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Thread #115876   Message #2485099
Posted By: Sawzaw
04-Nov-08 - 09:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: War in 2009?
Subject: RE: BS: War in 2009?
Well Mr Bobert Sir Don't beat me no mo but I can't find it. If you will show me where it is at, I will post it. I don't want no Hillbilly ass whuppin' from you, please.

During my unfruitful search I did find this in the New York Times where O was doing damage control fer Joe:

Obama Chides Biden for "Rhetorical Flourishes"
By Jeff Zeleny

RICHMOND, Va. – With his candidacy already buoyed by how voters believe he would handle the economic crisis, Senator Barack Obama on Wednesday sought to turn the focus of the presidential race back to national security and the threats facing America.

"A period of transition in a new administration is always one where we have to be vigilant, we have to be careful," Mr. Obama said. "We have to be mindful that as we pass the baton in this democracy that others don't take advantage of it – that's true whether it's myself or Senator McCain."

A new line of criticism from the Republican ticket that Mr. Obama is not ready for the presidency has been fueled this week by comments from Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic vice presidential candidate. Mr. Biden told supporters at a Seattle fund-raiser on Sunday that if Mr. Obama were elected, the world's leaders would surely test him as a young American president, just as they did President John F. Kennedy.

Mr. Obama gently chided his running-mate, saying: "I think Joe, sometimes, engages in rhetorical flourishes."

"But I think that his core point is that the next administration is going to be tested, regardless of who it is. The next administration is going to be inheriting a host of really big problems," Mr. Obama said. "The question is will the next president meet that test by moving America in a new direction, by sending a clear signal to the rest of the world that we are no longer about bluster and unilateralism and ideology?"

Mr. Obama said that while the economic crisis has dominated the national conversation, a range of international challenges also faced the next president, so he convened a meeting of his top national security advisers for a briefing here. Mr. Biden joined the closed-door session by telephone from Colorado, where he was campaigning on Wednesday.

Mr. Obama said that he did not convene the meeting of his national security team in response to the criticism that has stirred since Mr. Biden's comments were reported. He said it was simply an appropriate moment for him to receive a briefing about the developments across the globe since the economic crisis dominated the conversation.

"We actually had this planned about two to three weeks ago, and it was prompted by the fact that we focused single-mindedly on the financial crisis," Mr. Obama said. "I think it's very important at a time when we are so focused on the economy – and rightly so – that we not lose sight of the fact that we remain threatened and that there are a whole host of international challenges that we're going to have to deal with."

Tucker Bounds, a spokesman for the McCain campaign, said the Obama national security meeting was nothing more than an attempt to gloss over the comments from Mr. Biden.
"It's not leadership for Barack Obama to promise to be straight with Americans, only to dismiss serious statements and concern from his own running mate as simple rhetorical flourishes," Mr. Bounds said in a statement. "Joe Biden guaranteed a generated international crisis if Barack Obama is elected, and a smile-for-the-cameras press conference isn't going to mitigate the risk of an Obama presidency."