President Obama shuns Dalai Lama and Tibet

The Dalai Lama advocates the same human freedoms on which the U.S. was founded: Democracy and the right to exercise basic civil liberties. Obama's refusal to meet with the Dalai Lama while in DC, something that Bush and Clinton always did, is NOT change we can believe in.

Write to the White House immediately, please. This is unconscionable.

Wall St. Journal via a Tibetan friend living in exile
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203917304574416310279608876.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Jeesh. It was played out the second week after the election.


And I don't need to read that Murdoch rag trying to stir up crap.

Clinton and Bush-II regularly saw the guy.

Ergo, it is change that Obama will not.


Here's the creep-factor of them all:
http://wizbangblog.com/content/2009/01/18/dalai-lama-i-love-president-george-bush.php
An interesting read.

:thumbsup:

It's the most overused sarcastic snipe at Obama since he won the election.

Why do you hate Tibet?

No, it's not from Rupert Murdoch's OTHER BULLSHIT MEDIA CHANNEL:

http://www.examiner.com/x-14207-Lodi-Spiritual-Living-Examiner~y2009m9d17-The-Dalai-Lama-applauds-President-Obamas-use-of-cooperation-outreach-and-dialogue

The headline from yesterday reads:

The Dalai Lama applauds President Obama's use of cooperation, outreach, and dialogue

What the hell is wrong with some people?

:crazy:

Why would President Obama refuse?

This is not logical.

he's also not going to Copenhagen for Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics.

WTF is wrong with the man that he can't/won't meet with EVERYBODY????!!!!

:sarcasm:

wait to hear from President Obama on this and not some broken link to the fearwing rag.

PO is helping implement a lot of good change since January.

a mountain out of a mole hill. Sheesh!

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The Dalai Lama applauds President Obama's use of cooperation, outreach, and dialogue
September 17, 10:58 PM

Following a visit by President Obama's emissary Valerie Jarrett and State Dept. Under Secretary Maria Otero on Monday, the Dalai Lama applauded the president's use of cooperation, outreach, and dialogue. He encouraged him to continue to approach today's issues in that manner. He also expressed his appreciation for the president's concern for Tibetan issues, as well as his hopefulness that the conflict between Tibet and China will improve during President Obama's term.

Ms. Jarrett met with the Dalai Lama to brief him on our administration's intent regarding the struggle between China and Tibet. President Obama will be visiting China in mid-November.
http://www.examiner.com/x-14207-Lodi-Spiritual-Living-Examiner~y2009m9d17-The-Dalai-Lama-applauds-President-Obamas-use-of-cooperation-outreach-and-dialogue

Undercurrent~

Tibetans in exile are very unhappy about this. It may not be a big deal to DUers but it's HUGE to them. Time is running out on the Dalai Lama's current life and who knows what will happen when he dies. I understand the administration's reasons but...

I have to say, my skin is too thin for most of what is posted on here. What does Undercurrent~ mean?

about Tibetans in exile being unhappy with Obama? In other words, where our Tibetan exiles in their own words?

I'm deeply involved with the exiled community. I don't have a specific reference.

He was thanking the poster.

Can't believe the lengths some will go to try to get people upset over some "unconscionable" act the president has supposedly committed. silliness :eyes:

there was no meeting setup, but because Obama doesn't drop what he is doing to have an unscheduled meeting with the DL, he is "shunning" him?

Yeah, ok.

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then you are truly addicted to Kool-Aid.

Not very peaceful.

Obama highly respects the Dalai Lama and has said so on numerous occasions, so judging his intentions by using the word 'shun' is deplorable.

Peaceful. Not worthy of the Dalai Lama~

http://www.dalailama.com/news.432.htm

I'm glad the Dalai Lama's not a total dick.

I immediately ignore anything they have to say. That phrase is like nails on a chalkboard....god, it's annoying.

meet with the Dali.

what's wrong with that? he doesn't have to meet in person the Dali to get things done.

in the White House who has thrown LGBTs under the bus and continues to pursue several criminal Bush policies.

You must be an unquestioning Hollywood celeb! Next you'll be posting photos of the Dalai Lama's puppy :rofl:

Here, educate yourself:


Has there ever been a political figure more ridiculous than the Dalai Lama? This is the "humble monk" who forswears worldly goods in favour of living a simple life dressed in maroon robes. Yet in 1992 he guest-edited French Vogue, the bible of the decadent high-fashion classes, which is packed with pictures of the half-starved daughters of the aristocracy modelling skirts and shirts that most of us could never afford.

He claims to be the current incarnation of the Tulkus line of Buddhist masters, who are "exempt from the wheel of death and rebirth". Yet he's best known for hanging out with clueless western celebs like Richard Gere and Sharon Stone (who is still most famous for showing her vagina on the big screen). Stone once introduced the Dalai Lama at a glittering fundraising ball as "Mr Please, Please, Please Let Me Back Into China!"

The Dalai Lama says he wants Tibetan autonomy and political independence. Yet he allows himself to be used as a tool by western powers keen to humiliate China. Between the late 1950s and 1974, he is alleged to have received around $15,000 a month, or $180,000 a year, from the CIA. He has also been, according to the same reporter, "remarkably nepotistic", promoting his brothers and their wives to positions of extraordinary power in his fiefdom-in-exile in Dharamsala, northern India.

More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/may/29/downwiththedalailama

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/5170/


BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS | The Dalai Lama has come out in support of the thermonuclear tests recently conducted by the Indian state, and has done so in the very language of the chauvinist parties who now control that state's affairs. The "developed" countries, he says, must realize that India is a major contender and should not concern themselves with its internal affairs. This is a perfectly realpolitik statement, so crass and banal and opportunist that it would not deserve any comment if it came from another source.

http://www.salon.com/news/1998/07/13news.html




What we don't hear about Tibet

While the world moralises over China's occupation, feudalism and abuse in Tibetan culture has been conveniently forgotten


Sexual abuse in monasteries and oppressive feudalism in traditional Tibetan society has been factored out of the argument against China's occupation, oversimplifying it.

Han Chinese guards deliberately obstruct the pilgrim route through Lhasa to the holy Jokhang temple by sipping tea at strategically placed tables in the middle of the road. In front of the Potala, the Dalai Lama's former seat of power, an imposing guarded concrete square glorifies China's occupation.

Tibet seems like as a celestial paradise held in chains, but the west's tendency to romanticise the country's Buddhist culture has distorted our view. Popular belief is that under the Dalai Lama, Tibetans lived contentedly in a spiritual non-violent culture, uncorrupted by lust or greed: but in reality society was far more brutal than that vision.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/10/tibet-china-feudalism

:rofl:

That's unconscionable!

Should Obama drop everything for the Dali Lama when he's in town?

What about this article?






Yeah... I get it. Obama hates the Dali Lama.

Go CHENEY YOURSELF.

around here..bogus headlines attempting to drag down the President.