Obama gets 'pimp smacked' TWICE on foreign relations

[foxybrownsgc.livejournal.com]

Remember that 'Buy American' clause POTUSBO wanted to put in the Generational Theft Act of 2009 Stimulus package?  Well, the EU has basically pimp-smacked POTUSBO and told him in so many words to go read up on how the whole Hawley-Smoot tarrif made America take it in the shorts by means of the Great Depression.    Now maybe this is just me but didn't everyone else learn this was why the US had a Great Depression while in Europe it was just a Depression?  I guess that was back when public schools actually taught. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5655115.ece

And India has pimp-smacked Obama on the other cheek with regards to him poking his inexperienced nose in the whole Kashmir thing. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a545f3b0-f1f9-11dd-9678-0000779fd2ac.html  I love that country more and more every day and it has nothing to do with the Bollywood films i'm addicted to.

POTUSBO is in way over his head but of course we all knew that. 

Comments

[kimaginethis.livejournal.com]

Can you check the link for the india story? The first one isn't working.

Thanks for posting this!

[foxybrownsgc.livejournal.com]

I just fixed the first link to the India story. Sorry about that--cut and paste confusion.

[orominuialwen.livejournal.com]

Nope, I was never taught about Smoot-Hawley in public school. I only learned about it from listening to Rush!

[foxybrownsgc.livejournal.com]

The more I listen to Rush, the more I realize all of my American History teachers in Middle/High School were Conservatives/Republicans. I am so thankful for that.

[orominuialwen.livejournal.com]

My US history teacher the year I learned about the depression was an open conservative, but I still don't recall ever learning about Smoot-Hawley. Bummer!

[middlegirl.livejournal.com]

And I learned about it from Ben Stein in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."

[foxybrownsgc.livejournal.com]

Me too! And I swear on a history test I had to recall that line in order to remember the name of the tarrif.

[mprice.livejournal.com]

I work at JC Penney. American Living is the line of clothing exclusive to the store. Yesterday, I looked to see where it is actually made, going on to the other clothing lines in a hunt for ANYTHING made in the USA. I found: India, Milasia, Philippines, Mexico, Uruguay, Vietnam, China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka...

Then, lo and behold - a single style of Buyer Girl brand proclaiming it was Made in the USA!

Buy American. Yeah right.

[spamandtoast.livejournal.com]

Poor Obama. :( I guess this president stuff is a lot harder now that he had the job and has to do something.