An an excellent question posed by Investors Business Daily. When Joe Biden “gaffed” the other day by saying that the world would test Obama and that people would have to stay by him despite an unpopular decision, what was he talking about? Keeping in mind that Obama has pledged unilateral disarmament, via Hot Air, on mutliple fronts:

IBD writes:

But there’s another angle to this, based on what Biden the senator knows — that Obama’s defense policies, once it’s obvious how they’ll undermine us, are likely to be very, very unpopular. In this case, Biden may be calling on his party’s hard, pacifist core — Moveon.org, Code Pink and the like — to stand by their man.

He’ll need their support. Like Jimmy Carter in the 1970s, Obama’s policies often sound good on the surface, but will in fact materially weaken America’s ability to defend herself. That’s not just our opinion, mind you; it’s straight from the horse’s mouth.…

Such policies will create a vacuum that our foes will be only too happy to exploit.

In response to seeing a weakling in the White House, will Russia do something rash in Eastern Europe, like invade Ukraine? Will South Korea develop a bomb, knowing the U.S. won’t stop it? Will Iran attack Israel, as it has promised, thinking America has become a paper tiger? We don’t know, but maybe Joe Biden does.

You haven’t heard much about Obama’s plans to stop a missile defense system and unilaterally cut back on nuclear weapons much, have you? Of course not. This video is from the primary, when Obama was trying to appeal to the far left, of which he’s a member. Now that he’s defeated Hillary Clinton and moved on to the general election, Obama’s presented himself as a pro-defense moderate. The media’s not willing to ask questions critical of him, so it goes largely unchecked.

So, what exactly was Joe Biden warning about with unpopular decisions and needing the left to help him? An Obama that will be strong on defense and alienate the very base of support that’s gotten him to the White House? Or a weak Obama that will be unpopular with the majority of Americans, but will need his very base of support to stand with him and support his policies? Seeing Obama’s history and voting record, I’m going with the latter.