Americans are upset

[RB TexLa]

that foreigners made and touched the official olympic uniforms. For an event symbolized by a flag with interlocking rings representing the continents. Wow, just wow.

[liberal N proud]

1. Another missed opportunity for those job creators

[w8liftinglady]

2. Slave labor was used for Mitt's Olympics

http://www.monitor.net/monitor/0202a/copyright/olympicsweatshop.html

[liberal N proud]

3. That could be the next bombshell.

[lunatica]

4. I find it perfectly OK for China to make the uniforms for the Chinese athletes

Don't mind that one little bit. But that they make ours I do mind.

[w8liftinglady]

5. hehe.. it's starting to spread on The Dallas Morning News

[Raine]

6. Seriously you must know "touching" is not the issue. The issue is those jobs should've gone to

Americans who need the work. Its a sad thing when Americans who are representing this country aren't able to wear clothes that Americans would've been paid to make and pumped the money back into the economy.

[XemaSab]

8. That is exactly it

The Olympics are about international friendliness but they're also about patriotism.

I want America to win.

For me, it's the one time when I can be 100% pro-USA with no qualifications or hesitations or apologies.

As a big part of that, I want to feel like all of America is behind our athletes. Making the uniforms for our athletes is important, symbolically.

[Honeycombe8]

10. Plus, this is a front and center representation of America. That's why our team is there.

You'd think they'd want to fully represent America by wearing American.

It's different from, say, the shoes that the athletes choose to wear. Those are individual decisions, and has to do with performance.

[Brickbat]

7. You're adorable.

[xfundy]

9. It just shows how we've gotten so used to

communist chinese slave labor that most wouldn't have a problem with it.

Remember how Mal-Wart used to flaunt signs saying "Made in the USA" all over the store, as they were busy killing American jobs, demanding lower and lower wholesale prices impossible to meet without slave labor and cheapo components?

It's yet another hypocrisy from the cancervatives, who are traitors to the USA by cheerleading as our jobs were exported and the middle class continues to collapse.

I think they'd actually prefer a form of communism or other repressive gubmint, as long as Big Brother is BabyJesus™.