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I don't really see the big deal. There are two plausible readings of Biden's statement:
1. Someone out there is going to see a new president as a good opportunity to try something funny. I don't really see why this is implausible.
2. The right-wing media is going to, through spin, manufacture a crisis for Obama to 'fail'. This is perhaps a bit sillier than the first reading, but not really all that silly.
The right-wing/Palin spin, that Biden is somehow calling Obama inexperienced and not ready, I really don't see in the statement at all.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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