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Home Front: Politix
Axelrod: 'Politics' sank Obama's Olympics effort
2009-10-03
Top White House adviser David Axelrod says "politics" played a key role in the International Olympic Committee's decision to reject President Obama's appeal in support of Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Olympics.
The U.S. had the Olympics in 1996, in Atlanta. In 1984 they were in Lost Angeles. There's never been a southern hemisphre Olympics. Likely enough people thought it was time for one. I kinda felt that way myself.
In an interview moments ago on CNN, Axelrod said, "I don't view this as a repudiation of the president or the first lady. I think that there are politics everywhere, and there were politics inside that room." Axelrod said that a former head of the IOC was leading Madrid's effort for the games, and others involved in other Olympic bids also had connections with the IOC. "As with any process like this, there are all kinds of crosscurrents in the room, there are relationships," Axelrod said.
But President Obama's personal charm and rock solid arguments were not enough to overcome national interests. How unexpected.
Plenty of other blogs have pointed out Bambi's stupidity in flying to Copenhagen and putting his prestige on the line. The deal wasn't done, the fix wasn't in, and yet he went there thinking his charm and spiffy persuasive skills would turn the IOC around. Now the whole world knows that Bambi can't argue his way out of a paper bag.
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