Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who in a Tuesday television interview called Chinese President Hu Jintao a “dictator,” won’t attend the formal White House state dinner in Hu’s honor Wednesday. However, a Reid aide insisted the two aren’t connected and said Reid can’t make the dinner because he “is traveling back from Nevada and it takes all day.”
“It’s not like he’s in DC and he’s avoiding it. He’s been in Nevada for the last week or two,” said the aide who asked not to be identified. “It just didn’t work out that way. I think you shouldn’t be reading anything it to it. It’s a logistical question.”
Asked if Reid would have attended if he wasn’t traveling, the aide responded that he would not answer a ‘hypothetical question.”The aide couldn’t say when Reid was invited to the high-profile dinner.
Maybe the two aren’t connected, but you have to wonder why a guy who calls another world leader a “dictator” would want our country to just keep sinking further and further into debt owned by the country of that dictator.
Yeah. Way to ask the tough questions, CNN.