ABSOLUTE OUTRAGE – AT 8:37 P.M. ET:  It is hard to be shocked at one more revelation of the kind of extremist hired by the Obama administration, but this is pretty disgraceful.  From The Politico:

Arizona’s two senators are demanding that a top State Department official apologize for comparing the state’s new immigration law with human rights abuses in China.

“As the [official] in charge of the Bureau of Democracy and Human Rights, your remarks are particularly offensive,” Republican Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl wrote Michael Posner, the assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. “We demand that you retract your statement and issue an apology.”

Posner’s comments came at a Friday press briefing outlining a meeting between U.S. and Chinese officials on human rights issues.

Asked if the Arizona law was discussed and whether it was Chinese or American officials who had broached the subject, Posner said, according to a State Department transcript of the briefing: “We brought it up early and often. It was mentioned in the first session as a troubling trend in our society and an indication that we have to deal with issues of discrimination or potential discrimination. And these are issues very much being debated in our own society.”

Posner is the proverbial useful idiot.  He has a long history in left-wing interest groups.  He should not hold the position he holds.

But is anyone surprised?  Posner is just the latest lefty to be outed. 

“You seemed to imply [the Arizona law] is morally equivalent to China’s persistent pattern of abuse and repression of its people,” McCain and Kyl wrote in demanding the apology. “To compare in any way the lawful and democratic act of the government of the state of Arizona with the arbitrary abuses of the unelected Chinese Communist Party is inappropriate and offensive.”

COMMENT:  I suspect that McCain and Kyl will be ignored, but they should not let the matter drop.  This gent works for Hillary Clinton, and she should be called on the carpet and made to explain why, in a nation of 306 million, we can't find a better guy for the job.

May 19, 2010