Bush: "Really Hard To Tell" If China Has Improved Civil Rights

Washington Post:

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, Aug. 4 -- Three days before he is set to arrive in Beijing for the Olympics, President Bush offered a mixed assessment of China's role in the world, praising its efforts to curb the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran, expressing disappointment about its recent move to help scuttle global trade talks, and saying that it is "really hard to tell" whether human rights in China have improved over the past eight years.

Bush said that he speaks candidly with Chinese President Hu Jintao about human rights, particularly religious freedom, and that he has shared his religious beliefs with Hu and Hu's predecessor, Jiang Zemin, urging them to lift restrictions on underground churches.

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Comments

[peacekitten]

let's see here, georgie.

if you're having such a hard time figuring this issue out for yourself, why don't you ask someone like, oh, amnesty international?

they generally tend to be able to tell whether human rights are being trampled upon.

and if you hadn't decided to REMOVE the united states from the united nations human rights commission, they might have had an opinion too.

[lornejl]

I don't think geoge is all that curious.

[comacoma]

but he is yellow....

[peacekitten]

truly. but perhaps if his handlers had hidden copies of reports on human rights among the pages of his many copies of "my pet goat," he might have stumbled upon them and read them by accident.

[SouthernYankeeBelle]

Curious heck no. He reads books like Spot runs Home, or Mary and Spot ran after the cat. We should expect better from our presidents but this one who came into office saying he was a compassionate conservative has shown not one once of it. Journalists being arrested is no different than people going to hear a candidate speak and getting arrested like that librarian going to a McCain rally. This is what this administration has brought to our country now. We have police depts acting like the gestapo beating and ta-sing people for no reason. Come on America we deserve better. Our country since the republicans have taken over has taken our rights away. We must get our rights back.

[CocteausTwin]

Peacekitten you do impress me!

[peacekitten]

aw, shuckins.........thanks.

[Superbus]

United Nations Human Rights Commission - can you say oxymoron?

[CocteausTwin]

Yes. I can also say you are about as moronic as an ox.

[BlueStateMan]

Sure.

I like oxymoron's.

Here's one for YOU (Starting next January)...

"Republican Administration".

[Superbus]

Members include Cuba, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Sudan, Pakistan....need I say more?

[SweetSydney]

The UN human rights commission has no time for examining violations from any country save Is-rael. They're all over Is-rael.

[Amennyc]

As the should be. It wasn't China that went into Lebanon and flattened it. China has trade wars Israel and USA have military wars.

[BlueStateMan]

So why did we leave it?

[doug108]

He could even check with the Red Cross on his own human rights record. The information is there to be bad. Of course, Georgie doesn't do nuance or information or thinking or anything else that's hard or goes against what his "gut" or Dick Cheney tells him.

[dtlmetsfan]

Hm, interesting discussion here for sure.
Josh Xiong has pretty good discussion of Kagan and China here:

http://joshxiong.com/?p=53

[chinationreport]

How can it be hard? People have to be blind not to see progress. Think about the Chinese flying in / out of China on daily basis. When I was a student, getting a Chinese passport to leave China was unthinkable. Even leaving your town was a huge undertaking. Coming to the US used to be a huge deal. Those that came stayed. Now, China has become US tourism's targeted customers!! US dare open tourism to ordinary Chinese because US is no longer concerned that all will stay to flood the American society. China is encouraging people to go see the world because it no longer fears that people will never return to China. The fact is, as many Chinese are coming here to visit or study, so many American Chinese are returning to China to pursue their China dream. Someone posted that the government is taking homes away from quake-hit people. How rediculously uninformed is that? Chinese government is paying $70bn to build temporary and permenant homes in Sichuan. Like Cramer said on CNBC, a 100 New Orleans will be built over there in coming years.
China is not perfect and is making many mistakes. Not all have the freedom the way it is cherished here. But ask a hungry guy in NY subway whether he wants bread or going on internet to read Huffingtonpost. You should know the answer.
www.chinationreport.com - daily balanced news about China

[speakingtruth2power]

This missive will not show up due to it being your first of the day.

UU has a really hard time telling anything, particularly the truth.

[Driver125]

"Bush: "Really Hard To Tell" If China Has Improved Civil Rights"

Well, it might be hard for him to tell, not having had much of a personal history in those areas his self....

[mouselion]

What about those black padded bike gloves?

[FirstShirt]

Come on, tell the truth. Wouldn't you like to whip the snot out of some of these reporters?

[littlepuffycloud]

How come George Chimface hates America so much?

[SweetSydney]

"The Illinois Demo-crat has also lost some support among Afri-can-Americans and Hisp-anics, where his lead over Republican John McC-ain has shrunk, and among Cath-olics, where he's lost his lead.

The net result, pollster John Zog-by found, is a race that's neck and neck, with McC-ain supported by 42 percent; Oba-ma by 41 percent; Libertarian Bob Ba-rr by 2 percent; and independent Ralph Na-der by 2 percent. Another 13 percent supported other candidates or were undedcided.

Zog-by called the results a "notable turnaround" from a July survey he did that showed Oba-ma leading by 46-36."


Enjoy your last few months of Bu-sh bashing. You'll miss him when Mac is the Prez.

[BlueStateMan]

Wanna BET?

[doug108]

Yeah, I'm pretty much not going to miss George no matter who's president. Unless, of course, you mean that McCain will be even worse.

[ThunderclapNewman]

SweetSydney
As long as he doesn't smile or stare.
posted 07/18/2008 at 20:14:41

SweetSydney
Anybody know where ole purple lips is going tomorrow?
Maybe Iraq?
Flagged Posted 09:23 PM on 07/19/2008

SweetSydney
"Watermelons don't even have any food value, and they're heavy and fragile and impossible to ship." But they sure taste good on a hot summer day! Ask O, I'll bet he agrees.
posted Jul 16, 2008 at 09:39:04

[helonias]

Not suprising for a guys who graduated with gentleman's cees.

[seenitall]

I respect the office of the prez, but the person in it is an idiot.

[BradPittsburgh]

"Web loggers who are campaigning against Sen ator O ba ma's presidential run are accusing Goo gle and O ba ma supporters of silencing them after their Web logs were marked as spam and their accounts temporarily frozen."

O is more secretive than W ever dreamed of being and his followers protect him from any and all negativity.

[BlueStateMan]

First of all, where does that "quote" come from?

Secondly, where does your assertion that "O" is more secretive that "W" come from?

Lastly, what PLANET do YOU come from?

[SCG2]

It's not a planet, but rather a asteroid.

[williamg]

Translation (in Dubya's own words):

"You see, I ran up huge debts to fund my 'war on terrists killers', and we had to borrow a whole lotta money from the Chinamen. China's civil rights violations are not getting better, they are getting worser, but I can't say that in public, because they got us by the balls."

[BradPittsburgh]

really hard to tell where O stands on any particular issue.

[NochlessMonster]

Sit back down and finish your froot loops.... okay?

[williamg]

How is your candidate, Fred Thompson, doing these days? It's really hard to take someone who backed him as a candidate seriously.

[trollsbwild]

Who are you kidding? JM flip flopps more than a beached whate.

[SweetSydney]

O serves more waffles than IHOP.

[Kalima]

Is this story even about O?
It's about your "loon" in the WH. Please say something positive about him and your
nominee. Can you?

[CocteausTwin]

(Kalima did you get your 'puter problems resolved?

[BradPittsburgh]

My nominee will become the nominee in Denver when O is told to take a walk.

[BlueStateMan]

http://www.amazon.com/Story-O-Pauline-Reage/dp/1562010352

[BlueStateMan]

Perhaps to someone like yourself who has obvious perceptual difficulties.

For the rest of us.... no problem.

[folksonomy]

It's "really hard to tell" what orifice B u $ h just uttered this remark out of.

[realityczech4u]

Couldn't be the same one you use 'cause he has his head up his.
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