Obama's biggest humiliation occurred on Nov 20 2012, but the left wing media said nothing? Thoughts...
KCurtis
2012/12/03 23:51:08
It is
symptomatic of the national condition of the
United States that the worst humiliation ever
suffered by it as a nation, and by a US president
personally, passed almost without comment last
week. I refer to the November 20 announcement at a
summit meeting in Phnom Penh that 15 Asian
nations, comprising half the world's population,
would form a Regional Comprehensive Economic
Partnership excluding the United States.
President Barack Obama attended the summit
to sell a US-based Trans-Pacific Partnership
excluding China. He didn't. The American
led-partnership became a party to which no-one
came.
Instead, the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations, plus China, India, Japan,
South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, will form
a club and leave out the United States. As 3
billion Asians become prosperous, interest fades
in the prospective contribution of 300 million Americans -
especially when those Americans decline to take
risks on new technologies. America's great
economic strength, namely its capacity to
innovate, exists mainly in memory four years after
the 2008 economic crisis.
A minor issue in
the election campaign, the Trans-Pacific
Partnership initiative was the object of enormous
hype on the policy circuit. Salon.com enthused on
October 23,
grand, game-changing vision mattered only to the
sad, strange people who concoct policy in the
bowels of the Obama administration. America's
relative importance is fading.
symptomatic of the national condition of the
United States that the worst humiliation ever
suffered by it as a nation, and by a US president
personally, passed almost without comment last
week. I refer to the November 20 announcement at a
summit meeting in Phnom Penh that 15 Asian
nations, comprising half the world's population,
would form a Regional Comprehensive Economic
Partnership excluding the United States.
President Barack Obama attended the summit
to sell a US-based Trans-Pacific Partnership
excluding China. He didn't. The American
led-partnership became a party to which no-one
came.
Instead, the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations, plus China, India, Japan,
South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, will form
a club and leave out the United States. As 3
billion Asians become prosperous, interest fades
in the prospective contribution of 300 million Americans -
especially when those Americans decline to take
risks on new technologies. America's great
economic strength, namely its capacity to
innovate, exists mainly in memory four years after
the 2008 economic crisis.
A minor issue in
the election campaign, the Trans-Pacific
Partnership initiative was the object of enormous
hype on the policy circuit. Salon.com enthused on
October 23,
This agreement is a core part of theAs it happened, this
"Asia pivot" that has occupied the activities of
think tanks and policymakers in Washington but
remained hidden by the tinsel and confetti of
the election. But more than any other policy,
the trends the TPP represents could restructure
American foreign relations, and potentially the
economy itself.
grand, game-changing vision mattered only to the
sad, strange people who concoct policy in the
bowels of the Obama administration. America's
relative importance is fading.
Read More: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/NK27Dj...
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BUCCANEER~POTL~PWCM~JLA 2012/12/03 23:54:28
'MUTUAL RESPECT': OBAMA GREETED LIKE A SERVANT BY CAMBODIA'S FIRST LADY
During a recent visit to Cambodia, President Barack Obama appeared to have been slighted by the country’s first lady without realizing it.
Bun Rany, wife of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, appeared to greet Obama with a dismissive gesture meant to be used in addressing servants. The incident occurred after a “tense” meeting between Sen and Obama over human rights concerns the WH has with Cambodia’s government.
In the placement of her hands and her posture towards Obama, Bun Rany appeared to be insulting the president when she was introduced to him, according to the Investor’s Business Daily. Her husband looked on during the exchange, smiling.
Other commenters claim that Bun Rany was trying to greet President Obama as a peer through her gesture, but the Investor’s Business Daily editorial board claimed the move was “a little dig that was probably lost on him but not to Asians.”
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Bringsd back memories.............
I'm just not sure if obie is bowing, curtsying,
"This figure of 4.5 million new jobs created by Obama became the mantra of the left to show that Obama had turned the economy around. Since employment, jobs and the economy are, collectively, the issue which is singularly most important to voters in this 2012 Presidential election campaign, the institutional claim by the Democratic Party of 4.5 million new jobs deserves fact checking.
CNN's Tom Foreman and Erin Burnett ran the 4.5 million new jobs claim to ground in their fact checking. Foreman said that the problem with the Democrat's claim wasn't in the math, but in the context. While 4.5 million private sector jobs have been added during this administration, Burnett said, the problem is that there were also “many jobs lost. In fact, there were five million private sector jobs lost. So, net jobs lost, private sector, 500,000,” said Burnett. She said that if you look at other jobs, including government jobs, “the picture is actually much worse. In terms of net loss, we are still 1.1 million jobs in the hole under this administration.”"
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"This figure of 4.5 million new jobs created by Obama became the mantra of the left to show that Obama had turned the economy around. Since employment, jobs and the economy are, collectively, the issue which is singularly most important to voters in this 2012 Presidential election campaign, the institutional claim by the Democratic Party of 4.5 million new jobs deserves fact checking.
CNN's Tom Foreman and Erin Burnett ran the 4.5 million new jobs claim to ground in their fact checking. Foreman said that the problem with the Democrat's claim wasn't in the math, but in the context. While 4.5 million private sector jobs have been added during this administration, Burnett said, the problem is that there were also “many jobs lost. In fact, there were five million private sector jobs lost. So, net jobs lost, private sector, 500,000,” said Burnett. She said that if you look at other jobs, including government jobs, “the picture is actually much worse. In terms of net loss, we are still 1.1 million jobs in the hole under this administration.”"
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Plus.."New" cann be achieved until you ahve replaced the Loss First...Then "New" takes over...
Math 101....Which HE Sucks At.....
The New Method of Counting Jobs...any jobe over 2-consecutive weeks can be Counted...according the the Dep of Labor Statictis
This Is A total Slap in the Face to the US, and By Our Allies, is really a Major Embarrassement to say the least...
One Item of Note....These Countries also have significent Muslim Polulations as well...
Also Control The Majority of Rare Earth Materials, used in Hight Tech Elect, Solar, Energy, Space, Weapons and Guidence Systems...No wonder We are Excluded...
OUR Allies Alienated US from a Program HE went to Conduct....It did not happen...That is the Point...
SH should have a Neg rave as well...lol~!!!
Obama has no plan but to raise taxes. his own Father said it would be good to raise taxes to 100 percent" you think anyone with any wealth will stick around? Then who will he go after? The rest of us. That's who.
The next four years are not going to be rough. They are going to be a disaster.
in the prospective contribution of 300 million Americans -
especially when those Americans decline to take
risks on new technologies." ~ Key statement.
As long as republicans continue to fight moving forward with new 'green' technology, space exploration and science in general. We as a nation, will fall deeper into the abyss. "We lead the world in only three categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending."
Besides...Green Tech, is Controled Bt these Countries that Excluded us from their Club...
The Materials Used are known as "Rare Earth Materials"....theay are Used in every form of Advanced Tech, Solar, Energy, Space....
China and Finland Control the Majority of Mined Reare Earth Materials...Japan has themed up with Thailand...India has teamed up with another Country...Auz and NZ have teamed Up...
Soon All Countries will Have to Purchase from these Major Holders....
The US has 15% of the World's Rare Earth Materials....Yet We buy from China, in lieu of Mining Our Own..Same as with Oil..We Buy from others...
It is Called....Making the US Dependent on Others....THIRD WORLD Status...
NASA was hoping to acquire lots of business launching satellites for other countries, but that didn't pan out because the competition from others countries proved they could do it cheaper. The 'space program' is still alive, a little derailed maybe, but far from dead.
Well, 'green technology' is a very wide ranging term. China did ease up on their exporting restrictions, but that should not be our focus. The DOE has funded many projects to develop materials that won't need rare-earth-materials. I'm really encouraged that we are moving in that direction when I read out electric hybrids for instance. The debate over 'going green' and 'climate change' is over. Its time to embrace change and acknowledge without doing so, we will end up in third world status as you predict.
Hybrids? Subsidized by the Government at a rate of 30k per! Yea that amounts to the start of statism in other words business run and managed by the government. We got those, ever hear of the US Postal Service?
Again, relax and don't overreact. The government is NOT taking over the private sector.