The whole world is never going to agree on every economic, political, and social issue there is. There are too many people and nations with different ethical, moral, and religious beliefs to make total agreement possible. But I'd like to think that there can be at least one thing, one event, that (most) everyone can enjoy together, that being the Olympic games. Heck, not everyone has to agree all the time either with the Olympics, they only come around once every 4 years and they do not stick around for to long either.
The Olympic games is a time when each country represented can take pride in its citizen athletes and its nation. The Olympics is a time where people sitting at home can marvel at the TV screen, watching the best of the best.
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is calling the Bush administration to skip the Olympic opening ceremonies in China. I suppose she has a justified reason being that she does not want to make it seem as if the United States supports the Chinese support of the Sundanese government in Darfur. But I don't think by our nation's President skipping the Olympic opening ceremonies will have an impact like Sen. Clinton wants.
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/07/clinton.olympics/index.html
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