Posted on 10/08/2009 1:39:05 PM PDT by Judges Gone Wild
Quote: President Obama took his chances on a high-profile visit to Copenhagen because the White House was getting a "clear message" that his presence could clinch the Olympics for Chicago, The Chicago Tribune reports. "The intelligence that we had from the U.S. Olympic Committee and Chicago bid team was that it was very close and therefore well worth our efforts," said Valerie Jarrett, a senior White House adviser. "The message was that...a personal appeal from the president would make a huge difference." President Obama first tried lobbying quietly through phone calls, and had not decided until a few days before getting on Air Force One that he would appear to make his bid in person. His failure to secure the Olympic bid has become fodder for the president's critics.
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I love that saying do you have any others.
rolled like a bull durham cigarette.
O certainly did make a huge difference.
He and his revolting wife assured the first round loss.
Classic!
Yeah that’s right throw everyone else under the bus. You screwed the pooch Valerie just face up to it
AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Conclusion: He got played diplomatically by the IOC.
What makes any rational person believe he’s going to fair any better as either a CinC, or in diplomatic brinkmanship with the Russians, Chinese, N Koreans, Venezuelans, Tongans, Vanutuans, Lichtenstinians, et. al.
“The message was that...a personal appeal from the president would make a huge difference.”
He doubled the amount of votes Chicago would have normally gotten..
The commitee didn’t like the bam “I,I,I, me, me, me” parade. What sane human does?
Barack Hussein Obama
Let me get this right, the "clear message" was coming from CNNMSNBCABCCBS right??? Am I right?
Obamao announced that the Olympic Office in his administration was going to stay open - YESTERDAY.
So that explains the throwing under the bus - TODAY!
You see he called the US and Chicago Olympic Committees yesterday and said watch out for the tires tomorrow!
EVERYTHING.
Why would an Olympics bid suddenly change that perfect record?
Missed it by THAT much!
Please post the whole story. There is no reason to excerpt bloggers.
We didn’t lose because of his speeches, we lost because all of the EU environmental whackos got mad over the carbon footprint 2 jumbo jets made in order to give that speech. I’m surprised nobody has mentioned the hypocrisy of the so-called greener administration in this fiasco.
But Bush told "lie after lie after lie" based on the intelligence he received. I think Bush's intelligence was much more consequential than any "intelligence" that Obama is receiving.
-PJ
hahahahaha!
I wonder which democrat gave him some magic beans before he got onto the plane.
Gov. Daniels of Indiana made a comment to the effect that times are bad when there is an election Illinois can’t rig.
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