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I can't believe people are counting this as a failure on Obama's record. The IOC is finnicky board that works on a lot of kissing behind and favors. Your naive or just desperate to Obama bash if you don't believe Brazil had this in the bag some time ago. Obama could have made the waters part, and it would not have changed the decision. That being said I don't see anything wrong at the least with him being there.
Last edited by NooYowkur81; 10-02-2009 at 06:25 PM..
The spent an inordinate amount of time on this issue. In light of everything that is going on in this country and abroad, way too much time on such a trivial matter, in the scheme of things.
But at least he got to spend 25 minutes with his Afghanistan commander (the 2nd such meeting) - probably telling him to keep his mouth shut.
Its called multitasking.
I know this is a strange concept for some of you who were used to the Bush administration's slow as molasses approach to tackling (poorly) one issue at a time.
Hey there, this is totally off-topic (I apologize to everyone), however I'm unable to send you a DM & it keeps saying you're on my friend list but you don't show up. Do you know what's going on?
LOL...I go on a little self-imposed 'vacation' from here, due to my astronomical stress level, and come back and see---nothing has changed
Okay...now that that's off my chest, time to get to business...I realize of course that the Pres took a HUGE gamble by pushing for Chicago to get the Olympics...for that alone, I'm kinda proud of him...and for those in the cheap seats, that does NOT make me a leftie, an Obamabot, a sheep, a Messiah-worshipper, or any of those other 25-cent snarky labels you like to throw about when someone stands behind the Pres...
But I could give two well-loaded spits in the wind about people who turn over rocks and point fingers and call names, EVERY SINGLE D**N TIME the man does something...I mean, I thought I left that kind of infantile BS behind when I left elementary school, but apparently, some others never progressed beyond 6th grade playground antics...
I'm really sorry if Mr Obama is messing up your monochromatic, plain-vanilla, 'Pleasantville'-version of America, and broke up the 'old-boys club' of the Presidency, but this constant carping and whining every 37.5 seconds is getting old and tiresome and 'expletive deleted' annoying
I mean, it's like those who dislike the President are getting their news and information from their favorite radio station--- WLAB (aka Whine Like A B***h)...they can't put their minds together to come up with alternate solutions to the problems they're ALWAYS complaining about...instead, they stand around screaming and yelling and red-faced, hiding behind blowhard talk-show pundits, making up silly, immature signs full of misspellings and disinformation, and disguise adolescent behavior as 'righteous indignation' and 'we're taking our country back, by golly!'
Well, news flash---it's MY country too...and I don't recall deputizing anyone to 'take it back' on my behalf...in fact, I wish you'd all just go somewhere and, in the words of the late Richard Pryor, 'have a Coke and a smile and shut the **** up!', because your act is not unlike a blabbermouthed relative----loud and annoying and very much a nuisance
Hey there, this is totally off-topic (I apologize to everyone), however I'm unable to send you a DM & it keeps saying you're on my friend list but you don't show up. Do you know what's going on?
I don't know what happened, but I think I fixed the problem. (Sorry guys.)
Regarding showing good judgement, if I was the President, unless my research would have determined the city I was representing would have at LEAST gotten an average number of votes, I wouldn't have bothered going. If I was president during times like this I certainly wouldn't have brought Oprah UNLESS SHE WAS PAYING THE WAY----(in fact if Obama has so much pull with Oprah, maybe the way he can save face, would be to get Oprah to pay for the WHOLE SHEBANG since it was such a dismal failure--including the extra trip that Michelle took a day earlier).
Talk about excess and waste when leaders should be setting an example and operating on a tight budget when the country is in the financial toilet right now!
If he wanted to be a good role model he should have Fed Exed a video tape PERIOD! He should be showing he is trying to PRESERVE taxpayers dollars NOT WASTE THEM.
Regarding showing good judgement, if I was the President, unless my research would have determined the city I was representing would have at LEAST gotten an average number of votes, I wouldn't have bothered going. If I was president during times like this I certainly wouldn't have brought Oprah UNLESS SHE WAS PAYING THE WAY----(in fact if Obama has so much pull with Oprah, maybe the way he can save face, would be to get Oprah to pay for the WHOLE SHEBANG since it was such a dismal failure--including the extra trip that Michelle took a day earlier).
Talk about excess and waste when leaders should be setting an example and operating on a tight budget when the country is in the financial toilet right now!
If he wanted to be a good role model he should have Fed Exed a video tape PERIOD! He should be showing he is trying to PRESERVE taxpayers dollars NOT WASTE THEM.
Did Oprah pay her own way or not? Can you provide anything? Thanks. And if you were president....well, then maybe you should take up a career in law/politics & strive for that position. Lots of people like to say "well, I would do this & that...I'd be so much better"...why don't they put their money where their mouth is then? Does no good to sit there smugly & say you'd do a better job...get out & do it then.
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