‘John McCain Repeatedly Misquotes Chairman Mao’: From China’s Global Geographic Times

Now John McCain has gone and done it! The Chinese have picked up on the fact that the Republican candidate for president has been misquoting the Great Helmsman Himself, Mao Zedong – and they are not pleased.

According to this op-ed article by Wang Qichao of China’s Global Geographic Times:

“In almost every campaign speech he mentions that, ‘It’s always darkest before it gets pitch black.’ In fact, the original from Chairman Mao was, ‘it’s always darkest before the dawn.’ It’s possible that the Chinese people will soon have had their fill of McCain’s quotes of Mao’s Little Red Book.”

By U.S. Special Correspondent Wang Qichao

Translated By Mark Klingman

August 7, 2008

Global Geographic Times – People’s Republic of China – Original Article (Chinese)

Seventy-three-year-old Vietnam veteran John McCain will represent the Republican Party in the American presidential election at the end of this year. According to reports, he quotes Mao Zedong from time to time, often incorrectly.

According to Taiwan’s United Daily News, on a recent visit to Pennsylvania to take part in a town hall meeting, one participant went on and on about the importance of energy independence and the need for new federal action. McCain answered by saying that the United States doesn’t need another bureaucracy. “I’m sure many of you know that the Internet is the result of federal government research and development, but that the government later handed it over to private firms … I think the way we’re going to solve this issue is to let a thousand flowers bloom.”

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