Mitt's Oly connection
It would seem that Mitt Romney, hero of the Salt Lake Olympics and a leading contender to be John McCain's running mate, is on his way to his first diplomatic failure.Last week, Romney, locked and loaded his considerable International Olympic clout and asked Chinese officials to restore the visa of former Olympian Joey Cheek. Cheek's visa was pulled hours before he was to leave for Beijing because he is part of a group of atheletes who want to focus world attention on the Darfur genocide.
The Chicago Tribune blasted the U.S. Olympic Committee for throwing Cheek and human rights over the side.
. . . when the Chinese revoked Cheek's visa right before he was to travel to Beijing last week, the USOC looked the other way. Instead of standing up for the man whom the organization had named its 2006 Sports Man of the Year, it abandoned him.
On his way to celebrate the opening of Beijing games, Romney reminded Chinese President Hu Jintou and Premier Wen Jiabao of his support for Beijing's Olympics bid and asked them to restore Cheek's visa.
Apparently, the Chinese government no longer needs Mitt, because, as the clock runs out on the games, Cheek has yet to get travel clearance.Cheek, who says he had no intention of demonstrating, says:
That [athletes] would be pressured and bullied not to say anything by the IOC and the Chinese government, it's Orwellian. The Olympics have always been about more than sport, until these Games, And now it's only about sport.
7 Comments:
Glen it is hard to characterize Mitt's attempt to deal with the Chinese leadership on the Darfur issue as a failure. He raised the issue as best he could.
Why isn't your article focused on how China is contributing to a massive humanitarian disaster instead of dissing on Mitt's attempt to do something?
Why does it seem that you have some sort of deeply-seeded man crush on Mitt?
Good journalism would have taken the issue deeper and brought more attention the Darfur, you simply use it to make a political point.
Typical liberal media.
Mitt sat in the row in front of Bush an Putin at the opening ceremonies. None of them seemed very concerned about Georgia.
Failure? The odds of success were minimal in the first place. If that's the approach you're going to take, why bother trying anything if the odds are against you?
But then again, that's what we would expect from left wing hacks like Glen Warchol.
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While Mitt has built company after company, raised five sons, become
Governor of Massachusetts, Glen Warchol is overweight and writing a blog that about 10 people a day read.
Warchol saying Mitt is a failure in anything is like.....well I can't come up with anything good enough.
Good for Mitt for trying.
I'd like for this Warchol dude to list his international diplomatic successes....and I'm not talking about the marijuana he snuck over the Tijuana border over the weekend.
Idiot!!!!
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