By Arthur Piccolo
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Nov. 14, 2014: Barack Obama is very good at playing the Loser.
In fact, he is accomplished in that normally unattractive role.
Indeed he relishes the part. He only has 2 more years to enjoy it.
So Barack Obama’s response to getting beat up badly in the recent elections was to hop on his flying palace Air Force One to fly across the world to China so he could get beat up again on foreign soil.
The even larger issue is how Clueless along with most American elected officials are about foreign policy, how to view it and what is best for Americans in dealing with foreign leaders.
Obama’s current trip to China and elsewhere is illustrative.
So what happened to Obama in China he got used or if you like mugged!
The un-elected president of China Xi Jinping aka the Chinese dictator used President Obama’s visit to mock the United States while proclaiming Chinese superiority. That’s right the world’s largest repressive dictatorship blatantly blustering that it is superior to the so called bastion of democracy.
Of course Obama let him get away with it while forced to dress up in funny clothes by the Chinese to make the humiliation complete.
The symbolic height of this Folly was Nobel Peace Prize Recipient – the only winner ever to receive it for absolutely nothing – Barack Obama yet again happily visited a country China where a fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has been jailed and even prevented from communicating with anyone for the “crime” of winning the Nobel Peace Prize for trying to advance human rights in China.
It should be inconceivable that anyone with the audacity to call himself a leader would go to another country and praise it’s so called leaders who have jailed a fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner. If Obama had any character at all he would have demanded his first stop in China be to visit Liu Xiaobo and demand his release. The Chinese regime would have told Obama to go to hell and Obama should have responded to them with a similar greeting.
Obama‘s failure to confront China on this issue was just the symbolic low point of his embarrassing visit his week. The so called substance was even worse for America and wonderful for the Chinese goons who rule there.
On the current issue of free elections in Hong Kong where in recent weeks hundreds of thousands have publicly protested against the Chinese regime’s refusal to keep its promise of free elections.
President Obama keeping to form said absolutely nothing.
But it got worse. Xi and the other so called Chinese leaders decided to rub it in Obama’s nose and all Obama did was smile again.
At a joint appearance with Obama before a live audience and world media Xi Jinping said loud and clear to Barack Obama and everyone else whatever happens inside China including Hong Kong is none of your business.
That is a brutal statement for any so called leader to make so blatantly but said right in front of the President of the United States it is clearly meant to insult and humiliate Obama. And what did Obama do? Nothing but smile.
If he had any integrity and courage and self-confidence Obama would have immediately left the stage, returned to Air Force One and left China. It is sad there is no way on Earth Obama would have done so.
Besides let’s understand Barack Obama’s core agenda on a trip like this it is to take care of Barack Obama by taking care of what Big Business wants and that means do more business with China and screw everything else. Human rights, free elections give them a break. Who cares!
Business is about making more money not human rights or human suffering or repression. Obama’s payoff for making this business friendly trip to China and bowing to so called Chinese leaders begins early in 2017 after he leaves The White House and starts cashing in. Not only will Big Business in America reward Barack and Michelle but if he keeps the Chinese oligarchy happy they will shower him with huge financial rewards.
Best of all if ex-President Obama can become the ultimate Deal Makers between the Chinese regime and American business. WOW. It could mean Billions for him ! Barack and Michelle could make the fortune accumulated by Bill and Hillary Clinton since their White House days look puny.
Back to Xi Jinping. While he was at it rhetorically stomping on President Barack Obama he did not stop there. He made sure to send a message to the U.S. media in Obama’s presence while they stood on stage together.
China regularly refuses to give entry visas to America media that prints stories about all the corruption among China’s elite so when a reporter for the New York Times who is one of the few still in China asked Xi about this at his press conference with Obama here is how the Times reported it ..
“Xi advised that “when a car breaks down on the road, perhaps we need to step down and see what the problem is.
“The metaphor may have been oblique, but the message was clear: He was warning foreign news organizations that their troubles are self-inflicted; they are being penalized for unfavorable or controversial news coverage and could correct the problem by changing that approach.”
“The Chinese government has regularly declined to process visas for any new resident Times journalist and has sought to block access to the newspaper’s English-language and Chinese-language websites for people inside China over the past two years after news reports were published by The Times on the wealth of China’s political elite.”
And President Obama said nothing he just smiled. Along with a bunch of free trade deals the gifts for Big Business, Xi offered Obama a few crumbs to try and allow him to fool the American people about this trip. Both of them signed a pollution agreement to no one’s surprise they hailed as ground breaking but upon reading is almost meaningless.
The best meaning worst way to sum up Obama’s pathetic is a statement he made early in the trip which had the code words in it Xi and the others wanted to hear that would make it certain Obama was their laky.
This was Obama’s all important statement upon his arrival in China .. “We welcome the rise of a prosperous, peaceful and stable China,” Mr. Obama said. “In fact, over recent decades the United States has worked to help integrate China into the global economy–not only because it’s in China’s best interest, but because it’s in America’s best interest, and the world’s best interest. We want China to do well.”
The key word is a STABLE China. Stability is the Chinese regime’s code word for its justification for repression. To keep China STABLE!
Obama was telling Xi and the others it is OK for them to operate anyway they liked in the name of a STABLE China. Shame on Obama yet again!
