Obama throws the Dalai Lama under the bus

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Obama throws the Dalai Lama under the bus

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 | Politics |

Roger L. Simon - Tibet: Now Obama loses the Richard Gere vote:

In an attempt to gain favor with China, the United States pressured Tibetan representatives to postpone a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama until after Obama’s summit with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, scheduled for next month, according to diplomats, government officials and other sources familiar with the talks.

For the first time since 1991, the Tibetan spiritual leader will visit Washington this week and not meet with the president. Since 1991, he has been here 10 times. Most times the meetings have been “drop-in” visits at the White House. The last time he was here, in 2007, however, George W. Bush became the first sitting president to meet with him publicly, at a ceremony at the Capitol in which he awarded the Dalai Lama the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress’s highest civilian award.

This is consistent with the Obama’s policy of ignoring Tibet because China told him to:

Thus for example, Clinton, on a first state visit to China, told reporters she would not say much about human rights or Tibet because “our pressing on those issues can’t interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crisis.” Amnesty International declared it was “shocked and extremely disappointed” by her words. Unfazed, Clinton moved on to Russia, where she glibly presented its dictator, Vladimir Putin, with a toy “reset button” even while the string of unsolved murders of independent journalists that has marked his reign continued to lengthen.

Meanwhile in the Middle East, Obama has cut off funding for an Iranian human rights organization, presumably so he won’t embarrass his buddies in the Iranian regime. I’m sure China and Iran will succumb to Obama’s withering charm offensive any minute now.

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