The problem with a boycott is you end up taking 1.3 billion Chinese

Michael Green, Bush's former Asia adviser, says the president probably will attend the opening ceremonies.

"The problem with a boycott is you end up taking 1.3 billion Chinese — who have different views of democracy, of the U.S., of human rights, but all want the Olympics to be successful — and you turn them all against the U.S.," said Green, an analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank. "It's a crude and blunt instrument to just boycott."

i would say that is the last thing any government wants to do.smart people can see it,stupid ones may not.