Posted on 03/26/2012 5:44:40 AM PDT by upchuck
After squinting through binoculars into a nation frozen in time, US President Barack Obama reeled off a contempt-laden and startlingly frank indictment of North Korea.
The Stalinist remnant of the Cold War was, in Obama's eyes, nothing but a nation which cannot make "anything of any use", "doesn't work", and even its vaunted weapons exports were hardly state of the art.
"It is like you are in a time warp," Obama said Sunday, after he toured a rocky border post in the demilitarised buffer zone that has split the Korean peninsular for longer than he has been alive.
"It is like you are looking across 50 years into a country that has missed 40 years or 50 years of progress," Obama marvelled later...
...he seemed unable to process the logic of three generations of leaders who had kept their people imprisoned, impoverished and in thrall to successive personality cults.
"If a country can't feed its people effectively, if it can't make anything of any use to anybody, if it has no exports other than weapons and even those aren't ones that in any way would be considered state of the art.
"If it can't deliver on any indicators of well-being... for its people... then you'd think you'd want to try something different," Obama said in a highly undiplomatic and unusually frank public appearance.
"There are certain things that just don't work and what they are doing doesn't work."
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"Obviously, they just don't have the right people in charge of everything."
Unfortunately no, he’s not.
Something informed American citizens have known for many decades.
Which explains why Obama The Clueless Illegal is surprised with his new-found information.
Even if it made an impression, it won't be the impression you want. He would never be humble enough to even consider he may be wrong; the narcissist in him will think he can do it "better".
“The Russians just shook their heads in disbelief.”
Right. Those uncouth Ruskis couldn’t even do communism right. Our liberals can do it so much better.
ABO 2012
I love that quote. Rand was a prophet.
Is Obama giving the Chinese line on North Korea? Interesting.
All he's saying is that N. Korea just isn't doing it right. He and his ilk REALLY know how to do Communism.
It's a good thing we've got "The One" to do it for us, otherwise it could become just as bad here. Of course, it will take more than two terms for him to perfect utopia here.
Disbelief? More likely in awe of what he has in store for this country.
Idiot, naive, man-child.
Nothing but an educated fool.
Ebenezer seems to have been visited by the ghost of Christmas future.
Now, if somebody can please explain to him that we can no longer give these people another shred of anything of material value every again, and he now can grasp that bit, progress will have been made.
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