[Newsbot]

Title: Obama to make personal pitch for Olympics
Category: Political
Posted By: leewgrant
Date: 2009-09-28 07:52:29

[leewgrant]

Chicago. I guess he wants to do something for his home town. And turn an IOC meeting into even more of a circus than usual.

[ridenrain]

You can take the mobster our of Chicago but you can't take the Chicago out of the mobster.

[Hyack]

story link:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

[leewgrant]

Hyack Hyack:

story link:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

I see that you deleted my link. It looked to me like a news item, not a blog. This is the link I posted

$1:

Obama to make personal pitch for Olympics
Posted: September 28th, 2009 02:01 PM ET

From CNN White House Correspondent Dan Lothian
Obama is lobbying for the 2016 Olympic Summer Games to be held in Chicago.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama will travel this week to Copenhagen, Denmark, to make a big push for the 2016 summer Olympic Games in Chicago, the White House said Monday.

Obama will join First Lady Michelle Obama and other administration officials in pitching Chicago to the International Olympic Committee on October 2, spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

No other U.S. president has ever attended an IOC meeting.

Chicago is vying for the Summer Games against Madrid, Spain; Tokyo, Japan; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Leaders from Brazil, Spain and Japan are expected to also make an in-person pitch.

The United States has hosted four Summer Olympic Games. In 1904, the Games were held in St. Louis, Missouri; in Los Angeles, California, in 1932 and 1984; and most recently Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996.