Yeah, Right, Whatever: President Bush's "Secret Trip" to the Olympics

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Sunday, August 22, 2004

President Bush's "Secret Trip" to the Olympics

According to Drudge this morning, President Bush is planning a super secret trip to the Olympics...

PRESIDENT BUSH PLANS TRIP TO OLYMPICS, SOURCES TELL DRUDGE. MAY ATTEND IRAQI SOCCER GAME. 'TRIP BEING PLANNED IN SECRET'... SECURITY CONCERNS AND 'DISRUPTION' OF GAMES AT ISSUE...

I know that Drudge has all kinds of amazing sources placed everywhere, but, come on! If it was really super secret, then Drudge wouldn't know about it. Case in point- Bush's trip to Iraq for Thanksgiving. I have to admit, I don't think I want the President going to Athens for the gold medal game is Iraq makes it that far. It would be too easy for Kerry and Co. to use it against him. And, no matter how grateful the Iraqi people are for being liberated from Saddam Hussein's regime, I don't think they'd appreciate the seeming politicizing of their situation. The Olympics are supposed to be an absence of politics and conflict. (I said supposed. I remember the Olympics back in the 80s when they weren't fully attended for one reason or another. I remember when the medals race was as important, if just for 3 weeks, as the arms race.) By having the President there, the press would focus on him, and not on the athletes, and those are the people who deserve the honor right now- the athletes, not the countries that liberated them.

// posted by Beth @ 5:20 PM

Comments:

Per Mamamontezz:
Yeah, this was so secret they talked about his going months ago and what a logistics and security nightmare it was going to be. They being the main stream press.

Sorry, Matt, yet again your report is months behind. They've been planning this forever.

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