ASIDE FROM THAT MR. VICE PRESIDENT--DID YOU ENJOY THE DINNER? -- Just A Minute Radio for Thursday 110120

            Of course you remember the old Abbot & Costello short about “Who’s on First?”  Well Mr. HU was at the State Dinner at the White House last evening… and the joke going around was Mr. Biden was hardly  talked out of doing his comic routine of ‘Who’s On First.’ I suppose President HU of the PRC wondered what all the snickering was about.

 

            Mr. Obama has pushed himself forward toward regimes like Iran, and China and half a dozen others that are not that cozy with the USA.  You remember the famous “bowing” down picture that made the papers in his first year.  Now this year … he – a 2009 Nobel Prize winner (who knows what for?) has carefully avoided taking notice of the Chinese Government’s holding the *current* Nobel Prize winner in either house arrest or prison.  A rather odd arrangement for two “winners” don’t you think?

 

            Aside from the “Hu’s on First” jokes… another one is the Chinese President’s “inability” to hear the question posed by one of the reporters at the joint press conference at the White House. The possibility President Hu didn’t hear – or understand the first questioner – is believable, but when a second newsman asked a similar question… there were long pauses in the translator’s voice as the struggled to make the answer cogent… and missed.  It was an obvious embarrassment which would not have been endured “back home” – and was difficult to side-step a second time.

 

            China – as a unified nation – has the *worst* ‘human rights’ record in the world for treating prisoners and their own populace in a harsh and sometimes horrible manner. The ‘people in charge’ have sent their own college professors to labor camps during the days of the Red Guards – who were trying to unseat the ruling class – and what was called the “Cultural Revolution.”

 

Mao has the worst human rights record in recorded history… except the history is not recorded very accurately as far as China is concerned. Best estimates are in the 60,000 and up range of people who died at the hands of their own government. Compared with the 13 thousand or so tops… that died in Nazi concentration camps, Hitler was ‘playing for peanuts’ compared with the Chinese Communists in the days of their‘re-education’ movement.  Most educators, artists and ‘bourgeoisie’ were sent to the countryside, thrown in prison or otherwise demeaned until they deferred to the Communist proletariat – the ruling class that dominate China under the Communist Class system. It’s a record not to be envied.

 

            In any case… the Obama Administration pays little attention to that ‘history’ and goes on it’s way favoring the groups that do not favor America—and he seemingly shows little interest in understanding the struggles that have brought us to this point in American history. But… on we go.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

            Jack Buttram

 

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ASIDE FROM THAT MR. VICE PRESIDENT – DID YOU ENJOY DINNER?

Just a Minute: - The joke at the White House State Dinner Wednesday evening was -- Joe Biden was barely talked out of his comic routine – “Hu’s on first.”

More serious things were abroad such as the “Stealth” fighter China brandished just before China’s President Hu sat down to dinner with the Obama’s. China chafes under constraints America and allies placed around “our banker.” Little notice is taken of China’s recent $40 billion investment in Iran’s oil industry.

Does that ‘ring a bell’ at the National Security Council? 

Does President Hu’s “inability to hear”  questions posed to him at the White House press briefing, about China’s oppression of it’s people -- or does it register Mr. Hu’s regime holds a Nobel Prize winner in chains – bringing not a peep of protest from the Nobel Winner currently occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? 

We’ve simply seen another deliberate kowtowing to a regime we should be cajoling to our side – improving world peace not threatening it. 

It comes as another blot on the record of this Administration that could well affect history. 

<>I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

 

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