Gird Your Loins

"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."
-Joe Biden, October 19

"I would tell members of my family - and I have - I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now. It's not going to Mexico, it's you're in a confined aircraft when one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That's me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway. So from my perspective, what it relates to is mitigation.  If you're out in the middle of a field and someone sneezes, that's one thing. If you're in a closed aircraft or a closed container, a closed car, a closed classroom, it's a different thing."

-Joe Biden, April 30

Is Joe Biden himself the crisis he warned of?  If you can think of a better way of hurting the economy more, I'd like to see it.  People have been scared to death about the deadly swine flu, and now Vice President Biden tells everyone that they should freak out even more, despite President Obama saying the opposite the previous day.  He reminds me of some of the actors in World War I.  Despite all the leaders, on the whole, being decent human beings, a couple of stupid things said here and there led to an escalation of the conflict that directly killed 9 million people and indirectly killed countless others.