Barack Obama: “It would be so much easier to be the president of China.”
Tom Friedman no doubt agrees. But don’t call them fascists!
Actually, at this point, I’d be happy to do a swap. I think that Hu Jintao is much more competent and experienced than Barack Obama. He should have stayed in the Illinois legislature, where there was much less harm in voting “present.”
I dunno, I suspect every President knows it would be easier to have plenary power.
If you asked, for instance, either of the Presidents Bush “would it be easier to have been President of China than of the United States”, I bet both would say “yes”.
(I also suspect so strongly that I’m tempted to say I “know” that they’d both say that being President of the US is better than being President of China in terms of model-of-government philosophy.
It’d be interesting to see what President Obama’s Real Answer to that question would be – but it’s impossible to get, since no President’s answer to that question can be absolutely trusted to not be filtered or an outright lie.
I’m not down on him enough to say I think he’d prefer plenary power at all times, but I suspect strongly he might believe that “occasional” plenary power “for real important stuff” would be good.
Which is understandable, even from the old Classical Liberal tradition, and not at all uncommon in the modern Progressive tradition he comes from.
But not something I like an American President lingering too much on, you know?)
This op-ed on the quote pretty much sums it up, http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/president-china_554012.html?nopager=1
Actually, Hu Jintao with a Republican Congress (and Chief Justice John Roberts keeping an eye on those individual liberties) would be a major improvement.
And thanks to the precedent set by Barack Obama, Hu won’t even have to prove he was born in this country to run for the job!
Re wodun; Indeed, it is a tough job and apparently somebody else needs to be doing it.
Well he’s definitely got the bowing part down.
We should give this guy his presidential pension ASAP.
Imagine for just a minute that GWB had muttered that kind of thing. The MSM would sudden;y discover that Chinese leaders have imprisoned, killed or starved millions of their own people, and that’s the kind of power GWB really wanted.
It will be interesting how much of these kinds of idiot statements and foolish economic and foreign policy ideas the Republicans decide to remember and use in 2012. If past history is any indicator, they’ll not use it, in an effort to be the Good Guys.
I wish someone would try to impeach him for simply not upholding his oath of office. His statements, like this, show he just does NOT get nor does he want to get American culture or America as an idea.
I swear, it’s like the guy is from a foreign country!!
I don’t know why Republicans bother mentioning this stuff. You’ve already made the decision to accept it.
Any time a Demoncrat wants something, be it our money, our homes, our wives, or our children, he grins, cackles and takes it.
Every time they take it, the Republican gets a deer-in-the-headlights look and mumbles something about how the Demoncrats aren’t living up to Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream.
And you wonder why women aren’t impressed by you. Look up “beta male” sometime.
Ken,
it’s not necessarily a ‘beat-male’ problem. the Republicans in office did scramble to the top of their side. (or are you saying ALL Republicans are beta?)
The problem is that for some reason the Republicans, once elected, think that they’ll win the debate on issues because Good prevails in the end, or some such crap. They tend to dictate from a stance of weakness EVEN when they have the majority.
The fact that they ignore stuff like Democrats saying Republicans are all racists who want children and old people to drink dirty water, breath dirty air and starve while they do so, is proof of their Good Guys don’t retaliate attitude. However, I do think the Tea Party elected folks are cut from new cloth and have stood up to that kind of rhetoric.
Hopefully.
Every time Ken posts I hear the Dead Milkmen singing “You know what, Stuart, I LIKE YOU. You’re not like the other people, here, in the trailer park.”
I can’t help but think that if Hu Jintao managed to produce an Obama-like trillion dollar yearly deficit, the Politburo or whatever China has as an equivalent would fire him.
whatever China has as an equivalent would fire him.
If he’s lucky, he’d get to emulate Khrushchev and retire to his dacha. If not, then he’d get what happened to Trotsky, Beria or Lin Piao.
Actually, George W. Bush did make a joke early in his presidency that it would be easier (not better) to be dictator than president. And the left reamed him a new one for it.
And I recall a news story (linked by Drudge) a year or two ago in which Hu Jintao explicitly told Obama to lay off all that socialism crap, because it doesn’t work. Too bad Obama always knows that he’s the smartest person in the room.
Actually, I know why women aren’t impressed by me: I’m old, out of shape and have no money.
Also, I’ve never killed a sabertoothed tiger with my bare hands like you, you stud.
No, the reason women don’t like you is because you’re a Republican. Bill Maher is uglier than you, I’d venture to guess, but every woman in the country wants him because he’s an evil, malicious, sex-obsessed Demoncrat.
It isn’t you who choose your path; it is the infinitely powerful, infinitely evil, infinitely perverted, infinitely clever, infinitely happy Demoncrats.
THEY ARE A DISEASE. ERADICATE THE DISEASE.
OK, we’re switching you to decaf, Ken. And Seconal.
“Oh, don’t go get me wrong. They’re fine people, they’re good Americans. But they’re content to sit back, maybe watch a little Mork and Mindy on channel 57, maybe kick back a cool, Coors 16-ouncer. They’re good, fine people, Stuart. But they don’t know … what the queers are doing to the soil!”
In a way, Andrea, I am like that guy, even though in my case I’m dead serious about a real issue. All I’m trying to do is to inform people about the nature of our internal enemies. I can tell, from the endless hypotheticals that conservatives present, that most conservatives think that leftists are just naive and well-meaning.
The problem is, they are not well-meaning. They have fully embraced the darkness, and said goodbye to their consciences (assuming they ever had any).
For instance, they set Sarah Palin’s church on fire with the congregation inside, and began the fire in the opening in order to trap the people so they couldn’t escape. You may think this is the occasion for yet another lame quote from Martin Luther King, in order to try to shame shameless people. I don’t. I think it’s the occasion for a lynching.
“You may think this is the occasion for yet another lame quote from Martin Luther King, in order to try to shame shameless people.”
I love how you can see right inside my mind! It’s like I don’t even have to say anything — we have a connection. Want a Coors?