TOTUS goes on tour as the "World offers plenty of tests for Obama"

As Obama gallivants across the country appearing on late night and prime time shows [with TOTUS, of course], the rest of the world sees Obama as a weak self centered infantile, lacking a real grasp of global affairs...so, yes...Biden was right [that's one in a row], Obama is now being tested on multiple fronts.

by RenoCon

Joel Brinkley | Sunday, March 22, 2009

World offers plenty of tests for Obama

The November election was less than a month away when Sen. Joe Biden told an audience in Seattle that the world would soon test Barack Obama.

"Watch, we're going to have a crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy," Biden predicted. Within hours, the nation's cabal of political analysts cried out in unison: gaffe, gaffe, gaffe!

As a political matter of that time, Biden's remarks were certainly unwise. But if you look at the state of the world today, he was absolutely right.

"It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama," he said. In fact, it has been only about two months, and one nation after another has been flinging serious challenges - so many that I can mention only a few, including Darfur.

Right about now, more than 1 million people are running out of food, clean water and health services. Right about now, the first cases of meningitis and dysentery are striking refugees. Without health care, some of them will die. For six years, Western nations have decried the carnage in Darfur but done little, if anything, about it until finally the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's dictator-thug, Omar el-Bashir. After masterminding six years of genocidal violence, el-Bashir reacted by kicking out the aid workers who have been keeping more than 2 million people, refugees of el-Bashir's slaughter, alive. On Monday, he ordered remaining aid workers to stop delivering food and medicine. more...