“Mr. Obama has told people that it would be easier to be the president of China

[bijou]

The time is coming, administration officials said, for Mr. Obama to make another major speech taking stock of the upheaval. But its central message is not yet set, and there is likely to be lively debate about questions like whether the president should admit American complicity in propping up undemocratic governments in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.

“I don’t honestly think it would change much,” said a second senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. “It isn’t going to change the perception of the United States one way or the other. What will continue to affect the perception of the United States is what we do now.”…

How Mr. Obama manages to do that while also balancing American interests is a question that officials acknowledge will plague this historic president for months to come. Mr. Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China. As one official put it, “No one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao’s words in Tahrir Square.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/world/africa/11policy.html?_r=1

[Janice]

Yes, that pesky Constitution, that bothersome Bill of Rights. It's much easier to be a Socialist Thug than the President of the Free World ....

Btw ... no way he could be prez of China. He would have to show his birth certificate.