Obama’s Charm and Presence Fail To Convince Olympic Selection Committee That Chicago Should Be Host City
Obama suffered significant personal humiliation by Chicago’s stunning exit in the very first elimination round of consideration by the Olympic Selection Committee for the 2016 Olympics. He thought his "superstar" status and "legendary in his own mind" power of persuasion would help his city win the ultimate prize. If you read the text of the speech, it was actually all about narcissistic Barack Obama. In less than two pages, he used the word "I" thirty times and brought up his running for President, his election as President, as well as his father, wife and children. Wasn't this suppose to be about why Chicago deserved the 2016 Olympics?
Obama has been deservedly attacked on his involvement and visit to Copenhagen, the first time a sitting President has made an appearance before the selection committee.As noted by GOP consultant Brad Blakeman, a former Bush Administration official:
"It demeans the office. For the president to be reduced to the effect of the Billy Mays pitchman for the United States to get the Olympics for his home city of Chicago is just not something that Presidents do… His priorities are screwed up and the American people are seeing that this President just doesn't get the effects and importance of governing.”
Blakeman also noted that Obama spent more time wooing International Olympic Committee officials than he did in his meeting with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, before returning to Washington.
This is another example of the Obama’s pathological narcissism and arrogance, believing that his supernal charm and rhetoric are the only requisites needed to sway the masses or convince others to see it his way. It is also an inexcusable waste of at least $1.2 million taxpayer dollars that could have been better spent. And what about better spending your time on slightly more weighty matters like Afghanistan, Iraq, the economy...?
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January 30th, 2010 at 2:12 am
[...] matter what the topic is, it always seems to revolve "I"bama. Even in his plea in Copenhagen, trying to convince the Olympic committee to select "his" city Chicago as the venue, it was all [...]