Soros: The Chinese Model Of Suppressing Individuals ...

[boedicca]

Obama envy's the President of China. LOLZ

(Originally reported by that well known NEOCON RAG the New York Times.)

WASHINGTON (NYT) — In the Middle East crisis, as on other issues, there are two Barack Obamas: the transformative historical figure and the pragmatic American president. Three months after a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself aflame and ignited a political firestorm across the Arab world, the president is trumping the trailblazer. . . .

How Mr. Obama manages to do that while also balancing American interests is a question that officials acknowledge will plague this historic president for months to come. 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.”

Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » Obama: “It Would Be so Much Easier to Be the President of China”…

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/world/africa/11policy.html?_r=1

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Obama envy's the President of China. LOLZ

(Originally reported by that well known NEOCON RAG the New York Times.)

WASHINGTON (NYT) — In the Middle East crisis, as on other issues, there are two Barack Obamas: the transformative historical figure and the pragmatic American president. Three months after a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself aflame and ignited a political firestorm across the Arab world, the president is trumping the trailblazer. . . .

How Mr. Obama manages to do that while also balancing American interests is a question that officials acknowledge will plague this historic president for months to come. 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.”

Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » Obama: “It Would Be so Much Easier to Be the President of China”…

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/world/africa/11policy.html?_r=1

Lol, it's all that centralized power. Damn congress and senate get in the way.

 

[boedicca]

Instapundit has a very applicable quote on his site today:

Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.

- Robert Heinlein

 

[FreedomAli]

yeah, that's what makes it so amazing. Out of context quotes, with made-up context added in by the writer of the op-ed. It sounds vague enough the the die-hards will latch on to it. It's "rallying the base". The middle-right, moderates and independents will ignore it, and the far-left will rally their base by attacking back. In a lot of ways, it's win-win for both sides.

i'm a sucker for really good rhetoric.

anyone who listens to soros is a fool.

He dared to call china a socialists society when everyone who's been alive knows they're a communist country.

It amazes me how people that think they're so damned smart can be so gullible.

china hasn't actually been a "communist" country since mao died.

They're a mixed economy, just like every other major economic power in the world. How do you think they own so much of our debt? Why do you think that everything you own says "made in china" on it?

You don't get to be one of the fastest growing superpowers in the world by being communist.

in fact, they have greater economic freedom than we do in the u.s and less distribution of wealth.

Isn't that what most of the people on this board want, the right to hoard their wealth without and redistribution by government?

 

[Big Fitz]

The idea that markets can correct their excesses turned out to be false.

This quote by Soros proves he's full of shit. What do you think we're in? One massive market correction to the excesses.

What he DOESN'T like is that those who deserve to take it in the shorts, are the ones who will be getting in the shorts sooner or later. Government can only delay the inevitable for so long as we now see.

 

[boedicca]

anyone who listens to soros is a fool.

He dared to call china a socialists society when everyone who's been alive knows they're a communist country.

It amazes me how people that think they're so damned smart can be so gullible.

china hasn't actually been a "communist" country since mao died.

They're a mixed economy, just like every other major economic power in the world. How do you think they own so much of our debt? Why do you think that everything you own says "made in china" on it?

You don't get to be one of the fastest growing superpowers in the world by being communist.

in fact, they have greater economic freedom than we do in the u.s and less distribution of wealth.

Isn't that what most of the people on this board want, the right to hoard their wealth without and redistribution by government?

They don't have greater economic freedom. Former officials of the communist party divided up the state owned business among themselves. If anything, China has morphed from Communism to Fascism.

 

[boedicca]

An example of how it is easier to be President of China:

The last time the prominent Chinese lawyer Jiang Tianyong was seen or heard from, he was visiting his brother in a Beijing suburb. Police grabbed him and threw him into a waiting van, pushing aside his elderly mother who had clung on to the vehicle.

Jiang is among dozens of well-known lawyers and activists across China who have vanished, been interrogated or criminally detained for subversion in recent weeks, a crackdown that human rights groups say is on a scale and intensity not seen in many years.

Activists say China's massive security apparatus is using the government's anxiety over possible Middle East-inspired protests as a pretext for the crackdown.

"None of them will tell me anything about why he was taken away or where he has been taken to," Jiang's wife Jin Bianling said Monday. She said that after her husband's disappearance last month, a Beijing police officer told her verbally that "the case was being handled," meaning he was under investigation. But her repeated efforts to get more details from police have been fruitless.

More than 100 people have been questioned or followed by police or placed under house arrest, the Hong Kong-based Chinese Human Rights Defenders, or CHRD, said in a recent statement. It said Jiang and others who have disappeared for weeks were at risk of being tortured to extract confessions.

Human Rights Watch senior Asia researcher Nicholas Bequelin said the crackdown is even more serious than the one in December when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a jailed Chinese dissident, Liu Xiaobo. He said it is also more extensive than when police questioned and detained activists involved in signing Charter 08, a manifesto for peaceful democratic reform that Liu co-authored, in 2008....


News from The Associated Press