You guys must have read about the controversy by now : President Obama bowed before the Emperor of Japan, Emperor Akihito! The right wing have gone nuts over it. We are going to have some sarcastic fun.

It seems that they think that the President bowing would cause Armageddon to happen, like 2012 the movie .My life must not end like that…. Boring! Ask anyone that watched the movie, it is so boring, I do not want to bore myself to death … Arrrggghhh!

Oh my God, he first bowed before the Saudi royalty. Wait he was Muslim right. But his color is a bit off… Now we know why, he is half Japanese! He is not Kenyan, British, Cuban, Vietnamese, Communist, Hawaiian or other things like the other birther theories…now this is the real birther truth.

Japan never liked losing World War 2 so they wanted to take revenge. So they acted like best friends with the United States till they can send one of their spies over. The spy would run the country, but for it to run there, he needed to be born. They got their most Caucasian looking person they know and named them Dunham. Japan always had fertility problems, so they went to seek the help of the Saudis who could marry four wives. Wham bham, President Obama came along and he would at the right time give our country to the Japanese. Somebody tell Orly Taitz now.. Arrrggghhhh!

Who knows if he is just bowing, he could be doing some crotch action on the Emperors man. Maybe, he has a fetish for Royal male crotches. May be that is why Queen Elizabeth did not get the full bow. (Gasp!) Run Prince (of Wales) Charles, run! Run behind First Lady Michelle Obama’s arms. It must be that smile that they cannot resist I tell you. Its either that or his huge ears. We know nobody find a person’s intelligence a turn on factor… Arrrggghhh!

Oh man, we got to get to tell the American Queen, I mean Oprah! Only she can fix this man. We all know that he should be a good American and only bow to Oprah! She is the Queen and the benevolent ruler of our minds, unless you are part of a cult run by the charismatic, slim, hunk, truth telling, self proclaimed “rodeo” clown… Glenn Beck! Arrrggghhh!

Okay, snapping back to reality right now, I think that America should be embarrassed by one of the President’s actions. He could not pronounce Burmese freedom fighting queen, the elected Prime Minister of Burma, Aung Sang Suu Kyi. That is an embarrassment in all seriousness. It showed his lack of care about Burma till then.

But you know the media, they would never pick this kind of thing up. They would rather see how the President greeted his hosts. They would rather compare how he bowed with other world leaders and previous Presidents, but they would keep mum about a brave lady that has spent so much of her life fighting for human rights and democracy, a tenet of our country..

I really do not know who is a more sad case, the media, or the President for not pronouncing her name correctly…

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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?

You can be sure of one thing though, you can get all the important facts on this site.

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President Obama gave a speech at the Human Rights Campaign, the biggest driver for gay rights in this country. To put it simply, this is a speech that we have heard umpteen times in his campaign and he has yet to deliver on any one of the promises that he has made with regards to the LGBT community.

He mentioned that he was going to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. He could have simply on the first day gave an executive order that people were not going to be fired because of their sexual orientation till the policy was reviewed. Did he do that? No!

He mentioned that he was against the “so-called Defense of Marriage Act.” There are 2 components of DOMA. 1) People are not to be deemed married in one state even if they are married in another. 2) The federal government is to recognize marriage as one between a man and a woman. While we cannot determine the President’s stance on component 1, we know that the President agrees with the second part of DOMA. Hence, I find it hypocritical of him to say that he is going to repeal DOMA when he himself supports part of it. (I have a different view, which is to ban marriage altogether…. Read older article http://slashingtongue.com/politics/gay-marriage-sts-position-becoming-popular/.)

He said that there would be a hate crimes bill that he would sign soon. But that bill was around for ten years! Why didn’t he bring it up when he was a Senator? What is his record on this bill? A big fat zero! There has yet to be a bill that he has sponsored, co-sponsored or signed that has anything to do with LGBT issues.

Criticism to this hate crime bill disgusts me. When I was young, my father always told me to stand against discrimination of others. Because if they can discriminate against one group of people today, we could suffer discrimination tomorrow. If we allow people to get away with beating up someone because they were gay, this could lead to someone else being beaten up for being Black, Latino or Asian.

The only issue where we can cut him some slack on is the defense of his nominees. It is obvious that he would do that. He nominated them! If he did not want to stand up against the gay bashing on his nominees, why would he have even nominated them?

I think that we, as Americans, should grow up on this kind of issues. We have to stop considering people with a different sexual orientation as someone that is inhuman. There are still some idiotic politicians that can equate a homosexual relationship to bestiality and pedophilia. This is utterly nonsense, as animals and children minds are not as mentally developed as adults.

I myself, had looked at gay men as sex-hungry sissy boys. That changed in the Army, where I served alongside gays. I realized there that they were no different from me, other than the fact that I like girls and they like boys. I hope that America receives that kind of enlightenment too.

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