Loins girded.

The quote of the day happens to be one of my favorite Jack Handey “Deep Thoughts” quotes. Very timely!

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.

Joe Biden promised us that Obama would be tested. And not only was it “within six months,” it was a lot closer to six hours.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned in a nationally televised address Wednesday that he will deploy short-range missiles near Poland capable of striking NATO

territory if the new Obama administration presses ahead with plans to build a missile defense shield in Europe.

The threat, which came just hours after the conclusion of the U.S. election, appeared intended to signal Moscow’s priorities to the American president-elect.

This could have been announced anytime. Instead, they chose to do it within hours of the election results. A message is being sent. Let’s hope it was received, and that Obama understands that “the world doesn’t respond to benign behavior benignly.” He’s got a few months before he’s sworn in to figure it out.

Biden also said,

“And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you – not financially to help him – we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”

What, exactly, does loyal opposition look like when conservatives are sure Obama is making a huge mistake?  (And I have to ask, because whatever you may call the far left’s behavior for the last eight years, it certainly can’t be described as “loyal” opposition.)  I hope we don’t have to figure that out very soon.

Added: Ed Morrissey writes,

I’m hoping that Obama sticks to American commitments in the region.  Given his comments about ending missile-defense research and deployment, I’m afraid that Obama will run away from Russia on this point, and that the first Medvedev/Putin-Obama confrontation will remind people even more of the disastrous Kennedy-Khrushchev summit in 1961 that precipitated the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis.