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October 19, 2009

Is Obama Tough Enough?

Kirk Victor, National Journal

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A year ago, vice presidential candidate Joe Biden offered up one of his classic off-script observations that pained Barack Obama's political advisers. "Mark my words, it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy," he predicted. "Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."

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