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It is amazing how the above video so outraged many of the republican bloggers. While calling China’s railroads, airports and ports “vastly superior” is an exaggeration that he probably regrets, I think it can be agreed that China has been investing heavily in their infrastructure, while the US has not. And the rail system in the United States is not very good, especially when compared to Europe, Japan and China. The following from Mommy Life (misleading title) sums up pretty well political discourse in the United States.
This guy is unbelievable! The lengths he will go to to denigrate the US - and his terrifying naivete concerning world affairs.
If we had an unbiased media - which even the media are now admitting they’re not (see the Washington Post: Obama’s Edge in the Coverage Race ), we’d see these clips on the evening news and shudder at the thought of turning the keys to our country’s future over to him:
Heaven help us!
Obama is basing his assessment of China on the propaganda, secrecy and lies rampant during the Olympics - and dutifully fed to the American public by the liberal MSM (ironically, the same people who have everything to lose if America’s government changes in the direction they encourage).
It is sad really. I wonder if reactions like that were why Obama only once directly referred to China in his acceptance speech, and it was a negative reference at that:
We’re a better country than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment he’s worked on for 20 years and watch it shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news.”
We will see if McCain will mention China in his acceptance speech at the Republic convention this week.
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It seems so ridiculous to me that Republicans would be so outraged by what he said. It’s not like what he said wasn’t true. The United States has far less invested in building new infrastructures than China does, or Japan for that matter. I’m not sure what is so offense about saying that. Oh my God, how can Obama be the President of the United States if he knows that China is building longer highways and faster locomotives, he clearly is just plain Un-American. Give me a break. Who was that blogger, Anne Coulter?
Comment by Ashley — August 31, 2008 @ 9:17 am
Sina-phobes simply cannot accept the truth and reality that China has invested billions in her infrastructure while the US has squandered billions in an immoral and destructive war. Those people are the ones holding back progress and will lead the US into further decline.
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AJ, I absolutely agree.
Comment by Ashley — September 2, 2008 @ 12:05 am
The blog I quoted above was actually one of the more tame responses to this video that I found. For example, one site called Obama “Comrade Obama” and stated “Maybe we should ask the next container full of Chinese illegal immigrants why they would leave such a fine place like China.”
Comment by RedKemp — September 2, 2008 @ 2:46 am
I don’t even know how to respond to such stupidity and blatant racism.
Comment by Ashley — September 3, 2008 @ 10:53 pm
Hmm…I just spent 3 months in Beijing, where I relied primarily on the subway for transportation. I just got back to Chicago a week ago, where I rely on the Chicago “L” for public transportation. Granted, these are only 2 cities, but in terms of transit infrastructure, I feel like I just went back in time 50 years.
What Americans need to realize, however, is that the enormous deficiencies in our public infrastructure are to a large degree due to the post-WW2 flight of Americans (and their tax money) to the suburbs. This is a bigger problem that neither McCain or Obama have a finger on. Now if either one of them could only properly pronounce “Beijing,” they would probably get my vote.
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