Whose gaffe?
Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin said at a campaign rally: "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. I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate..." Is that stupid or what?
Actually the words were not said by by Palin but by Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden, in one of his customary gaffes. Why would he intimate that his presidential running mate will be tested, is it that he knows that like John Kennedy he is inexperienced and therefore America's enemies are likely to deliberately test him, as Khruschev did with John Kennedy in the Cuban missile crisis. Whatever the outcome, can we afford to put such an inexperienced President in office and have him learning on the job. And Joe Biden is supposed to be his foreign policy expert.
Several people have speculated on what the crisis might be that Biden foresees, and the most likely in my opinion is a move by Iran to consolidate its position as the local hegemon in the Middle East. Even if it does not have a nuclear bomb, Iran can still, like Saddam Hussein did, threaten its neighbors with destruction in order to control them. And in that case it is quite likely that Iran will attempt to undermine or attack Israel. What would a President Obama do, ask to talk to Pres. Ahmedinejad over coffee, without predonditions? And this crisis would be exacerbated by the continuing economic crisis, that if not handled carefully could cause a major worldwide crash. What we need is experience we can trust, as in President McCain.
When CCN interviewed Gov. Palin yesterday she asked the interviewer, "if I had said what Joe Biden said, wouldn't I be hounded by the press for such a statement, while your channel never even reported it," and he said, "Yes, you are right." That there is media bias in favor of the liberal candidate in the US and world media is no surprise.
Another example of this, do you know that Joe Biden suffered from not one but two serious brain aneurysms in 1988. He released his medical records (minus the MRI scans) recently, but no major media outlet picked up on this story, while McCain's medical records got a good airing in the press. Maybe that brain aneurysm explains some of Biden's mental gaffes. Who would you like to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency now?
In the US, "talk radio" is predominantly right wing, because the main media is itself predominantly liberal. But, if you were to listen to call-in shows on the BBC as I sometimes do, you would hear an extreme left-wing bias, that is openly anti-American. And many of the calls come from people such as Ahmed in Amsterdam, Mohammed in Birmingham, or Said in Madrid. It is a different world out there, and they all want Obama to be elected President of the USA.
Actually the words were not said by by Palin but by Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden, in one of his customary gaffes. Why would he intimate that his presidential running mate will be tested, is it that he knows that like John Kennedy he is inexperienced and therefore America's enemies are likely to deliberately test him, as Khruschev did with John Kennedy in the Cuban missile crisis. Whatever the outcome, can we afford to put such an inexperienced President in office and have him learning on the job. And Joe Biden is supposed to be his foreign policy expert.
Several people have speculated on what the crisis might be that Biden foresees, and the most likely in my opinion is a move by Iran to consolidate its position as the local hegemon in the Middle East. Even if it does not have a nuclear bomb, Iran can still, like Saddam Hussein did, threaten its neighbors with destruction in order to control them. And in that case it is quite likely that Iran will attempt to undermine or attack Israel. What would a President Obama do, ask to talk to Pres. Ahmedinejad over coffee, without predonditions? And this crisis would be exacerbated by the continuing economic crisis, that if not handled carefully could cause a major worldwide crash. What we need is experience we can trust, as in President McCain.
When CCN interviewed Gov. Palin yesterday she asked the interviewer, "if I had said what Joe Biden said, wouldn't I be hounded by the press for such a statement, while your channel never even reported it," and he said, "Yes, you are right." That there is media bias in favor of the liberal candidate in the US and world media is no surprise.
Another example of this, do you know that Joe Biden suffered from not one but two serious brain aneurysms in 1988. He released his medical records (minus the MRI scans) recently, but no major media outlet picked up on this story, while McCain's medical records got a good airing in the press. Maybe that brain aneurysm explains some of Biden's mental gaffes. Who would you like to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency now?
In the US, "talk radio" is predominantly right wing, because the main media is itself predominantly liberal. But, if you were to listen to call-in shows on the BBC as I sometimes do, you would hear an extreme left-wing bias, that is openly anti-American. And many of the calls come from people such as Ahmed in Amsterdam, Mohammed in Birmingham, or Said in Madrid. It is a different world out there, and they all want Obama to be elected President of the USA.
posted by Jack Cohen at 5:47 PM
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