Why Is Obama Pushing Daley’s Plan for Chicago to Host Olympics in 2016?

Just as Daley controlled Obama in Chicago, Daley will control Obama in Washington, DC. I quote the Chicago Tribune with added emphasis:

It didn’t take long for Barack Obama to start playing a significant role in promoting Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics.

About 15 minutes into Chicago’s Friday presentation of its bid plans to the general assembly of the European Olympic Committees, the president elect gave an 85-second videotaped address to an audience that included some two dozen International Olympic Committee members….

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley arrived in Istanbul Friday and introduced the Obama video….

There also were also four still pictures of Obama, all with Mayor Daley, during the 20-minute presentation, the third of five Chicago is making to annual assemblies of regional Olympic committees.

Obama filmed the video last Friday in Chicago at his transition office in the Kluczynski Federal Building….

“With Mayor Daley and president-elect Obama, this bid team now enjoys unprecedented partnership for a U.S. candidate, reaching from City Hall in Chicago to the White House in Washington, D.C.,” Ryan said.

Obama, in other words, is parlaying his status as President elect to help procure the crown jewel of Mayor Daley’s agenda: the 2016 Olympics.

This concerns me for many reasons. According to the Chicago Tribune, Chicago is the only city that made a presentation before the International Olympic Committee that did not have full governmental backing. Chicago has also failed provide a compelling argument that the current economic situation would not make it impossible for Chicago to host such an expensive event. But even worse, it seems backers of Obama were already aware of Obama’s role in Daley’s bid to procure the approval of the International Olympic Committee to host the international event before Obama was elected.

Here is a entry from No Quarter‘s Site Meter I captured on 14 September 2008:

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Someone at The University of Chicago Hospitals on 14 SEP 2008 performed a Yahoo search for “Reverend Meeks” and “Olympics,” and they were directed to No Quarter. The University of Chicago Hospitals, for those who have not been reading No Quarter the past few months, employed Michelle Obama from 2002 through 2007, when she resigned in order to campaign for her husband. When she was promoted to the position of Vice President for Community and External Affairs in 2005, her salary increased from $121,910 to $316,962. This was the same year her husband joined the US Senate, where he submitted an earmark request on behalf of Michelle’s employer. I quote the Chicago Tribune:

In among them was a request for $1 million in federal funding in 2006 for a new pavilion at the University of Chicago Hospitals, where his wife, Michelle Obama, was a vice president at the time.

One wonders why the federal government should have bankrolled a new pavilion at The University of Chicago, a private institution. One also wonders why Michelle received such a large increase after her husband had the ability to secure federal funds for the private hospital. But one also wonders why a computer of Michelle Obama’s former employer, an employer who had what appears to be a political and fiduciary relationship with Barack Obama, would perform a Yahoo search for “Rev. Meeks” and “Olympics” on 14 SEPT 2008.

Reverend James Meeks is a Chicago ally of Obama and an Illinois State Senator. He is also a homophobic minister from whom Obama regularly seeks “spiritual counsel.” Obama will not be seeking Meeks counsel on the Olympics, however, for Meeks believes Chicago business leaders should focus on rebuilding schools and the city’s infrastructure, not on the 2016 Olympics. Notice how the Chicago Sun-Times article I cite was published on 13 SEPT 2008, and notice how someone on a computer of Michelle Obama’s former employer, an employer on behalf of whom Barack Obama submitted an earmark request for a “pavilion,” performed a Yahoo search on 14 SEPT 2008 for “Rev. Meeks” and “Olympics.” Clearly someone at The University of Chicago Hospitals is concerned about Reverend and state Senator Meeks’s opposition to Daley’s latest cash cow, a cow for which Obama is now advocating.

Let us recapitulate:

• Obama has been and remains Daley’s puppet
• Daley desires to host the Olympics in Chicago in 2016
• Obama, now President elect, appears before the International Olympic Committee in a video presentation that Daley introduced in Istanbul, and the two appeared together at least four times in photographic stills
• Daley has been mobilizing the support of Chicago business leaders for this event for some time, sparking the opposition of Reverend and state Senator James Meeks, who believes Chicago’s business leaders should invest in the city’s infrastructure
• Someone at Michelle Obama’s former employer, The University of Chicago Hospitals, happened upon No Quarter one day after the Chicago Sun-Times published an article on Meeks’s opposition to Daley’s plan to mobilize support in Chicago for the Olympics. They were searching for information on “Rev. Meeks” and the “Olympics.”
• Barack Obama attempted to secure federal funds in an earmark for The University of Chicago Hospitals to build a “pavilion.”
• Michelle Obama’s salary tripled the same year her husband gained the power to submit earmark requests in the US Senate.
• The University of Chicago also recently built a pool they call “the most prominent feature” of their athletic facility. Olympics officials have already visited the pool to consider it for Olympics 2016.
• Someone at The University of Chicago Hospitals, Michelle Obama’s former employer and the intended recipient of an Obama earmark, has what seems to be a vested interest in Olympics 2016.

Perhaps I am wrong, but I believe Daley and The University of Chicago pushed Obama in order to obtain financial benefits, namely the ability to host the 2016 Olympics. Why else is an employee of Michelle Obama’s former employer, The University of Chicago, searching for information on “Rev. Meeks” and “Olympics?” Why did Michelle Obama receive such a large salary increase when her husband could secure earmark requests for her employer? Moreover, why is Daley already forcing Obama to cut videos during his transition into the White House? Furthermore, why did The University of Chicago become the beneficiary of an earmark request for a “pavilion?” How much do Michelle Obama’s friends at The University of Chicago Hospitals stand to gain from Olympics 2016? How much does Daley stand to gain? Is this the final culmination of the contracts scandals in Chicago’s City Hall? Are the contracts scandals of Chicago City Hall now to pervade the White House in the name of Olympics 2016? And why is the Obama video already on display at Chicago 2016, the website dedicated to promoting Chicago’s candidacy for the Olympics?

Olympics 2016: not only is it a fraud; it is Daley’s attempt to introduce the world to the Chicago machine and to quid pro quo politics. And Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are at the center of it all.