An Olympic Rescue
Oct 2nd, 2009 by Timothy Pancoast
So President Obama has helped to secure America’s first Olympic defeat of 2016 and the games are still a long way off. Many of the athletes from those games are likely still in middle school. America isn’t exactly off to a good start, but clearly the finish line is a long ways off, and there is plenty of time for and Olympic come-back.
The President’s extreme level of personal involvement greatly compounded the sting of this defeat. What would have otherwise been a disappointing footnote became a major headline and the source of a lot of negative buzz for our nation. Well it looks like our President could use a bit of a bail-out, or maybe some stimulus. I am sure that many media outlets will be happy to provide it, but their solutions will be the wrong ones.
So how do we make a real come-back from this little disaster made big?
Simple, we bring home the GOLD.
Why shell out billions of dollars when you can still bring home just as many medals? Those children in Chicago that the Olympics were meant to help can still benefit from the games. It is one of the great fallacies being perpetuated today that one person’s ability to do something is based on another person’s choices. The children of Chicago can still be the athletes and the fans that they would have been if the games were hosted in their home town. Olympic dreams are not contingent upon a kid’s proximity to the next Olympic city. A child’s dreams, hard work, and training are far more determinative of their ability to compete in the Olympics than their address.
America is a nation, not a President. When the President does not win “we the people” can and should find a way to win in spite of it. So, athletes get training. Keep your eyes on the prize and make sure that you are ready to bring home as many gold medals as Rio and the IOC can afford to stamp out. I hope that Chicago will work to be one of the foremost cities to send athletes to the games. That would be a suitable come-back for the city that missed its attempt to score this time. Come-backs are earned, not granted. Bring home the GOLD to the USA and Chicago and we will gain more than we missed.
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Barack Obama to Denmark did go
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He had his wife Michelle in tow
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The world loves BO we all know
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But the Olympic committee said ‘Chicago, hell no’
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Well, we didn’t want your stupid Olympics anyway, you racists
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The Messiah couldn’t even get the IOC to bend to his will? God help us when Satan shows up……….
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This was a foolish expenditure of a finite stock of political capital. Was it motivated by old-fashioned boosterism or did some well-connected Chi-Town hustlers see a few fast millions to be made in the local real estate racket?
Obama seems always willing to suck up to his Cook County friends. Perhaps, in this incident, he believed in his legendary powers of persuasion.
Perhaps he should have sent in ACORN to soften up the IOC.
I think this does demonstrate how narrow President Obama’s political experience is. What he learned of politics in Chicago does not work everywhere. I have read Mitt Romney’s book Turnaround and just from that it is clear that the politics of the International Olympic Committee are a whole different animal than standard US politics, or the Chicago thug style politics. The same style of diplomacy does not work in every situation. So far President Obama’s diplomatic style has seemed a little lazy.
“…or did some well-connected Chi-Town hustlers see a few fast millions to be made in the local real estate racket?”
Hello. Oh well, there’s always ‘stimulus’ money.
This sort of thing is what happens when you are all form no substance which is Obama. The SNL skit last night pointed out the simple fact since he has been President he has accomplished nothing, that’s right nothing.
His jump through his butt scheme with the IOC cemented for me the reality that if this country is attacked or has a serious security crisis he will fail us.
I have said several times a President must be deliberate, tough and circumspect. Lastly, as President your anchor must be the Constitution and your principles not the nearest mirror or teleprompter.
Mike Protack