Hilary Clinton calls for Olympic Opening Ceremony Boycott

Hilary Clinton calls for Olympic Opening Ceremony

Presidential Candidate Hilary Clinton has called for a boycott of the Opening Ceremony

So does she want the ceremony to happen or not?

A) Its Matt Drudge B) Doesn't Hillary have...I dunno...something more important to do?

I think that a boycott of the opening ceremony is wrong. It's supposed to be a celebration of sports, not of politics. However, if something should be done, it should be a boycott of the entire olympics. If the US attends the olympics, its not right to boycott the opening ceremony

China should flip off all of these other countries boycotting and continue with the ceremony.

The torch procession yesterday was hilarious. In London, there were protesters that were on about Tibet and Human Rights problems. Then by the time it got to Paris, the torch bearer had to jump on a bus to stop the protesters putting the flame out. They succeeded twice. :P Usefully, there are 21 torches for various public events. A bit of a fix, really.

Oh, and it's interesting that people are complaining about the Beijing Olympics now, not 7 years ago when the decision was made.

Slow news day or what? This thing is approaching 30 comments already.

Boycott the entire thing. Great way to show our support for a region rather than bombing some other region. That's the two cents from your resident AGM liberal.

I'm not good at this politics thing (hate it as well)....but shouldn't common sense tell you this? The US of all countries, who is currently having a war with Iraq, is asking China to stop fighting with Tibet.

How about we just boycott Hillary... nah all the Clintons

Politics and sports do not go together. It's one thing if it's all fun and games like Obama and McCain going head-to-head in the tourney pool, but this is a stupid call on her part (if Drudge is right).

Jimmy Carter boycotted the Moscow Olympics in '80 and that was the final nail in the coffin for his hopes of another term in office.

When you inject world politics into the Olympics, you only cause chaos. I'm trying to watch the Olympics, not CNN.

Like it or not, sports and politics intersect quite often. As a few others said above, boycotting the opening ceremony is meaningless. If they really want to say something, they need to boycott the whole thing.

Clinton didn't call for a full-scale boycott of the ceremonies. She said that President Bush shouldn't attend.

Ok so here is the deal, we have a trade agreement with China, money making ventures in China are overwhelming, its the most populated country in the world. What Justin said about the Presidency is true. Clinton should take into consideration the ramifications this would have on her if she won the presidency. The candidates running especially on the Democract side have much more to worry about than the Summer Olympics.

Bottom line: You either boycott the Olympics or you support the Olympics. Boycotting the opening ceremonies would be a slap in the face to the rest of the world and we would lose any REMAINING respect we'd have from the rest of the world. And don't think the world won't see the hypocrisy in all of this while we're involved in a senseless war that's killing hundreds and thousands of innocent lives and people all for the profit of a few. Talk about a violation of human rights. And another aspect that isn't being mentioned. Because of this idiotic war that we're involved in, we're in a huge deficit. Because we're in this deficit, this {expletive deleted} turned to whom...China for aid and they have invested in U.S government bonds for the past few years to help cut the deficit. So this country is not in a position and does not have the leverage to pull such a move.