and ideology, but we're about creating partnerships
around the world to solve practical problems.”
Posted on 10/22/2008 12:15:26 PM PDT by presidio9
Democrat Barack Obama said today there is no reason to believe that he is more likely to be tested by an international crisis if elected than if rival John McCain is, and said the important question is how the next president responds.
"Whoever is the next president is going to have to deal with a whole host of challenges internationally -- and a period of transition in a new administration is always one in which we have to be vigilant," Obama said after meeting here with his team of national security and foreign policy advisers.
He was responding to a question about an assertion by his running mate, Joe Biden, over the weekend. "Mark my words," Biden had said. "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking."
McCain's campaign has used the statement to imply that Obama is not ready to lead in a dangerous world.
Even though Biden's words suggested that Obama would be singled out for the test, Obama brushed the comment off, saying, "I think Joe sometimes engages in rhetorical flourishes."
"We are going to face a number of threats and tests and challenges because for the last eight years we've had a policy, a bad set of policies, that have resulted in two unresolved wars, bin Laden and al-Qaeda communicating regularly and training folks to potentially attack America and an economy that has been in a free fall," Obama said.
"The question is, will the next president meet that test by moving America in a new direction -- by sending a clear signal to the rest of the world that we are no longer about bluster and unilateralism and ideology, but we're about creating partnerships around the world to solve practical problems.
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“Rhetorical flourishes”??
Isn’t that what they called his plagiarizing too?
What a bizzaro world we truly live in when out and out lying is morphed into “Rhetorical Flourishes”!
I have some history to share with Obama. Maybe he was "doing some blow" when this happened. But there was this peanut farmer named Jimmy Carter...when he was President, Iran felt comfortable enough, and knew that Jimmy would just smile when they took American hostages.
Those people remained hostages until the very day that the Presidency was assumed by the next Republican President, Ronald Reagan.
Iran tested a soft, weak Democrat and found him spineless. When a Republican took control, Iran put it's tail between it's leg and pissed all over itself, and made sure that those hostages were released.
See what you miss Obama when you're too busy smoking pot, drinking booze, and snorting cocaine?
Thats why his medical records were missing brain scans. Or....maybe they were there but revealed no brain.
Why would anyone want these two yahoos, Obama and Biden, in the White House when they have both demonstrated a pattern of unbelievably poor judgment.
See what you miss Obama when you're too busy smoking pot, drinking booze, and snorting cocaine?
Obama must have missed this little event as well, when a bunch of Somali gunmen decided to test another inexperienced Democrat President, It was midafternoon, Oct. 3, 1993. That one didn't work out so well for the U.S. either.
Regards,
TS
That's Harvard-speak for what us rubes in flyover country call pulling something out of your a**.
How, exactly, do you "test" a man who spent 5 years as a POW?
That is NOT something I would personally like to find out, lol!
How DARE you ask a pertinent question? What is the matter with you? Are you INSANE?
Democrat gaffes and lies are now redefined as "rhetorical flourishes."
There, fixed it.
“Biden was right”, “9-11-01 was actually scheduled for the last several months of the Clinton admin but, was postponed until Bush took office”.
Yeah, that Obama and his champagne sippin', lobster and caviar-eatin' wife of his are just REGULAR folks like us and Joe-The-Plumber.
Elitist left-wing POS.
And so "clean" and "neat", just like ol' Joe already pointed out.
I believe 9/11 was scheduled in advance to conincide with the anniversary of the “New World Order” speech George Herbert Walker Bush gave after the Gulf War in either Saudi Arabia or Iraq.
That’s a good one. I’m sending it to everybody on my list.
Thanks...
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