[Mobile Vulgus]

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

Yea or Nay?

[kanawa]

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

[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.

[KevinDavis]

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

[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.

[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.

[theDentist]

I’m watching. I’m interested. I think you should try a couple Xanex, stat.

[airborne]

Yea.

I’m set to watch the USA vs. China men’s basketball game, starting in 10 minutes.

I’m smart enough to see through the propaganda and just enjoy my country’s athletes compete.

[indcons]

Nay, absolutely not.

2008 Peiping Olympics = 1936 Berlin Olympics

Of course, the Bushbots and the slavish pro-Chicom contingent here will disagree (but that’s only to be expected).

[Mr. Blonde]

I will be watching. And most likely having to stay up until 3 a.m. to watch wrestling. A former teammate and coach are competing, I will watch wherever they compete.

I am always curious to see how many swimming records fall and how how the pollution affects the track events.

[tioga]

We are watching here. I am proud that our president and his father, a former president, are there rooting for our American athletes. While I am a political junkie and do not want Chinese toys, spices or anything else as I don't trust them, the games are being held there. The scenery is beautiful...especially the Great Wall and the bicycle race yesterday. Sorry you and others are too stubborn to enjoy it. You all need to chill a bit.

[TexasCajun]

"MV -- I agree with you 100%! We should have boycotted The Olympics!">

[paudio]

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.

It is such comment that can be taken by outsider to discredit the Free Republic.

[Desparado]

An interesting scenario is developing in women’s basketball. There is an American player who shared MVP of the year last year in the women’s league. Her name is Hammock. She is a point guard and was not invited to compete to be on the American team. Her dream has been to play in the Olympics since she was a little girl. Since she plays in Europe during the off season, she is eligible to play on other teams. The Russians are paying her $2,000,000 to play for them. She WILL be playing for them. It has caused quite a stir in the Women’s basketball world here. She has stated that she would have gladly given up the $2,000000 if the Americans had only given her a chance to compete to play for her country. It should be interesting! Especially since the Russians beat the Americans and went on to win the silver in the last games.

[P.O.E.]

I just can’t stand all the scripted yapping from the commentators.

[mainerforglobalwarming]

Flipping through, see that our men’s basketball team is struggling against china. Why didn’t we just send the Celtics over there and have an easy win?

[o_zarkman44]

Not one second. Considering that much of what we consume in America comes from china, they already have more spotlight than deserved.
Anything that comes from a COMMIE COUNTRY IS DIRTY! Including NBC Olympic coverage.

[MortMan]

I believe that the olympics themselves have become even bigger mockeries of their purpose. They are propaganda. They are professional, in almost every sense of the word. The US got pro athletes involved because we were almost the only ones who defined “amateur” the way we did. I could go on...

BUT, the United States has fielded a team for these olympics. Why and/or how would it be “unpatriotic” to support our fellow Americans as they compete on the olympic stage? Unpatriotic is a word that SHOULD be reserved for acts that intentionally damage the United States or its reputation.

Standing up to a bully (China and others) by traveling into the lion’s den and beating the crap out of the lion (winning medals) is a far cry from intentionally damaging the U.S.

Having said all that, I couldn’t personally care less about the Olympics. I have not and will not spend any time or energy watching them.

[manapua]

Uh.... because we like to root for our boys and girls? I said it on another thread: it's not the athlete's fault that the IOC made a cynical (and well-greased) decision to hand the games to Beijing.

Rooting for the US team is somehow traitorous? Please...

[mefistofelerevised]

So Americans who have been training for years shouldn’t be able show their superiority because of the place the games are being held? Did you vote for Jimmy Carter?