No, no. You're missing the point.
Obama is cool. I don't like him. I voted Nader. But Obama portrays a cool, hip prez.
China's....not so much.
Which is important considering Chinese are buying more and more bonds from us. And we need to show them that we're not back peddling with our extremist spending policies on our military and political influence abroad. Instead we're going to economically implode by bailing out our financial institutions.
China's market focuses on raping their people openly. They get rural chinese peasants into the larger cities and house and feed them but in return they are forced to work off all their 'loans,' kind of how blacks were forced into share cropping in the United States after the civil war. But we don't say shit because they're our largest trading partners.
Our ecomy focuses less on physically forcing labor as much as it does on forcing labor through debt.
And it's much cooler having a black guy digging us further into this recession than it was having Bush blowing the shit out of Saddam.