This has got to be the joke of the year! Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang claims that President Obama should be sympathetic to China as an African American person whose personal hero is President Abraham Lincoln. You know, China keeping Tibet at all cost is equivalent to President Lincoln freeing slaves!

First, let me state my position on the Tibet issue. I do not know if the Tibetan people want the Chinese in their land or if they want their own independent state. What I do know that China’s excuse that “since one billion people want Tibet to be part of China, therefore it should be part of China”, is wrong and baseless. So if this one billion people want Vietnam, they get it?

I would rather see a plebiscite where people in Tibet and Xinjiang vote to see if they want an independent state or be with the Chinese. It is the 10th Amendment, or better known as Amendment X. Remember Rick Perry suggestively threatened to use it to secede during the Tea Party protests? I think that is fair, and as I said earlier, I really do not know if the two states would really want to separate. Economy in those states has been booming.

In no way is the situation of Tibet similar to the situation in the American Civil War. For one the United States did not start any hostilities, the Confederate States did. While President Lincoln did not give approval for the secession, he did start any war. China invaded Tibet, which was free for only 37 years, in1949. That itself is the difference.

Had the Chinese done any homework whatsoever, they should know that there is nothing in common between our American Civil War and the Chinese claim to Tibet. It is entirely different. They are as similar as a donkey is to an apple.

President Abraham Lincoln fought for states to free slaves and stop slavery. It is, was and always would be a morally correct standpoint. It is not debatable at all. Whereas, Chinese claim to Tibet is. Chinese have tried to exert Han culture in Tibet by whatever means necessary, something that has added questions to China’s already-bad record on human rights.

We have got to wonder, what the Chinese are going to say next: Since the President is a fan of the White Sox he should allow the Chinese to censor freedom of speech in China. You have got to be kidding me!

This also highlights the problems President Obama would be facing in Asia this few days. From a Japanese government that is trying to move her closer to her Western neighbors (China, Korea, etc) rather than her Eastern ones, to the Chinese who already have so much power with regards to America thanks to her holding about $1 trillion of our debt and having influence on problem areas like Iran, Sudan and Burma, making up nonsensical remarks.

How President Obama acts, reacts and the outcome of this trip is going to have a huge standing on American foreign policy. It is something that is going to affect us all in the near and mid term futures. There are questions like : How is President Obama going to persuade China on Iran? Is America going to carry on asking the Chinese to buy our debt? Or is he going to move away from that and ask China to devalue her yuan? Can America keep her bases in Japan? How is he going to deal with North Korea?

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Unexpectedly remarkable! I know nobody that had predicted President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Most shockingly, he won it within 10 months of being President and weeks after he got the nomination.

The first reason that I can think of when they gave the award, was the love story the world had and still has with President Obama. Even though the Republicans think that his foreign standing is diminished after the Olympics “fiasco”, the fact is that President Obama is really loved internationally. You can forget anyone trying to throw a shoe at him internationally.

They also respect the manner he brought our country from having a unilateral foreign policy to a multilateral ones. In all frankness, this is something that is very unique about President Obama. The world has often viewed American foreign policy as one that is full of arrogance even though we literally rebuilt the world after World War 2. That ended with President Obama.

Another reason for his victory could be the reaction the right wing has given him. The sheer lack of respect is disgusts them. The world is stunned when they see people carrying racist signs becoming a part of the opposition to President Obama. Most countries, particularly the developed ones, have universal health-care and they loathe it when the opposition go around spreading BS like death panels and rationing health-care.

I am not saying that there are no merits for the President’s victory. He has done more to get rid the world of nuclear weapons more than any in history. His mere presence alone was enough to heal the division between the Muslim world and the West. He made America lovable once more. He became a world icon because he speaks well and his stance on the issues, to the world in general, are the right ones. To put it simply, the world is in sync with President Obama’s mentality and issues.

There are some factors of him winning the Nobel prize that are of question. For one, how can a person who is running 2 wars be winning the penultimate peace prize? Other than all the talk, what has the President really accomplished? He cannot even take on the Republicans on issues like health-care, how in the world is he going to take on China and Iran? However, until I see the rest of the short-list, I would not take the victory from the President.

I am also blown away by the official Republican reaction. Why can’t they have the reaction that Senator McCain had? Why can’t we be proud that our President has won the peace prize? Why can we see the President as American, not as a Democrat? If President Bush (43) won the same prize, I would laugh and think that it was a joke, but I would not go around hating it. He was my President, the head of state of my country. I think that it is utterly disgraceful, the manner the wing-nut Republicans hate this and how some love it when Chicago lost the Olympic bid..

Lastly, I think that this would be of no effect to President Obama’s presidency at all. It is not going to help him ensure that Virginia remains blue, it is not going to help him get health care reform the way he wants it, etc. It is, after all the talk, ineffectual to Americans. It could be helpful if he wants to run as the General Secretary of the UN, but we do not give a freak about our President winning the Nobel Prize.

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