You may...or may not...know that Chicago is making a bid to host the Summer Olypiad in 2016. As expected, they are using Barack Obama to woo the election committee before the October 2, 2009 vote.
By the time Chicago made the third of five such presentations to the European Olympic Committees on Friday, there was a sense of irony in delivering that message because it was followed for the first time by a video featuring the man who has introduced much of the world to Chicago in recent weeks.Heh heh...
Barack Obama’s aura is such that it has led to a further irony in the Summer Games bid campaign: Rio de Janeiro, one of Chicago’s three rivals along with Madrid and Tokyo, has appropriated Obama’s campaign theme.
"It is the right time for Rio, for Brazil and for South America," Sergio Cabral, governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro, said during the Rio presentation. "We are ready. We are committed. . . . Yes, we can."
(shrugs)...I smirk every time I see that vacuous, empty, vague, non-committal, and highly aloof phrase 'Yes, we can'...then I shake my head and wonder how such a formless haze can actually influence anyone. Then...I glance to my television and note that most commercials are geared towards a demographic that clearly thinks on the level of an obtuse third grader and it all makes sense. (shrugs again).
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