One delegate hinted that President Obama may have lost the crowd when he focused his speech to the International Olympic Committee on his favorite subject – himself.
“You see, growing up, my family moved around a lot,” he said. “I grew up in Hawaii, I lived in Indonesia for a time. I never really had roots in any one place or culture or ethnic group. Then I came to Chicago. And on those Chicago streets, I worked alongside men and women who were black and white, Latino and Asian, people of every class and nationality and religion.”
George Will agreed with the unnamed delegate. As he said on ABC’s This Week:
“What’s alarming is whether it indicates a belief on the part of the President which is that there is no problem that will not melt before the sunshine of his charm. And this is evidence again that it’s not so. The President and First Lady went to Copenhagen and gave little speeches about themselves. She, Mrs. Obama, used the first-person singular pronoun in some form or another, “I” or “me”, sixteen, 34 times in sixteen paragraphs. He used it 23 times in thirteen paragraphs. It was all about them, and the danger is an adjective sooner or later attaches to presidents. Honest Abe, Tricky Dick Nixon. All kinds of adjectives. The danger to the President is that Vain is going to attach to him.”
The Olympic Committee should consider itself damn lucky he didn’t attempt to lead them in a rousing chorus of, “Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm, Barack Hussein Obama.”
Source: New York Times
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