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President of China?
Weekly Standard.com ^ | March 11,2011 | WILLIAM KRISTOL

Posted on 03/11/2011 6:18:35 AM PST by Hojczyk

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.’”

“Obama Seeks a Course of Pragmatism in the Middle East,” The New York Times, March 11, 2011.

Mr. Obama is right.

If you’re president of China, people around the world who are fighting for freedom don’t really expect you to help. If you’re president of China, you don’t have to put up with annoying off-year congressional elections, and then negotiate your budget with a bunch of gun-and-religion-clinging congressmen and senators. If you’re president of China, you can fund your national public radio to your heart’s content. And if you’re president of China, when you host a conference on bullying in schools, people take you seriously.

Unfortunately for him and us, Barack Obama is president of the United States. That job brings with it certain special responsibilities. It’s a tough job—maybe tougher than being president of China. But Barack Obama ran for president of the United States. Maybe he should start acting as one.


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1 posted on 03/11/2011 6:18:37 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Obama would rather be the President of an enslaved people.


2 posted on 03/11/2011 6:19:59 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Hojczyk

It would be a lot easier for me too if he were president of China.


3 posted on 03/11/2011 6:20:15 AM PST by dblshot (Insanity - electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
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To: Hojczyk

Jintau’s little beotch has some ambitions.


4 posted on 03/11/2011 6:21:40 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: Hojczyk

Jintau’s little beotch has some ambitions.


5 posted on 03/11/2011 6:21:48 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: Hojczyk

Who is the President of China?


6 posted on 03/11/2011 6:22:18 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Hojczyk

Same goes for North Korea, Cuba, the (former) Soviet Union and every other communist totalitarian regime Obama and his ilk have supported throughout the decades.


7 posted on 03/11/2011 6:24:18 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: dfwgator

Who!


8 posted on 03/11/2011 6:25:31 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Hojczyk

HU?...........


9 posted on 03/11/2011 6:26:24 AM PST by Red Badger (How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
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To: dfwgator
Who is the President of China?

Yes.

10 posted on 03/11/2011 6:26:50 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Hojczyk

Leader of a communist country would suit him?? Geez...I’m glad he doesn’t think out loud.


11 posted on 03/11/2011 6:27:45 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: ETL

That’s what I’m asking you.


12 posted on 03/11/2011 6:28:05 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Hojczyk

What an unbelievably stupid thing for a president of the United States to say.

The sentiments of a narcissistic whiner.


13 posted on 03/11/2011 6:30:48 AM PST by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: dfwgator

You’re asking about HU??


14 posted on 03/11/2011 6:30:59 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

We have an accountant named You....or however she spells it. Makes for some confusing conversations sometimes...


15 posted on 03/11/2011 6:33:22 AM PST by Aria ( "If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.")
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To: Sacajaweau

No, Hu’s on first!


16 posted on 03/11/2011 6:35:32 AM PST by AU72
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No one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao’s words in Tahrir Square.’”

Gee...I thought words were zero's specialty - in fact his only specialty. Now he's whining about it....times must be a little bit tough for the partier in chief...

17 posted on 03/11/2011 6:36:26 AM PST by Aria ( "If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.")
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To: Hojczyk

This TOTUS thinks he is running for 7th grade class dictator. No matter where he was born, or what lies they tell us about his education, he is no American and no friend of America.


18 posted on 03/11/2011 6:51:23 AM PST by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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To: Hojczyk

I hereby form the “Obama for President of China committee”.
Unions, Liberals, and Green organizations, we can make a difference by putting Obama in charge of the most populous country in the world. Talk about community’s waiting to be organized. And if anybody needs greening it’s China. And the Union dues waiting to be collected. Please send cash to “Barack for the Billions, President of China for Life”


19 posted on 03/11/2011 6:58:21 AM PST by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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Lou: Hey Abbott, who is the President of China?

Bud: Yes.

Lou: Yes, what?

Bud: Not what, Hu.

Lou: Who?

Bud: Yes.

Lou: All I wanna know is, who is the President of China?

Bud: Now you’ve got it!

Lou: Got what?

Bud: That Hu is the President.

Lou: That’s what I’m trying to find out! Listen, when the President of China gets paid, who gets the check?

Bud: That’s right. Sometimes his wife gets it.

Lou: Who’s wife?

Bud: Yes...........


20 posted on 03/11/2011 7:07:06 AM PST by Kharis13 (That noise you hear is our Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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