Frustrated all week by the Obama Abroad Tour's stranglehold on the news cycles, McCain finally gets a break -- setting up a meeting in Aspen tomorrow with a world leader of his own, the Dalai Lama.
The Tibetan spiritual leader is attending a conference, and McCain is scheduled to give a speech to a military audience. He has spoken out in the past, urging the Chinese leadership to show restraint in its behavior toward Tibet.
Earlier this year, Hillary Clinton urged President Bush to boycott the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, in part to protest China's behavior in Tibet. Obama tiptoed up to the line, but never quite crossed it. It'll be interesting to see if the Olympics come up tomorrow. Other possible subjects? From an LATimes piece on the Dalai Lama and President Bush:
"The Dalai Lama suggested that Bush 'lacked understanding of reality' in launching a war in Iraq where it turned out there were no weapons of mass destruction. And he said Americans in general need to learn 'the reality of limitation,' because raw consumerism can led to 'too much stress, too much competition and too much desire.' "
So, it should be an interesting exchange...