Imagine if FDR attended the 1936 Olympics…
Last Saturday, we interviewed Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter on MTNP radio. The topic of discussion was his proposed legislation (HR5668) seeking to bar President Bush from attending the opening ceremonies in Beijing. If he does go, it will mark the first time that a US president attends the event outside of ones held here in the homeland. Why would president Bush bestow such an honor on a communist nation?
Writing in a recent op-ed piece, McCotter notes
Legacy building with the urgency of a dying Pharaoh staring at an unfinished Sphinx, George Walker Bush is bent upon being the first U.S. President to attend a foreign nation’s Olympics. The nation in question is communist China, the shock troops of which are presently bludgeoning Tibetan Monks as if they were orange bathrobed baby seals. (One shudders at the prospect this Tibetan repression is the Chi-coms’ sedulous sally into Olympic demonstration sports.)
Notwithstanding the Global Generation’s remaining misanthropes’ unsophisticated quibbling (i.e., me and mine), our Compassionate Conservative-in-Chief has eagerly RSVP’ed to the communist dictatorship’s dramatic recreation of the Berlin Olympics.
Sometimes I really do wonder what goes through President Bush’s mind when it comes to some of this stuff.
Click here to download the podcast of our interview, or simply use the handy player below. Congressman McCotter is fast becoming one of our favorite Republicans on Capitol Hill. If only more of his colleagues would follow his lead…
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