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OPINION: President Should Let First Lady Handle Olympics Bid Alone

Written by News One on October 1, 2009 11:33 am

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From The Root:

Mr. President, your wife is awesome, so why not let her handle this Chicago Olympics thing?

Like you, the First Lady is smart, charismatic and tough. If there’s any shrinking violet part of her, we have yet to see it–except for maybe when she lets you be taller than she is. Unlike you, she won’t be blamed into perpetuity for the fate of our nation.

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The Olympics are neat and all but we, the people of America, who are somewhere between concerned and out-of-our-gourd insane regarding various issues, would appreciate your focus. As Jason Zengerle points out in the New Republic:

the fate of comprehensive health care reform is hanging by a thread up on Capitol Hill and the Pentagon is awaiting the commander-in-chief’s word on the way forward in Afghanistan, and Obama’s going to take time out of his busy schedule to schmooze with the Princess of Liechtinstein and the 105 other worthies on the I.O.C.’s selection committee?

If he goes to Copenhagen and the I.O.C. picks Rio, he suffers a completely unnecessary defeat on the world stage; it’s one thing to stake your prestige on a global climate change treaty or tougher sanctions on Iran and fail, but to do it for a sporting event just seems ludicrous. And what happens if Obama does succeed and manages to bring the games to Chicago? Well, to quote one-time U.S. men’s basketball national team member Derrick Coleman, “Whoop-dee-damn-do.”

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Mr. President, your wife is Michelle Obama. She doesn’t need your help, especially when you have more presidential matters to deal with.

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    Way too much money at stake to ignore the fact that our main competition Brazil and Japan sent their heads of state and olympic committee seems to be leaning away from the US. The perception abroad is that the US is taking this event for granted and doesn’t deserve to host the Olympics. We need a boost to morale and this is just one thing that can be done to bring the country together and give us something positive to think about regarding the future. The other things like the economy and defense will continue to be top priorities, however, the decision-making and communication amongst the principles can be done anywhere across the globe. The president has the best teleconferencing resources available. And there isn’t anything that a president can do on a minute to minute bases to change the social problems of the world. Everything that the president touches addresses long-term and on-going issues. You do not want the president to just make decisions as soon as they hit his desk just to appear decisive. That type of rash decision-making is what got us into the Iraq War, which we have nothing to show for except debt and a collective distrust of the federal government.

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    Pres.obama is quickly becoming a joke around the world.what he says means nothing to most americans, so what can he do to convince the olympic committee to hold the olympics in chicago,with all of the murders taking place.it would be better if mrs.obama did this alone.

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