Joe Biden, Obama’s running mate, doesn’t seem to think that his running mate will be up for job if our country faces a crisis. He was heard saying at a rally in Seattle this last weekend:
“Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking,”
“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’t tell if Biden is trying to make people doubt their decisions to vote for Obama, because I know I wouldn’t want a president that will bring around a crisis in the midst of two wars that we are already fighting. The McCain campaign was quoted saying:
“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. …
“Senator Obama wont have the right response, and we know that because we’ve seen the wrong response from him over and over during this campaign. … 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,”
Even though Obama’s campaign says those remarks were to show that Obama is ready for the job, I think I still sense a feeling of doubt held by Joe Biden. How can we elect someone president when his own running mate isn’t even completely sure about him?
