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Obama Capitulates to China, Again

By Philip Klein on 10.5.09 @ 11:28AM

Bowing to China, President Obama won't meet with the Dalai Lama while the Tibetan leader visits Washington. The Post provides some historical background:

For the first time since 1991, the Tibetan spiritual leader will visit Washington this week and not meet with the president. Since 1991, he has been here 10 times. Most times the meetings have been "drop-in" visits at the White House. The last time he was here, in 2007, however, George W. Bush became the first sitting president to meet with him publicly, at a ceremony at the Capitol in which he awarded the Dalai Lama the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress's highest civilian award.

While liberals pride themselves on being less bellicose and more open-minded than conservatives, their moral relativism inevitably leads to appeasement of totalitarian regimes and fear of taking a stand for human rights.

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Ken (Old Texican)| 10.5.09 @ 12:02PM

God, this administration is simply embarrasing.

...across the board.

Pete| 10.5.09 @ 12:17PM

This may not be pure liberal pandering, given that China practically owns this country via debt purchases, and no doubt the Messiah plans to borrow more to finance his social agenda.

Ken(Old Texican)| 10.5.09 @ 12:35PM

Pete, good thought, but please consider.
Yes, we have a lot of paper in Chinese hands, but their entire economic growth necessity is the US market.
We are the ones buying a LOT of their low tech products in the world.
So, similar to petro-dollars, or Japanese real estate purchases a few years ago, a LOT of those dollars wind up right back here.
Ken

Tim| 10.5.09 @ 1:15PM

mmmm, mmmm,mmm!

Pete| 10.5.09 @ 4:21PM

The existence of a partially symbiotic economic relationship doesn't change my point about irresponsible borrowing & spending nor my reason for speculation about the Messiah's motives.