Obama Writes Off Biden Gaffe To “Rhetorical Flourish”

Another “authenticity” moment brought to you by the post-partisan “hope and change” candidate.

“Joe sometimes engages in rhetorical flourishes. But I think that his core point was that the next administration is going to be tested regardless of who it is,” Obama told reporters after meeting with his national security working group. “The next administration is going to be inheriting a whole host of really big problems and so the president is going to be tested and the question is will the next president meet that test by moving America in a new direction by sending a clear signal to the rest of the world that we are no longer about bluster and unilateralism and ideology but we’re about creating partnerships around the world to solve practical problems.”

Regardless of who it is? Someone is trying to rewrite history. Here’s what Biden actually said once again (and remember that he made these comments in both Seattle and San Francisco):

“And here’s the point I want to make. Mark my words. 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.”

Unless Obama would like to argue that John McCain also sometimes goes by the name “Barack Obama,” and that McCain is also a 47-year-old US Senator, it’s pretty clear that Biden was talking about Obama and only Obama.
You’d think someone in the media would call Obama out on this blatant mistruth, but I imagine that’d be asking too much from the in-the-tank-for-Obama media.