Goofy Political Gaffe of the Day: Obama -- US Should Be More Like China

Say WHAT?

Riehl World View has the video clip and the ranting analysis, so he saves me a lot of work. (Thanks!)

Here is a blurb from the Obama speech about China:

"Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly superior to us now, which means if you are a corporation deciding where to do business you’re starting to think, “Beijing looks like a pretty good option. Why aren't we doing the same thing?”

Here is Riehl's response:

"Obama is either incredibly naive, terribly misinformed, a communist, just flat out dumb or all of the above to be caught on tape making a statement like that."

And/or Obamessiah is an even bigger China fanboy than Matt Lauer!

It's one thing for a journalist to be easily impressed and overawed by the shiny side of the new China and then turn into a China cheerleader without realizing what he's actually doing. But for a potential president of the US? Shameful. Does he really not know that behind the gleaming public face of China, the side it's shown to the world at the Games, there is a vast hidden side? Come on. Perhaps we should send Obamessiah to visit a few "cancer villages" or the ever-increasing crowds of poor rural Chinese who were displaced to make way for the shiny new infrastructure and hydroelectric projects.

UPDATE: TigerHawk piles on with a piquant post title.