Barack Obama, Olympic (Committee) Bound

As long as Oprah’s involved it should be a slam-dunk right?

We’re trying to get the World Cup in ’18 too. Wouldn’t that be much more significant (and financially feasible)?

Shorter MS obama is going to Copenhagen for Olympic bid pitch. Done and Done.

Obama has created…a permanent office for Olympic, Para-Olympic and Youth Sport…

The head of this office wouldn’t be called a….czar…by any chance, hmmmm?

I guess we shouldn’t expect to see Obama mock the participants in the Olympics the way he mocks those who participate in the Special Olympics. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/03/president-ob-15.html

As far as “how much the federal government should spend, both in time and treasure, on Obama’s hometown,” the answer is easy – $0.00.

MS update: And he will lose.

If Obama is going to make a pitch for the Olympics being held in the US, it doesn’t matter what city is proposed. The fact that it happens to be Chicago only gives the wingers something else to fuss about. What if it were Salt Lake City? Do you think he wouldn’t go if he could work it in?

I’m not excited about his going, but OTOH leaving Thursday night and coming back Friday isn’t a big deal.

“STEPHANOPOULOS: How about the funding for ACORN?

OBAMA: You know, if — frankly, it’s not really something I’ve followed closely. I didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Both the Senate and the House have voted to cut it off.

OBAMA: You know, what I know is, is that what I saw on that video was certainly inappropriate and deserves to be investigated.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So you’re not committing to — to cut off the federal funding?

OBAMA: George, this is not the biggest issue facing the country. It’s not something I’m paying a lot of attention to.”

Fraud, Theft and Corruption with an organization he worked with and helped get him elected but no time to question. But wait a trip to push the Olympics in Chicago get me a ticket.

Folks are finally getting a great view that they voted for the International Fuller Brush Salesman.

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Don’t hedge your bets that he will.

I believe it’s a “Mmaster, rebuke thy disciples” thing to them.

One ‘M’ in Master : )

OMGosh Oshkosh Here are these folks stealing billions of dollars from us hardworking taxpayers….those Haliburton folks..oh..you’re talking about Acorn who gets paid in the millions of dollars to register people to vote and other things…not the contractors we hire in Iraq and Afghanistan that get paid way more than the troops…the same ones who end up killing troops taking showers because of faulty electrical work- oooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh Listen I am no fan of people stealing money (I’m really not), but if you for one second think that some black brown group registering folks to vote is the biggest story of the week, hell, the day…you are far too deep in Beck’s mind.

Bush’s former speechwriter said while working at the Pentagon someone brought him 15 lampshades for 3 lamps, I am no mathematical genius but I don’t know how that would work unless you slice up each lamp into fifths. He said the motto of the pentagon, order and never return even if you don’t need. Perhaps we should do an investigation into Pentagon waste..but no…then you are not a real American with real American values and you are experimenting with socialsim and communism..and all the other isms you can find. Do us all a favor…spare the faux outrage for something that matters…kay?

Until then go find those nuts-squirrel boy. And you wonder why less than a quarter of Oklahoma high school students know who the first president of the U.S…but I bet they know Obama is not a citizen. But, where is that birth certificate (ahem, the long form-please). I shutter at the thought of bringing children into this world.

Hypocritical Republicans will now go from trashing Obama for not going to Copenhagen and “fighting for America” to criticizing his decision to leave the country in the middle of high unemployment and the health care debate.

http://www.political-buzz.com/

No more than Democrats criticizing a Republican for well just about anything. If you add up the trips for dinner to NY, the family shopping trip in France, the vacation in MV and the other trips we have the a Tourist and not a President.

If Bush had done similar things the left would be whining about how out of touch he was with the average American. Now we have a President who actually is out of touch and the silence is deafening.

With all this hype over ACORN, one would think that this uber-boogeyman of the right had received more than a mere $53 million over 15 years from the Federal Government. That’s not even a rounding error in the budget. http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0919/p02s13-usgn.html
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America’s Right Wing will never cease in its mission to endlessly pollute the public debate with Fauxtrage and Dumbrage TM.

tstar3

Math isn’t your only lack of genius. I love when liberals always try to rationalize any corrupt organization that is their own. Then you quickly add the race card.

Yes they registered voters, Mickey, Minnie among others. The idea they their sole role is to help poor helpless people is at best naive or at worst just stupidity. I’ll let you decide which of those two you are.

Congress, IRS and Census Bureau went running and the corruption is not even completely exposed. Just move along their is no story here and oh look what the Republicans are doing.

My lord Freeinpa you are freakin’ hilarious! I mean, knocking Obama for taking too many vacation days? My sides are splitting.
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Anywho, here on planet Earth, George W Bush holds the likely unbeatable record for most vacation days taken by a president, with a breathtaking 1020 days of vacation in his 8 year presidency- 1 out of every 3 days!! http://jonox.livejournal.com/25625.html And that includes the 4 weeks leading up to 9/11 and the five weeks leading up to Hurricane Katrina. Heckuva job!
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By contrast, Clinton took 152 days of vacation, while Reagan took more than double that with 335.
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There is one thing I will give wingnuts like freeinpa credit for- they don’t mind attacking aimlessly from a position of extreme weakness. It is quite comical.

freeinpa

I am sorry did I use the race card- it must have slipped out of my wallet. FYI they are a brown black group- but did I say they were being persecuted because of that-er, no. The group was founded by white people in arkansas- so your race card is also denied. And I see you didnt read my post, I said anyone who steals from the govt should be held accountable- whether it be ACORN, the pentagon or whomever. My beef is when this gets treated as the biggest thing since sliced ham.

Its not about distracting and saying lookey what the republicans are doing- this is not a comparative test. What I am saying is to treat this is as a real story with legitamcy is like reporting on a first grader who stole 2 dollars of the kitchen counter table..now should WBXY go stick a mic in the kids face and ask why he stole the money, er no. ACORN is a corrupt group, there are many corrupt groups- funded and not funded by the govt.

However, when we pay a funded group to protect or help people who are protecting our freedoms (free-in-pa) and said people KILL them- then that is a story that needs accountability from that group and from the government. Registering Mickey, Minnie and Goofy is not in the same category. So rail against the MSM..but realize its for the wrong reason

“Well the confusion has been cleared up. As of this morning, Obama has said he will travel to Copenhagen, with his wife and Jarrett, to make the case later this week. Oprah is also going. So are two cabinet secretaries, Arne Duncan and Ray LaHood. LaHood, the transportation secretary, has suggested publicly that if Chicago wins the bid, the city might get more than youth sports support from the federal government.”

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While this great team of “diplomats” are going to Copenhagen, I am sure it is really an undercover mission. This weekend we are to see the start of the talks in Geneva with Iran, to discuss Iran’s “nuclear ambitions”.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389×3626995
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I am sure while Ahmadinejad is planning to blow up the world with nukes. Obama has Oprah in tow this week to secretly inject her powerful ability at the “gift of gab” in order to save the world from utter annihilation.
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Don’t you think?
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I mean, why else would a President who has unemployment at nearly 11%, a crumbling economy, a health care bill that is in total disarray, 2 Wars and terror plots on home soil to contend with want to take the time to go to Copenhagen to “secure the Olympics in 2016 for Chicago?
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It just doesn’t make sense that this is the only reason for this trip. There has to be something more.

An elaborate ruse by the President to provide cover for his secret meeting with Niels Harrit, no doubt:

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/the-rest-is-silence/

Mhh.
Like Monsieur Clinton going to NKorea – with all the hoopla befitting a Clinton – to get some stray people released.
And we, the christianists, prayed. And we held our collective (foul-smelling, treacherous, cave-dweller-slaughtering) breathes.
What a faux-LSD-laced trip!
Somehow, he forgot to tell us that it was a slam dunk BEFORE he left. That talks had been on-going betweem the parties. And that the expensive executive plane for the wayward hobos was chartered, prepped, cleared to land by the NoKo and on its way – even before he left the continent USA ….

What a trip! What photo ops! What thrill! What a go-getter! (What a monica!)

“I mean, why else would a President who has unemployment at nearly 11%, a crumbling economy, a health care bill that is in total disarray, 2 Wars and terror plots on home soil to contend with want to take the time to go to Copenhagen to “secure the Olympics in 2016 for Chicago?”
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Oh I don’t know, could it be that preparing for the Olympics with all the work that would need to be done would provide more than a trivial number of jobs and economic growth? Or he could do what George W Bush would have done and simply ignore those problems and go on vacation.
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Are the Wingnuts getting dumber or just more hypocritical?

I am so tired of this drivel. I know you don’t care about the truth, but…
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1) Acorn was required to turn in all registration cards that they gathered, no matter the name.
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2) Acorn flagged most of the errors and false registration cards.
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3) In spite of all the searching by anti-ACORN groups, not one vote was found to be actually cast by anyone who completed a false registration card.
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4) Federal funds accounted for less than 2% of their budget. Not so Blackwater, whose CEO is the highest paid in the country.
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It’s very hard to find a link that isn’t to a right wing site since they have made a career of ranting about this, but here is one.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g5ZxJgjHzO_C-1f0H0FHImQwjR2gD9AJTJ1G0

Why does Oprah have access to the President and I don’t? Mr Obama, I believe your priorities are slightly out of keel.

When Atlanta was awarded the Olympics in 1989, who was president then? B[l]ush 41, right? To the right IOKIYAR prez to travel to make a bid but ICWCYAD (It Can’t Work ‘Cause…etc.)

Yeh, let’s send Monica. Prostitution goes up in Olympic venues during the fortnight, no?

Come on MS. This line is beneath you:

How could Chicago be pitching itself as a city with significant presidential support if the president could not be bothered to travel the pond to make the case?

It’s not like he was planning on clearing brush off his farm in Texas. “Can’t be bothered” is a pretty pejorative phrase given that his initial reasoning was staying here to attend to more important legislative matters like health care.

” …. I’m not excited about his going, .. “

The guy lives in the stone age: he’s got to be there. He never heard of the telephone or the videoconferencing or MSM texting – or sending those pony Olympic guys a twitter.

If he had, then he would have more time in Washington to figure out that if it can be crafted as “Public Choice” – instead of that highfalutin “option” as in failed, nasty Mardoff “investment options” – then choosy, bargain-hunting Americans would embrace it and pass it with hardly a fuss …

Would you rather have access and Oprah be denied?

Count your blessings, my son. You have access to the vaunted SWAMPLAND – in which, it may be said, Oprah is a de facto persona non grata ..

freeinpa, “.. If Bush had done similar things ..”

You do contend that Bush never did. But “piper1″ above proposes to you that he did.
Now, (assuming that you are not one among the over half of the American population that is functionally illiterate) did you do your homework?

piper1 –

Why would you think it’s either-or?

freeinpa wrote (after criticizing Obama for supposedly taking too many vacations): ‘Now we have a President who actually is out of touch and the silence is deafening.’
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Silence? Actually, piper1 just proved that your criticism of Obama was hypocritical and foolish. And he did it rather loudly.
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Obviously, your deafness problem is interfering with your reasoning. Maybe if you learned to listen you might become better informed — and less likely to make rude comments that blow up in your face. You really should have that hearing checked — or at least consider changing your radio channel to one that offers more than just right-wing noise.
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” .. And that the expensive executive plane for the wayward hobos was chartered, prepped, cleared to land by the NoKo and on its way ..

Gosh! Don’t post-Woodstock hobos jump the freight trains nowadays?

What were they doing in those remote parts – far from any tourist attraction and far from kids and husbands they were crying so to be re-united with, anyway?

- Business? What business warrants an executive jet and the attention of a POTUS? [When their citizen got stranded at an airport in Africa recently the local Canadian embassy and their foreign ministry wouldn't even be bothered to vouch for her ..]

- Vacations? Don’t happily married mothers take family along on vacations? FLOTUS does.

-Thrill-seeking? Mmh.

“it is a bold move, considering that Obama, many of his senior advisers, and some of his closest friends hail from Chicago. In some cases, people in Obama’s social orbit could benefit financially from the influx of business that accompanies an Olympic games.”

OK Michael, nice gratuitous innuendo of corruption for what is basically a hometown rooting exercise. Now, since you are an “objective journalist”, can you compare that to, say, all the ways that the people in Bush’s social circle benefited financially from Bush Administration actions? Let’s start with FERC upholding the electrical supply contracts with Kenny Boy Lay’s Enron, despite ample evidence of fraud in the inducement, which cost the innocent ratepayers of California $50B in the midst of a recession?

MIchael, it would be nice if you would do your job.

” .. Prostitution goes up in Olympic venues during the fortnight, no? .. “

What is it with Olympics and prostitution?

Should we be campaigning so hard and traveling far and wide for, on behalf of, eh, prostitutes?
[If the $billions going to Israel, and failed executives at banks and AIG was made available to our prostitutes, would most of them still be on the streets?]

Olympics anywhere are contrary to the world’s endeavors to fight pollution of air, land, water and food, the energy crisis, financial crisis, climate change, war, immigration and disease control making them all very difficult to make progress. At a time when we are at war against radical Islamic elements in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan territories, and in verbal-political combat against Iran, North Korea, Syria and others, this would give an easy entry into America from Canada and around the world for wrong reasons. It would be difficult to find those who stay as illegal immigrants of any nationality. People of these other cultures are satisfied living with relatives, so they are easily hidden.

We have revived the Greek and Roman Empire ways of Olympics; both had gymnasiums and youth clubs for mastery in various games. We have increased the cost of education with facilities focused on empty sports and competition which has not created the unity it promised. It creates people focused on themselves instead of others. It gives great promises, but many become enslaved to pressures of time, money and commitment that could be better spent in their family and community. Of the multitudes that begin, most suffer loss and infirmity with only very few being winners. God warned against seeking honors. We are going the wrong way and creating unnecessary challenges expecting money to be our savior. There is no wisdom in continuing the Olympics.

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