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August 24, 2008
Obama Praises "Vastly the Superior" Communist China
Posted by Dave Blount at August 24, 2008 12:51 PM
If Obama gets a chance to inflict Change on America, he'll have a ready-made model: communist China, where wages are kept low with slave labor, the government censors the Internet and arrests reporters, the air is unbreathable, and dissidents disappear into reeducation camps. Here's Obama praising the system founded by Mao Zedong, who killed more of his own people than any other tyrant in history:
Transcript:
Everybody's watching what's going on in Beijing right now with the Olympics. Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure. Their ports, their train systems, their airports are all vastly the superior to us now, which means if you are a corporation deciding where to do business … you're starting to think, "Beijing looks like a pretty good option." Why aren't we doing the same thing?
We've come to a pretty pass when a presidential candidate suggests with a straight face that we ought to make ourselves more business-friendly by emulating a communist police state.
The communist China that so impresses idiots like Obama is a Potemkin Village, as phony as he is. Via Q&O, these shots sum it up:
Imagine what it looks like outside of Beijing.
Hat tip: Hot Air; on a tip from Smoke TNT.
