Posted on 09/30/2009 3:11:57 PM PDT by smoothsailing
In her speech in Copenhagen today, First Lady Michelle Obama said her trip to Denmark, along with the travel of her "dear friend" and "chit-chat buddy" Oprah Winfrey, as well as tomorrow's visit by President Obama, is a "sacrifice" on behalf of the children of Chicago and the United States. "As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the president to come for these few days," the first lady told a crowd of people involved in the Chicago project, "so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring this bid home."
"As first lady, as many of you know, I’ve made it a priority to bridge the gap between the White House and communities across D.C. and across the country," Mrs. Obama continued. "I’ve spent much of my first nine months trying to open the doors to the White House to kids who might not otherwise see themselves having access to these institutions, because that’s where I came from – communities like that where kids never dreamed that they could set foot in the White House, let alone live there&hellipAnd Barack and I made a point of doing the same thing when we lived in Chicago – making the concerns of kids in all sorts of communities our own."
Mrs. Obama said bringing the Olympics to Chicago is especially important right now because "athletics is becoming more of a fleeting opportunity." "Funds dry up so it becomes harder for kids to engage in sports, to learn how to swim, to even ride a bike," she said. In addition, with childhood obesity on the rise, "it is so important for us to raise up the platform of fitness and competition and fair play," the first lady said.
Finally, having the Olympics in Chicago would be important to "let people know that we understand that sports saves lives, that it makes dreams come true, that it creates visions in kids’ heads to make them think they can be the next David Robinson, the next Barack Obama, the next Nadia Comaneci, the next Oprah Winfrey," Mrs. Obama said.
oprah will lose ratings for going with the amazon.
No question! We are in a period where the powers that be pick and choose what laws to enforce. That in itself should be a wake up call to every sane, lucid American out there.
Was she? I did not know that. I did hear she liked carpet though.
WW2 - right. Like when GM and Ford? factories were not bombed. IBM traded with the Germans IIRC.
Always seems to circle back to Dems doesn’t it?
This woman will, eventually, tell us to eat cake.
Considering the taxes being raised on sugary items and her proclivity for gardening, I was waiting for her to tell us we can’t eat cake.
I have to work so will miss his show. Will be sure to read the Limbaugh thread when I get home.
I’m not going to tie myself up in a knot over the friggin Chicago Olympics when Iran is working on nukes. But that’s the point: Obama cares more about the Olympics than nuclear annihilation.
the only sacrifice here is that of taxpayer money!
Of course. God forbid the man should stay in Washington longer than 2-3 days in a row.
What a bullsh** artist. She could make Clinton blush.
(The male one)
“the next Oprah Winfrey”
Sorry, overeating is not a sport/s;)
“the next Barack Obama”
And what’s his sport?
Maybe weightlifting, if he carried that linebacker wife of his over the threshold!;)
May all of their planes have ridiculously bad turbulence on the trip home. Nothing would make me happier than to see the idiots stepping off AF 1 AND 2 airsick.
This is classified, but it is so big, the Secret Service gave it its own codename, and had to assign a second agent as a human shield.
Thanks for the ping!
If I was an Olympic athlete, I would rather go to Rio.
What is so special about Chicago?
Not this same old schtick again. We had years of the same platitudes from Hillery: " It tales a Village," and" for the children, etc, ."
On average we are told that 156 kids a week die in Chicago. Three days ago a Chicago high school honors sophomore was filmed being beaten to death by high school thugs because he wasn't in a gang.Its on the Internet widely viewed.( I couldn't bear to watch it and I have seen a lot of violence in my life.It doesn't get any easier to see such things.)
For the kids? We didn't see Michelle go to Chicago to console the sophomore's family, nor did she do so by phone? She is in Copenhagen, doing the Mandingo Fandango! Both Obamas seem curiously and aristocratically distanced from death.They have no strong sense of their own impermanence , are not very religious or spiritual.Rev. Wright must have sucked that right out of them both, drained then dry of it.
"For the kids," is merely a political, catch-all cover for nasty things that liberals do to take children away from their families; which is why teenage thugs can beat a kid to death in open Chicago daylight.
Great place for the Olympics too!
Chicago Pay for play. No help for the children, unfortunately, but a lot of lefty libs slum lord developers are going to get rich if the Olympics come to Chicago. A good reason to not have them and "stop the greed,"..... "for the children."
...but someone has to do it.
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