Posted on 09/29/2009 2:54:05 PM PDT by nomoremods
Republican Mitt Romney on Monday praised President Obama's decision to travel to Copenhagen this week to make the case that Chicago should host the 2016 Summer Olympics, saying the president's personal appeal is likely to ensure the city lands the games.
Until this week, Mr. Obama had indicated he would not be able to make the trip because he was tied down in negotiations over his health care proposal.
"I think his presence makes it almost certain that Chicago will win the bid," said Mr. Romney, who oversaw the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002. "I think we could have easily lost the bid" had the president not gone to make the case for Chicago in person.
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We need your help here!!
--MormonDude(they are saying BAD things about MITT!)
You have spelled MORMON wrong.
--MormonDude(Glad to help)
Posting the same old LIEs again?
—MormonDupe(Mitt is a GREAT family man!)
Put him on the list of dead GOP’ers.
(Well...
...except for that unforntunate DOG incident.
--MormonDube(He has fully recovered, I hear.)
Just so. Daley and his gangster friends have, we can be pretty sure, carefully bought land wherever they plan to put up the various Olympic courses and facilities. They have made detailed plans to sell or lease all of these properties, for a fat profit at the taxpayers’ expense.
I wonder if Romney was offered a cut for lending Obama his “Olympic expertise” at this key moment—which is to say, expertise at extracting subsidies from the Feds.
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