Totally Agree with Hillary Here…

@2: Assuming you are responding to the first comment here. For some reason your comment got caught up in spam (swear I didn’t list you).

I’m happy to agree with you and Hillary here and I really wish Obama would be more forceful in this regard.

As long as we’re doing the “what’s on their website” routine though, I couldn’t find one mention of China anywhere on Hillary’s site. Maybe you can help me out. She doesn’t even appear to want to “work to ensure that China plays by international rules.”

Interesting email from Redstate.com just now:

Dear RedState Reader,

We at RedState find ourselves in the nearly unique position of agreeing with Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi. Like stopped clocks, we think they can be right twice in a day and their minute has come. President Bush should not go to Peking for the Olympics.

Unfortunately, there will be a visceral reaction by some on the right because Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton are calling for the same thing. There should not be. In fact, the right, which has spent the better part of the last hundred years fighting for freedom around the world, should own this issue. The Chinese autocrats are ruthless dictators seeking international legitimacy despite the terror they pour into Tibet and the human rights abuses they encourage in their own country.

We know some on the right who tend to view the world mostly in economic terms will disagree with us. Yes, we recognize that China is a large trading partner. We recognize how much of our debt they hold. We also recognize the arguments of some that if the President were to go, the media would be inclined to shed the spotlight on China’s abuses.

None of these arguments contradict the fact that our President, who has spent eight years liberating parts of the world from tyranny, should not give the seal of approval on China’s behavior — approval his presence at the Olympics would most certainly give to the Chinese people.

We’re under no delusions. The Olympic organizers themselves put the world in this position. They wanted to welcome China into the new millennium by embracing them as some part of the modern world — a distinction the Olympics could supposedly give. They turned a blind eye to China’s human rights abuses and the chickens are now coming home to roost.

If American athletes want to compete in China, we wish them well and hope they crush their Chinese opponents under the heavy weight of many gold medals. But we call on the President of the United States of America to personally boycott Peking during the Olympics. His presence would serve as a propaganda tool for the regime just as assuredly the lack of his presence will be noticed by the freedom loving people of China suffering Peking’s communist boot on the back of their necks.

Should you want to join us, we would encourage you to sign our petition by clicking here.

All the best,

Erick Erickson
Editor, RedState.com

@15: Yes. Preventing war also puts M-16 factory workers out of a job. Sigh. I’ll take “No War” for 1,000 please Alex.

To blame is the committee that thought China deserved to be a host country. I mean, why not Iran? Would it just be a “sporting event” if it were held in Tehran? How low do you want the bar to be?

That said, yes, it is a shame they’ll get caught up. I hope our athletes will be aware enough to make their own statement in some way.

I certainly don’t think protesting human rights abuses is “garbage”, but understand how a “conservative” might think so. I guess you don’t have to fight the power when you are it. It was also nice of you to label all people willing to protest “jobless”. Glad to see you playing the class warfare game.

You should also learn more about “this Tibet thing” before forming opinions about the relative worth of protesting China’s actions related to the issue. Human rights should not be viewed as a liberal cause.