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Biden: Generated Crisis in First Six Months of Obama Presidency
Gaffe Master Joe Biden stated recently that Obama will be tested, like Kennedy, with an international "generated crisis" in the first six months- and he's gonna need your help, "because it's not gonna be apparent initially...that we're right". Biden claims he "can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate." In this OpEd, Rady Ananda rounds up and comments on the statement and related things.
What is he talking about and how does he know? Biden is a hawk and long time elite insider- he says he's studied history.
"It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. . . . 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." [Italics mine} - Senator Joseph Biden
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I might dismiss this, but when you add Colin Powell giving a date certain: “The problems will always be there, and there's going to be a crisis come along in the 21st or 22nd of January that we don't even know about right now,” - the day when the new team is to transition into the White House, one has to wonder, "What's up?"
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One activist I know thinks that the Repubs will contest the electors in Ohio and elsewhere to prevent Obama from obtaining the required number. In that case, per Article II of the Constitution, VP Dick Cheney can step in and assume the presidency.
But add the use of the word "generated" and we have to wonder if the elites are planning another 911.
Something to think about, anyway.




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at 09:32 on October 31st, 2008
Might be nothing bigger than intercepting a Navy aircraft. Every President is tested with an international incident.
at 09:55 on November 1st, 2008
good point, Fairbanks- the President of the US has to deal with many international incidents during their term- in that sense what Biden says isn't extraordinary. However, Biden said there would be a "generated" incident, meaning it would be on purpose, not the result of natural forces.
at 10:23 on November 1st, 2008
Erik Larson, Gen Powell said about the same thing and put the date Jan 21 or 22 on it. By then the new President would barely know where the Oval Office is.