Friday, January 21, 2011

Hu's On First

It was the arrival of Capo di Tuti Capo, Hu Jintau. He glided down the stairs of his jumbo jet accompanied by a contingent of his military to be met by our gaffester-in-chief, VP Joe Biden. Hu didn't bow, didn't scrape, didn't nod. He is, after all, the boss and owner of a significant chunk of our once great nation.

The Messiah conversed after the photo-op with him doing his own obligatory bow. Apparently the Chinese custom of reciprocal head nodding doesn't apply to the President and Party Boss of the nation, especially when visiting a vassal state. The Bamster and the Belle had an exclusive state dinner for the man. Something they had not done for heads of state from long-term ally nations like Britain, France or Australia. Fine wine and prime beef for the Capo as the leader of the formerly free world basked in the radiance of his master.

Then, of course, the address to the nation. The press conference announcing who did what to whom for what price. How did that go? Well here is one interpretation:

Tiger Dines on Dove. Dove Coos Gratefully

That's right, folks. Driving an exceptionally hard bargain, the Bamster came away with $19 billion dollars in Boeing contracts which were signed in 2007 under the previous administration. What a businessman!

What's on second? I Don't Know is on third.

1 comment:

Murphy's Law said...

Ed,

I note no mention at all of the hundreds and hundreds of Chinese and Tibetians (and Americans) who are protesting on Pennsylvania Avenue today and over the last three days. They are doing something that they cannot do in China: protesting Hu.

If it was Bush in the White House entertaining some other unpopular foreign dictator and wining and dining him luxuriously, those protests would be on the front page of every major US newspaper and political blog. But Obama and Hu? Almost total silence. But the protesters ARE there, with drums and costumes and banners and parade dragons. They are demanding freedom. Some have been arrested during this protest. All have been ignored by the press, right along with their cause. How does THAT work?