Dalai Lama to receive Congressional Gold Medal

[MonkeyFunk]

The Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama will meet with President Bush in Washington Tuesday before being honored by the U.S. Congress in a ceremony on Capitol Hill. His visit is part of a month-long tour of North American cities. VOA's Alex Villarreal reports from Washington.


Dalai Lama (File)
At Wednesday's ceremony, Congress will present the Dalai Lama with the Congressional Gold Medal, its highest civilian honor. President Bush will attend the ceremony. This will be the first time a sitting U.S. President will appear with the Dalai Lama at a public event.

The President also plans to meet privately with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader on Tuesday at the White House.

China has expressed its opposition to Congress's decision to honor the Dalai Lama, whom it accuses of separatist activities.

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[MethuenProgressive]

1. Bush knows who the Dalai Lama is, doesn't he?

He's not looking forward to some Rose garden petting zoo, is he?

[Buzz Clik]

3. Bush, showing his knowledge and sensitivity, gave his assurances he would not touch the Lama.

"I know he hates to be touched."*

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*If you don't have a pre-teen kid and you don't have XM radio, this joke will be meaningless to you.

[sam sarrha]

4. * is so narcissistic he wont notice him in the room

[globalvillage]

5. He'll be briefed, I'm sure

I just hope he doesn't start humming Hello Dalai. He's bound to do something humiliating.

[blogslut]

2. In private

Think old Dubya will give the Dali Lama a souvenir coin?

Regardless, I can already predict how the pretender to the presidency will react to the spiritual leader's counsel: IN ONE EAR AND OUT THE OTHER

[teenagebambam]

6. Think they'll try and open the ceremony

with a Christian prayer?

[Kajsa]

7. Congratulations to the Dalai Lama.

This is great news.

But oh my--

"This will be the first time a sitting U.S. President will appear with the Dalai Lama at a public event."

And it just had to be GW, who's as far from the Dalai Lama as you can get!

Argh! :banghead: