First-Year International Crisis?
Joe Biden recently mentioned at a Democratic fundraiser, "Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy...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."
Gee, Joe, you don't think? Is it that the last Democratic President, also with no military or foreign policy experience, had no military response to the 1993 World Trade Tower bombing, 1996 Khobar bombing, the multiple US African embassy attacks and the attack on the USS Cole, and did not take out Osama bin Laden when he had the chance? Is it because the current President, also without active military or foreign policy experience, also faced his first test of 9/11, less than 8 months on the job? Can it be because Barack Obama, in the Youtube debate, has already put the prestige of a Presidential meeting on the table, over and beyond lower-level diplomatic efforts, without preconditions, in dealing with rogue leaders like Ahmadinejad, Chavez, and Castro? Could it be because Barack Obama suggested unconditional withdrawal of troops from Iraq, when Iraq was less stable? Is it because the only budget Obama has vowed to cut is the Defense Budget and in particular missile defense systems, space weaponization, modernized nuclear weapons, and to slow development of future combat systems?
Stealth Creep in Tax Increase Brackets
Barack Obama has widely publicized a tax cut for everyone making under "rich people" defined as $250,000/year. Then the caption to a recent Obama ad says: "Famlies making less than $200,000 get tax cut." And then Joe Biden said this in a recent Pennsylvania TV interview : "What we’re saying is that $87 billion tax break doesn’t need to go to people making an average of 1.4 million, it should go like it used to. It should go to middle class people — people making under $150,000 a year." Gentleman, the next income level on your tax hike bidding goes to $100,000...
I have it on good authority Fr. Michael Pfleger did NOT say the following:
"When Barack Obama was speaking, and people were saying those were 'just words', I really don't believe those were 'just words'. I really believe that he just always thought this election is mine. We are the ones we've been waiting for...Hey, I'm Barack Obama. And this is mine. I just got to get up and step into the plate and then out of nowhere came Joe Biden. And I said, 'Oh, damn, Joe, what's that you are now talking about? Crisis? $150,000 for more taxes?' I'm The One. I'm entitled. There's a 35-year Senator Running Mate stealing my show...
"Haven't you learned anything from Bill Clinton? He campaigned on a middle-class tax cut before the election and then called for a tax hike AFTER the votes were tallied."
