Posted by
lge on Sunday, October 04, 2009 1:24:21 PM
The old "sympathy" ploy didn't work on the Olympics Committee. OK, Mrs. Obama's father had multiple sclerosis; how is that relevant to whether Chicago should get the Olympics? Using that kind of sob story just insulted the Committee.
The Olympic Committee was immune to Obama's usual shuck & jive. Obama is so used to having his way smoothed for him (by affirmative action, conniving machine politicians, corrupt Chicago land developers, etc.) that he thinks everybody just naturally falls down in a dead faint whenever he speaks to them. So he doesn't need to try, doesn't know how to try, doesn't know how to actually earn something or to make a case for his view. When he comes up against a group of un-enthralled, sober arbiters, his song & dance routine doesn't go over..
The Obamas are so precious, so conceited, so self-absorbed. They use their blackness as a weapon: "Have you noticed I'm black?" -- as if to say, "You can't deny me anything, or else you're a racist." That line of jive didn't carry much weight in Copenhagen.
The Obama stock in trade is manipulation; but the atmosphere in Copenhagen wasn't conducive to their usual manipulation. So, NO SALE. The Committee probably saw the future, namely, they would never hear the end of Obama's bragging and self-congratulation if they were to give Chicago the Olympics. That would be too, too nauseating.
And what could Obama do if rejected? Threaten to incite blacks to riot? Abuse the Committee in the media? Call them racist? The usual implied threats were non-operative as well.
The unique advantages a conniving, manipulating semi-intelligent black guy has here in the States, aren't carried over in other countries, where there is not the same climate of opinion and accepted set of pieties and blindnesses. In a sane environment, the mediocre, manipulative Obamas don't go over so well.