Posted on 10/02/2009 8:45:03 AM PDT by traumer
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (CNN) -- After flying through the night for seven hours aboard Air Force One, nobody would blame President Obama for being at least slightly groggy when he arrived in Copenhagen, Denmark, for a quick four hours to make the final pitch for Chicago to host the 2016 Olympics. Michelle Obama's speech in Copenhagen focused on her roots in Chicago and her father's battle with MS.
Maybe that explains why the president seemed to snag the silver medal while first lady Michelle Obama, who's been in Copenhagen a couple of days, clearly took the gold with an emotional speech focused on her family's roots in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, and her late father's battle with multiple sclerosis.
"Sports were a gift I shared with my dad, especially the Olympic Games," Obama said in her portion of the U.S. delegation's final presentation to the International Olympic Committee. "Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad's lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis and others for their brilliance and perfection.
"But I never dreamed that the Olympic flame might one day light up lives in my neighborhood," she said. "But today, I can dream, and I am dreaming of an Olympic and Paralympic Games in Chicago that will light up lives in neighborhoods all across America and all across the world."
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Where’s the BARF Alert?
Dateline CNN....it didn’t do any good!
Obamas flopped. CNN has pretty low standards for success.
Duh. Look at their ratings.
But Rio stole the torch.
Yep Drudge has the liner THE EGO HAS LANDED: Chicago out in first round...No Olympics for Chicago
What show? The Fail Express?
P-U-K-E!!!!!
What did W.C. Fields say...
“Never work with kids or animals, they always steal the show.”
Draw your own conclusions.
She may have “stolen the show”; but she and her hubby couldn’t achieve the goal of the Olympics in Chicago.
And how much of our money did the O’s spend on this little junket?
All that sacrifice for nuttin’.
Yep...conventional wisdom was that the “fix was in”......
BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Liberals want to be judges on their intentions, not their results.
Conservatives are results oriented.
In the end, the argument that they should choose Chicago because it would make Michelle happy wasn’t persuasive.
The bag lady must not have made to much of an impression on the judges she lost..Of course being CNN they would say she is a great speaker..Barf!!
evidently she didn’t steal enough votes....
This must be one of those knee slappin’ humor pieces!
She took the gold in copenhagen?
Is that why the USA was just voted out in the first round of voting?
Nice propaganda from the newspaper.
Question is what else did she steal? Besides thousands in taxpayer $$s
Notice the only white people she cheered for were Commies.
Couldn’t steal the Olympics though. Another Olympic sized failure for zero.
Still wondering...what show did she steal?
Stole the show. They still gave the games to Rio.
Well she better give it back now.
Fail!
and since chicago has been cut from the running how much did all these senseless trips cost the american taxpayers...??...
i am so happy they lost...it was like a direct slap in the face to obama the egomaniac....
She stole the show but came up empty handed.
Better hide the silverware.
My husband just said $12million! Wow how many intercity kids could that have helped...fools!
Karma.
What does that have to with Chicago's ability to host the Olympics? What is with these libs and "the narrative?" Boo freakin' hoo.
She probably killed the deal by showing up. It seems that they just don’t get it. Everyone knows that Chicago is one of the crime centers of the US.
Wh- what do you mean Chicago is eliminated? We took two fully-staffed jumbo jets to Denmark, spent thousands of American taxpayers' dollars, made a huge carbon footrpint... I came with Oprah and I wore my Golden Olympic Dress and shoes. And I'm married to The One. What do you mean Chicago is eliminated?! This decision is RACIST!
Took the gold? Damn.....she did not even take the bronze!!!!
she was in last place!!!!!!!!!!
LOL... for all the sacrifice she comes home empty handed! Guess CNN has to put a happy face on it somehow...;)
I was soooo looking forward to hearing Michelle say, “For the first time in my life I am proud of my world.”
Ha Ha Ha
Keep dreaming!
Michelle Obama steals show in Copenhagen? Want to bet?
Last I heard was 1.2 million each for just the jet expense. Wow, must be somewhere around 5 million.
What is more........no one has the heart to tell her “you are ugly”.
Given her history, she’s as big a thug and criminal as her husband.
“steals the show” is an understatement. It stole about $20 million of our hard earned tax payer dollars to transport the Obamachine to Coppenhagen. It was all for show but none for naught—Zer0.
Rush hit on something. That Obama would not have gone unless it was a done deal. It was a done deal in his mind only because of his ego. No one ever says no to him.
Sure, but it was such a sacrifice for her to spend our 1.5 mil to fly over there in her super jet and then have tea with Oprah and the Queen of Denmark. My gosh, it is a miracle that she could speak at all.You would think she would be crying too hard! poor woman.... NOT Sheesh!
“Michelle Obama’s speech in Copenhagen focused on her roots in Chicago and her father’s battle with MS.”
Did she also mention her daughter’s Menengitis?
What’s wrong with these people?
IOC “I feel bad for Michelle’s dad, I think we should have the Olympics in Chicago” NOT!
Fools. I’m glad I didn’t listen to her entire speech. I may really have puked
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