Is that where she developed her beautiful strong arms the media obsesses over?
Posted on 10/03/2009 12:17:16 PM PDT by libstripper
Before first lady Michelle Obama set off for this Danish capital to lead the charge for Chicago's valiant -- but ultimately unsuccessful -- bid for the 2016 Olympics, she joked that the last-minute lobbying effort would be "a battle." "We're going to win," Obama said. "Take no prisoners."
At a G-20 dinner in Pittsburgh, she teased Brazil's first lady, Marisa Leticia da Silva, that when the time came for the last-ditch arguments for the Olympic and Paralympic Games coming to Chicago -- over competitors Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Madrid -- the "gloves are off."
Back in September, that all was just good-natured exaggeration -- high-level, lighthearted trash talk. But when Obama took the microphone Friday morning in front of more than 100 members of the International Olympic Committee, at a convention center here, she went straight for the emotional jugular. She did not try to sell the city of her birth based on the location of its sports venues, the logistics of transportation, amenities available for the athletes or even the long list of designer boutiques on the Magnificent Mile. She left all that -- including a discussion of Chicago's excellent shopping opportunities -- to the other members of the delegation who came with her to sell the city to the IOC.
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YES WE CAN!
OH NO YOU DIDN’T!
fear the belt
Oprah was so disappointed and distraught with the "first out" of the competition that she has "started" by eating and is most of her way through Norway by this morning.
Here are my questions:
Olympics for Chicago 2016 - The Cost to the People of the United States:
A - The First Lady:
1. Unhidden cost of her US aircraft to and from Copenhagen?
2. Cost and detailed list of accompanying staff currently on the US payroll?
3. Cost of accompanying staffs' accommodations, food, refreshments, local travel (taxi), Official Transportation, etc. for First Lady's party?
4. Any additional aircraft for First Lady's party, for folks like family, press, dog, Secret Service?
5. Amount Opra is reimbursing the USA for her envolvement and that of her staff for #1 - #4, above?
6. Amount the Chicago Olympic Committee is reimbursing the USA for the First Lady's envolvement and that of her staff for #1 - #4, above?
B - POTUS
1. True and total unhidden cost of Air Force One for the trip to and from Copenhagen?
2. Cost and detailed list of accompanying staff currently on the US payroll?
3. Cost of accompanying staffs' accommodations, food, refreshments, local travel (taxi), Official Transportation, etc. for the POTUS's party?
4. Any additional aircraft for POTUS's party, for folks like family, press, dog, Secret Service?
5. Cost US picking for accompanying Press Corps, including travel, accomodations, food, refreshments, etc.?
6. Cost of flying the POTUS "big black car" and the accompanying Secret Service vehicles, drivers, fuel, staff accomodations, food and refreshments?
7. Amount the Chicago Olympic Committee is reimbursing the USA for the POUS's envolvement and that of his staff for #1 - #6, above?
C - Total net expense for "A" & "B" to the USA Tax Payers?
All I ask for a a true and honest (if that is not redundant!) of this "excercise" to the American Public. I'd be interested to also know who has personal vested interests in the possible favorable outcome for this adventure, specifically relating to the possible sale of real estate and other servicees should the Chicago Olympic Committee - 2016 be successful.
That's all I ask. Starting to think of the length of time a snow flake or many snow flakes can survive in Hell while I await the answer to the forgoing questions.
When will someone in the "main stream" news business address any of these questions and share the results with us.
“Robert Ctvrtlik?”
Hey! My middle name is Ctvrtlik, and even I don’t know how to pronounce it!
We might as well have sent Kanye and Serena over their, if you are gonna go full diva and self centered jackass you might as well go with your best.
Carl Lewis was in the 1984,88,92 and 96 Olympics. She would have been 20 or 24 when she was sitting on her dad's lap cheering for Carl Lewis.
Imagine how The Oprah must feel...
Oh for Heaven's sake....gag me with a spoon!
However; that having been said, it was worth it to see them humiliated before the world. For all their efforts, they were the first to get booted....LOL
So, if she hadn't been so "effective" Chicago would have been in first place? Or fourteenth?
An impressive example of what Ann Coulter once called the “suck up media for Democrats.”
Wow, she must have crushed her father!
Can you imagine the raging and screaming coming from the WH living quarters yesterday.
My grandfather died before I was born. Obviously, I never knew him but have been told he was a big sports fan. Maybe we could have the Olympics in my fenced in backyard. sniff, sniff.
No wonder he died.
The Audacity of Nope!
“Ctvrtlik”
I just tried to pronounce it and you wouldn’t like being called what it sounded like.
All money well spent for this superb BITCH SLAP, no matter how much.
“The first lady stood out like a star in front of a backup chorus.”
The first lady stood out like a pork chop on a bed of rice.
The first lady stood out like a mule in front of a heard of cattle.
The first lady stood out like a fly in a pile of dung.
"So that's how it is in their family."
-- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Is that where she developed her beautiful strong arms the media obsesses over?
Classy lady. Glad we're flying her all over the world at taxpayer expense so she can spread word about our foreign policy far and wide.
“privilege of being with Mrs. Obama for a day and a half and she was incredibly effective,
So, if she hadn’t been so “effective” Chicago would have been in first place? Or fourteenth?”
It was the Affirmative Action type of “effective”.
Or, the audacity of hype and the hilarity of nope.
ROFL
Her supporters really know what a loser Michelle Obama is to spout so much crap about her.
Reminds me of another BS story involving Sir Edmund Hillary...
Ther’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” and then there’s just, “How to Influence People,” something that can be done very effectively by walking into another person’s house and performing a bodily function on his living room’s floor. Looks like the Obamas, especially the lovely and charimng Michell, with the beautifully sculpted arms, practiced the latter.
Of course she did, Ms. Givhan. When will you ink stained wretches realize that these two are the most conceited and egostistical couple ever to occupy the White House?
Oh, and did I mention how historic they are?
I think we can leave aside any hanky-panky; it must've been pretty painful with his MS, eh? Pure cruelty, Me-Shell!
HF
Would you like to buy a vowel?
Your middle name reminds me of the old Al Capp “Little Abner” cartoons with a permanent jinks named Joe Blftz (my guess at spelling), whose name was unpronounceable because it was all consonoants.
Try, “The first lady stood out like a turd in a punch bowl.”
Just couldn't resist....
LOL! Good job.
Selling the US should have been done by boasting about the goodness of the US, the traditions of our Olympic teams and our love of sport. They made it abundantly clear that they were selling Chicago and the insider business dealings that would follow their successful bid.
It sure is heartening to read the comments to this article on the WaPo website. Five pages of comments, and I think I could count on one hand with fingers left over the posts that attempted to defend the Obamas. They screwed the pooch so bad that their supporters are speechless and defenseless.
Oh good grief. I thought this was an IowaHawk parody or something.
they are calling MO “incredibly effective”........LOL......no she wasn’t...Chicago came in dead last.
Actually, I have two middle names! The other is Mxyzptlk.
Dr. Bogus Mxyzptlk Ctvrtlik Pachysandra.
mmmm....Michelle MaBelle Obama....mmmm
me me me me me me me me me me me me
It's so hilariously over the top that I had a hard time deciding whether to put a modified barf alert on it or not. That dear, deluded Robin wrote this in all seriousness makes it even funnier than if it were a parody.
But, she and the Illegal Alien were incredibly effective at "influencing people." See (my) comment at 29.
The first lady stood out like a silver dollar on a hog’s ass.
The zero family has no clue what a joke they are.
A silver dollar on a hog’s ass would look better and be worth more.
I grew up fearing the belt.
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