Shanghaiist: Hillary Clinton calls for Bush boycott of Olympic opening ceremony in Beijing

tommylee2

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:43:06 +0800

asswipe

T

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:41:57 +0800

Hilary is doomed to failure. Discrimination to females is deeply rooted in the mind of US men. Though they speak high "lady first" and pretend to respect women, but from the bottom of their heart, they look down upon women. Unlike a country where there's massive gender imbalance due to female infanticide, right? Look, I acknowledge and realize that the one child policy x tradition x peasants is not an ideal situation, but to criticize the US for some sort of perceived slights against women . . . while there is a 117.5 to 100 ratio due to female infanticide is truly asinine.

Rebekah Pothaar

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:25:11 +0800

M7: "Discrimination to females is deeply rooted in the mind of US men"... Wow.That's a statement and a half. Ummm, did you have a bad experience with a US man looking down on you and just need to get it out? Share more please. Just the juicy stuff.

WatchBagDVD

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:27:54 +0800

Yes, that's very true, M7. And I'd like to add that the evening gown Hu Jintao wore to the last party congress was absolutely gorgeous... way to hold up half of the sky, girlfriend! (Though I think she could use a little help with her makeup.)

M7

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:44:19 +0800

nanheyangrouchuan

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:55:10 +0800

Everyone figured this would happen at the games. Sketchy officiating that always favors China or its "friends" (cough, cough) or at least goes against certain blocs of countries, star athletes with sudden bouts of intestinal instability or findings of doping that also knock out star athletes. Speaking of doping, it seems China has taken the preemptive measure of knocking out the Greek weightlifting team. Wouldn't the Russian, US or German teams be obvious targets? Greece has an up and coming track and field team, but weightlifting has been a consistent award winner for Greece and the entire team has been taken out (which helps China's team) due to an accidental "impurity" that made it into some training meds the team imports from .....China! Let's hear it for medical outsourcing from Mordor! This story is apparently excerpted from Hong Kong's English language daily, the South China Morning Post: (Quote) A Shanghai pharma company may have managed to disqualify the entire Greek weightlifting team from the Olympics after shipping them tainted health supplements. A surprise inspection of the Greek team by the World Anti-Doping Agency revealed that 11 of the team?s athletes had unapproved substances in their systems. The Chinese firm has already apologized for providing the bad product, saying: ?We send [sic] you L-tyrosine mixed with something else that it [sic] only for research purposes.? This is another one with quality fade written all over it. Looking to widen its margins, the factory probably cut an active ingredient with a molecular lookalike that was slightly cheaper. Since the general public to this day still doesn?t understand the extent to which quality fade occurs across China manufacturing, the recent supplement spike will likely be seen as sabotage. Some will suggest - if they are not already doing so - that China deliberately attempted to knock Greece out of the weightlifting competition. Foreign athletes are going to be on high alert this summer in any event. The foreign catering companies that will set up shop in Beijing are promising to do an an excellent job of controlling quality, and they will be shipping in meat. All the same, they still need to source many ingredients in China. Athletes who somehow manage to bring their own food into China are going to have to get around rules that prohibit outside food in the athletes? village. There is nothing that the Chinese are more proud of than their cuisine, and they are likely going to take dietary ambitions of foreign athletes the wrong way. By rejecting food products made in China, the foreign atheletes may inadvertently cause China more embarrassment than all of the protests combined. Protests abroad do not upset the Chinese. In fact, they offer proof to the Chinese that along with freedom comes an anything-goes social order, and it?s highly undesirable. The food snub is a different issue. It will genuinely sadden many Chinese, though, oddly enough, they won?t seem to understand the extent to which they have only themselves to blame. (Unquote)

taihanasie

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:09:36 +0800

That Xinhua article is correct if you only think about the main Olympic flame, which is kept independent of the torch relay. So I propose a counter-headline to Xinhua: Xinhua media reports are misleading. Then again, since headlines are only worthy of being headlines when they are newsworthy, I don't think my counter-headline holds up. It is simply not news that Xinhua is misleading. No-brainer there. I also like how they say the relay was completed, but don't mention that the ceremony at the end was cancelled.

concor1

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:22:12 +0800

hilary is the gold-digger if she wins the election.

bamboos

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:28:08 +0800

news update: this motion is denied by whitehouse

nanheyangrouchuan

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:59:02 +0800

And we all know Bubba is chomping at the bit to go.

T

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:30:19 +0800

You know, if she was all fired up about dealing with China, maybe she should have said something when she was on the board of directors of Wal-Mart? Jesus, she is really tainting my mostly positive memories of l'era de Clinton.