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Four out of 10 Americans consider Obama’s Olympics trip a 'bad idea' |
Most Americans think that President Barack Obama’s Copenhagen trip
to lobby International Olympic Committee officials is a bad idea, a new Rasmussen
Report poll has revealed. Forty-three percent of respondents said it was “a bad
idea for the President to go overseas at this time to help Chicago make its final
presentation to the Olympic Committee.” Thirty-six percent of those polled said
it was a good idea while 21 percent were not sure. Out of the 1,000 adults surveyed,
almost half (49 percent) said they are following the president’s trip, Politico
reports. Obama and his wife, Michelle are in Copenhagen to lobby for his hometown
Chicago's bid that is competing with Madrid, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro. He has
been severely criticized by numerous top Republicans for leaving the country during
the middle of a contentious health care debate to stump for the Olympics. “Listen,
I think it’s a great idea to promote Chicago, but he’s the president of the United
States, not the mayor of Chicago,” said House Minority Leader John Boehner. “Faced
with a deadline in Iran, faced with 9.7 percent unemployment — where is the president?
He’s in Copenhagen, on behalf of Mayor Daley, trying to get the Olympics,” Former
House Speaker Newt Gingrich added. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael
Steele said that the “first lady should have been the lead” on the Olympics pitch.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs fired back by asking, “Who’s he rooting
for?” “Is he hoping to hop a plane to Brazil and catch the Olympics in Rio?” Gibbs
joked. “Maybe it’s Madrid.” |
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