Biden: "Mark my words!"

Say it ain't so, Joe! A couple of Biden's scary promises:

2008-10-19

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"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."

September 2005 Senate confirmation hearings for Chief Justice John Roberts

BIDEN: And we’ll be faced with equally consequential decisions in the 21st century.

Can a microscopic tag be implanted in a person’s body to track his every movement? There’s actual discussion about that.

You will rule on that — mark my words — before your tenure is over.

Can brain scans be used to determine whether a person’s inclined toward criminality or violent behavior?

You will rule on that.

This wasn’t a question. It was more of a lecture. And Chief Justice Roberts didn’t answer the ‘question’. Listen carefully. Biden promised that would happen.