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Wow, sounds like this fool will say anything to get elected. If anything, the alliance would be in much much worse shape if Chung ever, by a fluke of history, got elected. If he got in, I would be worried about Korea’s future. They can’t afford another incompetent fool at the helm. With the Chinese nipping at Korea’s heels, Chung adding a few more nails in the coffin of the alliance, and foreign direct investment already plunging, he would be a disaster for Korea if he became president.
No I could not finish reading it without laughing.
I will need to go check my blog archives for some of his all time greatest US-ROK alliance statements.
Roh gave similar assurances before taking office:
http://english.mofe.go.kr/news.....;SW=amcham
Noh achieved something!?
I meant ?!
I couldn’t do it.
I managed to keep from laughing until the part where Chung said ‘I can dare to say that I commanded trust from Washington when I was the unification minister in 2005′, and then I just couldn’t hold back any more. What can I say? Chung’s naturally funny - I laugh every time he opens his mouth.
GI Korea, please follow post any quotes you find in the comments section here. I’m sure folks would love to see the contrast.
The guy is pretty slick. After getting he gets worked on December 19, he should think about selling used cars.
Not really an alliance-related statement, but does anybody have the quote of him blaming FDR - not Teddy Roosevelt - for selling out Korea to the Japanese in 1905? (FDR would have been a student at Columbia University at the time.) Wonder if he missed that lecture while majoring in history at SNU…
#7. Minus the “getting.” Not enough coffee and mind on fantasy football.
A lot of “code” in Chung Dumb Young’s statement; but not too difficult to decipher. Consider this one, e.g.,
I have bad news for you — Chung Dong-young is likely to win the election. This government and its political hit squad of prosecutors is going to neutralize Lee Myung-bak by hammering on his crookedness until he is forced to pull out of the race in mid-November. If he doesn’t resign voluntarily I predict that Roh will order Lee be arrested on television. At the last minute the GNP, in disarray, is going to have to choose between Park Geun-hye and (sigh) Lee Hoi-chang — unless Rhee In-je switches teams again!
Sperwer writes:
Yeah, I liked that one too — I wonder who his influences are? My favorite was at the end of that story (talk about burying the lede!):
Hmm. Chung views history through a dialectic and wants the State to own all the property. Clearly the man’s a visionary!
It is distressing that Korean politics forces the public to choose between — as one of my partners oberved over lunch the other day — a guaranteed thief and a shameless idiot who will say anything, no matter how ridiculous and patently untrue, to fool the populace. Still, my partner at least intends to vote for the thief. A thief knows the value of not destroying what he intends to steal. On the other hand, a shameless idiot with Chung’s ambition is really dangerous.
I didn’t get that far, Brendon; after reading the first excerpt from the Communist manifesto I had to drive the porcelian bus.
I’m not sure about that. Everyone knows how crooked Lee Myung-bak is. They just don’t care.
I failed.
That filth paragraph is a killer. It will take a strong will or a heavy dose of Cool Aid to get past it without at least a snort.
retooling their trials and errors. What does this mean? Ok, we have trial and error, which is the hardest way to learn something. And we have retooling, which in this sense probably means revise or reorganize.
So this guy is going to revise and reorganize the blind experimentation method that his predecessors applied to the office of president? I guess his school of hard knocks had harder knocks than his predecessors? That statement does not fill me with confidence.
They’re all filth paragraphs, son.
Not laughing wasn’t the problem, the hard part is finishing that long diatribe of nonsensical rubbish. He’s just spewing tepid air…
Actually anyone echoing reasoning as mathematically goofy as Hegel’s dialectics tends to be funny, Marxist sycophants included.
(Note: If I ever do so, it’s in sarcasm or sly jest.)
I got halfway through the article and stopped reading, since I didn’t want to waste my time reading something that was a load of BS. Not because I burst out laughing.
Not that I find CDY’s recent statement to be ridiculous to say the least, but as everyone knows, this guy doesn’t have anything between his ears. He has also constantly proven that he’ll say anything to look good to the audience that he’s aiming for, which now is the U.S. He may think that he’s earning points but in reality it only reinforces the airhead and lightweight aura that surrounds him.
who’s leaving Korea when this guy pulls off the improbable win?
One thing that hasn’t changed about Korea, the Korea that I remember is the incumbent President’s party using all the dirty tricks in the book to sway the minds of the mostly stupid public to vote and reinstate the incumbent party.
don’t worry. Chung can’t win. I’ll shave my head if he does.
Chung doesn’t remind you of Hill Clinton?
Then, you’re a bloody hypocrite. Conservative Republican-like to Korea.
Liberal Democrat-like with your own country.
people, u’z all missing the point. of course the BS CDY is spittin’ is enuf to fertilize all of china, but you gotsta realize that he is talking to the korean peeps. i’m sho’ the crap coming out of his mouth ain’t arbitrary like the air that comes out of his ass; he was probably told to say that by his campaign strategists. the campaign strategists ain’t no fools, they know the korean people…
i mean come on, they are the ones who elected moo-hyuni
Is it me, or is this guy’s black shoe polish cheaper than most around here?
I like this one:
“Despite his unwavering pro-U.S. stance, he said he rejects the idea of ‘blind worship of or servile attitude to the United States’ often called flunkeyism.”
Translation: All take and no give.
“Chung doesn’t remind you of Hill Clinton?”
Not all that much. He’s not female. He’s not married to a former president. He’s not a former governor of a state he isn’t from. He’s probably not as smart as Ms. Clinton. He’s less likely (I truly hope!) to win than she is. He may have had as much cosmetic surgery as her, but I don’t claim to be an expert.
“One thing that hasn’t changed about Korea, the Korea that I remember is the incumbent President’s party using all the dirty tricks in the book to sway the minds of the mostly stupid public to vote and reinstate the incumbent party.”
wjk, this is absolutely true, but this elelction strategy is not exactly alien to the United States or other western democracies.
Comparing that clown to Mrs Clinton does her a great disservice. She might have the heart and carriage of a battleship, but she does not deserve to be compared to a perennial Amateur Hour-er.
wjk writes:
I’m in on on the shave-the-head pledge in case Chung Dong-young wins the election. On the other hand, having a completely bald pate instead of a jet-black wig from “Hi-Mo” would make politically-unreliable foreigners easier to round up once the pogroms start.
Things that are likely to happen in November:
1) Lee Hoe-Chang declares his intention to run, taking a large chunk of Lee MB’s support
2) Park GH throws her weight behind Lee Hoe-Chang
3) BBK scandal involving Lee MB dominates headlines
4) The lefties stage another ‘grand unification’ to throw their support behind one candidate, which will likely be Chung
After all these Lee MB won’t seem as inevitable as he now does.
both Hill Clinton and Chung Dong young are saying whatever people want to hear to get elected. Both are making oxymoron claims on various issues.
Don’t see it?
You’re blinded by the war.
#3,
Yeah, but Roh also bragged that he had never been to the US.
#19,
Yeah, I also rarely find BS funny at all, especially when a large number of people will eat it up and ask for seconds.
#29,
Yeah, what happened to her plans for universal health-care? If you’re to believe Michael Moore, find who her largest contributors are and you’ll get your answer.
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