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5/16/2010

A New Era in U.S.-China Human Rights

Filed under: Immigration,International,Obama — DRJ @ 9:30 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

From John at PowerLine, the Obama Administration apologized for the Arizona immigration law during U.S.-China human rights talks, equating it to Chinese human rights violations:

This is unfreakingbelievable, even for the Obama administration:

The United States and China reported no major breakthroughs Friday after only their second round of talks about human rights since 2002.

The Obama administration wants to push Beijing to treat its citizens better, but it also needs Chinese support on Iranian and North Korean nuclear standoffs, climate change and other difficult issues. …

[Assistant Secretary of State Michael] Posner said in addition to talks on freedom of religion and expression, labor rights and rule of law, officials also discussed Chinese complaints about problems with U.S. human rights, which have included crime, poverty, homelessness and racial discrimination.

He said U.S. officials did not whitewash the American record and in fact raised on its [sic] own a new immigration law in Arizona that requires police to ask about a person’s immigration status if there is suspicion the person is in the country illegally.

What an idiot! China murdered millions of its citizens who opposed the government’s Communist policies and allows most of its people little or no freedom. We, on the other hand, enforce our immigration laws. No, wait–actually we don’t. That’s why Arizona had to take a shot at it. Oh, by the way, Michael Posner, you clueless moron–China actually does enforce its immigration laws.

These dopes are actually proud of themselves for being morally and historically ignorant …”

The PowerLine post also looks at the Administration’s statements and positions, and explains why they are even worse than the AP report suggests.

Thus, the Obama Administration had a choice between siding with a red State or with a red nation. Is this decision really that surprising?

— DRJ

17 Responses to “A New Era in U.S.-China Human Rights”

  1. Israel should change its name to China, and the Obama administration will apologize.

    aunursa (2680ce)

  2. Nah, aunursa, Israel should change its name to Palestine.

    John Hitchcock (9e8ad9)

  3. I guess this is worse than Neville Chamberlin, as I don’t think he ever stooped so low as to apologize to Hitler for any human rights abuses in Britain.

    The world upside down.

    I believe Johnny Depp as the “Mad Hatter” could make a more reasonable and consistent foreign policy than the one.

    MD in Philly (ea3785)

  4. just when you think they can inflict on more damage to these here United States…

    For all those who say Barry’s presidency sucks, from his perspective it is going swimmingly according to plan.

    gazzer (7c0559)

  5. Jon Huntsman should not permit those twatwaffles from Washington to set foot in China again. What a freaking embarrassment.

    In better news, Israel apparently denied a visa to Noam Chomsky. Heh!

    daleyrocks (1d0d98)

  6. What’s a Noam Chomsky? Is that a breed of hamster?

    John Hitchcock (9e8ad9)

  7. Apologizing to China for the Arizona immigration statute is what the liberals call “smart diplomacy”.

    Stu707 (0981d5)

  8. John – I think it’s a land living version of a sea slug that oozes pus, but I may be mistaken.

    daleyrocks (1d0d98)

  9. Thus, the Obama Administration had a choice between siding with a red State or with a red nation

    This is, after all, from a White House led by a guy into “Goddamn America.” So the voters who foolishly pulled the lever (or poked out the chad) for him: You’ve been goddamned (perhaps another form of being punked).

    Mark (411533)

  10. What they meant to say was, “Hey look! Our states are allowed to decide certain things for themselves, while your provinces are strictly regulated by central control. We encourage you to allow the same such freedoms as we have in the U.S.A.”

    No bother. Something must have been misunderstood in translation is all. A few well-placed bows should clear the matter right up.

    Icy Texan (07f5ff)

  11. For all those who say Barry’s presidency sucks, from his perspective it is going swimmingly according to plan.
    Comment by gazzer

    Indeed, that’s the scariest part.

    MD in Philly (ea3785)

  12. Bong-hit diplomacy.

    GeneralMalaise (fc86d7)

  13. In 2 & 1/2 years, we will have to apologize for the “Oreo Rookie”

    Neo (7830e6)

  14. Late Breaking:

    This evening Ropelight’s Far Out and Fraudulent News Service is reporting the Obama Administration is planning to push a 3847 page Emergency Reparations Bill through Congress before the witching hour tonight.

    The Bill, prepared in secret behind closed door sessions off-limits to everyone not under indictment in Chicago, is designed to save the planet from imminent destruction, and other important but unspecified provisions, all without allowing either members of Congress or relevant staff to even see the legislation, much less take time to read it.

    Reliable sources do however report that Air Force One is being prepared for take-off on a direct flight to China as soon as the vote count is certified. President Obama is expected to first make obeisance, then repay China’s shortfall on US Treasury Bonds before apologizing for America’s unauthorized use of the fortune cookie.

    ropelight (0433f3)

  15. That dingbat Michael Posner had apparently been a senior official of Humans Rights First since its founding in 1978, prior to his appointment with the State Department. This administration really has become the full employment agency for useless socialist clowns. You can’t make these biographies up.

    daleyrocks (1d0d98)

  16. Another leftist??? But… but… but I thought we’d heard Obama was a centrist… a great uniter… post-partisan… yada, yada…

    GeneralMalaise (fc86d7)

  17. Good grief, this is unbelievable. Does Great Leap and 20 million deaths mean nothing to this administration? Do they *even* know about it because I’m thinking they don’t.

    The Chinese brutally and ruthlessly killed their own, can you imagine what they would do to illegal immigrants?

    I’ll match our human rights issues with China’s any day, and guess what, we will always, always, always come out smelling like a rose in comparison…actually, there really is no comparison.

    Dana (1e5ad4)


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