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Hmmm - how things change now that Obama is the POTUS. But we can't afford to piss off China, considering they pretty much own us. Sad, sad, sad...
Monday, October 5, 2009
By Kellie, posted in News
President Barack Obama has refused to meet the Dalai Lama in Washington this week in a move to curry favour with the Chinese.
The decision came after China stepped up a campaign urging nations to shun the Tibetan spiritual leader.
It means Mr Obama will become the first president not to welcome the Nobel peace prize winner to the White House since the Dalai Lama began visiting Washington in 1991.
The Buddhist monk arrived in Washington on Monday for a week of meetings with Congressional leaders, celebrity supporters and interest groups, but the president will not see him until after he has made his first visit to China next month.
Samdhong Rinpoche, the Tibetan prime minister-in-exile, has accused the United States and other Western nations of “appeasement” toward China as its economic weight grows.
“Today, economic interests are much greater than other interests,” he said.
US officials told Tibetans that they wanted to work with China on critical issues, including nuclear weapons proliferation in North Korea and Iran, according to The Washington Post. Mr Obama sent a delegation to the Dalai Lama’s home in exile in India last month that confirmed the meeting would be deferred.
Mr Obama has changed his position on Tibet since his election campaign.
In April 2008, he was joined by Hillary Clinton, then his rival for the Democratic nomination and now his Secretary of State, in calling on George W Bush to boycott the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony in protest at the bloody repression of a popular uprising in Tibet.
“If the Chinese do not take steps to help stop the genocide in Darfur and to respect the dignity, security, and human rights of the Tibetan people, then the President should boycott the opening ceremonies,” they said.
Hmmm - how things change now that Obama is the POTUS. But we can't afford to piss off China, considering they pretty much own us. Sad, sad, sad...
Shocking
So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga
wow where are the usual suspects ......con uously silent . So we are to meet without any preconditions the lunatic from Iran who wants to commit genocide and light off nukes.We are to meet with that ape Chavez who is buying military tech. from Iran and who so I've heard is brokering a deal to mine for uranium in venezuela with the help of Iran.We are supposed to give lines of credit to the Vampire in Cuba.We are propping up central american dictators who wish to steal from their people their own cons ution.We can talk to khadafy, we have tea with the asshole in north korea...But one of the greatest teachers of REAL peace in our lifetme is shunned.
There's a whole lotta dumb s with "FREE TIBET' bumperstickers on there electric car who gonna have to live with the fact that the guy they voted for told the Dali Lama to take a leap.
We are going down the wrong road folks.
where did he tell him to take a leap? do you understand the dynamics in the complex world of geopolitics? or are you playing stupid?
on a side note congrats on getting your spoon fed talking points into one post
Protocol is a .The Buddhist monk arrived in Washington on Monday for a week of meetings with Congressional leaders, celebrity supporters and interest groups, but the president will not see him until after he has made his first visit to China next month.
no you don't get it. obama is throwing him under the bus..
Do you undestand right and wrong, courage and cowardice,truth and lie, sustaniable future and dead end road.
The truth aint complex, it may inconveient but it aint complex.what is complex is all the wrapping you try and hide it under,or the lengths people go to in order to avoid it.
ok dead ender whatever you say...
how does this gibberish you post have t do with obama delaying meeting the dali lama. you do realize he's meeting with in a few weeks don't you?
what the he needs permission...and you call it protocol you go ahead stick your nose back in the crack, just don't ask me to join you......not my thing.
so are you saying that we should end all political protocal now? why all of a sudden?
More scatology. Your imagination is a jackpot of paraphilias, micca. Just don't ask me to join you.
Oh, wait. By posting it in a public forum you just asked everyone to join you.
How considerate.
if the analogy fits .
if the analogy fits wear it.
No thanks, I'm not an Obama man. Just normally endowed with reason and good temper. I can see that pisses you off.
Please precious good temper? you're one of the most punitive little pricks on this board. As for reason...well I guess that's in the eye of the beholder.
I get along with most posters here. I have a problem with you because of your over the top vulgarity and disrespect. I dislike bullies and weak bull , so you haven't exactly seen my best side.
Ride with an outlaw, die with an outlaw.
Last edited by Winehole23; 10-06-2009 at 06:47 PM.
where's the link? I'd like to know which conservative website this came from. I've bolded the author's opinion ..of course then you repeat it isif it is a fact..
Micca, you're spiteful as heck. I mean, in a way, it's impressive.
it's the gang mentality when you hang a confederate flag outside of your double-wide.
i saw the do entary about micca.
It's Kellie.
She posts in News.
Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari, the Washington-based special envoy to the Dalai Lama, issued a brief statement, saying: "We came to this arrangement because we believe that it is in our long-term interests."
A White House official said the administration and the Tibetans had "agreed the timing would be best after the visit".
Wait a minute... the le of thread is a LIE..
what's the problem?Saunders said the Dalai Lama actually agreed with the Obama administration's decision and believed it was important the United States and China develop a good relationship.
The Dalai Lama believes "it is important for it to be strong, it's important for it to be cooperative," she said.
A White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said, "We have made clear that the president absolutely intends to meet the Dalai Lama.".............
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091005/...bama_dalailama
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