Oh? Is that what we’re calling gaffes now?
“Joe sometimes engages in rhetorical flourishes. But I think that his core point was that the next administration is going to be tested regardless of who it is,” Obama told reporters after meeting with his national security working group. “The next administration is going to be inheriting a whole host of really big problems and so the president is going to be tested and 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 but we’re about creating partnerships around the world to solve practical problems.”
Spin, Obama, spin! Maybe you’ll convince the public it’s safe to elect you president. But you might want to continue to keep Biden away from the press:
While the once silent Palin has taken questions from reporters that travel with her three times in the last week, Biden has not offered the same type of access to reporters who cover his every move on the campaign trail in almost two months.
As for comments that Biden made last weekend in Seattle about Obama facing an “international, generated crisis” in his first six months, Biden has said nothing more on the matter.
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Biden spokesperson David Wade said on Tuesday that Biden had no plans to revisit those statements.
You wouldn’t want this to happen 
posted October 22, 2008 at 10:40 pm
There’s no doubt that Biden can operate in Gaff-O-Matic mode from time to time. But isn’t the idea that some kind of international crisis will surface in the next six months more on the lines of things it’s impolitic to say rather than things that won’t happen?
posted October 22, 2008 at 11:46 pm
“Yesterday Team McCain held a conference call to try to make an issue out of Joe Biden’s assertion that an international crisis would `test the mettle’ of the new president.
“On the call, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani responded to Biden by insisting that “it is not uniformly the case that the mettle of American presidents is tested…Senator McCain would not present that same risk that Joe Biden seems to be worried about.” Giuliani also called Biden’s statement `extraordinary.’
“Senator Joe Lieberman, one of John McCain’s closest allies, disagrees. Appearing on Face the Nation back in June, Lieberman insisted that `our enemies will test the new president early.’”
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/10/21/lieberman-our-enemies-will-test-the-new-president-early/
posted October 23, 2008 at 12:14 am
call it a gaffe, call it “straight talk,” call it what you want. i think that biden’s words are worth heeding, because no matter what the outcome, there will be a change of guard next year. we know what happened when bush was the newbie, don’t we.
and considering that al qaeda has endorsed mccain (i can only imagine so they could continue their safe haven in pakistan), i cast my vote for obama today.
posted October 23, 2008 at 2:06 am
yelladawgNC, have you seen this?
rep. bachmann is going down in flames!
rumor has it that the rncc is pulling its ads from her race, walking away from the sinking ship. i love it when these right wingers talk themselves out of a job.
posted October 24, 2008 at 6:12 am
the rncc is also pulling money and ads supporting religious conservative anti-gay crusader musgrave in colorado. she’s been down in the polls from the get-go. she nearly lost her seat against democrat matsunaka years ago, but the republican party has been funding her attack ads pretty well. she would have lost in 2006, but a fiscal conservative ran as an independent and stripped 10% of the votes away from the democratic challenger. musgrave survived another term. apparently she can’t distance herself from bush enough this time.
bye bye, musgrave.
republican shaffer is losing to democrat udall for our open senate seat. mccain is dropping tv ads, seeing colorado as a long shot at this point. colorado is fed up with republicans and is going blue.