McCain Leaves Open An Olympic Boycott

Responding to British PM Gordon Brown announcement, Sen. John McCain told Sean Hannity today that President Bush should preserve the option of boycotting the opening ceremony at the Olympics.

HANNITY: "Is it a bad idea to boycott the Opening Ceremony?" MCCAIN: "I think the President ought to keep his options open and use that as a pressure lever, and he has plenty of time to decide that. Obviously, we don't want the Chinese to continue this kind of behavior."

John McCain: "I think the President ought to evaluate the situation as it evolves and see what the Chinese do in response to perhaps granting more autonomy, perhaps getting into conversations with the Dali Lama, who we all know is a world figure. I think the President ought to keep his options open here and decide as we see the situation and the threat evolving. All of us condemn the brutal repression that the Chinese inflicted upon Tibetans and protesters. We're very concerned about it. If I were him, I'd keep all my options open." (Fox News' "America's Election HQ," 4/9/08)