Joe Biden's "International Crisis" Gaffe Not So Gaffey After All
Remember when Joe Biden wandered off-message, telling supporters about a terrifying international crisis that will test our next president?
Well, apparently the Gaffe-O-Matic 8000 may have been, how can I put this: un-wrong…
[T]he chairman of a key Pentagon advisory panel is sounding a similar warning, telling the next administration to "prepare for a likely first-270-days crisis."
Veteran Pentagon consultant Michael Bayer, chairman of the Defense Business Board, told his fellow panelists that the new president's inner circle should "set aside time in transition to identify the planning, gravitas and interagency process necessary to respond to a likely first-270-day crisis."
From Kennedy (Bay of Pigs) to Johnson (Gulf of Tonkin) to Bush (9/11)," too many presidents were ill prepared for this," Bayer warns.
Great. That's just great. Nothing like some death and destruction to relax a nation after the most grueling presidential election in recent memory.
I suppose it's too much to hope that veteran Pentagon consultant Michael Bayer has a secret nickname around the office, something like "Gaffey Guy" or "Sir Gaffealot."
Or "Dude Who's Always Wrong About Those International Crises."
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We've tried a glib anti-intellectual president, and eight years later we are in this strange, low place with the light above a tiny pinpoint surrounded by darkness.
If we elect McCain, Sarah Palin will become president when he dies of face cancer.
I ask you all to vote with your secular Brains!!
We need leadership that knows more than us, damn it!!!
Vote Obama.
In re: comparisons of BHO to JFK.
The comparison of any fairly young, charismatic candidate for President to JFK is inevitable. Dan Quayle tried to take it on himself, to ruinous result.
Note, though, that Obama does speak of JFK from time to time, as an exemplar. He also speaks quite admiringly of Reagan, as well. I would venture that Obama can find something good to say about darn near every President we've ever had. Maybe even W, but it would take some effort and force of will.
Yeah, but a guy as ethically challenged as Biden in the #2 spot keeps not feeling right to me no matter what y'all say.
Everybody keeps right on Palin as if they would just fine with the reverse scenario of Biden as president. They shouldn't be. Everybody in Washington kisses his ass because they are afraid not to. I can feel it. I can see the character defects in the guy. It wakes me up in the middle of the night. And I also sense that he had a lot to do behind the scenes with Hillary Clinton abandonment by the Democratic elites. He's as duplicitous as they come. Ambush is his middle name.
Biden ancestors on his father's side are war profiteers. What about MBNA, his son's lobbying activities, his support for the unfair bankrupty laws? There are notable discrepancies between Barack Obama's stand on credit card reform and Biden's activities in Washington.
Oh, but guess what? The news isn't all bad. Ted Kennedy is back in Washington to work on healthcare. Just found out
Folks…..are you kidding me ? Joe doesn't tell gaffe's, just the truth. Oh….could I troow you a banggg!!! Really folks…nothing better than the truth, which is what we have been missing the last 8 yrs. OBAMA picked JOE, because JOE, "always layed it on the line", the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. If all the "Republican Secratary's of State" run out of time with purging all the Democrat Voters….OBAMA/BIDEN might just get a "sqeaker". "OH……WHAT A BANGGG FOR AMERICA!" VOTE!!!!!! GOD BLESS AND GOD SPEED!!!!!!
Joe Biden as president??? You mean the guy who gave a speech that he was a coal miner's son…who lies or misrepresents facts in bundles during a debate knowing most listeners will assume he knows what he is talking about and never check. He is a complete disaster.
Give me an aging fighter of ethics and reform with a skilled governor who knows energy and who cut down corruption over a inexperienced sell out as pres and a VP who lies.
Joe Said "Give me an aging fighter of ethics and reform with a skilled governor who knows energy and who cut down corruption. . . "
Right Joe, I think we'd all like that. Shame that NO ONE in this election fits the bill. Particularly the mantle of "Skilled Governor".
Admit it, this is all Freudian for you. Palin reminds you of your mom (or perhaps your first grade teacher Mrs. Dimplebottom) and you want to bang her and McCain reminds you of your dad who didn't hug you enough when you were a boy and you want him to bang you.
That's brilliant comedy. "An aging fighter of ethics and reform!" (Hell yeah, who needs ethics. Let's all get old and band against them.) And Palin, found to have abused her power and to have broken ethics laws, cutting down on corruption! God, you're good.
Gotta wonder when the big boys of the world will get tired of pushing military things this way and that and get down to the real stuff of communication and working things out around the world.
I think a heck of a lot of us are affected by these games.
No alternatives in the toy box?
Gotta wonder when the big boys of the world will get tired of pushing military things this way and that and get down to the real stuff of communication and working things out around the world.
I think a heck of a lot of us are affected by these games.
No alternatives in the toy box?
There's no way I've said this before, especially not to this blog.
On second thought–I do take back 'big' and, hey, 'boys'–I don't want to miss the calamities that people of my gender have en-gendered.
But I do leave the concept of immaturity. Am I naive to suggest that folks focused on empathy and working things out would do so if they were in charge?
Should our landscapes become unfamiliar and hostile to the lifestyles and cultures evolved during the lifetimes of family members we've known personally–will scarcity open our hearts to the common good?
I'm sure there are many proverbs and traditions around the world that honor the strengths we find in community. Since we have had sure experience of our distinctive nations' abilities to have effect upon one another, is it not time to pay attention, each of us, as to how we think and act toward one another, how competition brings us down?