| It is rare for an American President to get the smackdown that President Obama got in Denmark last week by the International Olympic Committee.
He should have seen it coming.
Our 1972 Olympic Basketball team got the same smackdown as the Soviets got more do-over’s in the final three seconds than a tot at a tee-ball game, and the IOC did nothing to rectify the farcical results.
The IOC’s susceptibility to the Salt Lake Organizing Committee’s loose spending habits, only cements their place in the books as an unprincipled band of hooligan’s incapable of taking any action that does cater to their own direct interests.
An astute President should have seen it coming. A nimble leader would have assessed the potential pratfalls and developed alternative courses of action with less risk, and a higher potential for positive return. A less egotistical President would have stayed home and let the chips fall where they may on such an unimportant issue.
Instead we have a self-absorbed narcissist as a President who believes that his mere presence and some vacuous oratory will carry the day.
Swing and a miss.
How did we get such a vapid minor leaguer as a President?
Don’t be shocked, it is the formula that gets liberals elected to office.
It is a simple formula. Get a relatively unknown politician, without much of a political history (read as voting record), promise change from the evil Republicans, and you win.
The Democrats have been unable to run a prominent politician successfully since LBJ, and even then, he rode in on a wave of sympathy following the JFK assassination. Baggage such as a lengthy voting record in the House or Senate prevents liberal politicians from getting elected in a national election.
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