Biden: 'Gird your loins' for President Obama

Posted By Blake Hounshell Monday, October 20, 2008 - 2:13 PM Share

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Joe Biden's advice to Americans to "gird your loins" because Barack Obama is going to face "an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy" is being treated as yet another gaffe by the lead-tongued Delaware senator.

But is he right? I mean, if I were a "bad guy" leader like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad whose reelection bid is looking shaky, I might try to gin up some sort of situation to embarrass the new American president.

On the other hand, I might try to ingratiate myself by making some kind of overture. The North Koreans, for instance, might be holding back on a diplomatic breakthrough until George W. Bush is out of office, thinking a President Obama will give them a better deal.

Readers, what do you think?

UPDATE: McCain weighs in.

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CURTHOPKINS

4:45 PM ET

October 20, 2008

sorry?

Sorry. What was that? I was hip-deep in loin girding.

 

SPARTAN

6:10 PM ET

October 20, 2008

Are we serius here, this

Are we serius here, this guy's a joke. Obama chose him to shore up his inexperience but in doing so showed just how inexperienced he really is.

 

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