Biden Was Right

By Kleinheider Posted on July 20, 2009 at 7:34 am

The world has tested Obama on foreign affairs:

It has been six months since Obama took office, the same amount of time Vice President Biden said it would take for another country to test the young president. Biden’s comment raised eyebrows last fall, providing Republicans with political ammunition during last year’s presidential campaign.

“Mark my words,” Biden said last October. “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.”

At the time, Biden told the crowd he could give them “at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate.”

Sure enough, the challenges Obama has faced have run the gamut. And unlike Kennedy – whose presidency stumbled four months after he was sworn-in with the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion – Obama has enjoyed more foreign policy successes than failures during his early days in office.

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