Sarah Palin misrepresented to a campaign audience Thursday what her Democratic counterpart Joe Biden has said about Barack Obama's ability to handle a foreign crisis.
"Sen. Obama's own running mate, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has informed us that a serious international crisis is certain if Obama is elected and that he is not ready to deal with it," Palin told thousands of supporters at a rally in this western Ohio city.
That is not what Biden told fundraisers last weekend.
Biden did say, "Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy." And he asked his audience to be ready to display public support for Obama during such a crisis. But noting that President John Kennedy faced similar early foreign tests, Biden predicted Obama would fare well because he's "got steel in his spine."
Responding to Palin's remark, Obama spokesman Isaac Baker noted that Colin Powell, a Republican and President Bush's former secretary of state, has endorsed Obama.
Sarah Palin Mistates Biden comment on Barack Obama
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