Posted on 01/19/2011 7:23:36 AM PST by markomalley
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) labeled Chinese President Hu Jintao a “dictator,” just as President Barack Obama prepares to host the Chinese leader on Wednesday at a state dinner aimed at soothing tensions between the two world powers.
Reid’s off-the-cuff comments came Tuesday night during a televised interview with Las Vegas journalist Jon Ralston, who asked the majority leader whether the bipartisan tax compromise Obama struck with Republican leaders last year was a good deal for the country.
“I am going to go back to Washington and meet with the President of China. He is a dictator. He can do a lot of things through the form of government they have. Maybe I shouldn’t have said dictator, but they have a different type of government then we have, and that is an understatement,” Reid said in the interview.
“So we have to work in the system we have, the best system ever devised to rule the affairs of men and women,” Reid continued. “And one of the few ways we get things done, in fact the most important way we get things done, is through compromise. It’s not a bad word, and that is how we get things done.”
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That’s Boss Dictator to you, Harry
Wow, Reid actually said something accurate. Probably only by accident.
For Harry, it was a clear sign of “dictator-envy”.
I think Harry is jealous.
Hu is not a dictator. He is the leading member, quite possibly a figurehead, of an oligarchy that holds dictatorial power over everybody else.
A dictator is by definition an autocrate, a sole ruler. China hasn’t had one since Mao.
Putin is much closer to being a dictator than Hu is.
exactly!
He wants to get rid of our democracy and replace it with communism. he sounds envious of the power hu has.
Pot calling the Kettle Black.
Does Harry sound a bit envious here?
“So we have to work in the system we have, the best system ever devised to rule the affairs of men and women,” Reid continued”
Rule?
Pot wishes he had power of Kettle.
‘the best system ever devised to rule the affairs of men and women’
Valerie jarrett did say they would be ready to ‘rule’ on day one.
This is the power trip by the ‘progressives’.
My comment from the slightly earlier thread;
“In Mandarin Chinese, Hu means Tiger. And Hu will eat Lil Barry’s lunch!
I have two cats, one a tiger stripe named Hu, the other named Mao, which means the animal that makes the “Mao. (meow)” sound.”
>>”He is a dictator. He can do a lot of things through the form of government they have.”<<
Sounds like envy to me. He didn’t say being a dictator was a bad thing.
Not polite to disparage the Boss, Harry. He signs your paycheck (sort of).
That’s nothing. Hu Jintao calls Senate leader Harry Reid a ‘dick’
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