That does seem to be the pattern with Mayor Gluba. Slavish subservience to a regime that denies religious liberties and the rights of conscience . . . paying tribute to a tribune from a thugocracy steeped in corruption . . . pretending to support the proletariat while honoring their oppressors . . . but enough about Gluba’s support for the Obama regime.
The video linked below clearly shows Mayor Bill Gluba bowing lower than his belly might comfortably allow to Vice President of China Xi Jinping the heir apparent to head the politburo of one of the most oppressive regimes in the world. Gluba scrapes to the representative of an unapologetic line of succession that has more innocent blood on its hands than perhaps all other despots from human history combined.
http://www.wqad.com/news/wqad-gluba-china-deal-021612,0,5333509.story
Based on the camera angle everyone was well aware of, the event resulted in a threefer for Mayor Gluba. In that one gesture he shows uncalled for obsequiousness to a visiting thug, he demonstrates the extent of the limberness Obama can expect from him and he shows his ass to freedom loving people the world over. That’s a good efficient “social justice” Democrat for you. How utterly pathetic.
Lest there be any tut tutting out there that such a gesture is mere protocol, it most certainly is not. And any pretense that Xi Jinping returned the bow is belied by the video evidence. But even if it were normative vis a vi Chinese, this was not a normative situation. The tarmac was in Moline, Illinois, USA, putatively the home of the free and the brave . . . and the “dignitary” in question is currently engaged in support of brutal policies in his country and in support of terrorist regimes around the world. Even a lowly democratically elected mayor should be expected to at least present an aura of freedom loving dignity, protected as he was in our own environs.
The issue for this article is that embarrassing uncalled for pathetic display by a local political leader representing the city of Davenport. For the record we do not object to mutually beneficial trade honoring appropriate contract and treaty with the Chinese people. But it is shameful to, in all manners of continence, appear so obsequious in the presence of a murderous gang member.
We also object to the level of ceremony given Xi Jinping by the Governor of Iowa. The level was simply uncalled for. We note that Governor Branstad is so stiff naturally or from disabling injury that the appearance of bowing and scraping was not going to happen, but we hope that there was a semblance of freedom loving dignity actually present as well.
