Zomi wrote:
> =====
>
> US hopefuls use China-ba****ng in Ohio
>
> AP, WA****NGTON
> Sunday, Mar 02, 2008, Page 7
>
>
> Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama eats a tortilla
> during a campaign stop at the Sombrero Festival in Brownsville, Texas,
on
> Friday. PHOTO: AP
>
>
> China has proven a reliable punching bag, and potential vote-getter, for
> US presidential candidates: The fast-growing country's massive
factories,
> staffed by underpaid workers, fill US stores with tainted food and
> dangerous toys, voters are told.
>
> Candidates accuse China's government of cru****ng dissent and befriending
> thug rulers in Sudan and Myanmar; Beijing's currency manipulation and
> trade distortions, they say, make it impossible for US companies to
> compete.
>
> As a crucial primary on Tuesday in the industrial, midwestern US state
of
> Ohio approaches, Senator Hillary Clinton and Democratic presidential
> front-runner Senator Barack Obama are each working to convince voters
that
> they are the stronger candidate to confront China.
>
> The campaign China-ba****ng offers another side to what US President
George
> W. Bush calls the "complicated" relation****p with Beijing. His
> administration has balanced criticism with a recognition of China as an
> im****tant trading partner and as a world power whose cooperation is
needed
> to settle nuclear standoffs with Iran and North Korea.
>
> Voters are wary of China's rise. With US recession fears growing, many
> Americans are more likely to think about jobs lost to China than about
the
> low prices they pay for Chinese products. Their view of China's power
can
> also be exaggerated: A recent survey found that four in 10 Americans
> believed China, not the US, was the world's top economic power.
>
> Candidates are trying to tap into that unease. Yet, despite the tough
> talk, whoever wins the White House could take a more moderate approach
The
> next president will need Chinese help to confront a host of global
issues
> im****tant to the US.
>
> Clinton, in a foreign policy speech this week, dealt with voter
discomfort
> with China. "Today, China's steel comes here and our jobs go there," she
> said. "We play by the rules and they manipulate their currency. We get
> tainted fish and lead-laced toys and poisoned pet food in return."
>
> Obama has recently called China "the biggest beneficiary and the biggest
> problem that we have with respect to trade."
>
> He spoke of Ohio workers watching equipment being "unbolted from the
> floors of factories and ****pped to China, resulting in devastating job
> losses and communities completely falling apart."
>
> In Ohio, where thousands of manufacturing jobs have disappeared this
> decade, the complaints on China will appeal to voters.
>
> "China is very front and center," Senator Sherrod Brown, an Democrat
from
> the state, said. "My guess is both candidates would acknowledge that
trade
> is a bigger issue in Ohio than even they knew."
>
> China's economic and trade policies have long been criticized by US
> lawmakers and manufacturers, especially as a huge US trade deficit with
> China has grown. The trade gap has been blamed for contributing to the
> loss of 3 million manufacturing jobs in the US since 2000.
>
> Dozens of bills in Congress would punish China for what critics see as
> unfair trade practices.
>
> Ralph Cossa, president of the Pacific Forum CSIS think tank, said that
> whatever the candidates say about China during the campaign, Bush's
> successor will find a way to improve ties with China.
>
> As Obama and Clinton fight for the right to face presumed Republican
> nominee Senator John McCain, China is closely watching how it is
****trayed
> by the candidates.
>
> Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (???) told re****ters this week that
> he spends "more time watching US television channels and reading US
> newspapers than what I did in previous years."
>
> Asked if US-China relations could be hurt by domestic US politics, Yang
> said it is a "mainstream consensus" among Democrats and Republicans to
> "further grow the relation****p with China."
>
> Recently, McCain has measured his comments on China, criticizing its
> pollution and efforts on climate change.
>
> He also has taken a tough line, saying the US "must take note" of
China's
> "warlike rhetoric" toward US ally Taiwan.
>
> China's close economic and diplomatic relations with "pariah states"
such
> as Myanmar, Sudan and Zimbabwe will result in tensions, McCain wrote in
> the journal Foreign Affairs.
>
>
>
> http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2008/03/02/2003403677
>
> =====
some of Obama's close friends
* David Axelrod is a left-leaning Democratic political consultant
> who's mother was once a journalist on the pro-communist paper PM. PM
> was considered the alternative paper in Communist Party circles to the
> Daily Worker. David Axelrod is a political consultant for Barack
> Obama.
>
> * William Ayers was a former member of the Weathermen, a
> revolutionary Marxist organization that engaged in bombings. Ayers had
> no regrets in his group's terrorist activities which included bombings
> of the United States Senate and Pentagon; Ayers was quoted saying, "I
> don't regret setting bombs; I feel we didn't do enough." Ayers is now
> a college professor. Obama praised Ayers concerning an article he
> wrote on the juvenile justice system in Chicago. Ayers and Obama
> served together on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago. Ayers gave
> Obama a $200 donation for his reelection for state senate of
> Illinois.
>
> * Frank Marshall Davis, a close mentor of Obama's in the 70's, was
> an admitted member of the Communist Party-USA. Obama mentions him
> multiple times in his book. The House on Un-American Activities
> Committee (HUAC) accused Davis of involvement in several communist-
> front organizations."
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Only a FOOL would believe in the FOLLY of Global Warming
Al Gore's movie IS an opinion (or more accurately a political device), and
there's very little 'scientific evidence' in it.
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=332289
http://www.newstatesman.com/200712190004
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=485336&in_page_id=1811
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/04/eaclimate104.xml
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