Tag: Laos

Obama in Laos: We are lazy. A Limerick

 

Obama twice called Americans “lazy” Wednesday during a Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) town hall at Souphanouvong University in Laos during his ongoing visit to Asia. The comments are sure to irk conservatives who have previously claimed Obama is being unpatriotic when he criticizes Americans while overseas or at home.

“You know I believe that the United States is and can be a great force for good in the world but because we are such a big country we haven’t always had to know about other parts of the world,” Obama said. “If you are in Laos you need to know about Thailand and China and Cambodia because you are a small country and they are right next door and you need to know who they are. If you are in the United States, sometimes you can feel lazy and think, ‘You know we are so big we don’t have to really know anything about other people.'”

The president again threw out the “lazy” label when describing an overall lack of urgency in Americans’ attitudes toward climate change and the environment.

“Usually, if you see the environment destroyed, it’s not because that’s necessary for development,” Obama said. “It’s usually because we are being lazy, and we’re not being as creative as we could be about how to do it in the smarter, sustainable way.”

Obama in Laos: We’re lazy.

Destroy the environment: Crazy.

His pet peeve: CO2.

Ban all coal, that will do.

Just look at the sky: It is hazy.

(Just for the record: CO2 is totally transparent in visual light, it is water vapor, a much more efficient greenhouse gas that makes it hazy. Plus of course real pollution)

p.s. Here is one more

CO2, the life-giving gas, not “Carbon Pollution”. A Limerick – and explanation.

What then is this “Carbon Pollution”?

A sinister, evil collusion?

CO2, it is clean,

Makes for growth, makes it green,

A transfer of wealth, a solution.  The explanation: https://lenbilen.com/2014/02/22/co2-the-life-giving-gas-not-carbon-pollution-a-limerick-and-explanation/

Obama in Laos insulted, vacillates. A Limerick.

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VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday became the first sitting U.S. president to step foot in the isolated Southeast Asian nation of Laos, opening a three-day visit meant to rebuild trust and close a dark chapter in the shared history between the two countries. During the Vietnam war about 80 million cluster bombs did not explode, leaving tennis ball-sized “bombies” littering the impoverished countryside to wound and kill unsuspecting people.

In Laos, the one-party communist state tightly controls public expression but is using its moment in the spotlight as host of the annual meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to open up to outsiders.

But the blowback is not coming from Laos, but from the Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, that on Monday lashed out at Barack Obama as the “son of a whore” in response to Obama’s plan to question Duterte about his country’s savage drug war that has claimed more than 2,400 lives.

“You must be respectful. Do not just throw away questions and statements. Son of a whore, I will curse you in that forum.”

After that outburst, Obama refused to say if he still wished to meet with  Duterte in Laos as he had previously stated.

As on cue, after only one day of vacillation after these insults Obama retreated and called off the meeting he had previously requested.

Obama is chicken Vientiane.

Duterte insults, ’cause he can.

“You’re the son of a whore”

“you can’t push us no more.”

Another appeasement began.