“Mark my words…” and the dangers of being nondescript

At a recent campaign rally, Democrat VP Candidate Joe Biden let loose with a very vague comment about Obama and the coming test he will face.

“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.

I’ve forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I’m not being falsely humble with you. I think I can be value added, but this guy has it. This guy has it. But he’s gonna need your help. Because I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, ‘Oh my God, why are they there in the polls? Why is the polling so down? Why is this thing so tough?‘ We’re gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years. So I’m asking you now, I’m asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point because you’re going to have to reinforce us.”

Now normally, if you’re going to make a bold, sweeping statement such as this, you are normally going to have to go into detail about what you were saying at some point soon after such a statement was made. After all… you don’t want imaginations to run wild and cause damage to your run. Problem is… so far no one has asked him to elaborate and boy are the gears turning.

If you put Biden’s comment side by side with a comment made by his running mate at the ServiceNation presidential forum at Columbia University in New York City and they could be very well speaking of eliminating the volunteer service program in this country.

“My grandfather, after Pearl Harbor, joined the military. My grandmother, who had just had a baby at Fort Leavenworth, stayed back and worked on a bomber assembly line. There was a total mobilization.

And when my grandfather came back, he came back to a G.I. bill that was going to pay for his college education and FHA loans that would help them purchase a home. There was that sense of sacred obligation that, frankly, we have lost during these last two wars.

I want to restore that.

But it’s also important that a president speaks to military service as an obligation not just of some, but of many. You know, I traveled, obviously, a lot over the last 19 months. And if you go to small towns, throughout the Midwest or the Southwest or the South, every town has tons of young people who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. That’s not always the case in other parts of the country, in more urban centers. And I think it’s important for the president to say, this is an important obligation. If we are going into war, then all of us go, not just some.”

I’m not saying that is what they mean, but it does paint a very REAL scenario since they aren’t being forthcoming with the details behind Joe’s “humble” moment.

Obama is campaigning as an agent of change, an anti-war candidate wanting to bring us all home and cower in the corner while he runs out to discuss our differences with people hell bent on our annihilation.

If he IS hinting at a draft or obligated military service, may I mention that while his grandfather was a service member during WWII, he was not FORCED to serve his country. You CANNOT make a man die for a country he would not volunteer his life for. I would love for someone to explain to me what Obama plans on changing in this country that would make Americans step up as they did in his grandfathers day.

I would also LOVE a detailed explanation from Biden as to what this generated crisis will be.