Barack Hussein Obama has become the first president to boycott the Dalai Lama since he began visiting the nation’s capital in 1991.
Interestingly, Obama’s boycott comes a little over a year after he, and now secretary of state and then democrat party opponent Hillary Clinton, called on president George W. Bush to boycott the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony.
That was then and this is now.
From telegraph.co.uk:
Mr Obama has changed his position on Tibet since his election campaign.
In April 2008, he was joined by Hillary Clinton, then his rival for the Democratic nomination and now his Secretary of State, in calling on George W Bush to boycott the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony in protest at the bloody repression of a popular uprising in Tibet.
“If the Chinese do not take steps to help stop the genocide in Darfur and to respect the dignity, security, and human rights of the Tibetan people, then the President should boycott the opening ceremonies,” they said.
The presidential snub of the Tibetan, exiled leader, is seen by some as caving in to the communist regime in China.
Sophie Richardson, an Asian advocate for Human Rights Watch said:
“This idea that if you are nice to the Chinese Communist Party up front you can cash in later is just wrong. If you lower the bar on human rights they will just move it lower and lower.”
Sadly Ms. Richardson only one U.S. President has had the fortitude to stand up against communism.
May President Reagan rest in peace.
God help us!
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
It's because the Chinese own a majority of our debt, and, much of our real estate
Scope (Diary) Tuesday, October 6th at 1:22AM EST (link)they are calling in their chips. And, we can’t cut off the credit card limit, especially when the Libs are looking to spend like mad, more so than they already have. China has been in battle with the Dalai Lama, and Tibet, because communism doesn’t take kindly to religion, it destroys their ultimate goals. Looks like the Libs in this country don’t take kindly to religion either, or, Obama got on his knees once again.
It's because the Chinese own a majority of our debt, and, much of our real estate
Scope (Diary) Tuesday, October 6th at 1:22AM EST (link)they are calling in their chips. And, we can’t cut off the credit card limit, especially when the Libs are looking to spend like mad, more so than they already have. China has been in battle with the Dalai Lama, and Tibet, because communism doesn’t take kindly to religion, it destroys their ultimate goals. Looks like the Libs in this country don’t take kindly to religion either, or, Obama got on his knees once again.
We've got a fair amount of chips ourselves
aesthete (Diary) Tuesday, October 6th at 12:00PM EST (link)I place the blame on this one squarely on Obama’s shoulders. His actions here were both stupid and wrong, moreso than when Bush didn’t boycott the Beijing Olympics (which, IMO, he should have).
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton
he's just 'caving in' to his inner Commie
Joe Rivers (Diary) Tuesday, October 6th at 12:59PM EST (link)This simpler explanation, contra the UK Telegraph, is that Obama was lying on the campaign trail for political expedience.
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I agree
Crippy (Diary) Tuesday, October 6th at 1:32PM EST (link)Obama is a lying Marxist.
He thinks we should be more like the ChiComs.
God help us!
-Crippy’s World