Posted on 09/29/2009 4:52:18 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
SALT LAKE CITY -- Former Massachusetts governor and head of the 2002 Olympic Organizing Committee Mitt Romney says President Obama is doing exactly what needs to be done by flying to Denmark to lobby for the Olympics to come to Chicago in 2016.
Romney tells ABC News that having a sitting president make a personal pitch can make an enormous difference to the 106 members of the International Olympic Committee.
"I think the people in the IOC want to understand the level of the commitment of the host country," Romney said. "Does the host country really care? Is this going to be a high priority? And nothing says that like having the presence of the leader of that country and, particularly, the case of Barack Obama."
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“Obama is out of the country and I love having the Olympics where they belong,in the United States.”
Why do you feel they belong in the United States? Part of the fun is seeing other countries and learning their customs.
bye bye any hope of ever being president.
Kneepad-wearing oscumbo sucker!
That’s where I’m at. The GOP is neither liberal or conservative. They have the feel of ‘appropriators’, not people with a unifying set of principals. That’s why you get the whole ‘big-tent, kill the young and old is OK bit from Steele’.
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