Joe Biden Said That?

Once again Phil Walter brings a classic Biden moment our way. While campaigning just before the 2008 election Biden was speaking at a fundraiser in Seattle. Thinking ahead to post-victory events, he warned:

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. 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.

Well, well! So much content there to think about! A generated crisis? One that wouldn't happen if McCain got elected? Hm, so, the message is "stave off disaster, vote McCain"? Probably not what he had in mind.

Furthermore, the administration will take actions, those actions will appear to be wrong, and loyal Democrats should fall in line and support whatever's done? I recall hearing that "dissent was the highest form of patriotism". Oh wait, that's a 2000-2008 slogan.

Source: ABC News' Matthew Jaffe