This just in from the Department of Hints...

Joe the Senator has inadvertently repeated the concerns he expressed during the primaries to donors. As with the case of Sen. Obama's San Francisco "clinging" gaffe, he thought this was said in private. Mercifully for the American people, he was wrong.

"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 have no doubt that he's right, if not on to something. Sen. Obama, by not only his lack of experience, but by his repeatedly showing that he lack of judgment is only surpassed by his naivete, has shown the world, and more importantly, those who wish to do us harm, that he's an easy mark. A bantamweight. A pushover. And I have little doubt they'll want to see how far they can push him. Something they would never try to pull with Sen. McCain. They know his mettle.

All the "present" votes and all the self-removal in the world won't help Sen. Obama... or us. As a result of the media not doing their job of holding this guy up to scrutiny and the nitwits obsessed with "making history" and the racists putting race ahead of the country's best interest, American lives will be put in jeopardy if these clowns get their wish.

Not that they give a crap.