McCain Takes a Stand on Chinese Olympic Ceremonies

He wouldn’t go. Nor should Bush. It’s a sad day when I am more in line with Nancy Pelosi, than with a Republican president:

“I would say to the Chinese, ‘look, clean up your act here.’ … Unless they change something pretty quickly, I wouldn’t go to the opening ceremonies.”

That was presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain this morning on ABC-TV’s The View. (USA TODAY’s David Jackson reporting.)

He joins Democratic senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama in saying that unless China ends its crackdown on protesters in Tibet and takes other steps to improve its human rights record, then it would not be appropriate for the president of the United States to be at the opening ceremonies of this summer’s Beijing Olympics.

China’s “crackdown” is a brutal reminder that they are nothing out of the ordinary for Communist regimes. Bush needs to stay away from the opening ceremonies. Maybe he could commission a new ship, like a U.S.S Navy One, and could be hanging out on it with the Dalai Lama, in the Taiwan Strait, shooting bottle rockets at the mainland.

Now that would be some great You Tube material.