Hypocrite -->Walker Calls On Obama To Cancel Chinese President's Trip Amid Market Woes:

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"Monday Scott Walker Self-Smackdown: I-Am-a-Total-Clown-Edition" #ouch #walker16 #wiunion http://www.bradford-delong.com/2015/08/monday-scott-walker-self-smackdown-i-am-a-total-clown-edition.html …
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Monday Scott Walker Self-Smackdown: I-Am-a-Total-Clown-Edition
http://www.bradford-delong.com/2015/08/monday-scott-walker-self-smackdown-i-am-a-total-clown-edition.html

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Is this the stupidest thing a Republican presidential candidate has yet said this election cycle? If not, what is?

Katherine Krueger: Walker Calls On Obama To Cancel Chinese President's Trip Amid Market Woes: "In a statement released late Monday...

...the Republican presidential candidate said Obama should 'focus on holding China accountable' for its attempts to 'actively manipulate their economy,' rather than feting the world leader. The President last hosted Xi for an informal meeting in Palm Springs, Calif. in 2013. Read Walker's full statement below:

Spartanburg, S.C. – Ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the U.S. next month, Gov. Scott Walker released the below statement.


But Scooter brags about his trade mission to China (counts it as his foreign experience):

AnonyMissBadger ?@AnonyMissBadger 6h6 hours ago

Let us use our powers to see into the past. Look to 2013; see @ScottWalker lead China trade mission http://www.jsonline.com/business/scott-walker-to-lead-china-trade-mission-3m9gp0s-202433451.html … #Walker16
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Political Heat ?@PoliticalHeatWI 6h6 hours ago

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1. Scott Walker Nukes His Presidential Campaign With Idiotic Comments As Stock Market Tumbles

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/08/24/scott-walker-opens-mouth-china-stupid.html

Scott Walker Nukes His Presidential Campaign With Idiotic Comments As Stock Market Tumbles
By: Hrafnkell Haraldsson


Monday, August, 24th, 2015, 6:49 pm


Scott Walker
Scott Walker, who thinks ISIL compares to American labor unions, thinks he knows how to handle China. On Monday, China’s market meltdown no doubt thoroughly confused the intellectually-challenged Scott Walker, and this gave Walker the idea that he needed to say something.

After all, Donald Trump was talking:

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And then there is the above-mentioned hypocrisy factor: As Tom LoBianco noted at CNN Politics,

In 2013, before he entered the Republican presidential race, Walker met with Xi during a visit to Beijing. There, he reportedly told the Chinese president of Wisconsin’s plans to set up a trade and cultural promotion center in the country, and praised the relationship between China and U.S. states.

Walker also supported a company based in Beijing and Milwaukee that helped wealthy Chinese immigrants gain U.S. citizenship.

Walker’s Wisconsin public-private economic development arm, meanwhile, is planning a trade venture to China in January, and is joining a larger trade venture as part of a regional group in May.

There is no word from Walker as to whether he intends to punish China himself, by canceling his trade venture in January, or the regional group in May. Maybe only the president is required to show “backbone” while Walker tries to play catch-up to Donald Trump...........................

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2. Scott Walker wants everyone to know he's super-mad at China too

Jason Linkins ?@dceiver 11h11 hours ago

Scott Walker wants everyone to know he's super-mad at China too http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/55db7c72e4b04ae497041166 … via @HuffPostPol


Is this, perhaps, the "Trump effect" (or as the Germans call it, "der Trumpeffekt&quot messing with Walker's message? Maybe so. After all, it was just two years ago that Walker was making his own flamboyant journey to China, to break bread with that nation's business leaders on a trade mission he gladly self-promoted. Walker palled around with Chinese fans of Milwaukee's own Harley-Davidson motorcycles, and waxed enthusiastically about the fundamentals of the Chinese economy. Per Forbes' Russell Flannery:

China’s slowing economic growth weighed down stock markets in Asia last week but one influential first-time visitor to the country views it as still holding plenty of business promise.

“In a lot of states in America, we’d like to have that kind of slow growth they are projecting” even in some of China’s slower-expanding regions, said Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in an interview in Shanghai last week. “We’re still very big on doing business in Shanghai in particular, but throughout the country, “ said Walker, expressing confidence that commerce between China and his state would increase quickly in the future. “I just see it taking off,” he said.

Such backbone! Well, a lot has changed since then. For instance, Walker has fallen into the third tier of polling for the 2016 Republican primary! Also, he's said to be "struggling" in Iowa, a state whose governor, Terry Branstad, has worked hard to establish a good relationship with -- umm...China.

So perhaps this is about keeping up with the Trumpses, and using the reality-teevee mogul's trademarked anti-China rhetoric to do so. Or maybe this is just garden-variety desperation mixed with inexperience. Either way, it boils down to Walker demanding a president he's not running against do something that Walker himself wouldn't dare do if he became president himself -- a prospect that's lately dimming..........
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3. The Walker motto: "I'm tough on China, easy on our 1%!" n/t

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4. @ScottWalker says @BarackObama should cancel visit of Chinese Prez - WEDC has trade trip heading the

Yup--his business folks will profit.

@ScottWalker says @BarackObama should cancel visit of Chinese Prez - WEDC has trade trip heading there in Jan 2016: http://inwisconsin.com/export/goglobal/ …

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5. Wonder if Scooter will comment--markets roaring back