Thoughts on American leadership from Olympics Day 2

[gdeangel]

I've been watching the Olympic events being broadcast on and off since yesterday. Three noted appearances by the leader of the USA superpose, in his down home good-ol-boy best shirt sleeves, watching the dominating USA baskeball and Mr. Not-Since-Mark-Spitz. It did not really make me think much at first, until I reached 1:30 AM Sunday night, past the prime-time spotlight of Michael Phelps, and instead it's women's volleyball on the television, with the USA getting manhandled by Cuba, and our fearless leader seems to be missing from the cheering crowd. After all, only "important" superstars deserve cheerleading by the biggest cheerleader in the world, right? The rest of the American's fine athletes, who devote lives to training for the inglorious 2AM television slot (if they get any television coverage at all) in the furtherance of adding another digit to the country's output of medals on the "international scoreboard", are, as you might expect, not even the faintest of afterthoughts. Sad. Good leaders do not cheerlead, nor are they obsessed with the making of extraordinary history. Query: wherefore goeth thou, Barack OBama and John McCain? To languish in the obscurity of helping the quiet hero's, or to the overexposed land of making big ticket history?

[got tonkaed]

Your focusing too much on the time really, sometimes when the olympics are held on the other side of the globe, time slots get a little bit messy. As a result, i think your whole point (although an interesting one) misses the mark.

Too amerocentric in the way your seeing an international event.

[dewey316]

They guy can only make so many events. Most Olympics, the venue's can be rather far apart, they run multiple events at the same time, and during some strange hours. He can't be at every one. Sure, we would all like to see him at the real obscure events, cheering on the USA olympic team, but that isn't realistic. He is going to go the events that get primetime coverage, that is sort of the way it works.

[Neoteny]

Also, volleyball isn't quite as popular a sport here as basketball. Perhaps Bush isn't a fan.

Man, I'm not really used to defending the guy...

[Juan_Bottom]

Also, Bush is a "winner."
What other sports did he appear at? I only saw him at the China-US game.


Those V-Ball girls got creamed didn't they? Idiot call by that Turkish Judge though...

[Frigidus]

A fair assessment of politicians, although there are plenty of things I'd bring up with Bush before this one.

[Grooveman2007]

Plus there are multiple events going on at the same time and it is impossible to be in more than one place at the same time. He also ends up missing events due to the need for sleep, food, and whenever issues of state need tending.

[MeDeFe]

Plus there are multiple events going on at the same time and it is impossible to be in more than one place at the same time. He also ends up missing events due to the need for sleep, food, and whenever issues of state need tending.

Sleep and food I can accept as valid reasons, but do you actually want him tending to issues of state?

[Grooveman2007]

Plus there are multiple events going on at the same time and it is impossible to be in more than one place at the same time. He also ends up missing events due to the need for sleep, food, and whenever issues of state need tending.

Sleep and food I can accept as valid reasons, but do you actually want him tending to issues of state?

It's not a question of want, it's a matter of what actually is.

[Snorri1234]

What do I think of Bush's leadership?



I'd welcome it.

[timmytuttut88]

I've been watching the Olympic events being broadcast on and off since yesterday. Three noted appearances by the leader of the USA superpose, in his down home good-ol-boy best shirt sleeves, watching the dominating USA baskeball and Mr. Not-Since-Mark-Spitz. It did not really make me think much at first, until I reached 1:30 AM Sunday night, past the prime-time spotlight of Michael Phelps, and instead it's women's volleyball on the television, with the USA getting manhandled by Cuba, and our fearless leader seems to be missing from the cheering crowd. After all, only "important" superstars deserve cheerleading by the biggest cheerleader in the world, right? The rest of the American's fine athletes, who devote lives to training for the inglorious 2AM television slot (if they get any television coverage at all) in the furtherance of adding another digit to the country's output of medals on the "international scoreboard", are, as you might expect, not even the faintest of afterthoughts. Sad. Good leaders do not cheerlead, nor are they obsessed with the making of extraordinary history. Query: wherefore goeth thou, Barack OBama and John McCain? To languish in the obscurity of helping the quiet hero's, or to the overexposed land of making big ticket history?

I don't like Bush either, but this is ridiculous. He wasn't even supposed to go to the olympics in the first place because it was to dangerous. Secondly, if I was at the olympics I wouldn't want to see fucking volleyball, I WOULD WANT TO SEE PHELLPS AND THE BASKETBALL TEAM. I don't blame him for skipping out on the boring stuff.

[D.IsleRealBrown]

Wow, what a waste of space this thread is.

Can we talk about the real topic here, China entering 12 y/o children into the Olympics?

[Frigidus]

Wow, what a waste of space this thread is.

Can we talk about the real topic here, China entering 12 y/o children into the Olympics?

Wow, China uses child labor? Shocking!

[D.IsleRealBrown]

Yet another moonlanding, I know.