Beijing: The new shining city upon a hill

According to Barack Obama, China could be the new model for the United States. In a stunning statement yesterday, Obama said this:

Everybody’s watching what’s going on in Beijing right now with the Olympics. Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure. Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly the superior to us now, which means if you are a corporation deciding where to do business you’re starting to think, “Beijing looks like a pretty good option. Why aren’t we doing the same thing? (Watch the clip here, and read why China has the money to spend on its infrastructure.)

I’ve written about some of Obama’s nonsensical energy policies that display his lack of seriousness as a Presidential candidate; we’ve analyzed so many gaffes he has made in misstating political and historical events; his response to Rick Warren’s abortion question at the Saddleback forum that an abortion position is above his pay grade was another example of how Obama is nowhere near qualified for the presidency (UPDATE: The boys at Power Line reveal that Obama has indeed been commenting on this issue as early as his Harvard Law days). This comment about China is beyond silly though; what this comment reveals about Obama is downright frightening.

Putting aside China’s serious lack of individual rights, worker and child labor laws, huge oil contracts with and weapons supplied to Iran, it must be pointed out that China’s “superior infrastructure” allowed contaminated Heparin drug ingredients to be manufactured and released (the results of which are linked to a number of American deaths, and which forced a major recall by Baxter earlier this year). And how can we forget the flaws in China’s infrastructure and architecture exposed by the deadly earthquake this past May?

While Barack Obama goes around telling children that America is not what it once was, we must wonder if his new model of a shining city upon a hill is Beijing. Does Beijing offer the kind of change Americans are looking for and can believe in? Apparently Obama believes so.