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Gibbs: Obama 'disappointed' at losing Olympics
Associated Press ^ | Oct. 2, 2009 | JULIE PACE

Posted on 10/02/2009 11:34:58 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) - President Barack Obama is "disappointed" Chicago missed getting the 20016 Olympic Games but doesn't regret putting so much on the line to argue for it, his chief spokesman said Friday.

Talking to reporters aboard Air Force One as Obama and his wife Michelle flew back to Washington, Robert Gibbs said Obama "feels obviously proud of his wife for the presentation that she made." Mrs. Obama had gone to Copenhagen ahead of her husband and had lobbied hard for the Summer Games to be brought to her hometown and his adopted hometown.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 2016olympics; obama; olympics
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1 posted on 10/02/2009 11:34:59 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

His appearance after sending her was a slap in her face.

I knew he’d be blaming her for the failure.

Going to be quite a night in the White House tonight.


2 posted on 10/02/2009 11:36:17 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

3 posted on 10/02/2009 11:36:30 AM PDT by Utah Binger (Mount Carmel Utah, Where Thunderbirds Soar and Protect)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Shoulda given a speech about the Olympics instead of themselves.


4 posted on 10/02/2009 11:36:39 AM PDT by griswold3 (You think health care is expensive now? Just wait till it's FREE!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Breaking: Obama and his main squeeze placed on suicide watch.


5 posted on 10/02/2009 11:37:20 AM PDT by Gator113 (Obamba, Reid, Pelosi, the socialist triad.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I can finally say something positive about Obama...being disappointed is a reasonable reaction in the face of his failure. I bet it doesn't stay there, I bet libs will make it all about someone else’s fault, probably Bush or Palin.
6 posted on 10/02/2009 11:37:35 AM PDT by highlander_UW (To anger a conservative tell him a lie. To anger a liberal tell him the truth.)
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To: griswold3

He’s probably going to try to stage his own version of the Olympics in Chicago now...the famous Obama Games of 2010...


7 posted on 10/02/2009 11:38:37 AM PDT by livius
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Zer0 c0ntinues t0 be a l0ser.


8 posted on 10/02/2009 11:38:39 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

but doesn’t regret putting so much on the line to argue for it

I’ll put everything on the line and lose it a thousand times if I have to!


9 posted on 10/02/2009 11:39:15 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Gator113
"Obama and his main squeeze"

Larry Sinclair is at risk?

10 posted on 10/02/2009 11:39:28 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Uh, oh.

They were hoping for a glut of Olympics news to dominate the news cycle in Chicago for the next few years.

Now it will just be ACORN corruption all the time. Tsk, tsk.

11 posted on 10/02/2009 11:39:55 AM PDT by what's up
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Does that mean he'll cancel his next ‘I Hate America’ tour?
12 posted on 10/02/2009 11:39:57 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: Paladin2

I was just thinking the same thing...lol!


13 posted on 10/02/2009 11:40:02 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Free ThinkerNY

.."ain't nuff room under dat bus for me and my lobsta's"

14 posted on 10/02/2009 11:41:13 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Free ThinkerNY
AS GIBBS THINKS "IF YOU BELIEVE THAT HAVE I GOT SOMETHING I'D LIKE TO SELL YOU" Ambassador Bridge Pictures, Images and Photos
15 posted on 10/02/2009 11:41:19 AM PDT by blueyon (It is worth taking a stand even if you are standing alone!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

What exactly did he “put on the line” in order to go beg for the Olympics to be hosted in Chicago?

Was there any risk associated with this that was not inherent to normal presidential travel or advocacy?

Is there much more risk to “no” than we know?


16 posted on 10/02/2009 11:41:22 AM PDT by nerdwithamachinegun (All generalizations are wrong.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I have yet to see a single word of congratulations and/or well wishes for Brazil from any of these schlocks......classless and arrogant going into it and even worse after losing....


17 posted on 10/02/2009 11:43:06 AM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68 (CALL CONGRESSCRITTERS TOLL-FREE @ 1-800-965-4701)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It’s a good thing they went .... or everyone on left
would have been saying, “oh, if only he had gone with
his teleprompters - he could have convinced them!!”


18 posted on 10/02/2009 11:43:17 AM PDT by savage woman
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To: Paladin2

You got me... LOL


19 posted on 10/02/2009 11:43:21 AM PDT by Gator113 (Obamba, Reid, Pelosi, the socialist triad.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“[Gibbs] said the president “would never shy away from traveling anywhere, talking to anyone about this country.”

Gibbs said that Obama got the news while watching TV alone in his quarters on the presidential jet.”

Correction: Zero would never shy away from traveling anywhere, APOLOGIZING to anyone about this country. Further, he wasn’t watching the news programs for info but to make sure his fans in the media cast him in the appropriate golden light.

He was there for only FIVE freaking hours!!! I hope he gets terminal jet lag so this farce can end.


20 posted on 10/02/2009 11:43:29 AM PDT by JoyjoyfromNJ (Psalm 121)
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