Since when is China part of North America?
Posted by Moonage on 28 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, Idiot of the day, International Issues
The amazing thing about this one so far is it seems only my buds in at Independent Sources seem to have noticed:
Quoting Barack:
“In Youngstown, Ohio, I talked to workers who have seen their plants shipped overseas as a consequence of bad trade deals like NAFTA, literally seeing equipment unbolted from the floors of factories and shipped to China, resulting in devastating job losses and communities completely falling apart,” Democratic front-runner Barack Obama said at a Texas debate last week, making sure that all the woes of China trade got wrapped in the word NAFTA.
Now, before I get into the real logic of this debate, I need to point out a few things:
- NAFTA stand for North American Free Trade Agreement. It only has three members. It’s members are the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Coincedentally, all three countries reside in, ( drum roll please ), North America.
- China is in Asia. China is not a member of NAFTA. It would be silly for China to be a member of the North American Free Trade Agreement wouldn’t it?
- Given that 1 and 2 are true, it would seem rather silly to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement because of bad trades with China now wouldn’t it? I would think so.
However, since I’m quite certain the education system is SOOOO much better in rural Kentucky than Chicago, I feel I might be picking on a candidate for President of the United States unjustly. I mean, is it REALLY that important that Obama knows that China is on a different continent than say, Canada, or us? So, just to get an idea of how big an issue this is, I thought I’d run us a poll to see if I’m special in knowing that China is not part of North America. If you would:
My idiot of the day is NOT Barack for pandering to the lowest common demoninator. Whether he knows where China is or not, he’s got tons of advisors that do. Some of them are FROM China I’m sure. The idiots are the same media that have trashed Bush for eight years for being an idiot for not pronouncing nukular the way they want and giving an equally or more stupid and dangerous comment a free pass.
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