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Obama Sending Attorney General to Zurich to Lobby for World Cup 2022 in U.S. (Really)
CBS News via Twitter ^ | Monday, November 29, 2010 | Mark Knoller

Posted on 11/29/2010 4:39:13 PM PST by kristinn

Attorney General Holder heads to Zurich, Switzerland tomorrow to lobby to bring the World Cup to the U.S. in 2022.

Justice Dept. says Holder is making the trip to Zurich at the request of Pres. Obama to show US commitment to host World Cup in 2022.

Pres. Obama lost U.S. effort in '09 to host 2016 Summer Olympics. WH hopes Holder's mission to Zurich doesn't end up a Swiss miss.

Perhaps we'll find out more about the World Cup mission from Holder's cables in the next WikiLeaks document disclosures.


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To: kristinn

Wikileaks founder was considering asking Switzerland for political asylum.


41 posted on 11/29/2010 5:32:24 PM PST by opentalk
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To: kristinn

Because Holder is such a cuddly “people person”.


42 posted on 11/29/2010 5:42:13 PM PST by sportutegrl (sarcasm alert)
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To: kristinn

Obama probably has it in the bag. Holder would get credit and save his job. The TERRORIST TRIAL FIASCO has put enormous pressure for Obama to dump Holder.


43 posted on 11/29/2010 5:45:35 PM PST by SC_Pete
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To: kristinn

Will someone please point out the relevant passage in the US Attorney General’s job description that covers lobbying for games to come to the US?

This is utterly ludicrous.

With everything that’s happening on the domestic front, Obama sends the US AG on a punk-ass mission like this????

Good Lord....


44 posted on 11/29/2010 5:54:14 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: kristinn
"U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will join former President Bill Clinton and Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman on Wednesday at the final presentation to FIFA's executive committee of the U.S. bid to host the 2022 World Cup."

2022? Even President Palin won't have any need to be bothering herself about an event that won't happen until she's two years out of office.

This is insanity...

45 posted on 11/29/2010 5:59:16 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: kristinn

If I smoked dope 24/7 for 40 years, I still don’t think I could get my mind in sync with how these people think.

W - T - F !!!


46 posted on 11/29/2010 6:09:24 PM PST by 2111USMC
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To: kristinn

AP is confirming - I had to google to make sure. This is beyond comprehension. I feel like I’ve had some sort of psychotic split and am no longer seeing reality. The absurdity of it all is too much to believe.


47 posted on 11/29/2010 6:11:59 PM PST by sbMKE
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To: kristinn

Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.


48 posted on 11/29/2010 6:23:42 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: maggief

Jeeeeeze!!!

Right .. just the job for the highest law
enforcement official in the land, especially
in time of war, and unprecedented leaked
state secrets, not to mention DOJ criminality
in the New Black Panther case, and the civil
trial of a brutal terrorist gone awry.

Sure ..

This gang can’t even load a gun, never mind
shoot straight. We are now the laughing stock
of the world, and weak and more at risk than ever.

God save us. End the madness!


49 posted on 11/29/2010 6:26:14 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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I can't see how this fits in Holder's job description as AG. Also what city or cities is Obama looking to stick with the logistics? Do I even have to ask if Chicago is involved?

This move only panders to Latinos since professional soccer isn't popular in the States outside that community. In 12 years how much larger will their influence be? I suppose CA will be recaptured by Mexico, sure, but how does Lobbying for World Cup benefit the USA? /s

50 posted on 11/29/2010 6:26:54 PM PST by newzjunkey (groped by Obama's TSA / an expired "Bush taxcut" = Obama Tax Increase)
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To: Palladin

That would be the middle of his fourth term. When he ran in 2008 I figured his goal was to become President-for-Life, like Fidel, Mugabe, and Hugo Chavez. After the rise of the tea party movement, I decided he probably wouldn’t be able to get around the two-term limit. This suggests he may still hope to stay in office more than 8 years. He’ll need at least one more liberal justice to be sitting on the Supreme Court to get around the 22nd amendment. Maybe he expects to be able to appoint that person in his second term.


51 posted on 11/29/2010 6:42:13 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

Every Demwit President has to have a fall guy.
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52 posted on 11/29/2010 6:46:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: kristinn

BS this is cover for something.... Who sends the AG to get an World Cup?? Well.....Maybe the idiotic Obama admin...


53 posted on 11/29/2010 6:55:24 PM PST by jakerobins
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To: jakerobins

Maybe he’ll take the New Black Panthers with him.


54 posted on 11/29/2010 7:47:53 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: kristinn

It’s Holder because he knows how to blow the vuvuzela.


55 posted on 11/29/2010 7:57:45 PM PST by PaleoBob
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To: kristinn

I knew we were getting a doctrinaire commie when Zero won the election. I guess I didn’t realize we were getting a doctrinaire commie with the psychological maturity of a 14-year-old boy.


56 posted on 11/29/2010 8:00:25 PM PST by Campion
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To: kristinn

Ok, that seals the deal, he is certifiably insane and I’m not joking.


57 posted on 11/29/2010 8:20:31 PM PST by mojitojoe (In itÂ’s 1600 years of existence, Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curr)
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To: Political Junkie Too

The only explanation I can think of is that this is a cover for Holder’s true reason for going to Switzerland.
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BINGO!


58 posted on 11/29/2010 8:21:43 PM PST by mojitojoe (In itÂ’s 1600 years of existence, Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curr)
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To: Clock King

You’re right and they are pissing me off so much it would be a cold day in hell before I voted for one unless his name was Allen West and even then, I’d be leery.


59 posted on 11/29/2010 8:24:12 PM PST by mojitojoe (In itÂ’s 1600 years of existence, Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curr)
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To: onyx

Beyond insanity. That entire administration is like One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest.


60 posted on 11/29/2010 8:25:33 PM PST by mojitojoe (In itÂ’s 1600 years of existence, Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curr)
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