McCain meets with the Dalai Lama

[mystieus]

While in Colorado, McCain had a 45-minute meeting with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader who was in Aspen for a conference. McCain called on China to release prisoners from the recent Tibetan uprising, saying the Beijing Olympic Games in August provide a good opportunity for China to demonstrate that it recognizes human rights.

The Dalai Lama praised McCain for his concern — while emphasizing he wasn't endorsing McCain's presidential bid.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080726/ap_on_el_pr/mccain

[AlCzervik]

1. So on his death bed will he receive total consciousness? Because he really needs something going

him.

[bbinacan]

4. Big hitter the Lama

name the movie.

[AlCzervik]

6. Do i really need to?

My all time favorite movie.

[bbinacan]

10. No you don't

that is a great movie. :toast:

[11 Bravo]

8. Caddyshack.

Big hitter the Lama ... long.

[bbinacan]

11. Bingo n/t

[ellie]

14. Hey Lama

How about a little something you know, for the effort.

[Gabi Hayes]

16. So I jump ship in Hong Kong

and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddie, a looper, a jock.

So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself ... So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one -- big hitter, the Lama -- long, into a 10,000 foot crevice, right at the base of this glacier.

And do you know what the Lama says? 'Gunga galunga, gunga -- gunga galunga.'"



.................

now, I don't know if this is for real, but....

In Real Life: The Dalai Lama's not a golfer. But when the Tibetan leader visited the United States last year, Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura asked him if he'd ever seen "Caddyshack."

He told Ventura he hadn't seen the movie. But, Ventura said, "Before he left, he looked at me and said, 'Gunga, gunga la-gunga'."

if that isn't the best story I've ever heard, I'm having trouble thinking of it now

[Gabi Hayes]

17. check it out

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=jesse+ventura+dalai+lama+gunga

[Blondiegrrl]

2. It looks as though the Dalai Lama is checking to see if the corpse is still warm.

Couldn't resist.

[Muttocracy]

13. I was thinking "such cold hands" nt

[marylanddem]

3. It's offensive that such a warmonger would use the Dalai Lama

to score points.

[litlady]

18. My thoughts exactly! Obama and Dalai Lama would have been way better.

:-( The Dalai Lama is great and its disappointing to see such a war candidate meeting with him.

[Botany]

5. That picture

It is creepy in so many ways

It looks like the Dalai Lama is helping a lost old man back to his house or walking a man
away from a funeral of a spouse or family member.

[noel711]

7. Uh oh, Senator McCain.. the fundies will be mad at you...

coz you're consorting with what they consider 'heathens..'

(Check out the look on McCain's face.. what kind of
flashback is he having??)

(I think this is most bizarro of McCain's antics to get attention;
when I heard this, I thought it was a cruel joke on the Dalai Lama.)

I love Dalai Lama...2 weeks ago he was in my town,
did a week long symposium at Lehigh University, and the whole town was
full of pilgrims and admirers.. clogged up traffic,
etc, made it difficult to get around. But even the locals
loved him.. he's a peaceable guy.. unlike the war mongerer..

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

9. I'm surprised McGrump didn't vanish in a puff of greasy smoke

when H.H. touched him. Pure good and a sellout to evil should react like matter and anti-matter, right?

[AnnieBW]

12. Was he having a flashback to his POW days?

Geeze.

[Narkos]

15. He's comforting McSame on his inevitable loss in Nov

Ooonga, goonga, la goonga. No, oonga oonga, la goonga.