Heh, did I say I’d write a post today? Well — I lied! Sort of — it’s technically still the same day, though it’s nearly midnight (and way past my bedtime). Anyway, just a couple of thoughts:
I have two new reasons not to vote for Obama, if I needed any more beyond the fact that he’s a cardboard candidate whose platform seems to be “Prove you’re not racist, America: vote for the black guy!” Here are the new reasons:
1. He’s picked Joe Biden as his running mate. Isn’t that the same guy who was slammed in the press (and by both liberal and conservative blogs) for saying something like Obama was “clean” and “articulate”? Way to show you have absolutely no pride and also very little confidence in yourself — “Shoot, I’d better get me an experienced old white dude to be my running mate, so I won’t look so much like Urkel running for prez.” It’s not working — he looks more out-of-touch and inexperienced than ever.
2. He opened his yap about the Olympics over in China but instead of saying something normal like how nicely they put together a big spectacle he praised their “infrastructure” and how it was superior to that of his own country, which someone should remind him is the United States of America, not Canada, or the United Nations, or the United Federation of Planets, or whatever imaginary country he thinks he’s running for president of.
No really, here is the quote in full: “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 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.’”
For Christ’s sake. Yeah, I’ve always been impressed by the way China’s “infrastructure” took care of those demonstrators in Tienanmen Square.
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August 25th, 2008 at 7:17 am
The Chinese infrastructure is, as a general rule, crap. Well, we saw that during the earthquake. I travel there for business. Get away from the major international hotels and the quality drops off a cliff. The bits and pieces are there and they look OK, but more often than not they don’t work. Perhaps they will eventually go the Japanese route and push for quality, but I see no interest in taking that path at present. The thinking is still largely based on “cheaper and sooner”.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Does he even know what infrastructure is?
August 26th, 2008 at 11:10 am
He really doesn’t have a clue, does he?
His followers are just as bad. If you vote against him, apparently you’re “racist”. It’s the perfect election for him. If you don’t vote for him, you’re racist. If the US doesn’t elect him, the US is “racist”. If you vote for him, you’re all for “equality”.
Policy and direction has absolutely no importance in how this election will be seen by the media, and that’s really sad. I imagine most of the US will happily vote for Obama if he wasn’t so condescending, and if he had policies that would serve the US well, but he is a condescending man and his policies won’t serve the US well. Yet it all still comes down to race.
It shows how weak the Democratic Party really is.
August 26th, 2008 at 11:38 am
I’m with Brett; everything I’ve ever heard suggests that Chinese infrastructure, as a whole, is crap.
Let’s see how well the Beijing improvements hold up in ten years before deciding whether it’s real infrastructure or a Potemkin front.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:02 am
Well, that whole brutal dictatorship is something of a deal breaker for us bitter clingers. Lefties, on the other hand, have been getting giddy about totalitarians since the 1920s. All those utopian projects you have in mind? You’ll never get them done if you have to put up with all that tedious “democracy” crap.
But for generations Western leftists have been coming back from totalitarian hellholes gushing about how clean everything is! Everyone works so hard there! They all smile! Nobody complains! The trains run on time!
Public transport in dictatorships is always a big selling point for lefties. Especially when you can make sure everyone rides them except for the party cadre.