Before Obama won election in 2008, a typically frank Joe Biden had this to say to supporters of his then candidacy:

“Mark my words, 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, 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.”

“Gird your loins,” he told Obama’s supporters.  Since that time, several international crises have occurred.  Here is Obama’s response and the effects so far:

So ask yourself, are our relations with the countries mentioned above better or worse than they were before Obama became president?  Are we, and is the world, safer or more perilous thanks to Obama’s policies?

We may need to gird more than just our loins in order to survive the next three years.

On June 13, 2009, thousands of Iranians risked their lives to protest a patently rigged election.  CNN reported over 150 casualties from one day of protest.  But still, Iranians came out to protest for democracy.  3 days later, Obama finally expressed “grave concern” for the protests.  His administration refused to comment on or off the record, fearing Iran would claim the U.S. was meddling, which Iran claimed anyway.  The greatest chance for a peaceful, democratic revolution in a generation, and Obama sat on his hands.

Nearly a year later, on May 30, 2010, Israeli Defense Forces intercept a ship trying to run the Gaza barricade.  The Gaza barricade was set up to prevent smuggling of weapons to Hamas to feed the constant attacks on Israel. The Israeli military offers to transport legitimate aid over land to Gaza.  The boarding party that approached the Mavi Marmara was armed only with paintguns and their side arms.  They were met with metal pipes and chairs.  The “peace activists” used knives to commandeered guns from the boarding party and shot at them.  12 “peace activists” are killed in the firefight. 7 of the boarding party are injured, 2 critically.  The news breaks late on the 30th,  by afternoon on the 31st, Obama is demanding answers from his putative ally, Israel.

The contrast could not be more stark.  Iran conducts a brutal crackdown against peaceful protesters, and the most Obama can muster is “grave concern.”  An ally is ambushed policing its waters, several armed civilians are killed and Obama demands answers.  Never in our history has any leader treated our enemies with such care and our allies with such contempt.  If Obama is elected to a second term, we will deserve the coming reckoning brought about by his naive and destructive policies.  If America and her allies grow weak, God help humanity, because no one else will.