President Barack Obama may not be meeting soon with the Dalai Lama. But the man he ran against in last year’s presidential election is.
The Washington Post reported earlier that President Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama — who’s visiting Washington for the first time since 1991 — will be delayed until after Obama meets with China’s Hu Jintao next month. The Post said the move was “an attempt to gain favor with China.”
Well, now Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) announced in a press release this afternoon that he’ll “give remarks to honor His Holiness the Dalai Lama” Tuesday morning at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Prize Award Ceremony in Washington. It’s not clear that McCain’s event with the Dalai Lama has anything to do with Obama’s postponement — though it does have the faint whiff of a consolation prize.
