Tourist-in-Chief: Obama Visits The Forbidden City

What is this tourism costing Americans?

Maybe this is a made up trip to made up places like the transparent stimulus web site.

“Though the Ming dynasty’s power was great it eventually fell. As with the other dynasties, rebellion broke out against wide spread corruption.”
No wonder Obama thought it was awesome. Every politician from Chicago can relate to wide spread corruption!

Would someone ask president Obama, is there a testament to the greatness of American history? And, he can’t answer himself. He has to mention something other than his own awesomeness.

Whenever he gets back …. maybe he can explain how the stimulus created jobs in non-existent congressional districts.
This is just another example of why the government can’t run health-care.

There’s a rumor that everybody else was cleared out of the Forbidden City for his visit.
Nobody to bow to?

Tourist-in-Chief. That kinda sums up Obama at home, too.

He might want to come home and explain these bogus congretional districts and how he thinks the public should trust these morons to running health care. Sorry dude can’t lay this one on GWB.

Where is all this money that went to non existent districts?
In Democratic coffers??????
let the left wing learn of trials….bring on the grand jury to investigate this stolen money
LMAO, and Obama wants to run healthcare..what an idiot he is
Breast cancer anyone…anyone..rationed Deathcare

Posted by: Visualize Whirled Peas
I specified Obama, which means 2009, but if you want to look at semi-recent history we can re-examine the mistakes of Reagan in supporting Saddam, and the ‘arms for hostages’, contras,
Bush in Iraq and his abandonment of the troops in Afghanistan, all ‘triumphs’ of the rightwing.
- remember, ‘denial’ is not a river..

Posted by: Visualize Whirled Peas
I specified Obama, which means 2009,
Posted by: Oh Yeah | Nov 17, 2009 3:11:54 PM
No, actually you specified the right wing and their usual (which infers not just 2009) POV which I thought was funny since liberals at times in our history have also had a bomb ‘em POV.

Posted by: jhw539 | Nov 17, 2009 3:50:06 PM
Medicare is expected to be broke by what 2017. Some would say the more reason for goverment health care. I do not be BUREACRATS are not the answer to the problem. Have you ever been to the post office and stood in a real long line while 2 people are on break and 1 working the counter? That’s goverment at work for you. Like my 75 yr old step dad said. It’s not going to effect me but young people are going to be effected the most.

I realize all the White House reporters are in China but how about a little sumpin’ about the Obama administration adding 440 phantom Congressional districts according to the government’s “Recovery” website.
That’s actually more five more fake districts than the 435 which actually exist.
Somehow the White House showed $6.4 billion from the stimulus bill going to these 440 nonexistent districts.
I think we need an investigation.

I am so glad that we elected a
Propaganda-In-Chief
Fundraiser-In-Chief
Tourist-In-Chief
Campaigner-In-Chief
Bow-In-Chief

The thing boters me the most is that he doesn’t seem to have a clue. He looked scattered. It is pretty disturbing thing. All the above plus his far left agenda made me worried a lot about our country.
In the past years after election, I never bother to participate in any polital discussion like I do right now. I didn’t vote for Bush Sr. and Bush Jr., but I didn’t pay attention to any post election news. Yet Obama made me so feel so unsecured and I kept on blogging after the election.
I firt blogged on CNN. But later I found out that they deleted some of my comments if I raised a question about Obama. It really made me upset and frustrated. I will not watch cnn in the next 3 years since they are so biased.
Bye bye DEM PARTY. I don’t like the direction this president is leading us to. I am an independent now who will likely to vote for REPUBLICANS the first time in my life.

Medicare is government run health insurance. Until Republicans do anything – even words – to reign in Medicare, they are just playing politics and making up fantasies about how our government can’t run a health insurance program.
Posted by: jhw539 | Nov 17, 2009 3:50:06 PM
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Um, I’m not sure you realize this, but you just said government can’t run a health insurance program. LOL!

“Gallup has Obama’s approval at 50%, 42% disapproval. 8% apparently voting not present.”
And yesterday it was 53.
Daily tracking polls should show some volatility from day to day.

Did Barack Obama have over 10 unpaid parking tickets from Cambridge,Massachusetts at the time he took the Illinois Bar exam?Is there or is there not a specific question on the bar exam relating to unpaid tickets and the seriousness of failing to report that status? Did Barack Obama at the beginning of his Presidential campaign send in excess of $200 to the city of Cambridge to cover the same unpaid parking tickets or did he not?

Daily tracking polls should show some volatility from day to day.
Posted by: Ryan C | Nov 17, 2009 7:35:30 PM
I just took a poll at my house. Out of a a total of 2 polled, 100% disapprove of Obama, 0% approve. The cat refused to get involved.

More from Harvard’s estimable Dean Flier, M,D.:
“In discussions with dozens of health-care leaders and economists, I find near unanimity of opinion that, whatever its shape, the final legislation that will emerge from Congress will markedly accelerate national health-care spending rather than restrain it. Likewise, nearly all agree that the legislation would do little or nothing to improve quality or change health-care’s dysfunctional delivery system. The system we have now promotes fragmented care and makes it more difficult than it should be to assess outcomes and patient satisfaction. The true costs of health care are disguised, competition based on price and quality are almost impossible, and patients lose their ability to be the ultimate judges of value.
“Worse, currently proposed federal legislation would undermine any potential for real innovation in insurance and the provision of care. It would do so by overregulating the health-care system in the service of special interests such as insurance companies, hospitals, professional organizations and pharmaceutical companies, rather than the patients who should be our primary concern.”

Hmm, no answers to the Bar issues-which leads me to another question:does Barack Obama have a current license to practice law in Illinois? If not,why was it revoked?If not,why would such a brilliant lawyer not be eligible to practice law?Why hasn’t the Press asked these elemental questions?

“If Republicans had any philosophical integrity in this argument, they wouldn’t be able to denounce a public option at the same time they passionately vow to defend all Medicare funding from the slightest cut.”
This argument is so badly flawed as to be silly. While for fiscal reasons Medicare was horrible public policy from the outset, once it became law millions of people developed a reliance interest in it, rationally foregoing other means of providing for their health expenses after age 65. That is its
most pernicious characteristic, and is perhaps the strongest part of the case against Pelosicare: while it is unimaginably bad public policy, it will be almost impossible to undo its damage once it has been inflicted.

Meanwhile, as Obama is touring on our dime…
AP: For the three months ended Sept. 30, 6.25 percent of U.S. mortgage loans were 60 or more days past due, according to credit reporting agency TransUnion. That’s up 58 percent from 3.96 percent a year ago.
Hooray for green shoots!!

“…does Barack Obama have a current license to practice law in Illinois? If not,why was it revoked?”
If he doesn’t, perhaps he simply let it expire.

A few notes on the new ABC/WaPo poll:
“Despite every indication that the partisan split among Americans has narrowed considerably since the last Presidential election, won by the Democrat by seven points while garnering considerable independent and Republican cross-over votes, the new Washington Post/ABC poll uses a sample in which Democrats outnumber Republicans by fourteen points. Moreover, the WaPo/ABC poll has progressively widened that gap over the last four monthly polls:
* 11/15/09: 35/21/39 (D/R/I)
* 10/18/09: 33/20/42
* 9/12/09: 32/21/43
* 8/17/09: 35/25/34
“Let’s have a reality check here. In the last four months, which party would have lost ~20% of its representation in the polls and had them shift to the independent column?”

Republican candidates maintain a six-point advantage over Democrats in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 44% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 38% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent.
Support for each party rose one point from last week. Republicans have held the lead for over four months now.
Voters not affiliated with either party continue to heavily favor Republicans, 41% to 24%.

Time for the adults to take over.
Posted by: Gibberish
seems to me that’s what Bush and the crime family said when they first took office, along with the business people are here to run America like a corporation, ..
…left America in a fine place didn’t they..

Who’s he bowing to now?

There are standards for Barack Obama, then there are standards for the rest of society.
Posted by: Nephron
your birth certificate is requested at the nearest ‘secret’ FEMA re-education camp