The First Lady needs a teleprompter of her own. She, chit chat bud Oprah and hubby Barack are swarming Copenhagen in hopes of convincing them to choose Chicago for the 2016 Olympics.
It’s taken at least 4 planes and untold millions of dollars to plead in person.
Yet MO somehow sees it as a sacrifice. Yes, ‘people say’ is code for ‘I think’.
“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.”
And this… just makes no sense at all. Bridge what gap? Open what doors? The White House is open daily to tourists.
“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…And 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.
How have athletics become a ‘fleeting opportunity’? Funds are drying up because her husband is killing the economy, but kids still ride bikes. Damn, why could she not just show up and say something like ‘it’s an honor to be here representing the great city of Chicago’? Gotta go the extra suffrage mile! What a downer!
Sacrifice is what our troops are doing every day, 24/7/365, not jetting off to Copenhagen for a meeting. Blech.
This woman is as irritating as a pebble in my shoe. Just when I think I’ve gotten rid of it, the damn thing turns up again…
October 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Athletics still get more funding than the arts in our schools.
And a sacrifice for any of them to be in Copenhagen? No, that’s called a vanity project. As in, “my presence will sway the vote so I MUST be here”.
October 1st, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Yes, exactly.
Where is MO’s speechwriter and teleprompter? Really. Because whereas HE pisses me off, she’s almost worse… like my poison ivy. Irritating as all hell.
October 1st, 2009 at 3:44 pm
I was in elementary school back in the ’60’s and JFK implemented some sort of physical fitness aptitude test that we had to take every year. It took a whole week of recesses as I recall to do long jump, rings, distance running, etc. If the powers that be would just continue pre-existing programs they wouldn’t have to re-invent the wheel. Of course, that is what the “change” in new administrations is all about. Throw the baby out with the bath water.
October 1st, 2009 at 3:57 pm
I was in elementary school during the 60’s as well! I don’t remember doing an aptitude test, but we always had yearly ‘contests’ that everyone had to participate in; maybe my school just relabeled it.
October 1st, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Yup, President’s Physical Fitness test every year
October 1st, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Wow, you too? Wonder why they stopped it? Didn’t want the kids who got their feelings hurt because they weren’t good enough to win to go home and raise hell with Mom? That’s around the same time political correctness reared its ugly head…
October 1st, 2009 at 9:17 pm
you didn’t win, you passed. you had to run the 50 and 100 in a certain time, do so many sit ups in a certain time – that sort of thing. i rocked the sit ups, just sayin
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:47 am
Glad they didn’t tell us that.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:58 am
October 1st, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Obamaspeak…
Sacrifice = First Class European Vacation
‘Nuff said…
davek
October 1st, 2009 at 5:57 pm
October 1st, 2009 at 8:58 pm
I am sorry Pam but I got as far as Michelle’s words of sacrifice and saw nothing but red! Our troops know what sacrifice is. Michelle hasn’t the foggiest of ideas on this, the BITCH!!!
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:48 am
Damn straight!
October 1st, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Sacrifice? It would be a sacrifice if they had to row, naked, ‘cross the north Atlantic in a foutreen foot rowboat. And then swim back. I’ll bet two dollars cash that they didn’t have to eat porkenbeans every meal, either.
With only one meal a day. These people wouldn’t know sacrifice if a sacrificial Puma jumped out and bit them on the ass.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:47 am
Just curious, but how did you pick a Puma?
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:30 am
FIFY
Also? My favorite part of her lecture (not a speech, always a lecture with these two…) was when she said “Barack & I have lived and prospered on both sides of the bridge. I can’t think of a better reason to bring the Olympics to Chicago.”
Me, me, me, me, us, us, us, us, we, we, we, we, I, I, I, I…
That’s all it ever is with the First Couple of Campaigning.
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:31 am
Argh. “Pebble in my shoe” is supposed to be struck out… guess my html isn’t up to par.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:49 am
I did it for you.
It’s always about them. ALWAYS. That’s one of the most irritating things about this couple.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:04 am
Those two have no idea what sacrifice is. I’m thinking, for the money it is costing us to send them to Europe for nothing more than payback to Obama’s Chicago buddies, WE are the ones sacrificing here.
Then again, there are those wonderful soldiers cooling their heels in Afghanistan – waiting for the O to have enough time to make up his mind as to the perfect strategy before deciding to send reinforcements or not – while being shot at. I’m thinking THEY are the ones sacrificing.
Now I’m all pissed again
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:44 am
Amen! Now THAT is sacrifice.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:20 am
You know, I never realized how much they “I”, “We” and “me” in speeches until it was just pointed out. Wow. Egotistical much?
As for the Olympics in Chicago…have they listened to how many people DON’T want it?! Probably not. As far Barry, Mikey and Harpo are concerned, if they like it…everyone will like it.
Going there next month…I’ll have to give it the big finger for all of us and yell from the Sears Tower, “What the hell did you do Chicago?!”
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:47 am
Oh, hell… from the very beginning the One was all about ME. ‘I’ this, ‘me’ that. Watch one of dubya’s old speeches, then one of Osama’s. IF you can stomach it… the disparity is sickening.
Another one of their irritating qualities.
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:27 am
Sears tower has a huge freezer at the 5 level – spent 2 week vacation from navy loading butterball turkeys there in 64 or 65 – also had the phys ed thing – while the Obamas were in school on grants I had pay cut 100 a week – worked 40 hrs with bell – 12 hours sat n sun while taking 10 credits mon thru thur evening to try and recover- this was not a sacrifice, it was the American way of life-these jerks do not have a clue- damn they keep pissing (wee weeing) me off
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:40 am
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:37 am
I think Chicago was first city elimninated
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:41 am
Love it!!!!!
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:00 pm
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Guess Harpo, Chico and Groucho just don’t have the ‘international love’ they thought they did.
Sucks to be them!
October 2nd, 2009 at 2:25 pm
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:38 pm
The Obamas and Oprah learned a very hard lesson today:
The world’s just not that into them.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I didn’t want the Olympics here. Chicago is a clusterf*** as it is… the Olympics coming here would have been a NIGHTMARE.
The fact that Teh One and Sasquatch were humiliated is just a sweet, sweet bonus.
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:28 am
Hell, they didn’t even make a proper presentation. Everything was ‘mah daddy had [insert disease]‘ and ‘for the children’. Gak!
October 3rd, 2009 at 10:25 am
It’s all they know how to do. Emotional drivel. The IOC doesn’t give a darn about her father’s MS, and they sure as hell don’t care about ‘the children’.
The image is tarnishing. The world is seeing it, and slowly but surely, people in the US are seeing it.
I just hope they get these morons out of the House and Senate in 2010 so that this fool becomes a lame duck sooner rather than later.
October 3rd, 2009 at 2:39 pm
From your mouth to God’s ear, Jana! Can’t wait to hear ‘President Lame Duck’!
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:45 pm
I can’t wait to hear “Former President”…
Even better, “Impeached President”…
October 4th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Either one will do for me.