Mar 28 2008
Pelosi Is A Spineless Dope
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a longtime critic of China’s human rights policies, said Friday it would be wrong to boycott the Beijing Olympics.
She said in a statement that while the Chinese government has failed to live up to its commitments to improve human rights conditions in China and Tibet, “I believe a boycott of the Beijing Olympics would unfairly harm our athletes who have worked so hard to prepare for the competition.”
Nancy Pelosi, you, dear woman, are a hypocrite. For years you’ve talked about what you’d like to happen to China and when you can hit them where it hurts the most, their pockets, you decide that it isn’t a good idea.
Why isn’t it a good idea? Because some kid that works in Home Depot might not get to show the world he can run? Are you serious? That’s the reason you don’t want to stand up a country that opens fires on nuns and monks?
“As I said in India last week where I met with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, if freedom-loving people throughout the world do not speak out against China’s oppression in Tibet, we have lost our moral authority to speak out on behalf of human rights anywhere in the world,” she said.
Actually, you lose that moral authority when you refuse to do something, not when you refuse to talk about something. There’s a world of difference between the two.
I’m sure a stern talking-to is just what China needs.
This is what happens when you let the San Francisco liberals run the show. All talk, no action.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:04 am
Unfairly “harm” our athletes? More like unfairly “upset” them. What about the unfair harm that China is inflicting on others? Well, heaven forbid anyone be dissapointed.
Wouldn’t it be more in keeping with a true athletes spirit to boycott? Wouldn’t they be prouder to know that they could have competed but it wasn’t the right thing to do? Wouldn’t it be more “American” to take a stand against injustice?
Eh, what do I know…
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:32 am
Ugh… I know I know I just posted, but seriously this just pisses me off… sure sure let’s speak out… just like every country always condemns terrorist action. WTF!! Speaking out against and condeming the actions of a group are not effective means of eliciting change!
Hmmm, let’s see now, how has this worked in the past…
“Hey England, we want our independence”
“Hey, us women would like the right to vote”
“Hey Hitler, could you stop with all the genocide?”
Oh, I’m sorry, did it take words to get those things to happen? I’m pretty sure it took action of some sort. And we’re not talking violence or war in this case, just a strong showing of non-support towards China. But you know, let us feel like we have moral authority because we spoke out… we voiced our dissention, so why on earth should we then miss the party.
Any situation that I sat by and said “Guys, this isn’t a good idea” I’ve always regretted not actually doing something to stop the situation.
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:53 am
Unfairly harm our athletes????
Are you fucking serious?
So…it’s not unfairly harmful to our athletes’ health to ask
them to engage in extremely demanding physical activity in a city where even the natives refuse to step outside of their homes without a surgical mask because the pollution is so disgustingly out of control…….????????
Honestly! Has she ever seen a picture of Beijing? It looks like a post-apocalyptic version of Los Angeles. From what I can tell, the place is a verified shit hole!!!!
I, for one, wouldn’t risk lung cancer for all the gold medals in Beijing…