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[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Oct 2, 2009 Author:Obama and the organ grinder Post Date:2009-10-02 11:30:31 by Jethro Tull Keywords:None Views:682 Comments:37
But the star of the presentation was the First Lady, the speaker whose emotional appeal resonated in what was frankly an otherwise unremarkable presentation. She arrived in Copenhagen on Wednesday and has spent the time since giving a high-profile pitch for her hometown. "I was born and raised on Chicago's south side," she said during the presentation. "Ours was a neighborhood of working families. Sports are what bought our communities together. We picked sides based not on who you were but on what you could bring to the games."
Michelle Obama then told the story of her father, who battled multiple sclerosis beginning in his 30s. "Some of my best memories sitting on dad's lap cheering on Olga [Korbut], Nadia [Comaneci] and Carl Lewis," she said. [sure, sure --PV] "He never stopped playing with us. He refused to take us for granted. He taught me how to throw a ball and a mean right hook better than any boy in my neighborhood. My dad was my hero. If he had lived to see this day, the Paralympics sharing the global stage with the Olympic Games, I know it would have [given] him the same sense of unbridled possibility that he instilled in me."
[wtf does that have to with anything? At the end of the day these guys are businessmen. Sure, they'll indulge the "I was born a poor back child" spiel if they can make a buck. --PV ]
Her husband, whose arrival at the airport two hours earlier, was covered on national television, then added his personal touch. "There is nothing I would like more than to step just a few blocks from my family's home and, with Michelle and our two girls, welcome the world back to our neighborhood," he said. "At the beginning of this new century, the nation that has been shaped by people from around the world wants a chance to inspire it once more."
IOC members are traditionally given the chance to ask questions of the bid leadership after the presentations. The technical queries included questions about the quality of satellite Olympic villages for athletes competing outside Chicago to arrangements for shooting athletes, whose venue is located an hour from the city center. Though some of the members answered questions tentatively, Obama jumped in to field an inquiry, addressed to nobody in particular, about how the sometimes time-consuming process for visitors entering the U.S. "America at its best is open to the world," he said, adding that in Chicago, "visitors around the world will feel welcome and will come away with the sense of the incredible diversity of the American people."
"I was born and raised on Chicago's south side," she said during the presentation. "Ours was a neighborhood of working families. Sports are what bought our communities together. We picked sides based not on who you were but on what you could bring to the games."...Michelle Obama then told the story of her father, who battled multiple sclerosis beginning in his 30s. "Some of my best memories sitting on dad's lap cheering on Olga [Korbut], Nadia [Comaneci] and Carl Lewis," she said.
"[wtf does that have to with anything? At the end of the day these guys are businessmen. Sure, they'll indulge the "I was born a poor back child" spiel if they can make a buck. --PV ]"
It counted for absolutely frickin' ZILCH, ZERO, NOTHING.
The racist IOC apparently concurred with us that they'd heard quite enough out of the angry black b*tch and her dumb-ass groveling hubby.