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Albright on the Coming Obama Crisis

By Philip Klein on 10.21.08 @ 10:00AM

Madeline Albright has called Biden's warning about an inevitable crisis if Obama is elected president a "statement of fact." But the key thing to remember about Biden's comments are not that he merely predicted a crisis -- I'm sure you can find clips somewhere of Republicans saying the same -- but that Biden specificially said it would be "a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy." In other words, a crisis that would otherwise not have occured will happen now merely to test Obama. So according to Biden, by voting for McCain, you'd be sparing the country this manufactured international crisis.

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kenneth| 11.3.08 @ 7:02PM

this makes no sense. could it be that biden expects that the next president will be tested no matter who that person is, and he fully expects obama to win? if people of the united states would read more international press, they would realize that countries around the world have had enough with the us financial, and military hegemony. if you don't believe it, look at the upcoming november 15th meeting of the g-20 countries, that follows the meeting of many countries throughout europe and asia currently going on, both are discussing a new financial order. a financial order where the united states no longer dominates, but is another player. the us press suggested that george bush called for this meeting. what a laugh, he is being dragged to this meeting. why would a lame duck president be involved? bush is in on the development of the framework, and obama will have to deal with the consequences.