“offend China”
BFD. China offends me when they keep sending inferior, poisonous products to the US and expects our citizens to ignore the consequences of dealing with them.
Bring lots of oxygen bottles and respirators... for the fans too, not just the athletes.
Smog in Beijing five times over safety limit as Olympics nears
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4276469.ece
I agree with him. You don’t need a foreign policy based on sticking your finger in their eye at every opportunity. Focus on the big picture.
Instead of complaining about the chinese, we should be making a point of buying American-made, union-free products. Yeah, sometimes you can’t buy from the good guys and are stuck with chinese or union stuff, but at least we should try sending a message to retailers and other suppliers.
Who gives a rat’s ass what the Chinese think? Oh yeah, George W.(spineless) Bush
Amazing!
Bush’s first crisis was when the Chinese brought down our Navy P-3 and took the crew prisoner. And he worries about offending the Chinese!
Guess we can’t do without all the cheap goods and contaminated food that is making a lot of George’s friends rich.
I am old enough to remember the U.S. leading a boycott of the Olympics in Moscow in 1980, and it did nothing politically. President Jimmy Carter initiated it to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but what it mostly did was to upset ordinary Russians and the athletes who had trained hard for four years and were now denied the opportunity to compete. It also resulted in an Eastern Block boycott of the 1984 summer Olympics in Los Angeles. For more on this, read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-led_boycott_of_the_1980_Summer_Olympics in Wikipedia.
China does some bad things, but this is not the way to go about protesting them. It’s best to try to keep international politics out of the Olympics, IMO.
What with their earthquake misery as of late, I’d say let the Chinese keep some shred of dignity and have a decent Olympics.
With that being said, I do hope every company that shipped it’s manufacturing and jobs to China now enjoys paying miserably high shipping on it’s products while those few decent companies that stayed in the USA enjoy the benefits of not paying the same.
These Olympics will be hilarious. China is asking the world to look at them, and the world will.
And?
The only ballsy foreign policy move Carter ever made was to boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Bush apparently won't come even close to that with a symbolic gesture.
Stand for something or you’ll fall for anything President Bush
follow the money - who helps pay bush’s bills?
By attending it offends me!
We shouldn’t even be participating in the games.
I don’t care much for Bush’s take on this. I believe there are some comments he could make, that would be more appropriate. That being said, I don’t disagree with his overall take.
What I do disagree with is our trade with China that is funding it’s accension to becoming a major adversary, and will utlimately destabalize the world. It already is.
We must pay attention to the global warming hype. It doesn’t have to.
We must pay three times what oil is worth, because we have created two more markets for oil, India and China. Simply brilliant on our part.
We allow China to charge 40% tariffs on our goods, and charge little or nothing on theirs.
China should be on it’s knees kissing our ass for what we are granting it. Instead it is developing ways to kick it.
All my fortune for a leader among us. And there are none.
And the President just called Russias new “President” a “smart guy”... Not learning from the mistake when he looked into the eyes and saw into the soul of Putin.... and he said last week that “were strong dollar people in this administration”
Oh boy. After 7 years of defending President Bush. I still have my “Bush-Cheney 04” hat on display in my room. I am wondering if the President has finally flipped out. Is he back on the bottle or something ?
I once thought he was on his way to being one of our greatest Presidents.