ABC News reports that Joe Biden said the following at a fundraiser in Seattle yesterday: "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. ... 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."

Translation: Electing Obama guarantees an international crisis. And this is an argument for Obama?

Actually, Biden is probably right. But, if Obama is elected, the question isn't what form that crisis will take. It's when Obama drops Biden from the 2012 ticket.