Why are Freepers Interested in the Chicoms' Olympics? SHOULD we be?

Vanity | 08/10/08 | Mobile Vulgus

[Mobile Vulgus]

So how should Freepers feel about the Olympics? Should we write about it, post about it or covering it in any way?

I feel that every American (including President Bush) that are in attendance at the Olympics are traitors to democracy and civilization.

These commie bastards are our enemies. Each and every Chinese citizen (and I use that term citizen very euphemistically), each man, woman and child are enemies to the USA, the west, and basic civilization. They look at us as enemies and we should return the favor. Look where pretending that "they really don't mean it" got us where it concerns Muslims!

China should be treated as the lepers that they are, not as useful and legitimate citizens of the international community.

We should have, every western nation should have, boycotted these Olympics once the pliable and most likely bribed Olympic Committee chose China to host the games.

But that's just me.

What will be the consensus of our community?

[Mobile Vulgus]

Well, chime in and let's tally it all up.

Yea or Nay?

[Terpfen]

I feel that every American (including President Bush) that are in attendance at the Olympics are traitors to democracy and civilization.

I see you passed Hyperbole 101 with flying colors.

[raybbr]

Ummm....

I'm kind of interested...

[NCBraveheart]

I gave up watching the Olympics years ago. Once they allowed pros into the games and it became less about sports and more about PC crap. My protest against the Chicoms is just to ignore the whole thing.

[KoRn]

I have never cared about any Olympic event. The games aren’t interesting to me.

I’ll stick with the NFL and the MLB.

[johnny7]

Nay... too many of the sporting events look like they were made up while “tripping”.

[mad_as_he$$]

No one in this house will be watching one minute of it.

[avacado]

"I feel that every American (including President Bush) that are in attendance at the Olympics are traitors to democracy and civilization."

Utterly ridiculous!

The Olympics have always been about nations coming together for non political reasons to compete their athletes against one another. Bush did the right thing by going and not making the Olympics some dumb political statement.

People have trained their whole lives for this moment in time. And that is what it is about.

[Krankor]

It is every American’s patriotic duty to punch at least one Chinese kid a day!

[rlmorel]

I thought the same thing when I saw that picture...:)

[andyandval]

I am only interested in seeing China make an absolute fool of itself on the world stage.

I have not been disappointed.

[DieHard the Hunter]

This FReeper does not give a bloody blast about the ChiCom Olympics.

[svcw]

What?
Its not China's Olympics its the world Olympics being held in China.
I know Chinese in China and they do not hate America.
This is supposed to be an athletic event not political (ok I know it has gotten political).
I think you are over thinking this event and making it way to complicated.

[Petronski]

I would be interested in the games if I could see them. Unfortunately, NBC’s schizoid coverage prevents that.

[trisham]

I’m not watching them.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> The Olympics have always been about nations coming together for non political reasons to compete their athletes against one another.

Surely, you forgot your /sarc tag? If not, I got a bridge to sell you — real cheap.

[svcw]

I agree with that. 3 hours of boxing and thats it. I mean boxing is interesting but there other things going on.
And if I see one more ad with an USA athletic with the words "go world" I am going to vomit.
Shouldn't American companies celebrate American athletics?
(enough ranting)

[McGruff]

Nay. It's gives NBC and China publicity. Too many events. There's a war going on. It's summer time....

[Always Right]

These commie bastards are our enemies. Each and every Chinese citizen (and I use that term citizen very euphemistically), each man, woman and child are enemies to the USA, the west, and basic civilization.

Sounds kind of bigoted to me. Most Chinese citizens love Americans. Sure their government sucks, but your statement is absurd.

[mad_as_he$$]

Bush dived, a$$es thrived!

[G.Mason]

Not interested in the least.

Forty plus years ago I enjoyed the Ruski's & Poles try to kill each other in water polo.

The bob sledders death defying slides for life were fun to watch also, but the steroids and black hand salutes spelled the death knell for me.

I will always remember, with great pride, George Foreman winning in 1968.

[piytar]

Yea. I want the US to go into their house and WIN. It’s a face thing.

[johnny7]

The Olympics have always been about nations coming together for non political reasons to compete their athletes against one another.

Man... that's soooooo gay!

[johnny7]

The Olympics have always been about nations coming together for non political reasons to compete their athletes against one another.

Man... that's soooooo gay!

[barb-tex]

The only events I would be interested in are the shooting
events and they won’t be televised,but I am boycotting the chicoms anyway. Spectator sports are not my thing, anyway.
barbra ann

[KansasGirl]

They are saying “go world.”

I am glad I am not watching. That is pathetic.

[Will88]

“I feel that every American (including President Bush) that are in attendance at the Olympics are traitors to democracy and civilization. These commie bastards are our enemies.”

I think second only to their besotted affair with Mexico is the Bush family’s besotted affair with China. Of course, GHWB was ambassador to China, and as president, after the unpleasantness at Tienanmen Square, he promptly dispatched Brent Scrowcroft to assure the Commies that that little incident wouldn’t affect the GHWB suck-up policy toward China.

No real surprise the W would go to the Beijing Olympics as the first US president ever to attend an Olympics outside the USA. Just not impressed with this “engagement” policy toward China the US has followed since the Carter years. How’s it working so far?

And how is that crash Chinese military project coming along, the one to develop systems to defeat US carrier groups?

[Noumenon]

We won’t be watching. Smacks a little too much of 1936.

[avacado]

I bet everything is gay to you. Loafer boy.

[CAluvdubya]

Every man, woman, and child in China is an enemy?

One too many cups of coffee this morning, dude...

[Big Horn]

I watch all the Olympics I can. I love track and field and most of the other events. I am not interested in NBA and watch limited NFL and MLB.

[GladesGuru]

Surely, you forgot your /sarc tag? If not, I got a bridge to sell you — real cheap.”

A better offer would be founder’s stock in your company with Federal approval to install toll booths on all Federal highways.

Nothing like highway robbery, is there?

;-)

[Petronski]

(enough ranting)

Not quite.

In an ideally technologically-advanced world, I would be able to reach through my TV screen and jam the insipid necktie of that bootlicking boob Bob Costas down his steaming snack pipe.

NOW there's been enough ranting. ;O)

[KansasGirl]

The fact that they are on NBC is a good reason not to watch. Not to mention, I might accidentally watch one of Obama’s stupid ads (which NBC probably gave him a discount on).

[kanawa]

I have a friend competing...stayed up all night watching her event.

[lonestar]

I prefer college sports to the overpaid pros.

I enjoy the Olympics--some events more than others. I watch swimming and track events more than basketball--don't like the pros playing.

I prefer winter to summer Olympics.

I'd rather Bush be in China for the Olympics than selling our secrets to them for campaign contributions like the Clintons!

If I remember correctly, the Clintons went to China with 1500 of their closest friends before he left office and it cost us $70 million.

[Big Horn]

For the people that call Bush dumb. He is right where I would be.God bless him.

[Will88]

“The Olympics have always been about nations coming together for non political reasons to compete their athletes against one another. Bush did the right thing by going and not making the Olympics some dumb political statement.”{

Always, as in 1936, 1972, 1980, 1984, and that’s just for starters.

[johnny7]

I gotta’ ‘loaf’ for you, skippy...

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Why are Freepers Interested in the Chicoms’ Olympics?

I’m not the least bit interested in the Olympics - they could be in my back yard. If they were, I’d be somewhere else.

[Ronaldus Magnus Reagan]

It’s a disgrace when the Olympics allow such new sports such as walking, kayaking, and beach volleyball while still not allowing a sport such as pocket billiards or any kind of billiards that has been around forever.

[KevinDavis]

I think the Olympics are boring and I won’t watch them until I see football..

[mainerforglobalwarming]

Remember at the last olympics some reporter asked Bush what his favorite events were and he couldn't answer? I guess he's taking a hands on approach to the olympics now, with the great game of beach volleyball as the sport he's focusing on.

[cowboyway]

What olympics?

[mkjessup]

Absolutely NAY.

The Communist Chinese are among the worst oppressors of human rights on the planet. To have awarded Beijing the Olympics in the first place was a betrayal of every standard and principle that the Olympics are alleged to represent.

This is not 1936, when everyone thought it really keen to watch Jessie Owens put the athletic smack down to the huge Third Reich propaganda fest, this is a new century and a new age, and the participation of nations that purportedly believe in democracy puts an illicit stamp of approval upon a regime that would (for example) force the Olympic contestants to undergo forced abortions if they were 'citizens' (i.e. 'prisoners') of the totalitarian dictatorship aka the Chinese Communist Party. Olympic partial-birth abortions anyone? Bullets or scissors?

Furthermore, for democratic nations to participate in this charade provides additional funds to the Communists that will only help them maintain their hold on power. For any free nation that sets aside whatever moral values they have to join this upgraded circus show, they empower the ChiComs and encourage them in their behavior both internally and externally (internally, the continued political repression of any and all dissidents, externally, the continued expansion of ChiCom military influence throughout the Far East, and the eventual absorption of Taiwan against their will).

Communist China continues to represent not only a political and military threat to the rest of the planet, but a health threat as well, due to the wink-and-nod approach of their dictatorship to companies exporting hazardous materials under the guise of 'consumer products' to an unsuspecting and ignorant world population, and their past and present conduct has resulted in the murder of innocent people who made the mistake of trusting products stamped "Made In China".

The Olympics have become the athletic equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize, a geopolitical propaganda fest, pushed and endorsed by leftists and liberals who want to see the moral equivalence game advanced to the detriment of America, and even by conservatives who ought to know better.

So far as the Olympics promoting 'peace and understanding'?

Ask the good citizens of Georgia how they feel about Russian bombs falling during this period of 'peace and understanding', ok?

Our President should be in Washington raising our defcon levels due to this latter post-Soviet aggression by Moscow, not prancing around with bikini-clad volleyball players in a Communist country.

[Petronski]

You want an olympic event made of a sport only played in two nations?

[mass55th]

It’s not the Chi-com’s Olympics, it’s the athletes. And if you chose to boycott every country that you don’t agree with (and there are many), one would never watch an Olympic event ever again. The next summer Olympics will be held in London in 2012. Are you going to complain about the President and athletes attending then because the UK outlaws gun ownership, because they allow abortion, or because they have a large population of Muslims who are pushing for Sharia Law? I could go on and on.

[avacado]

"Always, as in 1936, 1972, 1980, 1984, and that’s just for starters."

Nope. That's not the Olympics. That's jackasses using the Olympics for political purposes.

[avacado]

"Skippy?"

You sound gay.