Mixed Messages
By Mitch Berg
Katie Kieffer on the mixed messages Obama is sending China – aka “America’s Lienholder”:
Mixed messages are useful if we want confuse, frustrate or anger another country. They are not useful in diplomacy or relationship-building. Mixed messages are dangerous because they make the U.S. appear weak and untrustworthy. Here are some of the mixed messages that we’ve given China, our biggest debtor and whose central bank owns $896 billion in Treasury bonds:
What, you think I’m doing to just paste the whole thing? Read the post.
January 20th, 2011 at 8:54 am
Correction: they make the Obama appear weak and untrustworthy. Which is accurate.
January 20th, 2011 at 9:17 am
Did the MSM FAIL to record the BammyBow™ rendered to Hu Jintao, or did I miss it?
January 20th, 2011 at 9:44 am
It took place behind closed doors. I think there may have been some “debt service” involved.
January 20th, 2011 at 11:13 am
I think there may have been some “debt service” involved.
I wonder if it required the use of the presidential kneepads…
(yes, I DID just go there)
January 20th, 2011 at 11:35 am
That’s where I pointed, Bill.