Posted on 10/02/2009 5:23:11 PM PDT by kingattax
Remarks by First Lady Michelle Obama to the International Olympics Committee
MRS. OBAMA: President Rogge, ladies and gentlemen, Mesdames et Messieurs of the International Olympic Committee: I am honored to be here.
I was born and raised on Chicago's South Side, not far from where the Games would open and close. Ours was a neighborhood of working families -- families with modest homes and strong values.
Sports were what brought our community together. They strengthen our ties to one another.
Growing up, when I played games with the kids in my neighborhood, we picked sides based not on who you were, but what you could bring to the game. Sports taught me self-confidence, teamwork, and how to compete as an equal.
Sports were a gift I shared with my dad -- especially the Olympic Games.
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. Like so many young people, I was inspired. I found myself dreaming that maybe, just maybe, if I worked hard enough, I, too, could achieve something great.
But I never dreamed that the Olympic flame might one day light up lives in my neighborhood.
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; that will expose all our neighborhoods to new sports and new role models; that will show every child that regardless of wealth, or gender, or race, or physical ability, there is a sport and a place for them, too.
That's why I'm here today. I'm asking you to choose Chicago. I'm asking you to choose America
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
"rarrrh...grunt...grunt...rarrrrrrh..."
Yawn.
It must have been that kitchen towel she was wearing. Did she spill something on her dress on the plane and grab the closest thing to put on or what? LOL
lol
Michelle - “I blah blah blah, me blah blah blah, Barak and I blah blah blah, sacrifice blah blah blah, etc...”
But I never dreamed that the Olympic flame might one day light up lives in my neighborhood. But today, I can dream, and I am dreaming . . .
Wake up.
Her poor dad. Someone figured out she was 20 years old when Carl Lewis won. That was a lot of woman on dear old dad’s lap!
Her father was a ward heeler, I bet he pulled a lot influence and non-reportable income.
the Olypics are a tribute to great human athletes. The gifted and the blesses and the hard working. It isn’t about “race” “gender” or any of that other political horse crap they were throwing around out there. It is about who is the best of the best in the entire world, and celebrating their achievements. No wonder they didn’t vote for it. Sheesh.
For the childrens...
do ya think the IOC heard about all that “take no prisoners” stuff ?
I think you’ve got a BOMBSHELL there with that timeline!!
Seriesly, this is HUGH.!
Wonder if anyone else noticed both the incongruous dates,
and the fact that she’s thrown Nadia Comaneci in to both her Olympic statements.
“They would have been funnier if she told them in her native Wookie tongue...”
Heh heh...The wookie says “what?”
when she was 20
Sure a lot of I’s in that speech. I guess that is par for the course regarding the Obama’s.
Wookies would never lie this much.
I wonder if she saw churches burning in Arkansas too on her daddy’s lap
yeah it got picked up very early...*LOL*
“But I never dreamed that the Olympic flame might one day light up lives in my neighborhood.”
Wookie, that’s not an Olympic runner torching your hood, that’s one of your “children”.
I I I I I I I I I I I I I I
“But I never dreamed that the Olympic flame might one day light up lives in my neighborhood.”
Wookie, that’s not an Olympic runner torching your hood, that’s one of your “children”.
"I was born and raised on Chicago's South Side..."
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Pigs, cattle and chicken are "raised".
Children are "reared".
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"I was born and raised on Chicago's South Side..."
Sounds right to me -- but embarrassing for us to have the ignorant female who squats in our White house to so bleat before a world-class audience... :-(
10 and 3 I’m (s)
So NOW we know why the IOC rejected Chicago’s bid!
Michelle provided them with such a vivid illustration of Chicago - and its denizens...
Carl Lewis 1988 Olympics
Michelle Obama born 1964
She was 24 years old on her Daddy’s lap
Nadia Comaneci (communist) 1976 Olympics Michelle was 12, on her Daddy’s lap.
My kid is 6 and doesn’t sit on my lap!
The Obamas are pretty dumb if they thought their short pro-Chicago speeches to the IOC would outweigh their two years of public US-bashing.
Michelle Obama cites an Olympic role model in her BS story?
Lewis: ‘Who cares I failed drug test?’
Duncan Mackay The Guardian, Thursday 24 April 2003
Carl Lewis has broken his silence on allegations that he was the beneficiary of a drugs cover-up, admitting he had tested positive for banned substances but claiming he was just one of “hundreds” of American athletes who were allowed to escape bans.
“There were hundreds of people getting off,” he said. “Everyone was treated the same.”
Lewis has now acknowledged that he failed three tests during the 1988 US Olympic trials, which under international rules at the time should have prevented him from competing in the Seoul games two months later.
The admission is a further embarrassment for the United States Olympic Committee, which had initially denied claims that 114 positive tests between 1988 and 2000 were covered up. It will add weight to calls by leading anti-doping officials and top athletes for an independent inquiry into the US’s record on drug issues. snip
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2003/apr/24/athletics.duncanmackay
“sitting on my dad’s lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis, and ...
when she was 20”
I laughed myself sick!! If this pair weren’t so scary they would by better than Laurel and Hardy!!
Hannity was lambasting lib callers with that. Why on earth would the IOC award the Olympics to this arrogant country? :-)
I see she cheers no white American athletes just Commies and Blacks.
Michelle; “That’s why I’m here today. I’m asking you to choose Chicago. I’m asking you to choose America. And when you do, for the first time in my life I will be proud of my country...”
Snicker
SHe’s confusing the IOC with the US Main Stream Media. The IOC couldn’t care less about her “me,” “I” and “my” stories.
Well, the, "I was named after Sir Edmund Hillary" line was already used up.
>Seriesly, this is HUGH
I can tell you’re series.
I thought wookies were on the Jedi’s side.
Seems like Mrs. Messiah takes after the Mr., her speech to mankind included 20 “I’s”, 20 “my’s” and 7 “me’s”. Way to go, ‘Chelle!
no wonder he died young
the pressure was too great?
Didn’t Barack say something about wanting him and his kids to come out of their house and see the Games????
Probably, but I would assume that Wookies could fall to the Dark Side. I know...let’s ask Georgie “Obama-Would-Make-A-Great-Jedi” Lucas.
It wasn't the shot-put or weightlifting. It's boxing! : O
And what’s with that “Madames and Messieurs” business?
Ladies and Gentlemen wasn’t good enough for Meeee-chelle?
“Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad’s lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis, and ... “
So she was sitting on her dad’s lap in 1976 (for Nadia) and 1984 (for Carl)? Wow, I don’t imagine she was small for her age either, but to be 20!
So she’s full of crap.
Why not the GAY Olympics Michelle...instead we have it here in Cleveland...great...just great...
OK, OK, OK.
Can we agree on her darkside name?
Lard CHUBBassKa?
I’d really like to know if she played ANY sports...it would be interesting to se if she did. If she did, I’d like to know if she played in her $540 “sneakers”.
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