Bush to Beijing equals FDR to Berlin?

That’s the take of Congressman Frank Wolf, who wants to pass a federal law prohibiting the spending of federal money for U.S. officials to go to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing

Wolf’s bill is clearly aimed at President George W. Bush’s planned attendance. Wolf, citing China’s human rights record, said it would be like Franklin D. Roosevelt going to the Adolf Hitler-orchestrated 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

Actually, I was hoping Bush would go — and get lost over there.

That said, more seriously, I think Wolf has a point. And any human rights criticism Bush says he will direct at Chinese leader Hu Jintao will be indirect, muted and private; in other words, it could be done without Bush ever going to China.