Is Obama Ready for a "Crisis?"

As I mentioned yesterday, and has been discussed in the partisan press (though not nearly enough), Sen. Barack Obama's vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden all but promised a "generated international crisis" after Obama's presumed election.

I now hear pundits, bloggers and "journalists" discussing whether Obama would be ready for the crisis.

That's not the question to ask!

The question to ask is: Why elect a president whose very election will guarantee an 'international crisis' strikes us?

I don't want an international crisis! I don't want to know if Obama has the "mettle" to endure a crisis. How do we prevent this crisis from happening, Joe???

Seems simple to me: Vote for the guy whose national defense policy mirrors the policy of the current president, on whose watch there has been no "generated crisis" from The Middle East or Russia for the last seven years!" Vote John McCain.

Interesting note, the CNN story somehow failed to mention Biden's saying the crisis would come from the Middle East or Russia. Hmmmm. (Nope, no liberal bias here!)

Biden Hints at Impending "International Crisis"

At a fundraiser on Sunday, vice-presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) suggested that a President Barack Obama would be "tested" by a "generated international crisis" from the Middle-East or Russia within six months of his election.

"It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy...Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."

As the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden has access to top secret national defense intelligence. What exactly does he know, and what does his saying it mean?

More enigmatic is his hint at an Obama response to the crisis:
"And (Obama's) gonna need help. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right."

Is Biden talking to the (presumably) left-wing supporters at this fund raiser, or is he asking for the help of all of the American people?

Is he hinting that Obama's response would be aggressive, disappointing the left-wing anti-war crowd; or would Obama's response be tepid, disappointing Middle America?

Is he telling us that electing President Obama equals asking for a terrorist attack? Would this "crisis" focus on Obama himself or the U.S. as a whole? A military attack or a financial hit?

Is he tipping his hand to the presumed makers of this crisis that we are onto them and they should not proceed?

"The world is looking," he announced.

Does this mean "the world" does not fear Obama or see him as a strong leader, one who could help his country survive such an event? Does this mean the world sees Obama as weak, and is licking their chops at the chance to attack an Obama-led U.S. rather than a U.S. in the hands of Bush or McCain?

Is Biden, himself, suggesting that Obama is weak, and giving us yet another reason to vote against him.

Or, is he suggesting that the world is misunderestimating Obama at its own peril?

Please comment below and let me know what you think. This is a very interesting development....