Stir the Pot

My previous post mentions Good Morning America. This Sunday's program had a news story about the G-20 Summit. The reporterette had the gaul to say that the menu at the Summit raised eyebrows as the leaders dined on lamb and wine that cost upward of $400. Is she kidding? These are the leaders of the twenty largest economies on earth. Did she expect them to wait in line at a soup kitchen or go thru the takeout window at McDonald's. Does she believe the Obamas will subsist on bread and water? This is promulgating class envy and populist bull. There is little sense and even less integrity in the old line media. I heard today on Fox News Sunday that Dick Parsons, the head of Time Warner, is a senior Obama advisor. That relationship should have been mentioned early and often by every magazine and news program generated by his company, then those voters who were not cognizant of it could have taken everything reported with a grain of salt. News should be objective, not an editorial in disguise, tainted with concealed bias.

Mind the China

Great Britain cynically and cravenly recognized China's control of Tibet yesterday to gain China's acquiescence on financial matters at the G-20 summit. This is dangerous as it endorses might is right and opens the doors wider to a potential attack by China on Taiwan. Ethnic Tibetans are not Chinese and even when the Dalai Lama abandoned the quest to regain Tibetan independence, China's bloody occupation did not become right. Israel should now annex all its former territory on this theory as at least it has a plausible a priori claim on the land (the Bible). While Prime Minister Brown seems to be charting a decent course calling for lower taxes, his kowtowing to China may come back to haunt him.

Arrogance and Ignorance

Obama and the Democrats made much of American unilateralism-Bush the go it alone cowboy, during the campaign. Yet, when invited to the G-20 Summit with the world's most powerful economies gathered to work their way out of recession, Obama deigns not show up. Reportedly. he has sent two representatives including former Secretary of State Madeline Halfwit. Is Obama so almighty and infallible that he need not listen to the constructive ideas of other world leaders? Or could it be the case that Obama does not want to betray his ignorance on matters economic to so many luminaries? In either case, Obama and the US could benefit from solutions like the one offered by Gordon Brown-certainly no rightist Prime Minister, for global tax cuts to stimulate economic growth. Obama has no intention of listening to anyone who doesn't promote his brand of socialism.