The Real Crisis is Coming


Powell: “I would start with talking to the American people and talking to the world and conveying a new image of American leadership, a new image of America’s role in the world. The problems will always be there and there’s going to be a crisis come along on the 21st or the 22nd of January that we don’t even know about right now. So I think what the president has to do is start using the power of the oval office and the power of his personality to convince the American people and convince the world that America is solid.”

Powell’s statements mirror very similar statements by Joe Biden, that a generated crisis is coming, that the government response will be incredibly unpopular, and that Obama supporters will need to use all their influence to make sure it goes smoothly.


“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “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.”

“I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate,” Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. “And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you - not financially to help him - we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”

“I’ve forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I’m not being falsely humble with you. I think I can be value added, but this guy has it,” the Senate Foreign Relations chairman said of Obama. “This guy has it. But he’s gonna need your help. Because I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, ‘Oh my God, why are they there in the polls? Why is the polling so down? Why is this thing so tough?’ We’re gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years. So I’m asking you now, I’m asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point because you’re going to have to reinforce us.”

“There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go, ‘Whoa, wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don’t know about that decision’,” Biden continued. “Because if you think the decision is sound when they’re made, which I believe you will when they’re made, they’re not likely to be as popular as they are sound. Because if they’re popular, they’re probably not sound.”

What is this crisis? How is it that the people affected are not being warned? How is it they already know when it’s going to happen? How is it that they already know how the government is going to react to this crisis? How do they already know how unpopular the response is going to be? How is it that our officials can just come out and tell us stuff like this, and not elaborate on the threat?

NORTHCOM came home for active duty at the beginning of this month. Many have feared a coup is imminent. What if it’s a perfectly orderly, legal, authorized preparation for what’s coming?

Biden says he could come up with 4-5 scenarios.. I think he can do better than that. If anybody in Congress knows what’s coming down the pike, it’s him. He’s been Biden his time for decades, to have his day at the helm.

  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • MySpace
  • Reddit
  • TwitThis
  • StumbleUpon

Related

Tags: ,

No Comments »

All comments are the sole opinion and property of the commenter.

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL

Leave a comment