Vice President Joe Biden has been visiting China on a trade mission and was in the midst of a long speech at a meeting when Chinese officials started to force members of the press out of the room. "Stern shooing turned into forceful shoving," according to pool reporter Michael Memoli of the Los Angeles Times. "As reporters tried to stand their ground, Chinese officials locked arms and pushed forward in a show of overwhelming force" that turned into a virtual shoving brawl. Reports are that the officials were upset at the length of Biden's speech.
COMMENTS:
Those White House guys really do know how to win friends and
influence people, don’t they? Biden’s most recent other notable event was when he fell
asleep during one of Obama’s infrequent speeches in April.
TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. What is all of the flap over Obama’s announcement that he
is going to speak to the nation about the economy and his new “jobs program” after
Labor Day? (Lonnie ~ Campbell, CA)
A. Well, there are those who justifiably say that the nation
has too many unemployed people who have been out of work for way too long and
waiting to reveal the program is unethical and unkind. Others suggest that he hasn’t yet written
such a plan so he cannot reveal it.
Still others say that the plan has nothing new or of substance in it, so
he wants to stall it. Whatever the
reason for the delay, Obama had no business telling people he had a plan until
he was ready to release it. You just don’t
do those things in real life.
Q. I hear Hewlett Packard may be getting out of the PC business? What about printers? (Oliver ~ Sacramento, CA)
A. They are discontinuing making smart phones and tablet
computers and may get out of the PC business altogether by selling off that
division. I don’t know about printers,
but would presume them to be part of the PC Division; I have always had good
experiences with HP printers myself. The
smart phone and tablet computer markets are tough markets and I don’t blame
them for getting out of those products.
But, the word is that they think they can become another IBM, dealing
mainly in software and computer mainframes.
Q. Morgan Stanley came out yesterday and said we are on the very
verge of a severe economic recession. When
are we going to get someone in Washington who can feel the pain this country is
going through? (Pedro ~ Walnut Creek,
CA)
A. Morgan Stanley has been around a long time and has a
decent reputation in making economic forecasts.
Our economy has not only been badly battered, but we do not have the
leadership in Washington to do anything about it. This is largely the situation we were in
before the Great Depression. I don’t
like the way things are looking for anyone. The real answers seem to lie with a better
business climate to stimulate hiring and investment, and Obama seems bound and
determined to prevent that from happening.
It is a fact that no country with a good economy has ever been converted
to Socialism.
TODAY’S QUOTE:
"Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to
tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as
Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs." ~ Joe Biden
TODAY’S VIDEO:
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