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Obama announces that US athletes will not be allowed to compete in the Sochi Olympics.
one man's opinion...
Posted on 03/02/2014 9:08:57 PM PST by ken5050
Obama just held an unprecedented late Sunday evening press conference at the White House, to announce that in response to Russian actions in the Ukraine, US athletes would not be allowed to compete in the Sochi Olympics. He also said that he was instructing relevant US agencies to immediately ban the importation of Russian caviar, vodka, and borscht into the US.
TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: lame
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When told by NBC's Chuck Todd, who had the first question, that the Sochi Olympics were over, Obama replied "Really? That's the first I'd heard about that. I had no knowlege of it before tonight."
Reporters were scrambling to attend the WH presser, as they'd been told earlier in the day there would be no more news from the WH. Press secretary Carney apologized for the late hour, but said that the President did not want to interrupt the Academy Awards. "After all, Ellen DeGeneris was hosting, and '12 years a Slave' would win Best Picture,' so we didn't want to keep American from watching that."
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posted on
03/02/2014 9:08:57 PM PST
by
ken5050
To: ken5050; John Semmens
You think you are going to one-up Semmen's satire that easy?
Great fun, and very believable, just like John's stuff ................
To: ken5050
Only evil republicans use Olympic athletes as pawns..
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posted on
03/02/2014 9:15:35 PM PST
by
DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
To: DonaldC
[cough] Jimmy Carter [cough]
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posted on
03/02/2014 9:16:36 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
lol, I thought only Reagan did that.
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posted on
03/02/2014 9:18:34 PM PST
by
DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
To: ken5050
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posted on
03/02/2014 9:20:42 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: DonaldC
The 1980 Games were the first to be staged in Eastern Europe.
Led by the US with the insistence of its President Jimmy Carter, 65 countries boycotted the games because of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, though some athletes from some of the boycotting countries participated in the games, under the Olympic Flag.[2] This prompted the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Summer_Olympics
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posted on
03/02/2014 9:22:35 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
To: ken5050
When told by NBC's Chuck Todd, who had the first question, that the Sochi Olympics were over, Obama replied...
"Oh, you're no fun anymore.'
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posted on
03/02/2014 9:24:30 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: ken5050
To: ken5050
Can’t we import a carbon based leader with actual gonads?
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posted on
03/02/2014 9:54:03 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: ken5050
I thought he wanted them to wear pink underwear at the games to show support.
To: plainshame
No, that was just for his staff to wear.
To: ken5050
Lame
LOL.....
Post on....
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posted on
03/02/2014 10:09:52 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Vendome
Geez, dude! What do you expect of me on 5 minutes notice, very late Sunday evening?
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posted on
03/02/2014 10:14:43 PM PST
by
ken5050
(I fear a world run by adults who were never spanked as kids and got trophies just for participating)
To: doorgunner69
This was pretty funny.
I find Semmens’ stuff tedious.
YMMV
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posted on
03/02/2014 10:22:52 PM PST
by
moonhawk
(Free Republic: Show prep for Rush Limbaugh.)
To: ken5050
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posted on
03/02/2014 10:48:47 PM PST
by
Iscool
(Ya mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailer park...)
To: ken5050
Well at least he didn’t ban Russian Dressing.
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posted on
03/02/2014 10:55:10 PM PST
by
xrmusn
(6/98 --In CNNs (feeble) mind, EVERYONE that doesnt ask for more Kool-Aid is bullying BO)
To: ken5050
Hey, I’m number than you’ll ever be.
Count yourself lucky you’re not afflicted with my random brain.
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posted on
03/02/2014 11:25:43 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: ken5050
The problem is, though Ken5050 is trying to be funny, I can actually see this scenario happening in real time.
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posted on
03/03/2014 12:29:50 AM PST
by
righttackle44
(Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
To: ken5050
I hope all Russian goods are removed from shelves and crushed with bulldozers too.
That's the way to tell Putin.
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posted on
03/03/2014 12:58:58 AM PST
by
MarMema
("If Americans really wanted Obamacare, you wouldn't need a law to make them buy it." Ted Cruz)
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