Nov 17, 2009 8:20am

President Obama Plays Tourist in Beijing

The president meets with Chinese President Hu Jintao and visits the Forbidden City, the world’s largest surviving palace complex.


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– jpt


User Comments

” Don’t you guys play baseball like my favorite team does at Cominsky Field? I’ve always heard that Hu’s on first.Sorry about the Doolittle bombers crashing in China-I paid my respects to the Emperor so lay off that Nanking stuff.You need to talk all about that 1940s stuff over a beer.You all look spiffy in those Mao coats.Well, I have got to go back to the United 57 States of America and campaign in the 9th Congressional District in Arizona-we have had great success in creating jobs there.But please,don’t complain about the costs of our health care reform-just because you know that the cost projections are fantasy gives you no right to stop lendig us money.”

Posted by: Nephron | November 17, 2009, 8:54 am 8:54 am

campaign in the 9th Congressional District in Arizona
Posted by: Nephron | Nov 17, 2009 8:54:23 AM
Ha! Every hard working VP knows it was the 15th District! From the LA Times (huh?): They “created 30 new jobs in a little-known rural corner of Arizona at a cost to American taxpayers of only $761,420.”
“This will be a real feather in the cap of Vice President Joe Biden, who’s been left behind and assigned by the ever-campaigning president to monitor the stimulus plan, its spending and effectiveness moving into the crucial midterm elections of 2010.”
“Trouble is, there is no 15th Congressional District in Arizona. None. Nada. Zip. Zero. Doesn’t exist. Not in Arizona. Not even on paper at the Democratic National Committee. There are only eight. Period.”
Heckuva job, Joey!

Posted by: Visualize Whirled Peas | November 17, 2009, 9:49 am 9:49 am

He’s also playing president in America

Posted by: Obama would bow to snowpeas | November 17, 2009, 9:59 am 9:59 am

Leave Joe Biden alone!He is still in awe that he is working with” a clean black man”.The President is saving him up for economic meetings with India-probably to discuss the cost of Slurpie’s.

Posted by: Nephron | November 17, 2009, 10:12 am 10:12 am

Will Obama be visiting the human rights activists the Chinese government has thrown in jail for Obama’s tour?

Posted by: dream | November 17, 2009, 11:17 am 11:17 am

The Washington Examiner has an interactive map of over 75,000 bogus jobs, more than ten percent of the jobs the Obama administration has claimed were “created or saved” by the $787 billion stimulus package are doubtful or imaginary, according to reports compiled from eleven major newspapers and the Associated Press. For example:
“The Southwest Georgia Community Action Council claimed to have saved 935 jobs with the $1.3 million it received, even though only 508 people work there. In fact, the group used most of its grant to give raises and now says it created 9.35 jobs.”
They also have an update:
“Today’s report from ABC News tells us that prior to releasing its jobs report, the administration cut out 60,000 additional jobs from unreliable reports, none of which appear to overlap with the ones we’ve highlighted here. Had those jobs been included in the original count, the number of jobs “created or saved” by the stimulus would have exceeded 700,000, and the number of imaginary or doubtful jobs would have approached 20 percent.”

Posted by: Visualize Whirled Peas | November 17, 2009, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm

“The Washington Examiner”
Would that be the same Washington Examiner that posted bogus tea party attendance numbers on its “interactive map’?

Posted by: Ryan C | November 17, 2009, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm

I hope we can once again view those great images and videos of Bush dancing like a fool in Africa and… Bush’s exit strategy
foiled by some locked doors as he clumsily attempts to duck a reporter’s question at a press conference in china.
This guy was actually president, and people wonder why things are so messed up now…

Posted by: Oh Yeah | November 17, 2009, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm

Get over Bush
Posted by: ‘Un-American’
impossible to do with Bush’s tragic and devastating destruction of america, it will take america 25 years to recover from republican malfeasance and crimes that started with Reagan..
we can only hope that the cult of extreme rightwing republican fanatics that were responsible will never hold the majority again

Posted by: Oh Yeah | November 17, 2009, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm

we can only hope that the cult of extreme rightwing republican fanatics that were responsible will never hold the majority again
Posted by: Oh Yeah | Nov 17, 2009 2:59:37 PM
Well your fears could come true. Obama may keep his job (doubt it). But his henchmen in the house and senate are in trouble.

Posted by: 'Un-American' | November 17, 2009, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm

But his henchmen in the house and senate are in trouble.
Posted by: ‘Un-American’
more prognostications from the folks who brought you ‘mission accomplished’ and ‘the Iraq war will pay for itself’… guess we’ll have to wait see if the electorate wants to bring, Rush republicans, ‘tea party, ‘birther’s', deathers’ and secessionists to power… I doubt it

Posted by: Oh Yeah | November 17, 2009, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm

“The Washington Examiner”
Would that be the same Washington Examiner that posted bogus tea party attendance numbers on its “interactive map’?
Posted by: Ryan C | Nov 17, 2009 1:01:13 PM
Could be. Care to address this?
“The Southwest Georgia Community Action Council claimed to have saved 935 jobs with the $1.3 million it received, even though only 508 people work there. In fact, the group used most of its grant to give raises and now says it created 9.35 jobs.”

Posted by: Visualize Whirled Peas | November 17, 2009, 4:20 pm 4:20 pm

Posted by: Oh Yeah | Nov 17, 2009 3:16:12 PM
We’ll know for sure in 12 months. See ya then!

Posted by: Visualize Whirled Peas | November 17, 2009, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm

It looks like the reporting guidelines are all messed up
AP “At Southwest Georgia Community Action Council in Moultrie, Ga., director Myrtis Mulkey-Ndawula said she followed the guidelines the Obama administration provided. She said she multiplied the 508 employees by 1.84 — the percentage pay raise they received — and came up with 935 jobs saved.
“I would say it’s confusing at best,” she said. “But we followed the instructions we were given.”"

Posted by: Ryan C | November 17, 2009, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm

“I would say it’s confusing at best,” she said. “But we followed the instructions we were given.”"
Posted by: Ryan C | Nov 17, 2009 5:20:47 PM
Those must have been SOME instructions. Who do you think was the bonehead then the Director or the person giving the instructions?

Posted by: 'Un-American' | November 17, 2009, 5:36 pm 5:36 pm

impossible to do with Bush’s tragic and devastating destruction of america,
Obama is such an overachiever. He has managed to triple the tragic and devastating destruction of America (BTW ~ America should always be capitalized) in only 10 months.

Posted by: Krakatoa | November 17, 2009, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm

He has managed to triple the tragic and devastating destruction of America
Posted by: Krakatoa
Bush’s excesses and failures are clear for all americans and the world to see, which along with Palin is why Republicans lost in 2008.
The amazing double standard now proposed by the illogical and hypocritical rightwing that supported Bush’s headlong dive off the cliff now want the Dems to fix those very excesses in less than a year….
The republican ‘plan’ if one could even call it that, is more of the same Bush malfeasance that got us here….. and a generous helping of fear mongering, with them now being afraid of everything
It is sad that republicans didn’t do what they now espouse when they had the chance..but.. then again, they never really intended to do anything positive in the first place.. Republicans love the mythology of america, but not the actual substance of governing ‘for the people’

Posted by: OK | November 18, 2009, 12:32 am 12:32 am

What the Obama apologists do not seem to grasp is that it is NOT just Republicans and rightwingers who find Obama’s presidency to be failing and who find Obama’s apology tour of the world alarming and disgusting.

Posted by: dream | November 18, 2009, 8:19 am 8:19 am

Republicans and rightwingers
Posted by: dream
the difference being what ?
who else… tea party crazies, secessionists, militia, ‘minutemen’, white supremacists, Orly Taitz, Rush

Posted by: OK | November 18, 2009, 10:12 am 10:12 am

Liberal Democrats also find Obama a huge disappointment.

Posted by: dream | November 18, 2009, 10:34 am 10:34 am

The sane people who didn’t overdose on Kool-Aid also are discovering Obama is very dishonest and a weak president.

Posted by: dream | November 18, 2009, 10:36 am 10:36 am

The sane people who didn’t overdose on Kool-Aid also are discovering Obama is very dishonest and a weak president.
Posted by: dream
‘The sane people who didn’t overdose on Kool-Aid’.. kicked out the republicans from office less than a year ago.. and did not appreciate the devastated condition the right wingers/republicans left america… how soon you forget

Posted by: OK | November 18, 2009, 10:39 am 10:39 am

“how soon you forget”
I have forgotten nothing about the Bush years, and that it why it is so disgusting that Obama is continuing many of Bush’s worst policies.
Wake up.

Posted by: dream | November 18, 2009, 10:56 am 10:56 am

Obama is have some fun, good. the the Birthers not so good.
Judge Land and now judge Carter, smack down the crazies (case dismissed), poor little Birthers.
Not even “Fake News” Bill O’Reilly believes the crazies, how funny.
http://belowthebeltway.com/2009/10/29/bill-oreilly-slams-orly-taitz/
To all the birthers in La, La Land, it is on you to prove to all of us that your assertion is true (TOUGH WHEN YOU KEEP LOSING CASES), if there are people who were there and support your position then show us the video (everyone has a price), either put up or frankly shut-up. I heard Orly Taitz, is selling a tape (I think it’s called “Money, Lies and Video tape”). She is from Orange County, CA, now I know what the mean when they say “behind the Orange Curtain”, when they talk about Orange County, the captial of Conspiracy Theories. You know Obama has a passport, he travel abroad before he was a Senator, but I guess they were in on it.
In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over the most extreme religious right (people who love to push their beliefs on others while trying to take away the rights of those they just hate) and that’s who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”.
I heard that she now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC).

Posted by: Preston | November 18, 2009, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm

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