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Would you have dinner with president Hu?
Topic Started: Jan 19 2011, 12:21 PM (185 Views)
Copper
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Ms. Pelosi says "yes", other congressional leaders say "no, thanks".

I wonder if the security people will be checking the invitations closely.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/138813-boehner-mcconnell-skipping-state-dinner-with-hu

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Boehner, McConnell skipping state dinner with Chinese leader
By Alexander Bolton and Ian Swanson - 01/19/11 01:57 PM ET

Three top congressional leaders are skipping a state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao in what may be perceived by China as a snub.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) all said "thanks, but no thanks" to White House invitations for the dinner.

Reid and Boehner are expected to meet with Hu during a separate meeting Thursday on Capitol Hill.

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a vocal critic of China on human-rights issues, is attending the state dinner, only the third thrown by President Obama.

An aide to Reid said the majority leader is flying back from Nevada to Washington on Wednesday so he can meet with Hu on Thursday.

An aide to McConnell said the GOP leader could not make the dinner because he has a series of events in Kentucky. The Senate is in recess this week.

The White House on Tuesday indicated it wanted congressional leaders to attend the dinner. “We hope that because of the importance of the relationship that they would attend,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said.

He said he did not know why Boehner declined the invitation.

Boehner offered a “diplomatic answer” to a question about why he declined the invitation while speaking to reporters on Wednesday, according to a report by ABC News.

“Without accepting most of that question, the president of China is coming to the Hill on Thursday. We’re going to meet with him in a bipartisan fashion and I look forward to seeing him in the future.”


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Kincaid
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I think if at all possible I would go. Engagement is best in U.S.-China relations, and a real or perceived snub only makes the later meetings on Capitol Hill less likely to produce any progress on issues important to the U.S.
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Aqua Letifer
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Well, they still own a huge chunk of our debt, right? It's like having dinner with your landlord. Not my idea of a fun way to spend a Thursday.
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jon-nyc
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Can't imagine what they're hoping to accomplish.
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kenny
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Who?
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Copper
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The menu and the company might make a difference.

Jackie Chan will be in attendance, I would like to meet him. The menu is still a secret.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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John D'Oh
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Never mind skipping dinner. If people feel strongly about China's human rights record, they should stop buying all the electronic sh!t. Don't pretend to feel very strongly about 'this kind of thing' and then prop up their economy.
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Kincaid
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jon-nyc
Jan 19 2011, 12:32 PM
Can't imagine what they're hoping to accomplish.
Obama might find he is squandering his recent uptick in the polls if he gets another Chinese slapdown.
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Axtremus
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OK, I suppose I can see why YoYo Ma and Stephen Chu and a few elected officials in congress who are of Chinese descent are invited.

But why is Jackie Chan invited?
He's not even American.
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Jan 19 2011, 12:53 PM
jon-nyc
Jan 19 2011, 12:32 PM
Can't imagine what they're hoping to accomplish.
Obama might find he is squandering his recent uptick in the polls if he gets another Chinese slapdown.

What do you mean "if"?

Didn't you see the video Ax posted? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MM8dbWZ8Xw
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Axtremus
Jan 19 2011, 12:57 PM
But why is Jackie Chan invited?
He's not even American.
Because Jackie Chan rocks.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

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We have the menu.

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Obama China State Dinner: Menu, Entertainment

The entertainment:

Herbie Hancock, Chris Botti, Lang Lang, Dianne Reeves and Dee Dee Bridgewater.

The menu:

D'Anjou Pear Salad with Farmstead Goat Cheese
Fennel, black walnuts and white balsamic

Poached Maine Lobster, Orange glaze carrots and black trumpet mushrooms
wine--Dumul Chardonnay "Russian River" 2008

Lemon sorbet

Dry aged rib eye with buttermilk crisp onions
Double stuffed potatoes and creamed spinach
wine--Quilceda Creek Cabernet "Columbia Valley" 2005

Old fashioned apple pie with vanilla ice cream
wine-- Poet's Leap Riesling "botrytis" 2008



OK, I would go for that.
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John D'Oh
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Axtremus
Jan 19 2011, 12:57 PM
But why is Jackie Chan invited?
Because Bruce Lee's dead.
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Jackie Chan obviously threatened to pwn them all if he wasn't invited.


Oh, and being Chinese may have something to do with it?
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I like Taiwan's version of it:

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jon-nyc
Jan 19 2011, 12:32 PM
Can't imagine what they're hoping to accomplish.
I have to agree. It would seem irresponsible to me. Especially on Boehner's part.
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kenny
Jan 19 2011, 12:34 PM
Who?
No. Hu's on first.
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Axtremus
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The 89th Key
Jan 19 2011, 03:35 PM
I like Taiwan's version of it:

pwned
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apple
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i would LOVE to be there. o my
it behooves me to behold
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Mikhailoh
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Bag that. I'm going to Sichuan Bistro for some great Chinese!
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/slideshow/dignitaries-celebrities-arrive-white-house-state-dinner-12667981
it behooves me to behold
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