The White House announced Monday that the president will travel Thursday night to Copenhagen to make a personal appearance before the International Olympic Committee to promote Chicago as the host city for the 2016 Summer Games.
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Monday, September 28, 2009
President Obama is taking his eye off the ball, his critics say, chiding him for his plan to travel to Denmark to make the case for having his hometown of Chicago host the 2016 Olympics.
The White House announced Monday that the president will travel Thursday night to Copenhagen to make a personal appearance before the International Olympic Committee as it prepares to announce the host city for the 2016 Summer Games. Obama will join his wife, Michelle, who is leading the U.S. delegation, along with senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.
But with the health care debate still brewing, with Iran stoking international concerns over its nuclear program and with a decision pending on how to deal with the rising violence in Afghanistan, the president will be leaving at a key time for his administration.
Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said Obama’s decision is a sign that the president needs to “establish some priorities” — the most pressing of which, he said, is the need to respond to Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s request for more U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
“The president can’t make everything a number one priority, because the end result will be that there is no priority,” Hoekstra said. “Nothing is a priority, because everything is a priority.”
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