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."
--
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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