’re going to have to reinforce us.”

So, with the clear understanding that all that follows is the reading of tea leaves and chicken entrails… What the hell was Joe Biden hinting at? What possible action would drive a President Obama’s poll numbers down into the ground?Well, some people have argued that if Iran and Israel decide to get serious — and if an Obama administration did essentially nothing to defend our ally… how would the vast majority of American Jews — largely Democrats — take that? Could that be the poll hit that Democrats need to “gird their loins” for? That’s depressing. Here’s something even more depressing: What if Biden is hinting that Obama would indeed get us involved militarily at Israel’s side — or anywhere else, for that matter. In other words, if Obama were to step up and do the right thing, and put America in the middle of another war — would that be what he wants to brace the base for?
What’s depressing about that? Well, in a fundamentally moral country — or political party — such an action should make his poll numbers shoot
up.

Another theory: Recruitment is apparently falling off sharply within the last month or so. I have heard, anecdotally, that new recruits are waiting out the election, since most of them have no desire to serve in the kind of toothless military they see under a President Obama. Is Joe Biden warning us that Obama may need to reinstate the draft to make up for a sudden plunge in volunteers? Who knows? I wonder what the Obama Youth Vote would think if that comes to pass.

Finally, Ed Morrissey over at Hotair.com is wondering if this may all be preamble to something Barack Obama outlines in no uncertain terms in a video you can watch with your own eyes right

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If you’re new to these intertubes, here’s the print version: He is sitting in what appears to be his senate office, and says, quite clearly, that:
“I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems. [snip] I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons. I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material. And I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBM’s off hair-trigger alert.”

Wow.

Is Barack Obama planning a unilateral drawdown of U.S. forces? He says that’s what he wants, and he sounds pretty clear about it to me.
There’s a lot to say about that, obviously, but my first thought was that if this became national policy for the United States, we can count on the press brigades that were diligently deployed to determine irregularities in Sarah Palin’s 4-H dues from 1981 and Joe the Plummer’s failure to use American-made Teflon tape to descend on the disarmament procedure and make sure each warhead and every gram was diligently disposed of.

As far as China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are concerned… well, they will undoubtedly by moved by the high moral purpose involved — not to mention the fact that it’s Obama who’s asking! — and so I don’t think we need to be too concerned about compliance on their end.

So what was Joe hinting at? What was going to cause Obama’s poll numbers to crater? Perhaps Biden has advance warning that Obama plans to close Disney World and use the facilities to process adorable little bunny rabbits into high-sulfur coal. Again, who knows?

None of these speculations fill me with joy, but I’ll tell you straight up — that last option — unilateral disarmament — makes my blood run cold. When you’re surrounded by armed, raging barbarians, that is not the optimal time to lay down your sword… even if you don’t have the will or the inclination to use it. Why, you may discover that even if you just wave it around a little, it can have a remarkable effect.

Unless you’re running away when you do it, in which case it just pisses them off even more.

— Bill Whittle lives in Los Angeles and is an on-air commentator for www.pjtv.com. You can find him online at www.ejectejecteject.com.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q...DY3ZTYxZWY4MDU=

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We just got off the phone with Channel 9 in Florida — the station that dared to ask substantive questions in an interview Joe Biden did with reporter Barbara West. It seems the station is being flooded with calls from Obama followers, coordinated on some level, angry Biden was questioned about Obama’s socialist agenda and his similarities to Karl Marx.

Channel 9 needs our support!

Throughout this election, Obama’s opponents are scrutinized and eviscerated by the media, while Obama’s been asked only softball questions. “Would you like another pillow?” comes to mind. The Obama campaign has informed Channel 9 it will not receive anymore interviews with Democrats for “at least the duration of this election”. That’s what happens when you dare to ask the ObaMessiah’s campaign anything other than, “Would you like more ice cream?”.

Barbara West and Channel 9 need your support. Please call them and thank them for FINALLY asking the Obama/Biden campaign about its real agenda: socialism in America that none of us want. Tell them how proud you are that there are actually journalists left who ask real questions of the Democrats’ selected candidates. Journalism is not dead yet — as long as Barbara West is on the air!


barbara.west@wftv.com
news@wftv.com = send letter of support to the station

http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/1...-your-support/


www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjX8wQPMADk

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TURNER: The Biden Doctrine

Robert Turner

COMMENTARY:
The conventional wisdom seems to be that, by selecting the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - a veteran of more than 35 years as a Washington insider - as his vice-presidential running mate, Sen. Barack Obama has more than adequately compensated for his own total lack of foreign policy and national security experience. I have been waiting patiently but in vain for two months on the assumption the media would investigate and report on Sen. Joe Biden's record, but it hasn't happened.

The conduct of our foreign relations and the command of our military are among the most important functions entrusted to the president under our Constitution, and Mr. Biden's record in these areas is abysmal. From his first year in the Senate in 1973, he was a consistent foe of the American military.

When the Armed Services Committee recommended money for the Trident submarine, the B-1 bomber, and the MX missile (three critical upgrades to our strategic nuclear deterrent triad), Mr. Biden voted against all three - as well as against every effort by our military to protect the American people against nuclear missile attack. When the Senate voted to provide our troops with superior equipment like the M-1 Abrams tank, Joe Biden regularly voted "nay." He even voted to make all covert operations illegal (and to prohibit all intelligence collection inside foreign countries where local laws prohibited foreign espionage) and in 1986 bragged he had personally undermined Reagan administration covert operations while a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee by simply threatening to "leak" them.

A look at his actions when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990 is instructive. Just hours after the Aug. 2 invasion, Joe Biden declared on the Senate floor that Saddam was "the world's most belligerent dictator" who, in recent months, had "boldly continued his drive for nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction." He declared the United States "must act, and we must act forcefully. ... History will not forgive us if we do not do everything in our power to stop Saddam Hussein."

Two months later, his courage had apparently waned, as Mr. Biden cautioned that the United States should not engage in a "pre-emptive strike." (One wonders if he would have characterize the D-Day landing at Normandy to liberate Europe as "pre-emptive" as well.) Still, Mr. Biden declared he would support the use of military force if authorized by "a decision by the U.N. Security Council" - which occurred Nov. 29 with Resolution 678.

However, when it came time to actually take a stand against blatant international aggression and to help the Security Council enforce the United Nations Charter, Mr. Biden decided the world community should instead rely on "sanctions."

Just before the Jan. 12, 1991, Senate vote, Mr. Biden declared to his colleagues that "the principle of collective
security" was really "not a vital interest" of the United States. Who needs things like NATO? America can go it alone.

As for his earlier concerns about Saddam's quest for nuclear weapons and Iraq's other weapons of mass destruction programs, Mr. Biden actually speculated to his colleagues that perhaps, if we just left him alone for five years, Saddam might be "struck by lightning," eliminating any need to deal seriously with the problem. Thus we have the "Biden Doctrine" - gut the military, appease aggressors, and then pray anxiously for lightning to preserve world peace!

Fewer than 150 Americans died as a result of enemy action during Operation Desert Storm. But, in fairness to Mr. Biden, had the Congress followed his lead and voted to deny our military Abrams tanks, long-range cruise missiles (and destroyers from which to launch them), Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, F-14 "Tomcat" fighters, Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, SAM-D (Patriot) missiles, and the other sophisticated weapons that kept our casualties so low - all of them weapons Mr. Biden voted against over the years - we might well have lost the tens- to hundreds-of-thousands of American lives liberating Kuwait that Mr. Biden had confidently predicted.

In part because of the incredible superiority of the Abrams tank, by the time the war ended coalition forces had destroyed an estimated 4,000 Iraqi tanks without having had a single Abrams destroyed by hostile fire.

When Desert Storm began, Iraq had the third-largest army in the world (the United States was fifth). Without the critically important weapons Mr. Biden had sought to deny our troops, we might well have paid for his frugality with the lives of large numbers of brave American men and women in uniform.

Although Joe Biden was of military age throughout the Vietnam War, he managed to secure numerous educational draft deferments and then found a doctor to certify he had suffered from asthma as a child. His disdain for the welfare of our military was evident not solely by his votes to deny them virtually every major modern weapons system they requested; he even voted to deny funds for commissaries where our underpaid troops could purchase food for their families.

Apparently having learned from experience, in 2002 Mr. Biden voted in favor of going to war in Iraq. (As late as April 2003, a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll reported 79 percent of Americans still thought the Iraq war was justified). But when public opinion shifted, Mr. Biden quickly reverted to form, declared his vote was a "mistake," and tried to sabotage the president's conduct of the war (and thus guarantee victory for our enemies, as he had done in Indochina in May 1973).

Although in the 2006 Hamdan case the Supreme Court affirmed that, under our Constitution, "Congress cannot direct the conduct of [military] campaigns," drawing on his vast military experience (a brief mandatory stint in college ROTC - which he flunked), Mr. Biden confidently declared that sending reinforcements to Iraq (the so-called "surge") was "absolutely the wrong strategy" and did everything possible to undermine the commander in chief's decision. Once again, history shows Joe Biden got it terribly wrong.

Today, few Senate Democrats can match Joe Biden's experience in the field of foreign affairs. He has a long track record dating back 35 years - a record Mr. Obama obviously admires. But it is a record of appeasement, weakness, vacillation and incredibly poor judgment. It is a record of usurping the constitutional powers of the president, undermining and trying to cripple our intelligence community, and in the process betraying the brave sacrifices of millions of our men and women in uniform. I have testified at hearings chaired by Mr. Biden time and again over many years, and I've always found him fair, gracious, and often charming and personable. But the thought that his views may soon become the foreign and defense policies of this great nation genuinely frightens me.

Robert F. Turner worked with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during Sen. Joseph Biden's first five years on the committee and in 1984-85 was acting assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs. A veteran of two Army tours in Vietnam and an expert on the constitutional separation of national security powers, he has testified before more than a dozen different congressional committees over the past three decades.

The views above are entirely his own.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...iden-doctrine/

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Philly anchors grill Biden: Smirky not happy

By Michelle Malkin • October 27, 2008 03:56 PM
Joe gets testy when he’s tested. You saw him with Barbara West in Florida. Now, see him howling about the “hokum” from two Philly anchors.
Gird your loins, buddy. Gird your own loins:


http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/27...rky-not-happy/

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There is no indication of the interview on the website.
Joy

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Video: Biden talking about taxing incomes over $150K, not $250K, now?

posted at 1:06 pm on October 28, 2008 by Allahpundit

The McCain camp’s pushing this out as evidence that Joe the Plumber’s fears are already being realized:

Because you’re successful, you have to pay more than everybody else? We all live in this country. It’s a basic right. And Obama wants to take that basic right and penalize me for it, is what it comes down to. That’s a very socialist view and it’s incredibly wrong. I mean, $250,000 now. What if he decides, well, you know, $150,000, you’re pretty rich, too. Let’s go ahead and lower it again. You know it’s a slippery slope. When’s it going to stop?

Watch the clip, then read on.

(go here. read and watch videos, curse at will (sorry Will ) )
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/2...-not-250k-now/