Posted on 09/20/2009 4:54:28 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
Reporting from Washington - President Obama is dispatching an advance team to Copenhagen to pave the way for a possible personal appearance before the International Olympic Committee next month.
The decision doesn't necessarily mean Obama will be able to make an in-person appeal for his adopted hometown of Chicago, which is bidding to host the Olympics in 2016, a senior advisor to the president said Saturday.
But the president wants to make sure he has the option to go, in case he can get away from healthcare discussions to make the trip.
Before any presidential trip, White House advance teams need time to size up the security situation and make arrangements for accommodations, even for travel the president doesn't end up undertaking. The advance team will travel Monday.
"He wants to preserve his options," the advisor said.
Obama hopes to make the overseas trip if he can do so without jeopardizing healthcare legislation, his advisors say.
Whatever happens, First Lady Michelle Obama will still go and make the case for her hometown to host the Summer Games.
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He's so busy, helping Michele win the Olympics for Chicago.
“It’s a good thing he doesn’t have any serious problems here.”
I was thinking the same thing. Doesn’t he ever work?
“Just announced on crawl on my television....Barry will be going.”
My guess....
They’ll diss him, like putin, chavez, Ach, and chia-pet-head have already done.
Why does he have to go? Can’t they just have Shelly wear one of her hideous hootchie-mama dresses and cue up Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back”?
Maybe we should send him back to Chicago. Soon.
That’s where he needs to stay. They deserve him.
I'd punish Chicago by sending Shelly back (she allegedly hates that name).
I'd punish Kenya by sending him there. It's their fault for dumping that turd on our lawn in the first place.
shakedown bid
Who is advising this guy..EVERYTHING HE DOES IS WRONG...it’s almost like he has someone in the WH who wants him to fail.
What do you mean? He works all the time. Just today he was very busy working...on his golf game!
And how much is this advance team going to cost us? Obammy has no shame. He wants all the millions of Olympic dollars for his homeboys back in the hood.
Before hearing this news I thought the risk of going to Copenhagen and being rejected by the IOC was too great for Obama to take, that’s why he sent michelle instead. He probably got word from someone that no Barack Obama In Copenhagen means no Chicago 2016. Just like when Bill Clinton went to North Korea, you don’t go unless an under the table deal has been reached beforehand.
What an embarrassment he is to our country.
He plays while America burns..
You could be right.
I am a tax-slave in the bankrupt People's Republic of Illinois. The last thing we, the over taxed unwash of this god forsaken state, need is an Olympics to deliver laundered money to the Chicago Daley Machine.
I'll give Obama credit for one thing, he has no fear of wasting tax money on any of his whims. Being bashful is not one of his faults.
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