Japan PM to Resign
[Guest post by DRJ]
Apparently Japan’s Prime Minister came into office on a promise to move a U.S. Marine base off the southern island of Okinawa, and he plans to step down because that hasn’t happened during his 8 month term:
“Public broadcaster NHK said Wednesday that Hatoyama told his party executives he intended to step down over his broken campaign promise to move a U.S. Marine base off the southern island of Okinawa.
The embattled prime minister has faced growing pressure from within his own party to resign ahead of July elections.
His approval ratings have plummeted over the bungling, reinforcing his public image as an indecisive leader after only eight months in office since September.”
Americans and Japanese are very different. We expect our leaders to bungle things.
— DRJ
He is also a leftist and made some promises about the economy. We know how those work out.
Mike K (82f374) — 6/1/2010 @ 6:28 pmWait, wait… this is a great precedent. So since obama can’t close gitmo?
Anyway, call me cynical, but expect real reason to turn out to be a bimbo scandal in 3… 2… 1…
A.W. (f97997) — 6/1/2010 @ 9:09 pmIn some places in the world, honor still means something. DC is not one of those places.
AD - RtR/OS! (7f80d9) — 6/1/2010 @ 11:51 pmWord is that he is even MORE incompetent than Obama. Can we dump obama before he does more harm?
J (2946f2) — 6/2/2010 @ 5:09 am