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“Mr. Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China. As one official put it, ‘No one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao’s words in Tahrir Square.’”
Of course, the reason the Chinese don't call Hu Jintao is because the media is fully state controlled and dissent is suppressed.
Originally posted by ararisq
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“Mr. Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China. ”
Originally posted by beezzer
This does not surprize me. Obama does not like America, he has stated so many times in the past. I have to believe that he might be first POTUS who will try to "fundametally change America".
I put that in quotations because that was a quote from him.
Originally posted by maybereal11
Wishing the US was like China and saying it would be easier to be president of China are two completely different things.
It would be "Easier" ...doesn't mean he wants it that way...and as best I can tell it was a humurous quip.
You get it ...right? Sometimes I can't tell with folks if they are just genuinely deluded or if they are just trying to take the lead in the "Stupid things to slam the POTUS about" parade.
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Originally posted by beezzer
This does not surprize me. Obama does not like America, he has stated so many times in the past. I have to believe that he might be first POTUS who will try to "fundametally change America".
I put that in quotations because that was a quote from him.
Originally posted by centurion1211
Originally posted by maybereal11
Wishing the US was like China and saying it would be easier to be president of China are two completely different things.
It would be "Easier" ...doesn't mean he wants it that way...and as best I can tell it was a humurous quip.
You get it ...right? Sometimes I can't tell with folks if they are just genuinely deluded or if they are just trying to take the lead in the "Stupid things to slam the POTUS about" parade.
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Originally posted by maybereal11
Originally posted by centurion1211
Originally posted by maybereal11
Wishing the US was like China and saying it would be easier to be president of China are two completely different things.
It would be "Easier" ...doesn't mean he wants it that way...and as best I can tell it was a humurous quip.
You get it ...right? Sometimes I can't tell with folks if they are just genuinely deluded or if they are just trying to take the lead in the "Stupid things to slam the POTUS about" parade.
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Thanks for answering my question..
edit on 11-3-2011 by maybereal11 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by maybereal11
I have to be blunt here...
spikey
Obama could have simply said 'It may be easier in communist china to govern the people with a iron fist, but here in America we prefer liberty, justice and to uphold the natural rights and freedoms of every American...which may require a little more effort and vigilance to preserve and maintain, but we wouldn't want it any other way.
Or something like that.
You're on damage limitation duty, i see that, but being intellectually dishonest does not win the point..Obama was essentially being wistful, which in turn heavily implies he feels encumbered by the Freedom of the American people, and he'd observed that it would be *so much easier* how the Chinese do things.
Not a great bit of diplomacy however you slice it.
Originally posted by centurion1211
Now how about answering my question? The one about could obama have thought of anything dumber to say?
Originally posted by ararisq
Originally posted by maybereal11
I have to be blunt here...
If it walks like a duck and it talks like a duck.... The point is Obama is running around bringing up how much he aspires to the Chinese philosophy (not the people, the government). He even showered China in praise in the state of the union and now we have corroboration that he is enamored with their government in private.
Originally posted by beezzer
This does not surprize me. Obama does not like America, he has stated so many times in the past.