{"id":1250,"date":"2009-11-14T10:52:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T14:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2009-11-14T10:52:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T14:52:11","slug":"obama-is-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/obama-is-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama is in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess he had to check in with the Communist Chinese government, since they hold the mortgage on his Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if he is going to check on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=378\">those training programs in China the US taxpayer paid for<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/11\/12\/AR2009111209343.html\">Dana Milbank points out in the Washington Post<\/a> that getting out of the country when bad economic news hits is how our <em>Dear Leader<\/em> rolls:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Unemployment hits 9.4 percent. President Obama flies to France.<\/p>\n<p>Joblessness reaches 9.7 percent. Obama jets off to Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>The rate of those out of work soars to 10.2 percent. Obama packs his bags for Japan, Singapore, China and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with the worst domestic economy in decades, the president has responded &#8212; by setting a record for foreign travel.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n[&#8230;] Obama was safely over Canada when his Treasury Department announced another record monthly budget deficit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The economy clearly isn&#8217;t much of an issue for our <em>Dear Leader<\/em><em>, since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=763\">there is clearly<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=464\">no recession<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=250\">at the Obama White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess he had to check in with the Communist Chinese government, since they hold the mortgage on his Presidency. I wonder if he is going to check on those training programs in China the US taxpayer paid for. Update: Dana Milbank points out in the Washington Post that getting out of the country when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,19],"tags":[140,228,262,294,414,621,647,839],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bho-politics","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-communist-china","tag-democrat","tag-economy","tag-incompetent","tag-politics","tag-recession","tag-worst-president-ever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-ka","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}