"Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly 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. Why aren't we doing the same thing?”
Obama is either incredibly naive, terribly misinformed, a communist, just flat out dumb or all of the above to be caught on tape making a statement like that.
All of the above? More:
In all this activity it greatly helps to have a secretive planning bureaucracy and a government that brooks little dissent. In Britain it took as long to conduct a public inquiry into the proposed construction of Heathrow's Terminal Five as it took to build Beijing's new airport terminal from scratch.
There was no consultation with the public on the terminal. Nor was there any public debate about the construction of Beijing's third runway, notwithstanding the noise pollution already suffered by thousands of nearby residents.
Chinese official Xu Li said, Once a plan is made, it is executed. “Democracy”, she says, “sacrifices efficiency.”
Let's not let the little people have a say. Change some can believe in.
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Don't miss the comments to that article, also fascinating. If the Republicans can keep from stepping on their collective whatever, this election should be a lock for McCain.
It is far closer than many think it should be. This says more about Obama as the candidate than McCain. Now if it was Hillary as the nominee, I think this would all be over. I think Hillary is like Perot in 92, a spoiler that divides the base.
Since the DNC has totally caved and proved what hypocrites they are by deciding at the last minute that oh, yeah, we'll recognize the FL delegates after all, no hard feelings, what do you think of the chances that Hillary could still cause significant commotion, if not take the nomination away? FL and MI were both Hillary states. Of course it would be nuts, but could it actually even happen? I might have to actually watch the convention this week, just to see the fireworks.
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