Posted on 05/22/2016 10:23:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Ahead of President Barack Obama’s first visit to Vietnam, the country voted Sunday in once-every-five-year-elections for a rubber-stamp parliament whose membership has already been largely determined by the Communist Party.
Amid worries about soaring public debt, a serious budget deficit and China’s aggressive claims in nearby seas, there’s also high hope for Obama’s visit, both in the government, which wants him to lift an arms export embargo so it can better deal with Beijing, and among rights activists who want him to hold to account a repressive one-party state seen as treating its critics abysmally. […]
Obama must balance a desire to support Southeast Asian nations like Vietnam as they confront China over disputed maritime territory with worries about the tension with Beijing this will cause and about Vietnam’s reluctance to improve its terrible human rights record. …
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And, like elsewhere, Vietnam’s leadership snubbed Obama’s arrival. What a loser, demonstrating his impotence and incompetence one-country-at-a-time.
Those poor deluded Vietnamese, hoping Obama will help them hold off China. Obama has no interest in advancing freedom, as all of our allies can testify.
Is there any country this man wont apologize to?
Yup.
You're living in what's left of it.
Britain, for one.
The Vietnamese don’t hope for anything from Barak Hussein. They know who and what he is. They, however, do desire to maintain whatever links they can and keep offers on the table, like Cam Ranh, so that they are all still there when and if the regime in America changes. China is the overriding concern. It is the great Disease from the North that is infecting all the sealanes and threatening real hegemony for Southeast Asia. Viet Nam is taking aid, military especially, from wherever they can get it. If China makes a move to seal off Viet Nam or even invade it again, Viet Nam will not be any easy thing and Viet Nam is doing everything it can to ensure that it is too expensive a prize to contemplate for the Chinese.
I was there for a Vietnamese election a few years ago. It was for delegates to the Party Congress that would decide who was to be in the Assembly and who was to be the Chairman, etc. There were trucks driving around the cities with loud martial music playing and colorful signs urging the people to all get out and vote- for people who would not represent them or their interests in a Congress whose decrees were already decided. There were parades and bands and fireworks and the people watching all this noise just glanced once and moved on. They made sure they were not run over by the bunting clad trucks. I suspected all the show was for foreign journalists.
I was there for a Vietnamese election a few years ago. It was for delegates to the Party Congress that would decide who was to be in the Assembly and who was to be the Chairman, etc. There were trucks driving around the cities with loud martial music playing and colorful signs urging the people to all get out and vote- for people who would not represent them or their interests in a Congress whose decrees were already decided. There were parades and bands and fireworks and the people watching all this noise just glanced once and moved on. They made sure they were not run over by the bunting clad trucks. I suspected all the show was for foreign journalists.
Of course Obama will apologize for the Vietnam War.
"Rubber Stamp Assembly", sounds a lot like our Congress.
Sounds like the type of parliament that Barack Obama would prefer in the United States.
Same goes for people like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, frankly.
“I was there for a Vietnamese election a few years ago. It was for delegates to the Party Congress that would decide who was to be in the Assembly and who was to be the Chairman, etc. There were trucks driving around the cities with loud martial music playing and colorful signs urging the people to all get out and vote- for people who would not represent them or their interests in a Congress whose decrees were already decided. There were parades and bands and fireworks and the people watching all this noise just glanced once and moved on. They made sure they were not run over by the bunting clad trucks. I suspected all the show was for foreign journalists.”
You sure that wasn’t a US election?
More like the Obummer I know.
Except many in the VN military and intelligence have strong links with China. The people don’t like Chinese aggression but when has Hanoi has ever had the guts to halt Chinese advances over the islands?
At long last Obama gets to have the Jane Fonda experience. Dirty communist bastards, both of them.
As everywhere else they’ve set up operations, the communists have brought nothing to Vietnam but willful corruption and stupidity.
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