Posted on 10/05/2009 4:36:34 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
President Barack Obama will not meet the Dalai Lama during his five-day trip to the U.S. capital beginning on Monday, the first time in 18 years the exiled Tibetan leader has visited Washington without seeing the president.
Obama instead intends to wait until after his November summit with Chinese leader Hu Jintao before meeting the Dalai Lama, possibly sometime in December, officials said.
The decision to break precedent and delay any meeting was conveyed to the Dalai Lama last month when Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and State Department Undersecretary Maria Otero traveled to Dharamsala, India, to explain the administration's approach on Tibet.
"The administration, I think, is aware it is breaking a precedent ... but clearly they have their reasons for that and he (the Dalai Lama) agreed with the decision that was made," said Kate Saunders, a spokeswoman for the Tibetan Buddhist leader.
Saunders said the Dalai Lama and the Obama administration had agreed to a meeting after the U.S.-Chinese summit. The session is "likely to be before the end of the year, probably in December," she said.
U.S. officials would only say a meeting would take place soon after the summit.
China sent its troops into Tibet in 1950 and the Dalai Lama fled to India a few years later to establish a government in exile. Negotiations between China and the Dalai Lama's envoys were suspended last year, provoking violence in Tibet.
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Beta male.
Ping.
Given the choice, I’d rather meet the Dalai Lama any day than sit and listen to the O talk about himself.
This guy is like George Costanza.....he does the opposite of what should be done every time.
What a moron!
The flowing robes, the grace, bald. striking.
I guess this is Obama diplomacy at it’s finest.
But, some might worry that Obama is going to generate some pretty nasty karma for himself!
I for one welcome our new Sino overlords.
ROTFL!
Muslin presidents do not like Lamas.
This guy doesn't even pretend to hold American values.
**** my President...Please!
“some might worry that Obama is going to generate some pretty nasty karma for himself!”
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Not to mention his dharma, too.
http://hinduism.about.com/b/2009/07/27/good-dharma-good-karma-2.htm
GRRRRRRR
Obama’s damage control team had him later apologizing and saying he thought someone asked him if he was going to see “Hello Dolly”, not if he was going to say hello to Dalai. /s
To tell the truth, this is probably way to credible an excuse compared to what they’ll eventually come up with.
This guy is a seven year old child.
Wow. Transparent.
So now O is throwing the Dalai Lama under the bus....
My guess is Uhbamuh doesn’t want to be accused of rolling over for the Dalai Lama.
At this point, Spackler would make a much better president.
JMHO, it’s more like Gerald Ford refusing to meet with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1976 because it might have offended the Soviets.
The Dalai Lama is a spiritual leader but he is also the chief freedom fighter for occupied oppressed Tibet.
Too big a scene for Obama, too heavy. So he avoids it.
Obama rolls a Dalai.
Zero has scorned Christians and Jews, there’s no reason to think he wouldn’t do the same to the Buddhists (especially one who is the Chicoms despise).
So, how will the Left spin this snub of the Lama? Above all else, liberals love Tibet. And what is Obama’s policy toward Tibet?
Hey Mr Lama, the underside of the Obozo bus is getting pretty cramped, isn’t it?
This thing we call a POTUS is a jerk.
Well, he has yet to publish a National Security Strategy, he has only met with his full Cabinet twice, and only talked to the Afghanistan AOR Commander twice. I guess we will never know.
I can’t believe the liberals have sat idly by the past 10 months and not asked him about it. Someone needs to crank up the Free Tibet concert festival and demand action.
One guy is trying to free a downtrodden, overrun country. The other guy is trying to trod down and overrun a country.
Beta Male translates into “Turd” in Tibetan.
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