Blog de Connard has some info on Ukrainian President Yushchenko’s visit to the United States. After noting some positive announcements, such as the easing of visa restrictions between the two countries, and the announcement of increased cooperation in fighting AIDS, Blog de Connard goes on to take aim at the White House Press Corps, and their parochial concerns:
The American press has an opportunity here to ask questions of a man who led a globally known, successful, peaceful, and democratic revolution, a man who helped to change the geo-political landscape of the post-Soviet space, a man who emerged from an assination attempt to become a democratically elected President in a country that didn’t even exit 15 years ago, and let’s see what they can come up with:
[Four dumb questions deleted to save space. You can find them on Blog de Connard.]
Are you kidding me? Four Questions total. Three of them are about Iraq. One manages to be about the Pope AND Iraq and has nothing at all to do with Ukraine.
ONE question was about US-Ukrainian relations. NO questions were posed about issues like, oh, the recently revealed sale of nuclear-capable cruise missiles from Ukraine to China and Iran. Shame on you White House press corps.
Nothing about US or Ukrainian ideas on how to spread democracy further through the CIS, either, nor on how the US and Ukraine plan to forge closer relations. I guess we should be thankful that 75% of the questions were at least tangentally related to Ukraine.
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