Yes, we can.

[scaeagles]

So Obama says yesterday -

"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.'"

Is he serious? Beijing is among, if not itself, the most polluted city in the world. They built this infrastructure specifically for the Olympics and for the image it would portray. The slums get no play. He has completely bought into the propaganda coming from the Olympics. This does not even mention how they built this infrastructure, with the displacement of thousands of people (if not hundreds of thousands) and ignoring devastating infrastructure issues that exist in other areas, such as the earthquake zone. Something tells me Obama wouldn't be keen on building up one American city at the expense of the much of the rest of the country getting nothing.

Also, just as one insane example in that quote, wasn't it just in December that over 500,000 people were stranded for weeks because the train system broke down?

And this is not to be critical of Obama, but it has come out the Hillary was never even investigated as a VP candidate. While I can't imagine that he would have ever considered her, I think it was a huge mistake not to make it appear as if he had. That's gonna be a huge slap in the face of the already disgruntled Hillary supporters.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Is he serious? Beijing is among, if not itself, the most polluted city in the world. They built this infrastructure specifically for the Olympics and for the image it would portray. The slums get no play. He has completely bought into the propaganda coming from the Olympics. This does not even mention how they built this infrastructure, with the displacement of thousands of people (if not hundreds of thousands) and ignoring devastating infrastructure issues that exist in other areas, such as the earthquake zone. Something tells me Obama wouldn't be keen on building up one American city at the expense of the much of the rest of the country getting nothing.

Can you point to the source of the quote so I can see the context? Because your rebuttal doesn't seem to directly have anything to do with what he said in quoted portion. He didn't say that the development of Beijing is something to be emulated he said it is something drawing the attention of business. Which is undeniably true.

But maybe there was something in the surrounding statement that gives it a different tone.

That's gonna be a huge slap in the face of the already disgruntled Hillary supporters.

But wouldn't coddling her with a symbolic vetting not have been another indicator that he'd roll over at the first sign of Russian aggression?

The Obama camp response is that they spent 18 months vetting her so they could campaign against her and already know about her. Can't say how it'll play in terms of political wisdom but I don't imagine that anybody who refuses to vote for Obama because he didn't check her out will be mollified any by the knowledge that he had and then STILL didn't choose her.

On another topic, I caught part of MSNBC political coverage the other night and Chris Dodd (or Chuck Dodd or Larry Todd, anyway the readheaded goateed guy) was saying that about 80% of the people still labeling themselves as undecided in these polls are Hillary Clinton supporters.

Unless the only reason they were supporting Clinton is that she was a woman and that overruled their more conservative leanings, regardless of hurt feelings I don't really see them breaking for McCain in a large way.