Originally posted by jjkenobi
Well if you had read the quote you'd see it is way more in depth than he might get into trouble cleaning up prior messes. This would be an international crisis that at first it will look like we are wrong on.

"Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right"

How the heck would he know this?

I believer you have the correct understanding of the quote.
It's funny how quotes get interpreted wrong when ones desire to be right filters what has been said to reflect what one wants rather than what's said.

Thanks, Joe, for setting us all up for Obama's failures. I have no doubt that whoever is the next president of the U.S. will fail us all. Nothing to back this up whatsoever. I just feel it. No photographs, etc. Just a hunch.

yeah, this is not surprising at all really. i have already predicted something will hit the fan right after he gets elected... (if its not rigged).

wow-crazy...so should i start buying iodine, bleach, and bottled water? seriously, should we just sit around and wait for this to happen? knowing that this is coming, what can we as a world do to slow or stop this? nothing i guess....so his mettle will be tested? big deal! we already knew that was coming...everytime a new kid comes to school, the playground ullies will push him around and see what he does and the other kids just stand around and watch...we all did it or saw it when we were kids and it is the same now...only on a much grander scale

To me it just sounds like he's going to bring up things like 9-11 and put people on the spot as maybe he knows something we don't and if multiple countries are involved it would become an international incident to say the least.

I'm just using this as an example.

I read this too!! Actualy on Fox News today McCain was discussing how Obama would have a really tough time after the election an we face 'economic and other iternationaly crisis,' No Kidding. I wonder if anybody else heard it?

"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."
-Donald Rumsfeld

Truth is.... if there is something happening soon, we won't know about it, until it does... Myself, I am very concerned at the direction the USA is taking to begin with... but I guess we'll just see who treads on who huh?

Looks like the Poop may finally hit the fan soon. Having BOTH Biden and Powell say something like this is a bit unnerving. I think we all know that it's going to get really bad soon. Our current troubles are probably just the beginning.

I try not to be a doom and gloom guy...but cripes....what is there to be optimistic about in the coming future?

Let's see. Who would want to test the resolve and judgment of Obama? Hizballah backed by Syria and Iran could launch another missile fusilade, Syria could occupy Lebanon and threaten Israel.

Argentina could do damn near anything.

Iran could allow their Islamic guardians to assault another ship in the Persian Gulf, or attempt to capture one. Russia could move toward the Ukraine. . . the list goes on and on.

Do you realize four our of ten Americans have more experience and qualifications that Obama?

Holy crap! I've got to get out back tomorrow and start digging!

‘Rule by Secrecy’ is a good start, but as always things run infinitely deeper than anybody can possibly imagine. International corporation-states, funded and manipulated on all sides by the same banking cartels and those behind them even, protected by the military-intelligence networks, are the ones currently in charge of the entire world. Bush is a Nazi (just poke around his family history a little, esp. granddaddy Prescott, and their networks of cronies, and you’ll see how we created, “destroyed”, and then imported the Nazi regime wholesale). But Bush isn’t the only Nazi—the entire American regime is for all intents and purposes run by Nazis. To me it feels like Germany must have felt in 1932 on the verge of total totalitarian takeover. Choose the right hand or the left hand, folks—it’s still the same Beast.
I’m deeply interested in knowing the hidden reasons for why our planet is (mis)managed the way it is and why things are for some inexplicable reason so * difficult for 99% of the population, but I refuse to cave in to fear/paranoia, and I really believe in genuine “hope” and “change”—change of a truly spiritual, transformational nature. Yes, elections are rigged (cf. Lenin: ‘It matters not who casts the votes, but who counts the votes’; and Lord Rothschild: ‘Give me control of a nation’s currency, and I care not who casts the votes’), and yes Obama will “win.” Make no mistake, he’s in bed with the same cabal—for example, his top advisor was not just a member of, but was head of the Council on Foreign Relations, and his mentor Mr. Zbigniew Brzezinski is a classic New World Order type (BTW- in 1970 Brzezinski wrote Between Two Ages, revealing that Americans will be introduced to new concepts: a new monetary system replacing the dollar and a reduced standard of living to support it. He predicted the “gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society, dominated by an elite who would “not hesitate to achieve its political ends by the latest modern techniques from influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control.” He theorized that liberal democratic societies would support authoritarian forms of government given the choice between a dictatorship and social/intellectual disorder. Hmm...)
Biden may well be the next LBJ. I had a recent vision of Obama winning, only to be assassinated almost immediately (which the media is already prepping us for subconsciously), allowing either 1) Bush to fully enact FEMA martial law and indefinitely extend his regime, locking dissidents into the concentration camps already built across our nation and strangely EMPTY, or 2) Biden presiding over such a scenario. Either way, yes “Obama will face the kind of challenge Kennedy faced”, and we won’t even know what hit us. Imagine how the world would react to a “surprise” and wholly overt Nazi takeover of America?!! International crisis of the greatest magnitude, to say the least. Add to that total economic collapse and we have a very, very messy state of world affairs…
However things unfurl, what “Satan” (read “the self-centered mind of Man”) does always plays into the hands of “God” (read, “the unified whole”), especially during an Apocalypse (which btw literally means “unveiling,” or “mass awakening”). The only real antidote is love.
The Old World Order is about to cave in on itself, to be shorn off by a relieved world population in the wake of a truly new world order—one governed by enlightened self-responsibility, true wisdom, and compassion—the kind of new world order the Dalai Lama endorses… one which is emerging “like a thief in the night”, almost literally overnight to everyone’s great surprise. It’s what the Old World Order fears the most (ever wonder why they’re so bent on mass mind control and domination?) Their worst nightmare is Doomsday short-circuited and averted against “all odds”, their (less than 1% of total population) loss, and the birth of the People’s Republic of Eden

In a difficult world american intersts are going to be challenged, I think both Biden and Powell have been priviledged with intel the rest of us haven't, which is why they both made references to it . I think the real reason Powell is supporting BHO is because the writing is on the wall, and the guy will probably be POTUS. Shortly after taking office there will be an event testing BHO's foreign policy leadership, and the country will feel more at ease knowing Powell is available as an advisor, since at best, Biden will probably say something to offend a foreign leader or head of state, thrusting us into WWIII.

That's my take, and regardless of who gets in, I would expect someone somewhere to try something stupid testing the resolve of the new administration.

[edit on 10/20/2008 by TheRooster]