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An Olympic First

10 Apr 2008 02:52 pm

An Olympic historian figures out that if President Bush does attend the Beijing Olympics, he'd be the first president to attend an opening ceremony held outside the United States of A.

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If Bush attended the Opening Ceremony, will it open his mind?

Posted by D | April 10, 2008 3:13 PM

THANK YOU!

No US president has ever done it.
There is absolutely no indication that Bush planned to do it this year.
Yet we've got all 3 candidates and a number of lesser political lights and pundits coming up with great statements about what it will mean. I might as well get credit for swearing I will take a stand for fair-trade shade-grown coffee tomorrow by forsaking all other coffee, the fact that I don't drink coffee a convenient detail I can ignore for my boycott.

Now if Bush goes, every future president is stuck going to every ceremony, because when you don't go you're boycotting.

The WH could stand to issue a press release that they have at no time had plans for Bush to attend the opening ceremonies.

Posted by Deborah | April 10, 2008 5:12 PM

As if I needed any further reason to not like your writing/blog, you prove yourself too lazy to type "America." ...not by simply writing, "the United States," mind you...but "the United States of A."

I'm obviously not in any kind of mood...why else would I be choosing this for my daily rant?...but Jesus, your bloviating is unbearable anymore.

Put me down in the Yglesias column for the Atlantic's host of voices. Now there's a guy who spells it o.

Posted by pkoso | April 10, 2008 5:51 PM

China OWNS us. He's just going where they tell him to. The one thing that Bush has been consistent on - he goes where the money people tell him to.

Posted by rikyrah | April 10, 2008 5:54 PM