Yes We Can! (I Think…)
Well, apparently Mr. Obama’s flight to Copenhagen to throw his hat in the ring for the 2016 Olympics to be held in Chicago were not successful. How difficult it must be for someone who is so used to being in campaign mode to “lose an election”. Even sending his wife and her best friend Oprah ahead of him didn’t seem to make a difference. What did make a difference was the huge amount of money spent on flying half way around the world and back (reportedly $1.2 million of our tax dollars!), as well as the carbon footprint left behind.
That and the apparent disregard the president has for our brave men and women in combat where he would deem it more important to lobby the IOC than to honor our military leader’s request for more troops.
What is most telling is the following quote made the summer before the election where candidate Obama revealed some key players that would make up his inner circle in the White House:
At a rally in Daley Plaza five months before the election, Obama drummed up enthusiasm for the bid (for Chicago to host the Olympics). He said: “In 2016, I’ll be wrapping up my second term as president, so I can’t think of a better way than to be marching into Washington Park alongside Mayor Daley, alongside Rahm Emanuel, alongside Dick Durbin, alongside Valerie Jarrett as President of the United States, and announcing to the world, ‘Let the games begin!’”
Along with all the other “signs” that should have tipped us off as to his true intentions, to state categorically that these two individuals (among many) would not only be part of his Chicago staff in the White House, but would still be with him eight years later, should send shivers up our spines (unlike the tingle up the leg Chris Matthews experienced).
One can only hope that, as his “bid” to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago failed, all his other bids to bring Socialistic endeavors to the United States will fail; especially the part about serving a second term!
So I say to you, Mr. president: Let the games begin!
But, as my good friend Allen Scott from eagleviews.org more aptly put it: let the games STOP! and start behaving as the President of the United States instead of acting like one on TV. And to that I say: AMEN!
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“So I say to you, Mr. president: Let the games begin!”
I say LET THE GAMES STOP. All this guy has been doing is PLAYING at being President. It is one GAME SHOW after another. All his speeches are gamesmanship, attempting to fool the people by playing word games and slight of hand. It is time America gets a REAL PRESIDENT as opposed to one who plays one on TV.
LET THE GAMES END!
October 4th, 2009 at 6:24 pmGood point. I too am tired of the games. I just feel that, if he (Obama) is thinking he is more than he really is (and all indications point to that) we need to let him know “two can play at that game”. I think I might update that comment though to reflect your statement.
October 4th, 2009 at 7:37 pm