His Lameness President Bush and His Holiness The Dalai Lama?

Here's a study in contrasts. One of the most thoughtful, positive, intelligent, loving, and above all, peaceful persons on the planet...and then Bush. The human embodiment of the opposite of all of those things.

I wonder what nickname the President will come up with for him. "This morning I said, Roby...I call him Roby cuz he wears those robes."

I have a new nickname for Bush - he is the Anti-Lama.

Just being in the pressence of the Lama, or even standing where he once stood can make you feel better. But then, the Anti-lama must be stronger because just thinking about him can make me sick.

President Bush and the Dalai Lama will meet today with a ceremony planned for tomorrow to award the spiritual leader the Congressional Gold Medal. China is warning that the events are bad for U.S.-Chinese ties.

The Dalai Lama is the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet's Buddhists. While the Dalai Lama is lauded in much of the world as a figure of moral authority, Beijing reviles the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and claims he seeks to destroy China's sovereignty by pushing for independence for Tibet, where the Dalai Lama is considered a god-king.

The Dalai Lama's special envoy, Lodi Gyari, said images of the U.S. president standing beside the Dalai Lama at the congressional ceremony will send a clear message that "people do care about Tibet. We have not been forgotten."

"I have no doubt this will give tremendous encouragement and hope to the Tibetan people," he told reporters ahead of the visit. It also "sends a powerful message to China that the Dalai Lama is not going to go away."

The Dalai Lama says he wants "real autonomy," not independence, for Tibet. But China demonizes the spiritual leader and believes the United States is honoring a separatist. The Dalai Lama's U.S. visit comes as China holds its important Communist Party congress.