{"id":379,"date":"2009-03-20T12:43:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T17:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/?p=379"},"modified":"2009-03-20T17:41:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T22:41:21","slug":"president-barack-obama-special-olympics-gaffe-to-impact-chicago-2016-olympics-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/2009\/03\/20\/president-barack-obama-special-olympics-gaffe-to-impact-chicago-2016-olympics-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"President Barack Obama: &#8220;Special Olympics&#8221; gaffe to impact Chicago 2016 Olympics bid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night during his appearance on the the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, President Obama likened his bowling ineptitude to the Special Olympics. <\/p>\n<p>Chicago&#8217;s Mayor Daley has stated on numerous occasions that US President Obama would be a key factor in influencing the 2016 Olympics bid selection favorably, by dint of his high official rank and connection to Chicago serving to impress and wow the selection committee.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the audacity of offensiveness in Obama&#8217;s gaffe, one must now wonder if Obama reflects favorably or not on Chicago in the eyes of the Olympics selection committee.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad politics does not have the same rules as the Olympics, because our country certainly voted for amateurs to occupy the White House this term. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, although his chaotic and ill-considered policies are driving up the price of gold and emptying the pockets of taxpayers for years to come, Obama is not winning any gold medals for his presidential abilities.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/story?id=7129997<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night during his appearance on the the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, President Obama likened his bowling ineptitude to the Special Olympics. Chicago&#8217;s Mayor Daley has stated on numerous occasions that US President Obama would be a key factor in influencing the 2016 Olympics bid selection favorably, by dint of his high official rank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,72,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago","category-law-politics-and-government","category-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}