Chinese greet 'Oba Mao'

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Nov 14, 2009 7:37 AM EST

Article Source: Straits Times Interactive - SINGAPORE

BEIJING - THE Chinese have learned English from his speeches and celebrated the way he rolls up his sleeves. Now President Barack Obama is finally coming, and he's being greeted with 'Oba Mao' T-shirts and a statue of him that bursts into flames.

Sunday's arrival of a US president admired for his charisma is already a source of profit and brief fame for some Chinese.

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determined0a1

Mrs. Dunn has to be very happy.

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5 votes

#1 - Sat Nov 14, 2009 8:31 AM EST

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141trans

Welcome home to the mother ship!

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2 votes

#2 - Sat Nov 14, 2009 8:41 AM EST

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Sharn Cedar

I saw a brief amount of his boring, endless, lying and worthless speech he made to his fellow Communists. Even the Communists will be looking for the exits on that one. Golly, what a boring speaker. What a pompous lot of meaningless gas farted out of his dirty mouth. It took a lot of editing and staging by the media to make this windbag sound like some dynamic guy.

I would say let him stay there in Communist land with his fellow travelers, but there is no chance they will want him. No one on earth can stand to hear another word from fart-master's mouth, except the 10 or 15 people who still watch CNN.

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5 votes

#3 - Sat Nov 14, 2009 9:05 AM EST

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Tiocfaidh Ar La

you people are fascist idiots.

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1 vote

#4 - Sat Nov 14, 2009 9:47 AM EST

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johnny angel

The speech was in Japan.

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1 vote

#5 - Sat Nov 14, 2009 10:21 AM EST

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Randilly

Mr Liu has certainly made his mark on the world. Those t-shirts are going to be popular on both sides of the political aisle.

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#6 - Sat Nov 14, 2009 5:02 PM EST

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AOIMIYAZAKI

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Chinese greet 'Oba Mao'

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