We previously discussed how the United States was sharply criticized in a government-supported newspaper in China for the long lines of voters who had to wait for hours to cast their ballots. Now, the happiest place on Earth, has announced its new leader: Xi Jinging. Xi was selected without any lines of citizens, who of course were not allowed to vote at all.
The regular decade transition occurred by an orchestrated vote of the Community Party Congress with his appointment as general secretary after a meeting of senior Communists. The Chinese people were informed of the selection as Xi walked into the Great Hall of the People with other Politburo members.
The rise of Xi to power is viewed as another affirmation of a new “red nobility” class — leaders who come from families with a long communist power pedigree. Xi is the son of a hero of the revolution and three other members have similar family ties. With continuing scandals involving the gathering of huge wealth by Communist leaders, China now fits every definition of an aristocracy using Communist controls to protect its power and wealth. Think of Louis XIV in a Mao jacket.
Source: CBS
Herr Karl Rove finally won a fixed election…..
Xi is tall. -Swarthmore mom
“over 6 ft”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/15/xi-jinping-big-personality-china
“… Xi is “a big personality”, according to those who have met him. Standing over 6ft tall, he is confident and affable. He boasts a ready smile and a glamorous second wife – the renowned People’s Liberation Army singer Peng Liyuan. He has expressed his fondness for US war movies and, perhaps more surprisingly, praised the edgy independent film-maker Jia Zhangke.”
Xi is tall.
Height Chart of Men and Women in Different Countries
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I think nick was making one of his purposely inappropriate remarks just to get everybody’s blood flowing. 😉
Poor Dennis, always the brunt of short jokes.
I can’t believe I still screw up the smile button on this site!!! 🙂
Gene H.
(tongue in cheek) See we are a Democracy!!!
We had a choice between A or B :0
Our elections cost us 5 Billion dollars to prove it.
Mike Spindell 1, November 15, 2012 at 10:38 am
“Sort of like our ruling class only they’re all the size of Kucinich.”
Nick,
Did you ever hear of Yao Ming, or his parents. Silly stereotype, just as the stereotype of Italians as greasy is also silly and wrong.
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Or Packer fans as cheesy.
My point was directed at Nick. That are lots of tall people in China.
“Sort of like our ruling class only they’re all the size of Kucinich.”
Nick,
Did you ever hear of Yao Ming, or his parents. Silly stereotype, just as the stereotype of Italians as greasy is also silly and wrong.
When I think back to the ravings from all the Maoists I knew in the 60’s, it makes me proud that they always saw me as their enemy and I always saw them as full of Sh*t.
I guess you have never visited China. What you said is a myth.
Sort of like our ruling class only they’re all the size of Kucinich.
ap,
lol … hmmm … I think …
There is a good market over there for the bumper sticker: “Don’t blame me, I didn’t Vote!“
Ich mochter ein double zimmer fur ein nach. But not in Peking, or Beigjing or however ya spull it. What was that concept that Jon Kenneth Maynard invented years ago? They (meaning the communists) would get more like us and we more like them. Somebody mentioned that word and that concept on this blog. Or was it Maynard Krebs who inventied that concept?
Look! There is a crown on his head! King Chung or Chung King.
Blouise,
🙂 At 9:32, you were probably added to another watch list.
砍掉他的头
“Think of Louis XIV in a Mao jacket.”
It’s a bold fashion statement.