Michelle Obama: It's a 'sacrifice' to travel to Europe to pitch for the Olympics. But I'm doing it for the kids.

In her speech in Copenhagen today, First Lady Michelle Obama said her trip to Denmark, along with the travel of her "dear friend" and "chit-chat buddy" Oprah Winfrey, as well as tomorrow's visit by President Obama, is a "sacrifice" on behalf of the children of Chicago and the United States. "As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the president to come for these few days," the first lady told a crowd of people involved in the Chicago project, "so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring this bid home."

"As first lady, as many of you know, I’ve made it a priority to bridge the gap between the White House and communities across D.C. and across the country," Mrs. Obama continued. "I’ve spent much of my first nine months trying to open the doors to the White House to kids who might not otherwise see themselves having access to these institutions, because that’s where I came from - communities like that where kids never dreamed that they could set foot in the White House, let alone live there…And Barack and I made a point of doing the same thing when we lived in Chicago - making the concerns of kids in all sorts of communities our own."

Mrs. Obama said bringing the Olympics to Chicago is especially important right now because "athletics is becoming more of a fleeting opportunity." "Funds dry up so it becomes harder for kids to engage in sports, to learn how to swim, to even ride a bike," she said. In addition, with childhood obesity on the rise, "it is so important for us to raise up the platform of fitness and competition and fair play," the first lady said.

Finally, having the Olympics in Chicago would be important to "let people know that we understand that sports saves lives, that it makes dreams come true, that it creates visions in kids’ heads to make them think they can be the next David Robinson, the next Barack Obama, the next Nadia Comaneci, the next Oprah Winfrey," Mrs. Obama said.http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Michelle-Obama-Its-a-sacrifice-to-travel-to-Europe-to-pitch-for-the-Olympics--For-Oprah-and-the-president-too--But-were-doing-it-for-the-kids-62928957.html

I bet it's really a sacrifice :-]

I cant believe she said that. Was it with a straight face?? Traveling in that 727 was a "sacrifice". She sounds like Kathy Griffin "it's for the children", knowing it's a lie, but that phrase gets donations out of people. Don't mistake me, Kathy knows it's a lie when she says it.

LOL

So Michelle gets a free trip to Hopenchangen on the tax payer's dime. She went on a separate flight from her husband, accompanied with several cargo planes and an entourage. The approximate cost of flying Air Force One round trip for 18 hours calculates to more than $1.2 million -- roughly $67,000 per hour out of our tax money. Look for more of these "sacrifices" coming up...

Obama warned us about "sacrifices" back in January:

Obama calls for sacrifice
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aO44uQZ50FRs

Sacrifice or not, that surely resulted in the sacrifice of America's bid to host the Olympics! Did we ever dream US would be knocked out in round #1. That's what I call as America's Olym'Epic' Fail, illustrated in the image below: http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4293273-rio-de-janeiro-wins-bid-for-2016-summer-olympics/image/39791661

Amazingly SNL did a parody on the President's lack of successes @

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/31539/#

Which dovetails nicely with my conversations with ardent Obama supporters, I merely ask them, "Of the things he's accomplished thus far, which one are you the most proud of?" I ask it politely, but I'm still waiting for a cogent reply from.... anyone... that I've poised it to.

He killed a fly on TV.
He can read a teleprompter.
He can play basketball.
He has been successful, so far, in hiding his birth certificate, early passports, school papers - and other documentation.
He is amazing at finding which people don't pay their taxes, and ruthlessly appoints them to czar of something or other until they pay up.
He ran a cars-for-clunkers program, for a short time (until they unfortunately ran out of money)
He wrote two autobiographies before he was 45 without doing anything interesting for subject matter.
He won his bid for the presidency.

I am sure there is more!

C'mon NN, you missed a few....

He can dance, 'rico suave'.
He is a master at lathering up a crowd with slogans.
He is proficient at arranging his press secretary to be evasive.
He artfully avoids uncomfortable news getting in the way of his UN photo ops....

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