The World Will Test Us, Part III
posted at 12:10 pm on March 21, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Joe Biden tried to warn America; he really did. In October, while campaigning for his running mate, Biden predicted what would happen if America elected an untested, inexperienced, single-term Senator as President:
“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking.”
Indeed the world is, er, looking. And Russia, which floated the notion of basing its bombers in Cuba last week, gave the US Navy up-close looks at its bombers twice this week:
Two Russian planes flew within 500 feet of U.S. Navy ships participating in military drills with South Korea, military officials said.
After trying unsuccessfully to contact the pilots, U.S. fighter jets met up with the Russian planes and flew with them until they left the area, CNN reported.
One incident occurred Monday, when Russian Ilyushin IL-38 maritime patrol aircraft flew over the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis while it was in international waters in the Sea of Japan. The Russian aircraft flew within 500 feet of the carrier, which was lower than other Russian flyovers in the past year, military officials said.
On Tuesday, two Russian long-range bombers overflew the Stennis and the USS Blue Ridge several times at about 2,000 feet, U.S. military officials told CNN.
Earlier this month, the Chinese started harassing an unarmed Navy exploration vessel, requiring the US to send armed escorts into the international waters of the South China Sea. North Korea is about to launch an ICBM with a reported range that easily includes American territory. Moscow has flipped Kyrgyzstan and put our supply routes into Afghanistan in jeopardy.
Biden was right; they’re testing the mettle of the new President. Evidentally, they’re finding that he doesn’t have much, and they’re becoming more and more arrogant about their provocations.
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Do those things still fly?
ballz2wallz on March 21, 2009 at 12:14 PM
Like a bad dream.
Weight of Glory on March 21, 2009 at 12:14 PM
i wish a dirty bomb would be released in new york, chicago, and sanfransico that only affects democrat morons that voted for both of these clowns. they deserve all that is about to rain down on them. sadly, we will feel it too.
Ghoul aid on March 21, 2009 at 12:14 PM
Oh this is great…
becki51758 on March 21, 2009 at 12:14 PM
All Bush’s fault, of course.
Del Dolemonte on March 21, 2009 at 12:15 PM
but..but..but..I thought the world would love us now?
becki51758 on March 21, 2009 at 12:17 PM
It’s ok really, we’ll just give them a good strong dose of hopeychangey or something.
kringeesmom on March 21, 2009 at 12:17 PM
“mettle”? Obama is made of some kind of spongey dissolving stuff. Or maybe paper. Or maybe electronic words on a screen. Whatever it is the bad guys win.
petunia on March 21, 2009 at 12:17 PM
in time their proxies will attack our allies and the killing will begin and no freaking video tape is gonna change that fact on the ground.
rob verdi on March 21, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Don’t bring a community organizer to a fight for global dominance.
the_nile on March 21, 2009 at 12:17 PM
That’s okay. A helpless-looking, timid president, his knees wobbling as he reads dutifully from his t-prompter, will bring the aggressors to their knees with a few rounds of 50mm dialogue.
whitetop on March 21, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Don’t worry……….
……….. I hear he’s book on Oprah next week!
Seven Percent Solution on March 21, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Russians will next evaluate potential bomber base sites in Nebraska panhandle.
whitetop on March 21, 2009 at 12:18 PM
I will admit he is the messiah.
Just not ours.
Elric66 on March 21, 2009 at 12:19 PM
The communist in chief could care less about the USA. Nice job democrats! By the way, I hope the children of all the democrats are happy about becoming conscripted into the big 0’s amerika korp in the next few years.
We need a rapture that removes all the democrats/communists.
calguyintexas on March 21, 2009 at 12:20 PM
I’m sure it’s just cause they’re racists not cuz Obama’s a chickenshit.
gsherin on March 21, 2009 at 12:20 PM
“They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That’s* the *Chicago* way!”
Evidently, when it comes to global power struggles, this is a Chicago lesson Obamessiah never learned.
He does seem to apply it well in his efforts at “bipartisanship”. So we have that going for us. Which is…
Greg Toombs on March 21, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Have a good day folks, I’m going to get outside, take my son to his Little League Game, enjoy the fresh air, and my freedom…………..
…………… while I still can.
Seven Percent Solution on March 21, 2009 at 12:23 PM
This is “progress”? Obama just put us back 29 years…. it’s like it’s 1980 again.
Caper29 on March 21, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Do we gird or not?
thomasaur on March 21, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Democrats only know how to stand up to Republicans not dictators.
Republicans know how to stand up to dictators but not Democrats.
Never makes sense to me.
gsherin on March 21, 2009 at 12:24 PM
“but..but..but..I thought the world would love us now?”
LOL, becki51758 ! But this is what happens when some one who is not fit to be a dog catcher becomes POTUS.
Interestingly, the way I see it, Obama has been a miserable failure in every real job that he has pursued – first it was community organizer, next it was Illinois state legislator and then of course IL junior senator. he also failed to bring any meaningful change to the education system in Chicago after pairing up with terrorist Ayers and serving on the Woods foundation.
The only thing Obama has ever been successful at is in self promotion. Notice how miserably he has failed while trying to promote the “stimulus” or the health care nonsense. Heck, EVEN a die hard supporter like Warren Buffet called him out on his “handling” of the economic situation.
The biggest affirmative action hire in this nation’s history is becoming an absolute joke.
Not to worry, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi are waiting in the wings – the very thought of that makes me shudder.
nagee76 on March 21, 2009 at 12:24 PM
I don’t know why everyone’s so worried. After all, we have Mrs. Clinton out there leading our foreign policy team. And she’s armed with Smart Power!
Now, if you’ll excuse me. I’m going to go build a fallout shelter. The apartment complex is not going to like this.
kingsjester on March 21, 2009 at 12:24 PM
“We need a rapture that removes all the democrats/communists.”
LOL ! Could you please add RINO’s to that list ?
nagee76 on March 21, 2009 at 12:25 PM
It is impossible to underestimate Biden. It is his constituency that has the problem.
rsl775 on March 21, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Some ones are going to get seriously hurt.
Soon.
Sir Napsalot on March 21, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Actually it is closer to 1812 in many respects.
old trooper2 on March 21, 2009 at 12:26 PM
thomasaur on March 21, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Not yet, but when that time comes gird your loins like they’ve never been girded before.
FontanaConservative on March 21, 2009 at 12:26 PM
did you really just say you hope i die?
ernesto on March 21, 2009 at 12:27 PM
TOTUS told us Biden is the smartest guy in THIS administration.
So I ‘trust’ Biden’s warning.
Sir Napsalot on March 21, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Yeah, the enemy is sacking Washington D.C..
thomasaur on March 21, 2009 at 12:28 PM
They do. They love picking on a whimp. Love it, I say.
myrenovations on March 21, 2009 at 12:29 PM
He must be having problems with the teleprompter.
vcferlita on March 21, 2009 at 12:30 PM
The World does LOVE us. We’re an easy target.
PappaMac on March 21, 2009 at 12:32 PM
I miss Biden. Is he lost in Cheney’s bunker or something?
Mr. Joe on March 21, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Wow! Even a broken (analog) clock is right twice a day. But with Biden, it’s probably more like twice in four years. I wonder when the next time he says something right will be?
rmgraha on March 21, 2009 at 12:34 PM
I guess the “OVERCHARGE” button did not work.
RobCon on March 21, 2009 at 12:34 PM
In paper, rock, scissors, there is no arugula.
wccawa on March 21, 2009 at 12:34 PM
In the words of the Pearl Harbor watch officer….”Don’t worry about it”.
Limerick on March 21, 2009 at 12:36 PM
That’s how party machine hacks deal with what they perceive as the “real” enemy…Republicans.
There are no foreign enemies; only friends they have not appeased yet.
RobCon on March 21, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Bambi won’t react even if Russian bombers buzz the Rose Garden during a press conference.
rockhead on March 21, 2009 at 12:37 PM
And its only going to get worse. I think China, Russia, Venezuela and North Korea are just laughing at us.
However, lets not pretend that ship the Chinese harrassed was just an “exploration” ship. I know what what the Navy publicly said at first, but thats not quite the reality.
firepilot on March 21, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Obama isn’t much of a Messiah; heck, he isn’t even a Carpenter, because a carpenter can put together a Cabinet.
Red State State of Mind on March 21, 2009 at 12:39 PM
I’m guessing under a real leader, a foreign military plane flying 500 ft above a ship would get shot down. But then again, if we had a real leader, the plane wouldn’t even try it.
PappaMac on March 21, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Nice. :)
For that, you win a pack of skittles!
wccawa on March 21, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Let me help. Democrats view Republicans as the greatest threat to America (i.e. their power).
Republicans see the real world threats and figure America will take care of itself.
rockhead on March 21, 2009 at 12:40 PM
We haven’t been tested yet, just a bit of reconnaissance by Obama’s newest, bestest fiends.
Wait till we’re in the heat of the summer….
Earlg on March 21, 2009 at 12:41 PM
This is the kind of statement and sentiment that gives self-identified conservatives a bad name. We are all Americans, whether socialist, democrat, republican, or ethnic supremists of all ilk. To wish destruction on Americans by outside forces is beyond the pale (google “beyond the pale” – that’s Irish you know). I know you can make that pronouncement with the expectation that you won’t be affected in East Overshoe, Indiana. However, the people in Oklahma City found out that bad things happen in smaller population centers in the red states.
Old Country Boy on March 21, 2009 at 12:41 PM
http://www.svherald.com/articles/2009/03/18/news/doc49c179f330b08032571381.txt
RealDemocrat on March 21, 2009 at 12:42 PM
Interesting role reversal here for Obama. In the good old days of community organizing, Obama and his ACORN buddies could bully local governments and lending institutions with meritless accusations of racial discrimination. Obama and his ilk prevailed because public-relations concerns and white guilt prompted these governments and lending institutions to acquiesce in being extorted.
Now, Obama is essentially in the position of the local governments and lending institutions, and he’s getting pushed around by all sides. Bullies respond to only one thing. Indeed, I have a DVD for Obama–A Christmas Story. Fast forward to the scene in which frustrated Ralphie finally beats the snot out of bully Scott Farkus and crummy little toady Grover Dill. Deep down, we all know this is true.
And on a more cerebral note, Obama, keep in mind what Edmund Burke is supposed to have written: “Evil happens when good men do nothing.”
BuckeyeSam on March 21, 2009 at 12:43 PM
And you would be wrong on both counts.
This crap has been going on for years.
BallisticBob on March 21, 2009 at 12:46 PM
Bambi better stop Russia from putting more of their stuff in Cuba. wouldn’t he see this as sort of urgent?
kelley in virginia on March 21, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Don’t worry. Obama’s got a crack team of intell specialist searching for pill factories as we speak.
Perfect opportunity to WAG THE DOG while his congress finish’s off their socialist agenda. Right out of the Clinton playbook. Maybe Hillarycare will recieve a footnote in the historical writings. We are so fu$$ed.
Rovin on March 21, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Maybe just a little. I can see it now:
Obama, hands on hips, stomping feet – “come on guys, leave me alone, I won!”.
tru2tx on March 21, 2009 at 12:48 PM
Loins Locked and Guirded.
Tazz 55 on March 21, 2009 at 12:49 PM
This is going to be good. The next four years, nah, the next 2 years, will be exciting times. Great for the news business. Not so great if you happen to live in NYC, in an apartment. You may not have much to eat, there could be WMD attacks on America by unknown provocateurs, but at least you’ll have stories to tell your grandchildren. If you survive. No guarantee.
keep the change on March 21, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Russia is in Obama’s Sweet Sixteen of potential problems, but they get edged out by Darfur headed into his Elite Eight.
Red State State of Mind on March 21, 2009 at 12:52 PM
Whether it’s the economy or foreign policy, and keeping in mind all the buzz with Obama doing brackets, appearing on Leno, and doing tent revivals in California, does anyone else feel as if Obama’s White House functions like Jerry and George trying to come up with a script for the fictitious NBC pilot in an episode or two of Seinfeld. I do. Total amateur hour.
BuckeyeSam on March 21, 2009 at 12:56 PM
All they need do in tune into Leno.
Wade on March 21, 2009 at 12:58 PM
This is a nightmare…wake me up momma!
The Wall on March 21, 2009 at 12:59 PM
Wade on March 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Ya, it’s a great concept, too. It’s an idea for an administration about nothing.
keep the change on March 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM
And to brag, it was my sons destroyer that came to the rescue.
csdeven on March 21, 2009 at 1:01 PM
Bombers just Bombers
Wade on March 21, 2009 at 1:01 PM
Remember the saying, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, did it make a sound?”
With Obama it is “If Obama ignores it, then it did not happen.”
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And where is Hillary? Do we even have a Secretary of State?
albill on March 21, 2009 at 1:02 PM
Kinda ironic that my ever-inquisitive Son’s most recent obsession has been Nuclear blast effects.
paragon27x on March 21, 2009 at 1:02 PM
Shopping for DVD’s
Wade on March 21, 2009 at 1:02 PM
Bombs have consequences.
/
thomasaur on March 21, 2009 at 1:03 PM
Bombers just Bombers
Wade on March 21, 2009 at 1:01 PM
+1
paragon27x on March 21, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Worse than that: an untested, inexperienced, half-term Senator who is a former race-baiting ACORN lawyer and shake-down activist, who spent his entire life in the company of Marxists, Communists, and America-hating terrorists, who knows diddly-squat about the American economy (except that he wants to destroy it in order to bring about “social justice” for irresponsible deadbeats and illegal aliens), and who is so completely clueless about Muslim society that he actually believes that apologizing to them and asking them to negotiate with us is going to be taken as a sign of strength rather than an admission of weakness . . . .
What could possibly go wrong?
AZCoyote on March 21, 2009 at 1:05 PM
The winner. Hands down.
warbaby on March 21, 2009 at 1:06 PM
I think he was last seen knocking at the front door of GWB’s ranch in Crawford.
anniekc on March 21, 2009 at 1:07 PM
Obama needs to stay off the campaign circuit and do something about these threats.
becki51758 on March 21, 2009 at 1:13 PM
Don’t forget N. Korea wants some of this also…
Keemo on March 21, 2009 at 1:17 PM
Bragging rights? You are damn right you have bragging rights.
God’s speed to your son and his crewmates.
Limerick on March 21, 2009 at 1:18 PM
You mean stay in DC and work? Who do you think this guy is? The President or something?
Doughboy on March 21, 2009 at 1:18 PM
Obama will call for increased oversight of ‘executive pay at all banks, Wall Street firms and possibly other companies’ as part of sweeping plan to ‘overhaul financial regulation’, NY TIMES reporting Sunday, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE… Developing…
Message to all businesses left standing; don’t dare take one penny of bailout money…
Keemo on March 21, 2009 at 1:20 PM
He is doing something. He’s got Michelle sprucing the place up for company.
warbaby on March 21, 2009 at 1:21 PM
Quickly now-Alert the Obama petition squad to go to Russia and protest against this provication…Acorn should be able to fund their travel… snrk/off
canditaylor68 on March 21, 2009 at 1:22 PM
csdeven on March 21, 2009 at 1:01 PM
Bravo comrade!!! Give your son and his fellow warriors our best wishes. America’s real treasure, the American soldier.
Keemo on March 21, 2009 at 1:23 PM
The Americans could consider impeachment and removal from office, but the Congress is filled with men of the President’s own party, and the line of succession is packed with more nutjobs and weaklings. Here is the present line of succession, according to writers at Wikipedia.
1 Vice President and President of the Senate Joe Biden
2 Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi
3 President pro tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd
4 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
5 Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner
6 Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
7 Attorney General Eric Holder
8 Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
9 Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
– Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke (confirmation pending)
10 Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis
– Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius (confirmation pending)
11 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan
12 Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood
13 Secretary of Energy Steven Chu
14 Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
15 Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki
16 Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano
Kralizec on March 21, 2009 at 1:23 PM
when I was on board the uss ranger. we had to russian bears fly over the deck of the carrier……we were in middle of our initiation wog day!!!!!……down on the equator. so the officer of the deck told us on the Coms to give our commrades a warm welcome……we all stuck our middle finger at them with the form of a salute…..
was quite hillarious and entertaining.
hawkman on March 21, 2009 at 1:25 PM
I heard we can knock out anything North Korea sends up the Navy stated like we took out the faulty American Satellite last year. The response from the North Koreans if you knock out our missiles we target you with, we will consider that an act of War. well yeah duh!
Dr Evil on March 21, 2009 at 1:26 PM
Not to worry, Obama has already ordered the white flags.
GarandFan on March 21, 2009 at 1:27 PM
But will they be Union made? Or even made in the USA?
myrenovations on March 21, 2009 at 1:33 PM
WWTD?: What Would the Telemprompter Do?
Mr_Magoo on March 21, 2009 at 1:35 PM
How about an international bowl-a-thon? No preconditions, of course.
Mr_Magoo on March 21, 2009 at 1:36 PM
Worse than that: an untested, inexperienced, half-term Senator who is a former race-baiting ACORN lawyer and shake-down activist, who spent his entire life in the company of Marxists, Communists, and America-hating terrorists, who knows diddly-squat about the American economy (except that he wants to destroy it in order to bring about “social justice” for irresponsible deadbeats and illegal aliens),
***
What could possibly go wrong?
AZCoyote on March 21, 2009 at 1:05 PM
BuckeyeSam on March 21, 2009 at 1:38 PM
We didn’t check the voter registrations of the 9/11 victims and their families before we mourned their loss and helped their loved ones left behind. No human being ever deserves to be the victim of a terror attack. You are taking partisanship to a dangerous extreme.
Please consider the consequences of promoting such a world view. And if you can’t consider the impact on others, think about yourself. We currently live in a country governed by Democrats. If you are a crime victim, do you want the police or FBI checking your political affiliations before they decide whether to help you? Equal justice for all.
Loxodonta on March 21, 2009 at 1:39 PM
And just think: Biden meant that as an endorsement of the imbecile.
Kensington on March 21, 2009 at 1:44 PM
Barry is ready for the test. He has “Surge” panned for Afghanistan
William Amos on March 21, 2009 at 1:46 PM
Obama’s not a President. He just plays one on TV.
TheBigOldDog on March 21, 2009 at 1:47 PM
But Bill Maher believes that Oklahomans are arming them selves because they are racist. Oklahomans right after Obama was elected were concerned that California was going to be targeted by a nuclear weapon. They are worried about the fallout in that event. But according to Bill Maher their racist…Geeze this is the state of comedy in America? Race Baiting?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/03/14/bill-maher-racism-coming-rush-limbaugh
And he doesn’t like Glen Beck either:)
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/03/21/maher-glenn-beck-increasing-chance-horrible-action-obama
Dr Evil on March 21, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Another Kos Kid throws a firebomb.
mylegsareswollen on March 21, 2009 at 1:52 PM
Obama will do nothing about the fly overs.
He will do nothing about Iran and their nuclear weapons either. Clearly, Iran has no fear of him. After Obama tried to nuzzle up to Khamenai with his video tape, Khamenai just orally flatulated in Obama’s face. Only Israel has the courage to act these days. Thank heaven they took out the Syrian nuclear reactor; Obama would not have.
KW64 on March 21, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Not really. Even back in the Cold War, we and the Soviets would buzz each others ships. They would even occasionally do that to USAF bases in the Aleutians too, flying right over the base low level.
firepilot on March 21, 2009 at 1:53 PM
I thought they wanted to be our friends???
jrab01 on March 21, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Here’s what I don’t get. Don’t major ships, like aircraft carriers, or even destroyers, have a no-fly zone around them? Remember the Vincennes shot down that airbus because it came within about 15 miles of it. Why would the Navy allow a military aircraft to even come close to its ships, especially the carriers?
keep the change on March 21, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Hey Dr Evil, did it ever occur to you that Bill Maher is a complete imbecile and the Congressional Black Caucus is RACIST?
Consider that thought.
old trooper2 on March 21, 2009 at 1:58 PM
I see that there are several commnets about Obama leaving the white house in the midst of one of these crises. Now cut that out! (a la Jack Benny). Throughout the Bush administration, everytime Bush stuck his nose out the door of the white house, went to Crawford, or had a state dinner, etc. he was criticised by the marxist/democrats as not doing a day’s work, insensitive to problems, dancing while he was having black people killed in Katrina, or partying while our soldiers were dying in (name it). Now we conservatives are kinder and gentler than the marxist/democrats. So let’s not treat them like they treated Bush. Maybe they will learn from the example (in a pigs eye).
Old Country Boy on March 21, 2009 at 2:00 PM
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