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Surely the work of a crafty liberal photoshop who knew the photo would be proven fake eventually thus reflecting bad on conservatives because everyone would assume a conservative faked the photograph. Surely.
What Obama Is Reading
Barack Obama in Bozeman, Mont. on Monday. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
So now we know what Barack Obama is reading these days: Fareed Zakaria’s “The Post-American World.” This is, in its way, the most stylish book ad I’ve seen in a while. Looks like Obama is on Page, I dunno, 116.
Writing in the Book Review a few weeks ago, Joseph Joffe said about Zakaria’s book:
Zakaria’s is not another exercise in declinism. His point is not the demise of Gulliver, but the ”rise of the rest.” After all, how can this giant follow Rome and Britain onto the dust heap of empire if it can prosecute two wars at once without much notice at home? The granddaughters of those millions of Rosie the Riveters who kept the World War II economy going are off to the mall today; if they don’t shop till they drop, it’s because of recession, not rationing.
The real problem, Zakaria argues, is the rise of China, trailed by India. China’s is indeed the most incredible success story in history — a tale of almost 30 years of growth in the 7-to-10-percent range that seems to defy the laws of economic gravity. The United States, Germany and Japan had similar tales to tell in the late 19th century, but bust was the price of boom, and for Germany as well as Japan (add Russia, too), headlong industrialization ended in the horrors of 20th-century totalitarianism.
But for China it’s up, up and away. As Zakaria memorably puts it, ”China today exports in a single day more than it exported in all of 1978.” Authoritarian modernization just hums along. The Party’s message reads ”Enrich yourselves, but leave the driving to us,” and most of 1.3 billion Chinese seem happy to comply — and to consume. With power safely lodged in the Politburo, China does not conform to the historical pattern of ”first rich, then rowdy,” which led to Tokyo’s and Berlin’s imperialist careers.
Anyone know what book John McCain is — or should be — carrying around?
Surely the work of a crafty liberal photoshop who knew the photo would be proven fake eventually thus reflecting bad on conservatives because everyone would assume a conservative faked the photograph. Surely.
May 21st 2008?
Seriously?
I wish somebody would have brought this up in March or April of 2008 so that maybe nobody would have voted for him.
How and why did you dig this up?
You should have led the thread "What Obama was reading almost a year and a half ago."
He's still reading it?
What a dumbass!
It's the same group evertime with their wonderful gems of information. Atleast I put the date.
Is it really too much for Chumpy to ask you weigh in on your own thread? That's trollish?
Back up your own stuff.
If you don't, that makes you look lame.
hes like palin, he reads all of them
Get off his while you're typing. Im not responding to Chumpy.
What a pussy.
And you can go blow a cactus. Or back up your weak . I don't care which.
go play politician . Chumpy keep thinking your little retorts are improving your stature in real life.
Ha-ha, you responded.
he should read orientalism
My IQ just dropped 2 points after reading this thread
rofl
chumpdumper does lastword people but this one he won
It's a fairly canonical text and Said was an acquaintance of his. I would imagine he has read it already.
Zakaria is an interesting writer - not particularly deep, but very comprehensible and enjoyable to read. His previous book, The Future of Freedom, is better than this one (which is not insightful at all and could be replaced with gains to the reader by Kagan's The Return of History or by an Economist subscription) and very reccomendable. I particularly like his reflections on the dangers of democratizacion and the role of elites. Nothing new or earth-shaterring in substance, but he finds very clever and witty ways of presenting the issue.
indulge him cowboy, usually chimps on his .
How pornographic. You got some imagination.
Thanks for classing up the thread, micca.
I doubt Obama would ever be caught toting it in public.
How and why have you dug this up!?!
Explain yourself sir!
Have you no sense of decency?
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