Posted on 08/07/2008 2:02:50 PM PDT by dragnet2
Kinda hopes this blows up and we just back up our team and leave.
-— Mainly because NBC would be screwed.
Maybe a suitcase of payoff $$$ from the Clintons didn’t get to its intended recipient.
“and surf Free Republic”
They have been here for years 0_o
If the Chinese don’t allow those Americans off that plane, The President should leave.
He should invite all American athletes to leave with him.
I know, they are MSM, but they are still Americans. ;-)
No word if they and their luggage/equipment are being searched as apparently the Chinese were demanding.
Wow.
All they will find is a little doobie, loads of locally manufactured Birkenstocks, and well-thumbed copies of "Earth in the Balance".
I wish he would turn those planes around, get back home and do the job he swore to uphold instead of watching games in the enemy’s playground while this country is in need!
I just hope the airconditioning is off and the heads are full. Drinks are locked up..and yes..it would be great if they hauled a few in for narcotics. They are rough on drug smuggler there.
Bush will be blamed..they’ll say he wouldn’t lift a finger to save them.
Why to bad things happen to bad people?
I bet I know why the Chinese are freaked out!
"..discounters such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will have its challenges as well.
The world's largest retailer, whose July sales results were slightly below Wall Street estimates, said that it's seeing customers increasingly unable to stretch their dollars to the next payday. It also predicted that August's sales pace would be slower than July."
Target reports similarly.
People may have stopped buying rubber sqeaky toys, and that's the end of China's economy.
Greatest Olympics since 1936 anyway, hell, everybody knows they’re going to roll into Taiwan as soon as the games are over just like Hitler rolled into the Sudetenland, and we’re gonna wring our hands and send the striped pants diplomatic corpse to make veiled threats and then we’ll let them do it, why? Because they frickin’ pw3n our @$$es, and we’ll let them do what they demn well please, in the end.
I agree. I think it has already been smoothed ever. The press reminded the Chinese they were there to make China look better than the U.S., and the Chinese realized they were right.
This was apparently a White House chartered aircraft....Lets hope everything is above board here.
They have confirmed those on board are being allowed off the aircraft....But still no word on if the search of their equipment/luggage is being conducted...What is being reported is that the Chinese were demanding everything be searched.
Damn I didn’t know Mike Carona has friends in China LOL!
I know, they are MSM, but they are still Americans. ;-)
I think this is a GREAT idea. Too bad Bush does not have the testicular fortitude to face the Chinese down like he did with Saddam.
And I will gladly eat these words with a side of crow if I'm wrong.
The Chinese authorities heard him say that, noted who was on the plane, and yelled, “Deplane,” you say—”Like hell they will!”
Chinese authorities were demanding everything be searched. Apparently the Chinese were going back on an agreement where it was agreed it would not be searched.
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