The symbolism of China's state insult to a host of uncomprehending barbarians in the White House itself hardly required explanation. The episode has reportedly already gone viral over the internet in China, where the buzz on this crude and deliberate snub is enthusiastically positive. Hu can now return home confident his visit to America will be regarded as a success domestically-- for reasons his American counterparts do not yet seem to comprehend.
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Obama didn't lose face, the US lost face.
For two decades he attended the Church of 'God Damn America!'. He left when continuing his membership would have ended his presidential aspirations, and no sooner.
That speaks of Obama's deep ideological commitment to Wright's political teachings. He is no friend of the US. He is not on America's side; he's not on the Western World's side.
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Kinda like a German expert not knowing the significance of this old tune. More likely Obama sympathized with his guests, knew what the song meant and enjoyed it all the more because he did.
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My Motherland is not a Chinese song in any ordinary meaning of the term. Instead, it is a Mao-era propaganda classic: the theme from "Triangle Hill" (Shangganling), a film in which heroic Chinese forces fight, kill, and eventually beat Americans in pitched battle during the Korean War.
He and his staff may be clueless or the other possibility is that they agree with the song. If I remember correctly, Anita Dunn, Obama's former Communications Director, claimed Mao was her hero.
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From the article: In Muslims countries the punishment for blasphemy is death. In the West, the punishment of blasphemy (candor about Islam) is character assassination. News is edited, rearranged, and altered to deliberately omit the motive behind attacks on nations and non-Muslims.
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that's a roaming 1000' radius too - as they travel, the "crime bubble" transfers with them. The law says "knowingly", but if it was in the papers that congressman Schmuck (D - of course) was visiting, say the local downtown art festival, you could very easily be "knowingly" if you subscribed to that paper. Worst part is nobody who wanted to harm a Pol would obey that law
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I propose a politician free zone within 1000' of a gun. Help keep Americans' wallets safe.
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Revolutionary or Radicalist-Extremist, methinks the MILTERRS = SHARIA BOYZ won't stand for any sort of FOOTLOOSE-style shenannigans + public frivolities, espec between Men + Women.
For Israelis, the American Left's assault on Sarah Palin and the conservative movement in the wake of Jared Loughner's murderous attack in Tucson was disturbingly familiar.
...In certain ways, Palin is a revolutionary leader and the Tea Party movement is a revolutionary movement. For nearly a hundred years, the Left in its various permutations has captured Western policy by controlling the elite discourse from New York and Los Angeles to London to Paris to Tel Aviv. By making it "politically incorrect" to assert claims of Western, Judeo-Christian morality or advocate robust political, economic and military policies, the Left has made it socially and professionally costly for people to think freely and believe in their countries.
What distinguishes Palin from other conservative leaders in the U.S. and makes her an important figure worldwide is her indifference to the views of the Left's opinion makers. Her capacity to steer debate in a way no other conservative politician can owes entirely to the fact that she does not seek to win over leftist elites. She seeks to unseat them.
The same can be said of the Tea Party. The reason it frightens the Left, and the Republican leaders who owe their positions to their willingness to accept the Left's basic agenda, is because it does not accept the Left's policy platform.
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Hopefully someone out there can remember the details better than I, but I remember one of the leaders of the socialist movement in the US saying that he didn't need to try to become president any more because the Democrats had taken up the socialist cause. This was arount 1950 or so.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
By Nicholas Eberstadt
