Posted on 07/05/2005 7:17:58 AM PDT by phoenix_004
SINGAPORE -- A day before the crucial vote, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton joined the New York delegation on Tuesday for a homestretch round of lobbying aimed at convincing the International Olympic Committee to award the city the 2012 Summer Games.
The former first lady was put to work immediately. Before she could even have her first bite of breakfast after a long flight she was taken to meet an IOC member.
"New York City exemplifies Olympic values every single day," she said. "Living in New York is like living in an Olympic Village -- you have every language from every corner of the globe."
Clinton noted that the Summer Games have never been held in New York.
"We have lived the Olympics, now I'd like for us to have a chance to host the Olympics," she said.
Clinton, a potential Democratic presidential candidate, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a Republican, deflected questions at a news conference about possible political ramifications of the senator's role in the bid campaign.
"This is not a political thing, it's a New York thing," said Bloomberg, asserting that it was important to convince IOC delegates that the bid has bipartisan support.
Three of New York's main rivals -- Paris, London and Madrid -- are sending their countries' top government leaders to Singapore to lobby in person for their bids, whereas U.S. President George Bush -- a political rival of Clinton's -- is not coming.
But Bloomberg said no hidden meaning should be read into this. Bush, he said, "couldn't be happier" that Clinton had made the trip.
"Just the logistics of moving a president around in this day and age, with all the security, really takes away from the focus on the Games," Bloomberg said.
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Dream on.
Too little, too late. Take your bandwagonning elsewhere, senator.
Practice for her in 2008 when she swoops into Buchannon, WV, on election eve, to say she is anti-abortion and anti-homosexual marriage.
And Upstate voters, who know who'd be stuck with the tab, won't appreciate this...
May she never return to our shores.
Which is precisely why I don't live there.
wow. very daring position for mrs. presidential candidate. isn't she afraid of losing the "oddly opposed to the olympics" vote?
It's unlikely they will win anyway; the main reason: Vancouver 2010 - they'll want to rotate around the continents. I'm betting on London or Paris.
Did she have FBI files on any of the IOC members?
"New York City exemplifies Olympic values every single day,"
What...are they planning random drug test for New Yorkers?
What the heck does she mean by that???
If Paris wins the bid, start looking for how many IOC members were part of Oil For Food payoffs. IMO, London should get it if for no other reason than it's not France, and the Witch won't be able to wave it around next year or 2008.
Actually, Hillary! may very well help the NYC bid -- the Clintons are quite popular among the socialists who run the IOC.
With Hitlery and Bloomberg on board, NYC has NO hope.
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