President Obama Tells Chinese Students Unrestricted Internet Access Makes the U.S. Stronger, Free Speech Makes Him a Better Leader

Thank you for the update on this. You folks always have the best White House coverage. Just my .02: while many ASEAN countries (especially Singapore), and even communist China, seem to have an understanding on the importance of economic freedom, they fall way behind the West in allowing freedom of the press and uncensored internet access. This is a good message from America to bring across the Pacific. Now if only Obama would listen to Asia and stop wasting so much money and ruining dollar. That would be a good two-way conversation where both regions could learn from each other.

He believes in free speech unless you are saying something he doesn’t like, something bad about him, or if you’re FOX news…then not so much

Barack Obama pushes for freedom of expression in China. The Chinese government should come to the United States and push for freedom of expression as well. Lou Dobbs had to resign (CNN) because he was expressing his views. Is that freedom of expression? Tell me Barack Obama, is that freedom of expression (when Lou Dobbs cannot express his point of views)? I am going to be so happy when Barack Obama is removed from office in 2012.

The Dems already face annihilation in 2010-
They can’t pass ObamaCare with abortion OR a public option- and reconciliation is just an empty threat, the remaining legislation would be a hollow shell-
And Cap-n-tax? With the evidence looking weak lately, Obama’s own #s tanking… and 11% unemployment? Good luck!
That leaves the only major legislation enacted -even with Democrats dominating Congress- the wholly-ineffective Porkulus. Obama has NO political cover on that one, due to the paucity of GOP collaborators- he owns it. And all it will ever stimulate is inflation… in the months leading right-up to midterms.
The Democrats look to face a bloodbath next fall, with some already predicting a 100 seat loss.
And by 2012? People will wince at the very mention of the name “Obama”- and the GOP could take 40 states running Gilbert Gottfried- LOL
Party’s over kiddies- time to put the grown-ups back in charge…

Posted by: samhiguchi | Nov 16, 2009 6:21:28 AM & TDK | Nov 16, 2009 5:44:19 AM… I find it amusing you consider Fox News a reliable source of accurate information, the majority of their shows are strictly opinioned commentaries, bias and non-objective in views and reporting, so to consider Fox News a reliable source of information is definitely a stretch of your imagination. Actually, Fox News is very comical in their approach and entertaining at best like a tabloid. Also, let me remind you during the previous Administrations (Bush/Cheney) reign of terror if you spoke against their policies & views people were labeled unpatriotic, un-American and in Joseph C. Wilson case your wife’s CIA position COMPROMSIED!!

This is hilarious. Mark Lloyd, obama’s FCC diversity czar, is pro-Hugo Chavez. Chavez shut down television/radio stations that didn’t agree with him. Lloyd is against free speech; obama gave Lloyd the czar job. obama does not believe in free speech. He tried to close down rush, beck (remember van jones, color of change boycotting his advertisers?), fox news channel. obama is a liar and hypocrit.

Free speech, Some one should have stood up and shouted You Lie! Of course if they did they would be shot in China,that is the kind of Free Speech comrade Obama believes in and is trying to bring to America. Fox news just keep reporting the facts,keep up the good work.

After doing his best to marginalize FOX News and to pre-screen questions I find his comments shocking. The press,with few exceptions,has bent over backwards to avoid asking serious questions about his past, his education records,his health records,his associations with unsavory characters, his stupid comments about Gandhi,the Medal of Honor,the Austrian language and World War II.The have given little coverage about his truly stupid subservience to the Emperor of Japan.If the press just reported the news this man would be seen by the public as the empty suit that he realy is.

The man is laughable. And so are those who take him seriously.
Has Obama forgotten that he sent out Anita Dunn, Axelrod, Rahm to attack Fox News. Why? because Obama cannot handle criticism.
He’s all for free speech if it paints a pretty picture of him–which most of the media does.
What a joke he is.

Obama believes in free speech and non-censorship?
That explains his appointment of Mark Lloyd–who seems to adore Hugo Chavez’s style of media blackout.
The sad thing is most Americans are uninformed and are buying Obama’s lies.
Obama wants to keep us uninformed that’s why he hates Fox.

Compare Obama’s words to his actions.
Completely opposite.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 28% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-eight percent (38%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10.

The President is an Internationalist, and he continues to show it on this visit to ASEAN, lowering the U.S. to the status of a ‘non-aligned’ nation (like Cuba).
When you have George Soros, Zig B and the Goldman $achs boys for friends, who needs enemies?
The apology tour continues.

So that`s why Obama has put Fox News basically off limits. Freedom of speech.
LOL.

NEW YORK — A year ago, the financial system was tottering and government officials arranged a $2.3 billion emergency cash infusion into CIT Group, a troubled lender to small businesses.
Today, CIT is in bankruptcy court, and the taxpayers’ investment is on the brink of being wiped out. It would be the largest loss so far from the government’s massive rescue of the financial system, but it isn’t likely to be the last.
Officials poured about $700 billion into investments in scores of companies, from giants such as the automaker General Motors and the insurer American International Group to smaller regional banks. Of them, 46 had missed required dividend payments to the government as of the end of September, according to the inspector general overseeing the program.
On Nov. 6, United Commercial Bank of San Francisco failed, becoming the first recipient of the Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP, to collapse. The cost to taxpayers: $299 million.
Analysts expect more bailed-out firms to fail in the months ahead.

For the third day in a row, Rasmussen* has Obama’s job approval with a +1 positive spread: 50% approve, 49% disapprove. Last time Rasmussen* showed a positive approval spread was more than a month ago. And, for the time being, Rasmussen* has joined virtually every other major pollster in giving the President a positive job approval spread. Obama haters can take solace in the +1 spread still being way out of range on the current RCP list of pollsters; +9 is the next lowest spread.
*Choice pollster of conservatives

Personally, I don’t like the idea that I am being manipulated by any corporate entity.
Posted by: Lydia | Nov 16, 2009 9:05:20 AM
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Then you probably aren’t able to watch NBC or MSNBC. You wouldn’t want to be manipulated by GE now would you?

Did Obama and Hu take questions today after their meeting?

What could account for it? -massive anchor-room insubordination?
Posted by: Skip | Nov 16, 2009 12:00:55 PM
Ha! Remember the Republicans’ “sit in” last year to try to force a vote about domestic drilling? Oh please relate to me the networks that covered it. NBC? ABC? CBS?

Wonder if the students in China noticed how Obama basically ignored the Iranian protesters fighting for their free speech.

There is a huge disconnect between who Obama pretends to be and who he actually is.
All this big talk about welcoming opposing opinions does not hold water.
Based on the way he handled Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Tea Party, townhall protesters–Obama in reality is petty and thin-skinned.
He probably sleeps with a blankie and sucks his thumb every night.

Based on the way he handled Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Tea Party, townhall protesters–Obama in reality is petty and thin-skinned.
He probably sleeps with a blankie and sucks his thumb every night.
hank | Nov 16, 2009 12:52:49 PM
You mean the way that he took absolutely no action against them (no IRS audits, no threats of legislation, no investigations of licenses, no threats of slander lawsuits, no shaded accusations of treason, etc)? Seems like all he did was exercise his right to free speech too, which is exactly in line with what he has said.

“That’s amusing, since he was trying to shut up Fox News.”
How did he try to shut up FoxNews?
Besides telling the truth about it being an organ of right wing propaganda.

The message was clear. Watch what you say or your email will be sent to a government website.
Clearly intimidation not encouraging free speech. Obama is dishonest to the core.
bailey | Nov 16, 2009 12:44:46 PM
You are intimidated by the threat of being called out on blatant lies? I guess I can see how that would scare Republicans. And what exactly was the threat? That you would be banned from government jobs based on political affiliation, as illegally done by the Justice department under Bush? That the IRS would get you, as has not been done in a generation? That you’d be collected by black helicopters and locked up in FEMA internment camps?
I’m just curious if you’ve spun this fantasy into at least some internally consistent form.

Going to war with Fox.
Sounds just like Chavez.
How long before Obama demands that we restrict showers to 3 minutes.
Or demands us to lose weight.”
It should be noted that when it came out that the Bush admin was wiretapping Americans(a policy Obama has wrongheadedly continued), the right wing’s refrain was “If you’re not doing anything you should not be worried about being spied on”.
See the right wing doesn’t care about all of us having rights, just their rights.

“What blatant lies on FOX? Specifics please.”
Just last week Hannity spliced footage from the 9/12 rallies with the health care rally to make it seem much larger.
He claimed it was a mistake after Jon Stewart completely embarassed him by exposing the lie.
Then there were the multitude of lies they have spread dealing with Ken Jennings, the gay man they hate who Obama appointed to be in the Dept of Education.
Those lies include that he condoned statutory rape when the student did not have sex and was of age regardless.
That’s just off the top of my head and within the last couple of weeks.

Seems the Chinese censored Obama. What a fool.

The Obama administration, under fire for inflating job growth from the $787 billion stimulus plan, slashed over 60,000 jobs from its most recent report on the program because the reporting outlets had submitted “unrealistic data,” according to a document obtained by ABC News.

But don’t worrty, they’ll get your healthcare just right:
“WASHINGTON – More than 15 million taxpayers could unexpectedly owe taxes when they file their federal returns next spring because the government was too generous with their new Making Work Pay tax credit.
“Taxpayers are at risk if they have more than one job, are married and both spouses work, or receive Social Security benefits while also earning taxable wages, according to a report Monday by the Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration.
“The tax credit, which is supposed to pay individuals up to $400 and couples up to $800, was President Barack Obama’s signature tax break in the massive stimulus package enacted in February.”

Remember when Fascist hyena parroted the right wing talking point that Obama had killed auto sales for the rest of the year with Cash for Clunkers?
AP: “For October, auto sales jumped 7.4 percent, recouping about half of the 14.3 percent drop in September. Automakers already reported that their sales rebounded last month to an annual rate of 10.5 million units, from 9.2 million in September.”
This is of course follow fascist hyena parroting the right wing talking point (Hannity was big on it) that Obama had caused the market downturn.
You’ll notice he no longer posts the Dow on a daily basis.
Guess it undermined his dishinest talking point.

After all the controversy over the public option, people might think that everyone can sign up right away if Congress passes health reform.
Or that insurance premiums will go down.
Or that they’ll be able to shop around for insurance if they don’t like what their company offers.
Think again.
When it comes to the public option, for instance, only about 1 in 10 Americans will be eligible, mainly people who don’t get insurance through work. Only about 6 million are expected to enroll. The plan doesn’t even start until 2013.

WASHINGTON — President Obama came into office pledging to end eight years of American inaction on climate change under President George W. Bush, and all year he has promised that the United States would lead the way toward a global agreement in Copenhagen next month to address the warming planet. But this weekend in Singapore, Mr. Obama was forced to acknowledge that a comprehensive climate deal was beyond reach this year.

Remember when we first started complaining about how the stimulus wasn’t creating any new jobs and the Kool-Aid drinkers shouted about how first responder jobs were being saved first? I remember it and I remember who shouted the loudest. Now I’m seeing stories about cities and towns cutting jobs now and next year 30-40%. I found one article with quotes from police officials in VA, IL and MA. Apparently, the stimulus “has NOT done its job.”

Since fascist hyena continues to steal other people’s work
“Posted by: Fascist Hyena | Nov 16, 2009 2:48:56 PM”
This is the AP.
“Posted by: Fascist Hyena | Nov 16, 2009 2:52:59 PM”
This excerpt is from ROSS DOUTHAT of the NYT. The article is called Off the Charts
“Posted by: Fascist Hyena | Nov 16, 2009 2:54:39 PM”
This excerpt is from “Health reform’s Hidden Land Mines” written by Politico’s CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN & CHRIS FRATES.
“Posted by: Fascist Hyena | Nov 16, 2009 2:57:12 PM”
This excerpt is from the Washington Post in an article titled “Taxpayers on Hook as some bailed out firms prove frail” by Tomoeh Murakami Tse
Hmmm I guess TARP is Obama’s responsibility again after it briefly became Bush’s triumph when it seemed that it was working.

8/4/09, Chris Matthews, Hardball as discussed on Media Matters dot org:
Matthews: “Back in 2007, two years ago, Rasmussen polled voters with a similar out-of-left-field question, asking whether they believed that then-President Bush, George W. Bush, had gotten the inside word that the World Trade towers and the Pentagon were about to be hit on September 11, 2001. We’re talking hard intel as to what was coming that day — how the hijackers were going to grab those planes and fly them into buildings.”
The poll asked “Did Bush know about the 9/11 attacks in advance?” That’s it. Matthews description of the poll is flat-out wrong. It is entirely made-up. The poll question said nothing — nothing — about Bush getting “inside word.” It said nothing about “hard intel,” and it said nothing about “how the hijackers were going to grab those plans and fly them into buildings.”

“*Choice pollster of conservatives
Posted by: Numeros | Nov 16, 2009 3:34:53 PM”
*chuckle*

How does this article jive with the following allegations from atlasshrugs and politico readers?
Monday, November 16, 2009
The White House Tracking Atlas readers?
This is from a reader who asks to remain anonymous. Anyone else in Atlas land have this happening to them? Not sure if this is a blip or if the creepy White House is doing Big Brother really big.
Tell the boys at Politico as well.
Whitehouse.gov is putting a “cookie” in the Macromedia file on my computer when I visit your site. I’ve had this happen lately with Politico too. Please don’t identify me if you mention this anywhere.
Wh cookie
UPDATE: I’ve been getting messages like this one like crazy:
Dear Atlas Shrugs!
Regarding your posting from anon reader – I just checked my computer files (per your post/reader’s screen shot) – SURE ENOUGH “www whitehouse gov” is in there.
I can assure you – I totally avoid any and all government websites -and particularly the WH site – these days… So how/why is the whitehouse cookie on my computer?!
Vile vipers and thieves!
I did a screen shot/save to word (if you want it i’ll be glad to send it)
Best wishes (and knock ‘em out in Ohio – Please pass thanks to all those who attend!)
tc

BTW the right wing’s favoriyte pollster Scott Rasmussen does his best to prop up Palin today by releasing a poll
“Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Republican voters say former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin shares the values of most GOP voters throughout the nation.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 21% of Republican voters disagree and think the 2008 vice presidential candidate does not share their values. Twenty percent (20%) are undecided.
By contrast, 74% of Republicans say their party’s representatives in Congress have lost touch with GOP voters nationwide over the past several years. Only 18% of Republican voters believe their elected officials have done a good job representing the base.”
I am guessing the poll that came out from ABC/Wapo showing her with 53% declaring they would not ever vote for her and 60% feeling she is unqualified stung a bit.
BTW how many reputable pollsters shill for a book release?
“Sixteen percent (16%) of all voters are following news about Palin’s book release very closely, and 20% say they are likely to read it. That latter figure includes 31% of Republican voters. (To order the book, Going Rogue, click HERE).”
I wonder how much Harper Collins paid Scotty for that.
Also Numeros, do you know if Rasmussen does cell phones or only landlines?

Tierra, why the need for constant positive affirmations aimed towards the president? It’s as if you don’t really believe he’s good enough, smart enough or that people like him.
You are a constant and consistent example of the soft bigotry of low expectations. It’s as if you feel you have to work extra hard for Obama because he is such a weak president.
President Obama already has an inflated sense pride in his feelings of superiority to others. Why do you feel he is such a bad president that he needs YOUR positive reinforcement every day?

Atlas shrugs is the website that argued Obama was ineligible to be President because the Constitution as put forth by the founders only considered African Americans to be 3/5 of a person.

You are a constant and consistent example of the soft bigotry of low expectations.
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Yes, but 8 years of Republicans, Bush and Cheney and that crowd will give a person low expectations.
Nowadays, my expectations have been raised greatly – glad for it.

Hang on – are you implying the Daily Kos, is not revered by liberals?

“Atlas shrugs is the website that argued Obama was ineligible to be President because the Constitution as put forth by the founders only considered African Americans to be 3/5 of a person.”
Quote or retract. Not that her site is easy to navigate, but I couldn’t find anything along those lines.

“Numeros ought to verify this, of course, but my understanding is that Rasumussen robocalls land lines, which generally are not used much by people in cities, or people under the age of 35. Therefore he tends to poll older, and more rural than urban, “likely” voters.”
Rasmussen has not published his likely voter model but he does state that he discounts younger voters in approval polls.
I was wondering about the land line versus cell phone because it was my understanding that you could not “robocall” cell phones.

I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Is that true? And if so, wouldn’t people be embarrassed to admit they frequent that website?
As for cookies– don’t ALL websites put cookies into your computer files, or most of them, and isn’t that why computer types tell you to clear private data including cookies frequently? I don’t see it as particularly creepy.
Octavia, try a tick tack. Also the issue is the visitors to Politco” and “Atlasshrugs” never visited the Whitehouse site. The allegation is the WhiteHouse is independently monitoring and logging addresses to visitors of political sites.

“Quote or retract. Not that her site is easy to navigate, but I couldn’t find anything along those lines.”
Probably scrubbed along with other birther material like Malcolm X is Obama’s real father.
The lesson as always? Right wingers lie.

“Is that true? And if so, wouldn’t people be embarrassed to admit they frequent that website?”
So are you embarrassed to admit you visit that website?

I’m sorry Ryan C,you are right.According to the Harvard Law website:top 1% summa cum laude, next 10% magna cum laude, next 30% cum laude. It is not 40%,it is 41% graduate with honors.This is why Obama will not release his college transcripts-they stink.

“Do you know if Rasmussen does cell phones too?”
Not according to Mark Blumenthal’s April 23 blog “Does IVR Explain the Difference?” over at Pollster. Also, from what I’ve read, federal regulations prohibit robo-callers like Rasmussen from dialing cell phone numbers.

How ironic.
Obama suggests that China should allow for more freedom.
As he rapidly tries to takes more and more of our freedom away in America.
I heard someone call it “plantation politics.” And this from a black conservative but I don’t recall her name.
As the Democrats give more handouts and entitlements Americans become more enslaved to big government.

“You can’t produce a quote, so you claim right wingers are lying? That makes no sense at all.”
I’ve found the quotes but I cannot confirm they are from her beyond their being attributed to her by this blog (and I can;t confirm the other info in there).
It can be googled as I am not repeating them here.
Chasing Evil: Pam Geller Goes Over the Edge

Senate Committee Postpones Fort Hood Hearing At Request of White House ….
He is liar after all. He’s taking away our freedom …

I start to watch FOX every night. I trust FOX because they made corretion when they made mistakes. Unlike the MSM, they either not bother to correct them or correct them on the last page where no one will pay attention to.
Biased and unfair reporting. We don’t need it.

But don’t worry, they’ll make all your healthcare decisions just fine:
Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 9th Congressional District, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the website set up by the Obama Administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.
There’s one problem, though: There is no 9th Congressional District in Arizona; the state has only eight Congressional Districts.
There’s no 86th Congressional District in Arizona either, but the government’s recovery.gov Web site says $34 million in stimulus money has been spent there.

But don’t worry, they’ll make all your healthcare decisions just fine:
One of President Obama’s primary justifications for pushing health care legislation has been that the status quo is “unsustainable” because of the skyrocketing cost of medical care in the United States. The way to rein in costs, he argues, is to do adopt the policies that he and his fellow Democrats are proposing. But a new report by the government actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a branch of the Obama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services, has found that the exact opposite is true.
CMS took a close look at the health care bill that was passed by House Democrats and endorsed by the White House, and it found that not only would the bill not reduce health care costs — it would increase them.

“I trust FOX because they made corretion when they made mistakes.”
Have they corrected their “mistake” of taking out full-page newspaper ads claiming ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN missed the September TEA Party protest in Washington?

WaPo:
A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending — one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health-care system — would sharply reduce benefits for some senior citizens and could jeopardize access to care for millions of others, according to a government evaluation released Saturday.
The report, requested by House Republicans, found that Medicare cuts contained in the health package approved by the House on Nov. 7 are likely to prove so costly to hospitals and nursing homes that they could stop taking Medicare altogether.

The continuing exposure of Porkulus Job Fables goes to San Diego, which used a Barbara Boxer appearance hailing job creation in the area. KUSI-TV reports that they can only find one job created by stimulus dollars in the area. In fact, they expose Boxer’s dishonest representation of NIH grant money for research as “stimulus” funds, and marvel at the poor performance of Boxer in office.

But don’t worry, they’ll do healthcare just right:
“GM’s Chief Executive Fritz Henderson recently announced that the bailed-out automaker might use its U.S. funds to help restructure its European unit Opel, noting that the financing agreements with the Treasury for the $34 billion of bailout funds already spent allow GM to spend any subsequently earned funds as its executives see fit. Some $16 billion remaining after its bankruptcy has strings attached. In a world where funds are fungible, where GM has yet to repay the $50 billion bailout, and where GM only remains in existence because of those bailout dollars, critics argue sending these funds to Europe is essentially the same as sending taxpayer dollars overseas.”

58% Funds Awarded
13% Received
Jobs Created/Saved as Reported by Recipients
640,329
10/30/2009
WOW! It’s like they’re actually counting!
At this rate, I have no doubt Obama will reach his goal of 3.5 million!

“Obama, ye kinna take away our FREEDOM!”
“Go back to Chicago and tell them there that America’s daughters and her sons are yours no more. Tell them America is free.”

Forty-seven percent (47%) of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. With the exception of bounces following nationally televised presidential appeals, that’s the highest level of support measured for the legislative effort all year.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 49% are opposed to the plan.
Intensity is still stronger among those who oppose the push to change the nation’s health care system: 25% Strongly Favor the plan while 39% are Strongly Opposed.

I simply pointed out that left wingers smeared the former President for years by spewing crud. But you need to change the subject…which is no surprise.
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Not really, it was the Republicans who perfected the ‘swift boating’ techniques and the fear and smear campaigns – and that’s what we see being used today STILL by the right wing.
The right wing are slowly sinking themselves in their own filth. Just watch it on this site.
President Bush hit a disapproval rate among Americans of very close to 70% (Cheney even lower) – it wasn’t just the left who called down that administration.

Not really, it was the Republicans who perfected the ‘swift boating’ techniques and the fear and smear campaigns – and that’s what we see being used today STILL by the right wing.
Posted by: tierra |
Non-partisan Democrats also see it being used today STILL by the Democrat Party.

Dollar in free fall again.

We all know Obama lies. That is a given. He won’t interview with FOX because they will ask questions he doesn’t like. Anyway, Dem & Rep citizens should not fight. It is our GOVERNMENT that is to blame. The president is just a small part – just more visible. FACE IT. The Democrats love huge government and higher taxes for more bureaucracy. The Reps used to like small government and lower taxes for economic growth. Bottom line, the government has not been responsible to the people for decades. That is what has to change.

Ok, the story was about free internet access, not Faux News. We need to create free and neutral Internet access in this country where it is quickly becoming more expensive and slower than many third world countries. Freely distributed Internet access would create jobs and innovation desperately needed.

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