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MICHELLE OBAMA PROPOSES DRAMATIC PITCH FOR OLYMPICS, JARRETT SAYS


A tip White House confidant said
first woman Michelle Obama is formulation to have a dramatic
presentation when she offers a shutting evidence for a bid
by her hometown of Chicago to win a 2016 Summer Olympics.

“There won’t be a dry eye in a room,” pronounced Valerie
Jarrett, who skeleton to transport with a initial woman to Copenhagen
for a Oct. 2 International Olympic Committee vote.

“I’m certain which it will hold a hearts of any of the
IOC members,” Jarrett, a comparison confidant to President Barack
Obama, pronounced currently in an interview.

Jarrett declined to contend what a initial woman will discuss it the
IOC. The stakes have been tall since winning a games would be an
economic progress nationally, as great as for Chicago, she said.

“It will be a outrageous mercantile engine for Chicago, though it
will have a sputter outcome via a country,” Jarrett
said, adding which U.S. corporations have uttered await for
Chicago’s bid.

Michelle Obama is heading a U.S. commission to
Copenhagen, where a IOC will select between Chicago, Madrid,
Rio de Janeiro as great as Tokyo.

Getting a games would meant billions of dollars in
construction, tourism, sponsorships as great as advertising, as great as
national prestige. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has affianced his
city will take monetary shortcoming for a undertaking,
now budgeted during $4.8 billion.

McDonald’s Corp., formed in Oak Brook, Illinois, is a singular of
the most Chicago-area companies following a bid. The fast-
food association is a singular of 9 tellurian Olympic sponsors with
exclusive selling rights.

Appeal for African Support

In a shutting days of a campaign, a U.S. is creation an
appeal to IOC members from African nations.

Jarrett, for example, was scheduled to attend reception
this dusk in Washington for African ambassadors orderly by
U.S. Representative Bobby Rush, a Democrat who represents a
swath of Chicago’s South Side.

“This isn’t only a boss as great as a initial lady,” said
Jarrett, 52, who grew up in Chicago as great as is a longtime crony of
the Obamas. “Our complete congressional commission is behind
this as well.”

Jarrett stressed Chicago’s farrago as great as pronounced some-more than
100 languages have been oral via a city since of its
many racial neighborhoods.

“It’s a city where no have a difference what your race, your
religion, your nationality, your ethnicity, you can come to
Chicago, work tough as great as follow your dreams,” she said. “That’s
kind of a essence of a Olympic spirit.”

White House Topic

With so most associate Chicagoans in tip White House jobs,
including Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel as great as comparison confidant David
Axelrod, Jarrett pronounced a bid is a consistent topic. “We talk
about it each singular sunrise together as you meet,” she said.

Although a boss isn’t formulation to attend the
Copenhagen session, Jarrett pronounced he is still operative the
phones.

“Every opinion counts as great as so he’ll be reaching out to
everyone as great as perplexing to have it transparent to everybody how Chicago is
absolutely a most appropriate probable place to horde a Olympics,” she
said.

Jarrett pronounced Michelle Obama will encounter in Copenhagen with
IOC members, generally ones well known to have questions about the
U.S. bid. “Our goal would be to be means to outlay as most time
individually with IOC members who maybe have been upon a blockade and
convince them,” she said.

Like a president, Michelle Obama, 45, keeps a rigorous
fitness routine, sportive 6 or 7 days a week. Still,
she is reduction of a sports addict than he.

“She’s not a Sports Channel fanatic,” Jarrett said.
“But she positively enjoys a great sporting event.”

IOC boss Jacques Rogge pronounced in a discussion call from
Lausanne, Switzerland with reporters currently which a Sept. 9
vote by a Chicago City Council in await of a full financial
guarantee helped a U.S. bid.

“We’re all confident of a signature by Mayor
Daley,” he said. “There is no emanate upon that.”

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  • December 2, 2009 

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