What Is This World Coming To?

Vice President Joe Biden made history yesterday when he withheld a comment that was on his mind.

“I have doubts, but withhold comment,” Biden said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

But don’t freak out — Biden only said he was planning withhold comment, and not that he actually intended to.

Later, he told CNN that the Iranian government has suppressed crowds and limited free speech, which he said raised questions. He also called the strong showing by Ahmadinejad “unlikely,” based on pre-election analysis.

“Is this the response, is this the accurate response, is this the wish of the Iranian people?” Biden said.

Ok. Knowing that Ahmadinejad is a dictator who probably stole the election, what will be the White House response?    “The decision has been made to talk,” says Biden. “And we’re signed on to that.”

On October 28, Biden had this to day about his boss-to-be.

“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.

“Watch. We’re going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.

“And he’s going to need help . . . to stand with him. Because it’s not going to be apparent initially; it’s not going to be apparent that we’re right.”

I have to give ol’ Joe points on that one.  It ISN’T apparent that they’re right.  Not even to them.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is the third most powerful person in America’s political line of succession, after Barack Hussein Obama, President of the 57 States of America and VP Joe “It’s Patriotic To Pay Higher Taxes” Biden.

But Speaker Pelosi is worried about how those 57 states will be able to pay higher taxes when five hundred million Americans are losing their jobs every month.   I would be too.  At that rate, three weeks from now, there won’t be a job left in the whole country.

The Vatican might think Barack Obama is arrogant for his staunchly  pro-death view, but it just loves Vice-President Joe Biden.  Or at least, Washington Catholics do.

Biden and his wife, Jill, sat in a pew reserved for him and his family toward the back of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, and listened as the Rev. Larry Madden, S.J., delivered a sermon about God as a constant anchor and the promise of hope and change for those who believe.

(And since unborn babies don’t believe, then no hope for them!)

Toward the end of the 11:30 a.m. Mass, as one of the lectors urged those in attendance to welcome new members and visitors, some in the congregation laughed and then applauded, looking toward Biden.

He eventually stood and acknowledged the response that included a standing ovation.

Unlike his boss,  who claims he doesn’t know, Biden admitted on CBS “Meet the Press” that; “I’m prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception.”

So, if he is prepared to accept that as an article of faith, does that mean he supports the killing of unborn human beings?

Well, yeah.  I mean, no.  Well, sorta.   This is Joe Biden, remember.

“It’s a personal and private issue,” he said. “For me, as a Roman Catholic, I’m prepared to accept the teachings of my church. But let me tell you. There are an awful lot of people of great confessional faiths … who have a different view. … They believe in their faith, and they believe in human life, and they have differing views as to when life (begins).”

In other words, when life begins is a multiple choice question and every possible answer is correct, so he can support killing baby human beings because not everybody thinks they are baby human beings.

As close as I can figure it, this is the new administration’s position on abortion.  Obama isn’t sure if he is advocating the death of innocent human babies or if he is merely speaking of some unfeeling mass of protoplasm.

But since he isn’t sure, he prefers to err on the side of destruction.

Biden, on the other hand, is sure.  He actually believes he is supporting a woman’s right to kill her unborn baby,  and believes it is a human life from onception.

Still, Biden has never wavered in his defense of Roe v Wade.

During his own campaign for president, he promised he would not nominate anyone to the Supreme Court that did not support a woman’s right to kill her unborn baby.

“I would not appoint anyone who did not understand that Section 5 of the 14th Amendment and the Liberty Clause of the 14th Amendment provided a right to privacy,” Biden said.  “That’s the question I’d ask them.  If that is answered correctly, that that is the case, then it answers the question, which means they would support Roe v. Wade.”

Even though human life begins at conception.  Don’t worry about Joe Biden forcing you to bow down to his ideals.   He won’t.  He’s going to force you to bow down to somebody else’s ideas.

The fawning media coverage given the Obama-Biden ticket during the campaign is beginning to pay dividends as the Obama-Biden campaign began paying off some of its campaign debts.

TIME Magazine’s Jay Carney was tapped as assistant to the vice president and director of communications. Noted Politico.com;

Carney, the magazine’s Washington bureau chief, is one of Washington’s best-known talking heads, with regular appearances on ABC’s “This Week,” “The McLaughlin Group” and MSNBC’s “Hardball.”

Biden has assembled a team of heavyweights: Ron Klain, who was chief of staff to former Vice President Al Gore, as chief of staff; Mike Donilon, one of Washington’s best connected Democratic consultants, as counselor; and Tony Blinken, a longtime Biden adviser, who is expected to fill a senior role on the National Security Council or on Biden’s staff.

Later in the piece Politico quoted an anonymous ‘Democratic official’ stating the obvious; “There are those on the right who will see this as the embodiment of their assertions about the media and Obama, and this is just making it official.”

Ya think?

Obama’s entire campaign was centered around the need for change in Washington.   A vote for Obama was a vote for a fresh, new approach to government — one run by the people, not by the professional politicians. 

Obama is different — that’s what got him elected.  It couldn’t have been his character — we don’t know anything about it — or his background — what we DO know would have sunk any normal candidate — if Obama wasn’t telling us outright how different he was, he was reminding us that he didn’t look like the presidents that grace US currency.

(Of course, neither did George Bush.  Or Ronald Reagan.  Or Richard Nixon.  Even Alexander Hamiliton’s picture doesn’t look like Abe Lincoln’s or Ulysses S Grant’s - but Obama voters have short attention spans.  (That’s how you can tell — they are Obama voters).

Notes Politico about the new Agents of Change that are going to fix Washington:

Obama’s first major appointments have been Democrats who worked for President Clinton and did not endorse him in the primary: Transition chief John Podesta and Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who will be White House chief of staff, stayed neutral, and Ron Klain, who will be Joe Biden’s chief of staff, backed Biden.

Obama, advisers told Politico, may even be weighing offering Hillary Rodham Clinton herself the Cabinet plum of Secretary of State. “Obama is showing great good sense in making use of their experience,” said William Galston, a former Clinton domestic policy adviser who’s now at the Brookings Institution.

“You have an entire cadre of people in their 30s and 40s and early 50s who were either in senior jobs or second- and third-tier jobs in the Clinton administration, who really earned their spurs and know their way around — and know something about how the institutions in which they served actually function.”

Now that America has proved itself righteous and color blind by electing Barack Obama to the White House based on his two year Senate career (and his color) how is the rest of the world reacting?

Was Vice-President elect Joe Biden’s prediction about an Obama ‘test’ really a gaffe?

The morning after the election, Israel launched its first airstrikes against targets in Gaza in nearly six months.  Hamas fired thirty-five rockets into Israel from Gaza.

Iran issued a ‘warning’ to the US military in what Reuters characterized as “a message analysts said seemed directed at the new U.S. president-elect more than neighboring American troops.”

The Russians announced that they will place short-range missile systems along the European Union’s eastern border.  They waited to find out whether they would be facing a President John McCain or a President Barack Obama before announcing the decision.

Worldnetdaily is reporting that Hamas is composing a congratulatory letter to the president-elect.  Obama is already beginning to heal America’s broken image.  (Sigh.)