The Beijing Olympics Already a Success?

As 8-8-08 rapidly approaches and regardless of an awful year so far for China, the Games do look like a big upcoming success for the organizing committee.

The run-up to the Olympics, with its uprisings, disastrous torch run, earthquake and so many other calamities the regime has have to endure, seems to look very promising indeed.

The Wall Street Journal reports that, "In addition to thousands of athletes, more than 80 heads of state and about 30,000 members of the media, another group is expected to invade Beijing in force for the Olympics next month: corporate executives."

The Olympic organizers, along with the Chinese regime, are already high-fiving one another after "the number of chief executives planning to attend the Beijing Games is likely to rival the number at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, which often attracts more than 1,000 business leaders," the article says.

The who-is-who of the Corporate World is planning to attend the Games.

"Many executives see the Olympics as a can't-miss event for companies that do business in China, or hope to. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., is set to attend, for instance, as is General Motors Corp. CEO Rick Wagoner," the article states.

In fact, two of the very few problems organizers have to deal with right now in this regard are clearing Beijing's airspace in order to make room for all the corporate bigwigs who are planning to land in the capital and granting front-row seats for all of them. Keep in mind tickets for the opening ceremony are now going for $50,000 in the "grey" market.

What in the world was the International Olympic Committee thinking when the Chinese government promised them they would fulfill their promise to "substantially improve their human rights record."

What it's obvious now is that that record will be broken many times in these Games.