>>"Mark my words," the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. 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."
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>>"I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate," Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. "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."
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>>"I've forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I'm not being falsely humble with you. I think I can be value added, but this guy has it," the Senate Foreign Relations chairman said of Obama. "This guy has it. But he's gonna need your help. Because 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."
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>>"There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go, 'Whoa, wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don't know about that decision'," Biden continued. "Because if you think the decision is sound when they're made, which I believe you will when they're made, they're not likely to be as popular as they are sound. Because if they're popular, they're probably not sound."
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>>I recommend you read the entire articles. It's available here:
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>>http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/biden-to-suppor.html
>>http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/20/biden-obama-tested-world-months-administration/
>>http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/20/biden_warns_world_will_test_ob.html
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>>Of course, Obama clarified Biden's meaning afterwards, but that is available everywhere on the web so I won't bother to post it. You all can find it for yourselves easily.
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>Biden may not be wrong in what he said. It's still disappointing that he had to have a recurrence now of his chronic ailment, diarrhea of the mouth.

That is one of the reasons nobody wanted him for president when he ran.

Now he's likely to be in line to be president w/o anyone voting for him.