McCain Camp Pounces On Biden Comments
Former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Randy Scheunemann, foreign policy adviser to John McCain's campaign, pounced this afternoon on Joe Biden's weekend comments that Barack Obama, if elected, will be tested by the world.
During a call with reporters, Giuliani called Biden's comments "extraordinary."
"It has to mean that Joe Biden continues to harbor serious doubts about whether Barack Obama is ready to be commander in chief," said the former GOP presidential candidate.
Scheunemann compared Obama to John F. Kennedy, noting that Kennedy was "ill prepared" for a summit meeting with Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet premier. Construction of the Berlin Wall ensued and, eventually, the nation faced the Cuban Missile Crisis.
"Weakness invites challenge, invites testing, invites attack," Scheunemann said.
Giuliani: "My answer is then let's elect somebody who doesn’t raise that risk."
Per NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli, here's what Biden said, first Saturday in San Francisco and then Sunday during a fundraiser in Seattle:
"Mark my words. Within the next, first six months of this administration, if we win, there going to -- we're going to face a major international challenge. Because they're going to want to test him, just like they did young John Kennedy. They're going to want to test him. And they're going to find out this guy's got steel in his spine."
"Mark my words. Mark my words. 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. 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."
Seems unlikely, as the McCain camp suggests, that Biden was actually trying to convey that he is concerned about Obama's readiness to handle a crisis. After all, he said Obama has a "spine of steel." And he compared the Dem nom to President Kennedy.
Meanwhile, isn't Biden actually turning the McCain camp's chief argument for the GOP nom's experience on its head? Biden is essentially saying, "Hey America, if an international problem emerges, who would you rather have leading the nation, communicating with the countries of the world?" Seems he's raising the temperment matter, though not explicitly. And that last line -- "He's gonna need help" -- seems like typical Biden self-congratulations. Obama has me by his side, Biden is saying. Remember who's standing next to the other guy.
(JENNIFER SKALKA)
AMEN!! Prez. Obama will get on teevee and address the nation. He'll tell us that Israel and Iran are at war....and he's gonna sit back and watch, as that's what Powell and Moore are advising him to do. He'll ask Americans to support his decision. This will be the first of many he makes that will contribute to the destruction of America. He's a socialist crook and baby killer who really must be stopped. A Marxist-Manchurian candidate.
I see stupitity runs deep amongst the ignorant such as the guy above my post (Steve L.)....you want a war....well I can guarantee you'll get one with old fart McCain as President.....as for Palin....she's just a plain joke all across the world so I'll leave it at that....right now the only occupying another nation is the U.S......they have installed a puppet government like they always do even if the outcome is dictatorship.......example:...Chile with Pinochet, Iran back when you probably are too ignorant to remember....and the best of all......installing Saddam Hussein in Iraq.....as for women's rights....the government has no place in the bedrooms of it's citizens.....democracy gives you the right to choose.....if it wasn't for a democratic party in power women would still not be able to vote......who in the hell is McCain to take away women's rights??....If you smell a communist....it's McCain.....how pathetically ignorant you are.....learn some american history my friend!!!!!!!
A lot of Presidents get tested after assuming office, that comes with the territory.
JFK: 3 months in = The Bay of Pigs
Ford: 8 months in = The fall of South Vietnam
Clinton: 1 month in = World Trade Center car bombings
Bush Jr.: 8 months in = 9/11
Colin Powell had this to say: "Obama is ready on Day 1....Palin is not ready to be President."
The Republican Party has had since 1980 to prove that global, trickle down Reagonomics is the answer. If this had been true, they would win the White House, the Congress, and the Senate with ease. It is now time to try a different approach. It can't turn out any worse.
Cant wait for Universal health care I'll take it and let the rest of the tax payers pay for and yeah, cut my taxes and make the most wealthy pay it so that they will be in worse shape and no one will be spending. Iran will walk all over us and Isreal will be left to deal with all of the radical muslims that believe to kill is to be rewarded in heaven. Just bring on the end of the world.
Cant wait for Universal health care I'll take it and let the rest of the tax payers pay for and yeah, cut my taxes and make the most wealthy pay it so that they will be in worse shape and no one will be spending. Iran will walk all over us and Isreal will be left to deal with all of the radical muslims that believe to kill is to be rewarded in heaven. Just bring on the end of the world.
wWat is the problem with the Biden comment? He is secure in his running mate and says so. Obama is ready, unlike, Im sad to say, JFK. See the brilliant new Robert Dalleck biography, An Unfinished Presidency on this point. That is not Obama--tht is very ill Attison's Disease(I think) JFK facing Khruschev at the top of his game and with JFK not able to be up to things phsycally and, perhaps because of his condition, emotionally. This will not happen in a crisis or a meeting with Putin, the new Mr. K or is it a smoother Mr.JS ((Stalin for you youngsters) for Obama is well schooled, and tested by vicious campaign. It is the cool, deliberate,and cautious Obama we are talking about. Biden is a bit much sometimes--as much as I love the man and wantd him as president, but not here, not in this case. He he uses his knowledge of history and of human behaviour well. No, Im not a politician, just an old academican who does teach about modern American and its good, great and monstrously bad presidents. Barack Obama will be one of the first---GWB or BII, is of course the best example of monstrous. I afraid to see what the new McCain--the republic rightwinger, not the mavervick of 2000 will do if he gets to that position. Pace
wWat is the problem with the Biden comment? He is secure in his running mate and says so. Obama is ready, unlike, Im sad to say, JFK. See the brilliant new Robert Dalleck biography, An Unfinished Presidency on this point. That is not Obama--tht is very ill Attison's Disease(I think) JFK facing Khruschev at the top of his game and with JFK not able to be up to things phsycally and, perhaps because of his condition, emotionally. This will not happen in a crisis or a meeting with Putin, the new Mr. K or is it a smoother Mr.JS ((Stalin for you youngsters) for Obama is well schooled, and tested by vicious campaign. It is the cool, deliberate,and cautious Obama we are talking about. Biden is a bit much sometimes--as much as I love the man and wantd him as president, but not here, not in this case. He he uses his knowledge of history and of human behaviour well. No, Im not a politician, just an old academican who does teach about modern American and its good, great and monstrously bad presidents. Barack Obama will be one of the first---GWB or BII, is of course the best example of monstrous. I afraid to see what the new McCain--the republic rightwinger, not the mavervick of 2000 will do if he gets to that position. Pace
What is the problem with the Biden comment? He is secure in his running mate and says so. Obama is ready, unlike, Im sad to say, JFK. See the brilliant new Robert Dalleck biography, An Unfinished Presidency on this point. That is not Obama--tht is very ill Attison's Disease(I think) JFK facing Khruschev at the top of his game and with JFK not able to be up to things phsycally and, perhaps because of his condition, emotionally. This will not happen in a crisis or a meeting with Putin, the new Mr. K or is it a smoother Mr.JS ((Stalin for you youngsters) for Obama is well schooled, and tested by vicious campaign. It is the cool, deliberate,and cautious Obama we are talking about. Biden is a bit much sometimes--as much as I love the man and wantd him as president, but not here, not in this case. He he uses his knowledge of history and of human behaviour well. No, Im not a politician, just an old academican who does teach about modern American and its good, great and monstrously bad presidents. Barack Obama will be one of the first---GWB or BII, is of course the best example of monstrous. I afraid to see what the new McCain--the republic rightwinger, not the mavervick of 2000 will do if he gets to that position. Pace
What is the problem with the Biden comment? He is secure in his running mate and says so. Obama is ready, unlike, Im sad to say, JFK. See the brilliant new Robert Dalleck biography, An Unfinished Presidency on this point. That is not Obama--tht is very ill Attison's Disease(I think) JFK facing Khruschev at the top of his game and with JFK not able to be up to things phsycally and, perhaps because of his condition, emotionally. This will not happen in a crisis or a meeting with Putin, the new Mr. K or is it a smoother Mr.JS ((Stalin for you youngsters) for Obama is well schooled, and tested by vicious campaign. It is the cool, deliberate,and cautious Obama we are talking about. Biden is a bit much sometimes--as much as I love the man and wantd him as president, but not here, not in this case. He he uses his knowledge of history and of human behaviour well. No, Im not a politician, just an old academican who does teach about modern American and its good, great and monstrously bad presidents. Barack Obama will be one of the first---GWB or BII, is of course the best example of monstrous. I afraid to see what the new McCain--the republic rightwinger, not the mavervick of 2000 will do if he gets to that position. Pace
What is the problem with the Biden comment? He is secure in his running mate and says so. Obama is ready, unlike, Im sad to say, JFK. See the brilliant new Robert Dalleck biography, An Unfinished Presidency on this point. That is not Obama--tht is very ill Attison's Disease(I think) JFK facing Khruschev at the top of his game and with JFK not able to be up to things phsycally and, perhaps because of his condition, emotionally. This will not happen in a crisis or a meeting with Putin, the new Mr. K or is it a smoother Mr.JS ((Stalin for you youngsters) for Obama is well schooled, and tested by vicious campaign. It is the cool, deliberate,and cautious Obama we are talking about. Biden is a bit much sometimes--as much as I love the man and wantd him as president, but not here, not in this case. He he uses his knowledge of history and of human behaviour well. No, Im not a politician, just an old academican who does teach about modern American and its good, great and monstrously bad presidents. Barack Obama will be one of the first---GWB or BII, is of course the best example of monstrous. I afraid to see what the new McCain--the republic rightwinger, not the mavervick of 2000 will do if he gets to that position. Pace
What is the problem with the Biden comment? He is secure in his running mate and says so. Obama is ready, unlike, Im sad to say, JFK. See the brilliant new Robert Dalleck biography, An Unfinished Presidency on this point. That is not Obama--tht is very ill Attison's Disease(I think) JFK facing Khruschev at the top of his game and with JFK not able to be up to things phsycally and, perhaps because of his condition, emotionally. This will not happen in a crisis or a meeting with Putin, the new Mr. K or is it a smoother Mr.JS ((Stalin for you youngsters) for Obama is well schooled, and tested by vicious campaign. It is the cool, deliberate,and cautious Obama we are talking about. Biden is a bit much sometimes--as much as I love the man and wantd him as president, but not here, not in this case. He he uses his knowledge of history and of human behaviour well. No, Im not a politician, just an old academican who does teach about modern American and its good, great and monstrously bad presidents. Barack Obama will be one of the first---GWB or BII, is of course the best example of monstrous. I afraid to see what the new McCain--the republic rightwinger, not the mavervick of 2000 will do if he gets to that position. Pace
What is the problem with the Biden comment? He is secure in his running mate and says so. Obama is ready, unlike, Im sad to say, JFK. See the brilliant new Robert Dalleck biography, An Unfinished Presidency on this point. That is not Obama--tht is very ill Attison's Disease(I think) JFK facing Khruschev at the top of his game and with JFK not able to be up to things phsycally and, perhaps because of his condition, emotionally. This will not happen in a crisis or a meeting with Putin, the new Mr. K or is it a smoother Mr.JS ((Stalin for you youngsters) for Obama is well schooled, and tested by vicious campaign. It is the cool, deliberate,and cautious Obama we are talking about. Biden is a bit much sometimes--as much as I love the man and wantd him as president, but not here, not in this case. He he uses his knowledge of history and of human behaviour well. No, Im not a politician, just an old academican who does teach about modern American and its good, great and monstrously bad presidents. Barack Obama will be one of the first---GWB or BII, is of course the best example of monstrous. I afraid to see what the new McCain--the republic rightwinger, not the mavervick of 2000 will do if he gets to that position. Pace
What is the problem with the Biden comment? He is secure in his running mate and says so. Obama is ready, unlike, Im sad to say, JFK. See the brilliant new Robert Dalleck biography, An Unfinished Presidency on this point. That is not Obama--tht is very ill Attison's Disease(I think) JFK facing Khruschev at the top of his game and with JFK not able to be up to things phsycally and, perhaps because of his condition, emotionally. This will not happen in a crisis or a meeting with Putin, the new Mr. K or is it a smoother Mr.JS ((Stalin for you youngsters) for Obama is well schooled, and tested by vicious campaign. It is the cool, deliberate,and cautious Obama we are talking about. Biden is a bit much sometimes--as much as I love the man and wantd him as president, but not here, not in this case. He he uses his knowledge of history and of human behaviour well. No, Im not a politician, just an old academican who does teach about modern American and its good, great and monstrously bad presidents. Barack Obama will be one of the first---GWB or BII, is of course the best example of monstrous. I afraid to see what the new McCain--the republic rightwinger, not the mavervick of 2000 will do if he gets to that position. Pace
What is the problem with the Biden comment? He is secure in his running mate and says so. Obama is ready, unlike, Im sad to say, JFK. See the brilliant new Robert Dalleck biography, An Unfinished Presidency on this point. That is not Obama--tht is very ill Attison's Disease(I think) JFK facing Khruschev at the top of his game and with JFK not able to be up to things phsycally and, perhaps because of his condition, emotionally. This will not happen in a crisis or a meeting with Putin, the new Mr. K or is it a smoother Mr.JS ((Stalin for you youngsters) for Obama is well schooled, and tested by vicious campaign. It is the cool, deliberate,and cautious Obama we are talking about. Biden is a bit much sometimes--as much as I love the man and wantd him as president, but not here, not in this case. He he uses his knowledge of history and of human behaviour well. No, Im not a politician, just an old academican who does teach about modern American and its good, great and monstrously bad presidents. Barack Obama will be one of the first---GWB or BII, is of course the best example of monstrous. I afraid to see what the new McCain--the republic rightwinger, not the mavervick of 2000 will do if he gets to that position. Pace
What is the problem with the Biden comment? He is secure in his running mate and says so. Obama is ready, unlike, Im sad to say, JFK. See the brilliant new Robert Dalleck biography, An Unfinished Presidency on this point. That is not Obama--tht is very ill Attison's Disease(I think) JFK facing Khruschev at the top of his game and with JFK not able to be up to things phsycally and, perhaps because of his condition, emotionally. This will not happen in a crisis or a meeting with Putin, the new Mr. K or is it a smoother Mr.JS ((Stalin for you youngsters) for Obama is well schooled, and tested by vicious campaign. It is the cool, deliberate,and cautious Obama we are talking about. Biden is a bit much sometimes--as much as I deeply respect the man and wanted him as president, but not here, not in this case. He he uses his knowledge of history and of human behaviour well. No, Im not a politician, just an old academican who does teach about modern American and its good, great and monstrously bad presidents. Barack Obama will be one of the first---GWB or BII, is of course the best example of monstrous. I afraid to see what the new McCain--the republic rightwinger, not the mavervick of 2000 will do if he gets to that position. Pace
What is the problem with the Biden comment? He is secure in his running mate and says so. Obama is ready, unlike, Im sad to say, JFK. See the brilliant new Robert Dalleck biography, An Unfinished Presidency on this point. That is not Obama--tht is very ill Attison's Disease(I think) JFK facing Khruschev at the top of his game and with JFK not able to be up to things phsycally and, perhaps because of his condition, emotionally. This will not happen in a crisis or a meeting with Putin, the new Mr. K or is it a smoother Mr.JS ((Stalin for you youngsters) for Obama is well schooled, and tested by vicious campaign. It is the cool, deliberate,and cautious Obama we are talking about. Biden is a bit much sometimes--as much as I deeply respect the man and wanted him as president, but not here, not in this case. He he uses his knowledge of history and of human behaviour well. No, Im not a politician, just an old academican who does teach about modern American and its good, great and monstrously bad presidents. Barack Obama will be one of the first---GWB or BII, is of course the best example of monstrous. I afraid to see what the new McCain--the republic rightwinger, not the mavervick of 2000 will do if he gets to that position. Pace
What is the problem with the Biden comment? He is secure in his running mate and says so. Obama is ready, unlike, Im sad to say, JFK. See the brilliant new Robert Dalleck biography, An Unfinished Presidency on this point. That is not Obama--tht is very ill Attison's Disease(I think) JFK facing Khruschev at the top of his game and with JFK not able to be up to things phsycally and, perhaps because of his condition, emotionally. This will not happen in a crisis or a meeting with Putin, the new Mr. K or is it a smoother Mr.JS ((Stalin for you youngsters) for Obama is well schooled, and tested by vicious campaign. It is the cool, deliberate,and cautious Obama we are talking about. Biden is a bit much sometimes--as much as I deeply respect the man and wanted him as president, but not here, not in this case. He he uses his knowledge of history and of human behaviour well. No, Im not a politician, just an old academican who does teach about modern American and its good, great and monstrously bad presidents. Barack Obama will be one of the first---GWB or BII, is of course the best example of monstrous. I afraid to see what the new McCain--the republic rightwinger, not the mavervick of 2000 will do if he gets to that position. Pace