If Barack Obama is elected president, America’s enemies will create an international crisis to test the new leader, and Obama’s response will cause his popularity to plummet.

That was the dire prediction of none other than Joe Biden, Obama’s running mate for the Democratic presidential ticket, before a crowd of supporters this past Sunday. The abc News “Political Radar” blog reported yesterday:

“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. … Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right. … I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, ‘Oh my G—, why are they there in the polls? Why is the polling so down? Why is this thing so tough?’ We’re gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years.”

We agree completely with Biden’s assessment of the problems that would likely confront an Obama White House—though that hardly seems like a good argument for making him president.

However, considering the combination of potential international threats with America’s economic meltdown, it seems quite likely that even a McCain presidency would quickly become mired in crises far more severe than those faced by the current president.

For a frank, prophetically based analysis of what to expect with the imminent changing of the guard in Washington, read our article “America’s Next President Will Be In Over His Head.”