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It is a wise man who plants a tree in the shade of which he knows he will never sit. -- Greek proverb --

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. -- Robert Louis Stevenson --

From On High - Coming to you from a secured redoubt on Big Walker Mountain in the heart of Virginia's Blue Ridge.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Sign of the Times

Watching Chinese Premier Hu Jintao patiently smirk as our president drooled all over him at that White House press conference reminded me of a day long ago when a U.S. president would travel to Lower Slobberyovia, don a native shirt, and talk glowingly about "the close bonds that have historically linked our two nations in friendship and determination to ... " blah ... blah ... blah.

The whole time wanting to get the hell out of Lower Slobberyovia and find some civilized domain where he could get a glass of water without having to worry about some infectious disease.

How the tables have turned.

This is humiliating.

It's what we've come to.

1 comments:

wicked dickie said...

And all calculated to show the world we got an incompetent jerk infesting the White House. Even wearing a suit to a Black Tie affair was a calculated insult to the Doofus-in-Chief of what was once a proud nation Under God.