Marxists have always been repulsed by the profit motive – they’re only satisfied when people simply accept the directives of the Marxists instead of having their own motivations.

The Asia edition of the Wall Street Journal rips Barack Obama’s efforts to block the US-South Korea free-trade agreement today. … … he seems ignorant of several of its provisions, as well as lacking understanding of the benefit to American consumers and manufacturers. They conclude that Obama is “the most protectionist U.S. presidential candidate in decades”

The Asian edition? Now I wonder if that is merely coincidence. Probably not.

The Wall $treet Journal? The same Wall $treet Journal that likes “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” and Z-Visas? Yup, I think it’s the same one. So we should surely listen to their wise and unbiased council and probably just go with that.

Benefit to American consumers and manufacturers? Ya, that makes sense. About half the manufactured goods in the stores right now are “Made in China” or “Assembled in America” (but “Made in China”), so why not have the other half “Made in Korea” or “Assembled in America” (but “Made in Korea”)? Then we wouldn’t have to bother to manufacture anything at all. Such a deal! No, we should probably still manufacture military equipment I would think. No, might as well have all that “Made in China” or “Made in Korea” too then we could all just be patrons or service workers.

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often….

If the dems lose this one, their party completely implodes. Many good things flow from such a scenario.
techno_barbarian on May 28, 2008 at 10:29 AM

By the same token, if McCain loses, I think there will be a pretty big shake-up of the Republican Party too. The difference is that we have a core of conservatives currently out in the cold who would (hopefully) be willing to provide leadership.

But the Democrats have the opposite problem: instead of their philosophical leaders being too institutionally lazes faire, the fringe left have a deathgrip on their Party.

So if it’s the Democrat Party that implodes, the fringe left will be the only ones to blame. And there won’t be anyone on that side capable of picking up the pieces.

We still have to fight McCain at every step of the way…
techno_barbarian on May 28, 2008 at 10:29 AM

I’m afraid that’s a lost cause. McCain spat in the face of conservatives even while the freakin’ Republican Primary was going on. If he wins the national election after doing that, there is slightly less than zero chance he’ll move to the right after he’s in office – no matter what we do.

Shame on you.

Can’t wait to see McCain bodyslam him on this in the debates.

jgapinoy on May 28, 2008 at 9:39 AM

Can’t be. BO is going to make the world like us again by throwing the Iraqis to the wolves and making nice-nice with terrorists.

I routinely ask my Korean friends: “Where would you be today if you weren’t liberated from the invading North Korean armies in 1950-53?” It never seems to resonate much with them that 60,000 Americans died keeping them free…a price they can never repay; all we ask for is a stronger friendship democratically and economically, which helps us both…why doesn’t this get through their thick skulls? Alas, my answer has to do with irrational anti-Americanism, nothing more.

Richard Romano on May 28, 2008 at 9:46 AM

Well, when 34% of entrants to the SK military academy think the US is their enemy, it’s hardly surprising that many South Koreans think so little of us. Which, of course, makes us wonder what the hell we are doing there protecting such ungrateful people ignorant of their own history (and our part in it). While the US does not deserve Obama as its president, the South Koreans certainly do.

I also have high hopes for the recovery of the covered-wagon industry; those people once had good paying jobs too, you know.

DFL walls everywhere you look, except for the southern border.

If he is making the bozo bucket mistakes he is making right now, what the heck is he going to do if he is elected President, when these exact same mistakes can then do some really serious damage?

pilamaye on May 28, 2008 at 10:17 AM

Obambi will have his strings pulled by the CPUSA (Communist Party of the USA). Everything in his background points to it.

Clinton was smart enough to get the left to shut up during the ‘92 campaign about what they really wanted to do if Bill was elected. This year, the left is so mad at both Bush and Hillary, so enraptured with Obama and so confident of victory in November, that they have no fear of letting Barack spout the most inane economic or military policies and think only evil Bush-Clinton-McCain right wingers would oppose them.

jon1979 on May 28, 2008 at 10:15 AM

And in so doing, they expose themselves openly which will have the effect of allowing even closet-dem like McC to defeat them, driving the radical left past the brink and discrediting them completely.

If the dems lose this one, their party completely implodes. Many good things flow from such a scenario. We still have to fight McCain at every step of the way, but hopefully there will be a great deal less Obambi dem candidates and many more Blue Dogs. I’d rather see the dems come back with Blue Dogs than marxists.

I’m advocating for a defeat of the marxists this November. I think it’s the wisest course at this time in history.

Never fear. The really important folks like Hamas, Fidel, and Iran think he’s A-O.K.

Don’t forget Oprah…

This is a great debate to have in a presidential campaign. Do we negotiate with terrorists who are building nuclear weapons and threatening annihilation of our allies, but not with peaceful nations that want more trade with us that will result in more jobs and lower prices?

rockmom on May 28, 2008 at 9:43 AM

That’s a very good summary of where Obama stands.

If he is making the bozo bucket mistakes he is making right now, what the heck is he going to do if he is elected President, when these exact same mistakes can then do some really serious damage?

The problem is when you even look at the for public consumption record of Clinton and even Carter during the 1992 and 1976 campaigns, you can see they were specifically running campaigns that downplayed any excess influence by the left wing of the party, because of the public’s distrust of their policies. You really have to go back to LBJ in 1964 to find the last candidate on the Democratic side who unashamedly ran on liberal social and economic policies, and even then, the left boiled at hatred for him, because Johnson had usurped the Massachusetts Mafia (before there ever was the claims on the left that “Bush Knew” about Sept. 11 in advance, there were the claims that “LBJ Knew” about the Kennedy assassination in advance).

Clinton was smart enough to get the left to shut up during the ’92 campaign about what they really wanted to do if Bill was elected. This year, the left is so mad at both Bush and Hillary, so enraptured with Obama and so confident of victory in November, that they have no fear of letting Barack spout the most inane economic or military policies and think only evil Bush-Clinton-McCain right wingers would oppose them.

Are we really sure we want to help this guy win POTUS? He and the dems might just leave us with zero allies and trading partners in the world.

But not this messiah.