Ed Morrissey @ Hot Air:
Well, this is certainly a brilliant strategy on the part of Team Obama to attack Mitt Romney on foreign policy. Two leading figures in the campaign urged people to read the state-run Chinese news service Xinhua in response to criticism leveled by Romney, as Daniel Halper noticed. First up, deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter:
Must read:China's Xinhua slams Romney for making his money off Chinese companies before running for pres. #hypocrisy http://t.co/ZkHe8pu7
— Stephanie Cutter (@stefcutter) September 14, 2012
Shortly afterward, Team Obama’s rapid-response director wanted to point out “irony”:
Xinhua on @MittRomney: "ironic" that his wealth "was actually obtained by doing business with Chinese companies" http://t.co/qe20qjmi
— Danny Kanner (@DannyKanner) September 14, 2012
You know what’s really ironic? Campaign officials attacking Romney as clueless by using a news service widely regarded as a disinfomation channel for China’s communist regime. But don’t take my word for it — ask Reporters Without Borders, an NGO that can hardly be described as “conservative.” In 2005, RWB called Xinhua “the world’s biggest propaganda machine … at the heart of censorship and disinformation” in its service to the regime in Beijing:
Obama’s internal (private) polling numbers must be getting pretty bad to stoop this low.
It reminded me that last year Obama actually said he’d rather be president in China than here.
It would be easier, he said.
Sheesh!
All he does is vacation, golf, fly to fundraisers and read a teleprompter!
He dithers, delays, bows and blames when he has to ”govern.”
What’s so hard?
Why am I not surprised the Chinese are trying to help obama? They understand he is their bitch and utterly incompetent, which only helps them.
A number of tyrants loved carter too.
A little soothing music by James Taylor, just to calm people down.