Bush, Democracy, and the Olympics
Posted on April 8, 2008 - Filed Under American Politics, Freedom, International Politics, International Relations, Political Philosophy |
W says he fully intends to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Beijing, even if the Chinese flatly refuse to negotiate or even speak with the Dalai Lama. This doesn’t really come as much of a surprise, but it does underlying the extent to which his pro-democracy posturing in the last 7 long years has been nothing but empty pretence. If he cared about democracy, self-determination and human rights he wouldn’t be attending the opening ceremony, and instead he’d take a principled and courageous stand like Angela Merkel of Germany and embarrass the Chinese government for being such a collection of vile swine.
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See Steve’s take on it: http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/04/hillarys_call_t/
Also, the whole thing is funnier when one considers Bush’s initial plan as prez was to ’stop’ the Chinese and none of this ’spreading-democracy to the Middle East’ crap…