A day of indignities for Chinese leader

[ginnyinWI]

Dana Milbank writes about them in the WaPo:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/20/AR2006042001946.html

They let in a known heckler. They called China by the wrong official name. And when Hu started down the platform in the wrong direction, Bush pulled on his jacket sleeve to stop him! He was jerked around and dissed at every turn.

Why do we have to appear as fools and bumpkins in front of other world leaders---why? Clue: cause our presnit is one.

[napi21]

1. Absolutely! And he's hired fools to surround him! n/t

[Sammy Pepys]

2. Hey, I don't weep for Hu...

That guy is an opressor....a day of indignities is perfectly suited to him.

[mdmc]

3. w shouldn't have met with him if he was going to be disrespectful

[indie_voter]

4. I weep for us

A day of diplomatic indignties is well deserved. For example calling it an official visit rather than a formal state visit, serving lunch not formal dinner, no chinese flags on lampposts near the WH.

However these were gaffes which make us look ridiculous.

I didn't realize Bush actually TAPPED HIS FOOT while waiting for Hu to finish answering a press question. Can't take the guy anywhere can we?

The two unexpectedly agreed to take questions from reporters, but Bush grew impatient as Hu gave a long answer about trade, made all the longer by the translation. Bush at one point tapped his foot on the ground. "It was a very comprehensive answer," he observed when Hu finished.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/20/AR2006042001946.html

[ginnyinWI]

10. that's so true--it's the way we look to the world that matters. n/t

[xchrom]

5. and america is the one to teach anyone a lesson?

new orleans anyone?

[Oversea Visitor]

7. China

would have got NO up and running by now.

[xchrom]

8. ain't that the truth.

[Oversea Visitor]

9. Haha they send in a million workers

What cant you do with that :rofl:

[Karenina]

11. Hu doesn't NEED your tears

Save them for YOURSELF when the "blowback" arrives on your front doorstep. It WILL. Take that to the bank. ;-)

[noonwitch]

14. Did you read what the chinese are doing to Falun Gong prisoners?

They are allgedly killing them and using their organs for transplants. Although I did see the article posted on "Free Republic", I actually believe it. I agree with the freepers about China, for the most part. I will never forget their slaughter in Tiannamen square-they didn't care if the whole world was watching when they did it, either. It was the most horrific thing I ever witnessed live on my television until 9-11.

As long as we have full trade privileges with Red China, they will never change the way they treat their people. They will use slave labor to produce goods at a low cost, they will kill and torture their dissidents and they will eventually push for a conflict over Taiwan. If the free world refused to trade with them and was clear that trade would resume when their human rights' record improves, they would then have to start making some changes.

[Southsideirish]

6. The wheels are totally off this broken down circus wagon. We are a joke

to the world due to * and his incompetent followers.

[Rojohn]

12. Tit pro quo?

See Bush when they locked the doors on him so he couldn't escape the media 5 months ago in Beijing.

I dunno could this protest be tit-for-tat quid-pro-quo?

See video:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4454738.stm

[saltpoint]

13. How does everybody feel about this -- did Bush intentionally

embarrass Hu, or was it an innocent set of circumstances?

Call me cynical, but I think it was all on purpose to be obnoxious to the Chinese contingent.

Another example of the kind of statesmanship this White House practices.

That would NEVER have happened under a President Gore or a President Kerry.