Jennifer Rubin, Commentary
On the very same day he told us that Colin Powell should have ended all questions about Barack Obama's national security bona fides, Joe Biden comes along to tell us precisely why we should be scared of Obama as commander-in-chief:
"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. So, when, say, Tel Aviv or Stuttgart or Seattle disappears under a mushroom cloud, or the Ukraine gets overrun by Russian armor, or Chavez announces he has nukes, we're all supposed to rally 'round Obama as he goes to the U.N. Security Council to submit a strongly-worded resolution. Why have I a funny feeling that if I criticize Obama in these circumstances, the same people who have been telling me for seven years that "dissent is the highest form of patriotism" will suddenly start questioning my patriotism? Am I just paranoid?
Well, golly, if Obama is so untested that we will have a series of international crises -- at the very time we are in a financial meltdown -- which will make the Cuban Missille Crisis look like a walk in the park, shouldn't we vote for the other guy who will keep all the miscreants in their place? Now, maybe we should rest easy because, according to Biden, "I've forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I'm not being falsely humble with you." (Maybe Hezbollah's occupation of Lebanaon was one of the things he forgot.)
Something tells me this is material for an ad that's a lot more credible than Hillary Clinton's "3 a.m." ad. That one came from his arguably frantic opponent--this one is from his running mate. 
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