[Roverman2K]

I hate them too
But we cannot condone this on the white house lawn.

[peyton randolph]

But we cannot condone this on the white house lawn.

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Why? The Republican RINOs condoned far more taking place in the Oval Office and a White House sink?

[beaversmom]

But we cannot condone this on the white house lawn.

Don't drag Barney and Miss Beazley into this.

[ApplegateRanch]

But we cannot condone this on the white house lawn.

Now THAT just plain TOTALLY offends me.

The White House is "The People's House", NOT GWB's. If free speech & political expression is "condoned" anywhere, THAT is THE place, along with the Capitol steps.

Sheesh!

[silentknight]

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"I hate them too
But we cannot condone this on the white house lawn."

Oh please...this is America. We can handle a woman calling out a tyrant.

America has failed. Your comments are proof evidence.

[tallhappy]

But we cannot condone this on the white house lawn.

You lay down with dogs you get fleas -- except I don't mean to call her a flea. I mean that if you invite mass murdering tyrants to the White House you are sullying the place. Bush is not alone at all. I'd like to have thought in the past that President Bush would be the one to not act according to past precedent.

Hu is a mass murdering tyrant so I think we need to condone it.

Hu should never ever be invited to the White House for such a ceremony.

[RedStateRocker]

I fear the Chicoms far more than all the Muslims in to world put together. IMHO we *ARE* at war with them, it si just an economic war; we are both too sophisticated and busy making money to be bothered with shooting.....

There have been several things I've been unhappy with President Bush about, borders and budgets primary amongst them. But with China he is taking the right tack of engagement. Better to be polite and respectful and make one or two tactful comments about religious and political freedom being the next step rather than overt confrontation.
I think we Americans often forget some basic realities about China:
- human life is cheap; it always had been there. We Americans take 'space' and the security of two oceans for granted, every Chinese government since the dawn of recorded history has been able to take having masses and masses of people as a resource in much the same manner.
-Things change very slowly. Really, Mao just replaced the emperors in a system that remained very Confucian. And 10, 50 or 100 years seems a long time to us; in that culture it really isn't.
-Exactly as with Putin, anyone who thinks President Hu does not consider himself at least as rightfully entitled as President Bush to be the leader of the worlds primary superpower is unrealistic. President Hu as as much obligation to advance the interests of China as President Bush does the interests of the United States. And I would bet that he is quite aware that China has more to lose from a nuclear madman in North Korea than we do.