Posted on 10/09/2009 7:10:18 PM PDT by Libloather
Dalai Lama asks Obama to champion 'liberty'
2 hrs 21 mins ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Dalai Lama on Friday congratulated President Barack Obama on joining him as a Nobel Peace Prize winner and called for the US leader to champion "freedom and liberty."
The exiled Tibetan leader, who is in Washington, sent Obama a letter of congratulations even though the president, in an apparent bid not to upset China, avoiding meeting the Buddhist monk during his weeklong visit.
The Dalai Lama, who won the prestigious award in 1989, told Obama that the Nobel committee "recognized your approach towards resolving international conflicts through the wisdom and power of dialogue."
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Ain't gonna happen. Hussein is too busy working on lowering sea levels.
Liberty and victory are two words which are not in their vocabulary.
What would make you think that the Dalai Lama knows nothing about radical leftists?
“...called for the US leader to champion ‘freedom and liberty.’”
Not going to happen, sir. This goon hhas more in common with the oppressor ChiComs than he does with Pres. Reagan.
The dolly is delusional..
Is this the same dumbass that BO shunned the other day so he wouldn’t piss off the Red Chinese? I don’t get it.
Poor Tenzin. He’s spent too much time under the Bodhi tree.
Nice guy though.
No disrespect to the Lama intended, but to get to "freedom and liberty", you almost always have to spill a little blood, and sometimes a LOT of blood.
It's interesting that a man who's a professed pacifist, who represents the religion of pacifism, would choose those words. I wonder if it's intentional, on his part.
Please. You forget he is Oriental. You have to read beyond the lines on the page. He knows all about totalitarians and all about politicians. He is exercising shame therapy, in a fairly charitable way. If Obama surprises everyone and starts doing the right thing, these words by the Lama become justified praise. If Obama keeps doing the wrong thing, they are a knife of reproach wrapped in a rose. Standing up for liberty is so obviously Obama's simple duty, and so obviously what he is not doing.
The reality is that Obama is free to leave his current venality and cowardice behind at any time and live up to the Lama's blessing. It is up to him.
He knows nothing about evil.
There is though, a reason he does not have a country. HE commanded the Tibetan people not to fight for their own freedom and liberty.
Today the Tibetan people are vanishing, replaced by immigrant Chinese.
For this reason the Dalai Lama knows what he is talking about.
Yes Obama must champion freedom and liberty, but he will not. Bush championed freedom and liberty, and liberated 50 million Iraqi's, an accomplishment that Obama to this day has refused to acknowledge.
Why?
Simple. Obama has NO intention of championing freedom and liberty.
And the Dalai Lama is right to publicly remind Obama.I hope he keeps doing so.I think the Dalai Lama should hit Obama with his shoe , if he has to.
But Obama is so treasonous to American freedom, that I doubt even the Dalai Lama could turn him.
Not delusional. He knows exactly what Obama is about, but this is about as nasty as the Dali ever gets.
Agreed, he knows what a leftist believes but urges liberty anyway.
You may be right.
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