Comments on: Another Reason to Boycott the Olympics

By: Danish Artist

Danish Artist — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:54:29 +0000

No, Joshua. If Obama did not want to make this a campaing issue, he would have visited the troops without his entourage present.

Period.

His “worldly” tour could have waited for what? a couple of hours? But he obviously had better things to do - more campaigning.

He visited the troops in Iraq, because for him it was the political thing to do, since he was challenged about his not visiting Iraq.

He had to visit the troops in Iraq - so don’t make it a selfless act. By not seeing the troops in Germany, he proved that his motivations are political.

So, stop drinking the liberal koolaid and being an Obamaton. It does nothing for your cause.

By: Joshua Wright

Joshua Wright — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:04:13 +0000

John McCain is lying. Obama had to cancel that visit of the troops because the Pentagon told him that he shouldn’t take his campaign staff there. Obama wanted to respect the troops and not make this into an issue, so he canceled the visit. Of course, Obama has visited troops without cameras present in the past, so McCain is simply a liar.

John McCain is trying to make the troops a political issue. Totally despicable — while Obama made a decision to not make the troops a campaign issue, McCain is putting them in his ad and using them as a cudgel!

John McCain’s attack is tasteless. See #1 and #2. Any claim that Obama doesn’t care about the troops is pure trash.

John McCain is desperate. Why else go so negative three months before election day? His polling must suck worse than his speech-making ability.

By: cam

cam — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:18:50 +0000

The reason we should boycott the Olympics in China goes beyond whether the Iraqi Olympians will be allowed to compete. The real culprit and focus of our ire should be the government of China not the IOC. The crimes of the Chinese government against its own citizens are legion. Yet, while some handwringing and finger wagging has resulted no US president has yet taken a serious stand on this issue. Ultimately it comes down to kowtowing to the corporations on this one. There is just too much money to be made in trade with China. Instead all US presidents have taken the much easier stand against Cuba. Change the equation and add 1 billion people to the Cuban population and the ban against trade with Cuba would evaporate.

There is another reason to object to the Olympics choosing China. China is a environmental disaster of monumental proportions, a neocon dream. Without government regulations we can see what our country would look like. What is hilarious is watching while the Chinese government tries to clean up the huge mess that its lack of environmental regulations have brought to its countryside. If we want to see what our world would look like if there were no regulations all we have to do is look at China.

By: The New Conservative

The New Conservative — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:13:38 +0000

I don’t think the IOC put very much thought into this decision. It will probably be reversed in short order.
http://www.thenewconservatives.blogspot.com/

By: Casper

Casper — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:36:12 +0000

Mark,
I agree with you on this one, but I think it’s a ggod idea to understand why they were banned.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/24/iraq.olympics/index.html

By: Less

Less — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:13:50 +0000

I would LOVE to see President Bush fly out to the Olympics Opening Ceremony and instead land in Baghdad so that he can attend the Iraq-MNF Substitute Olympics. THAT would be the appropriate response!

By: neocon

neocon — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:35:51 +0000

“…..international elites which will grovel to tyrants but have all sorts of objections to imperfect democracies.” - Mark

That’s because tyrants can pad their wallets and imperfect democracies wont hold them accountable.

I am not reading why this decision was made? What’s China’s reason? As if that would make a difference. The IOC is way out of line.