Bush at the Olympics
Let's not forget who the Communists really are.
Well, Bush went to the Olympics and instead of giving a rousing speech on human rights, ended up
playing volleyball with some very good looking women.
Fark captures the moment with a caption contest. Again, I guess any sort of accomplishment or achievement is apparently too much to ask from the President.
Labels: Bush, China
One last chance for a positive Bush legacy: Olympics
The President has done many things wrong, including squandering his political capital in exchange for zero serious policy reforms. Though I consider myself pro-Iraq-war, I concede that there are serious problems with the invasion that are now clear in hindsight. And Bush's democracy talk, clearly Wilsonian, is a dangerous precedent to establish as official policy. However, as a nation built on values and unquestionable human rights, without even engaging deeper topics of democracy and the proper forms of government, while Bush is in China for the Olympics I think it would be a transformational moment in the narrative of the Bush legacy were he to clearly, publicly, and resolutely condemn the inhumane Chinese Human Rights abuses in front of the entire world community. Since China's acceptance of the games was predicated on this silly notion that it would somehow imbue them with a better government, and not just provide an international acceptance of a superpower built on slave labor and totalitarianism, it ought to behoove the President to tell the Emperor they have no clothes, and give a memorable, inspirational, declaratory and deafening exposition of the crimes of the Chinese in front of the world community: the madness of the Great Leap Forward, the barbarism of the one-child policy and the many twisted ways in which births and families are regulated, the persecution of dissidents and the ridiculous judicial system. Granted it's bad form to criticize a man in his own house, but it is equally as bad to not criticize a murderer when your silence connotes acceptance of the murders. Bush ought to deliver a serious condemnation of the ChiComs, in front of everyone, in front of them, and let the chips fall where they may. This, it should be noted, might require the layoffs of everyone in the State Department to prevent a bureaucratic revolt, but it'd be worth it.
Labels: Bush, China, pro-life
