Who was the last politician to politically exploit the Olympics?

[MikeG]

Poll question: Who was the last politician to politically exploit the Olympics?

[dennis4868]

1. It is against Federal law.....

to exploit the olympics for political gain...of course the liberal media gives Bush another pass....

Move along everyone, there is nothing to see here.

[Cha]

16. Let's say it like it is...It's the propoganda media

the right wing wannabe fascist media!

[HEyHEY]

2. haha

:-)

[Sydnie]

3. Mitt Romney n/t

[IndianaGreen]

4. I voted Hitler for his role in 1936, but Jimmy Carter did too!

Carter was pissed about the so-called Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, so he ordered our athletes to skip the Moscow Olympics. I hated Carter for that!

You will hate Carter too if you were to know that Carter then began to supply weapons to the forerunners of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, including Osama bin Laden.

[MikeG]

5. But Carter had no choice. He was running against a fascist.

It was defense. Reagan would have exploited it.

[IndianaGreen]

6. Carter did have a choice!

He could have let the Soviets and the Marxist Afghan government do to the Islamic fundamentalists what we have yet to accomplish: obliterate them!

There would have never have been a 9/11 had we not interfered on the side of the religious wackos in Afghanistan!

Thank you Carter for hiring Osama bin Laden for the CIA!

[Mika]

13. Carter had no choice?

'Cause Zbig said so. :think:

[Rhiannon12866]

15. Carter's grain embargo against the U.S.S.R.

was responsible for bringing down what Reagan called "the evil empire." Their already shaky economy couldn't handle the higher prices that they had to pay later. Reagan's refusal to get rid of "Star Wars," while Gorbachev was willing to give him anything he wanted in terms of disarmament, made it next to impossible for Gorbachev to enact the reforms he was attempting. The Soviet hardliners wouldn't go for it while Reagan refused to disarm. Also, he made more progress towards peace in the Middle East than even Bill Clinton. IMO, history will treat Carter much more kindly than he's being treated now.

[nuxvomica]

18. Carter did the right thing

He wasn't just "pissed" about the "so-called" invasion. This was an actual invasion of another country and he was using every means short of military intervention to pressure the Soviets. Carter was the first U.S. President to make an issue out of human rights and he was criticized for it. He instituted a grain embargo against the Soviets and American farmers marched on Washington to protest it. He boycotted the Olympics and self-involved athletes complained bitterly about their missed chance for Olympic bling-bling. The man showed more political courage than you can find in anyone on the national or international scene today.

[IndianaGreen]

19. The Soviets did not invade Afghanistan, they were invited by government

to help to put down an Islamic terrorist insurgency. This bullshit about a Soviet invasion was nothing more than American propaganda.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. Adolph Schicklegruber

[KoKo]

8. Jimmy Carter, who made a huge mistake in his Presidency by denying

athletes who had trained to participate. And these athletes were ones who had to depend on totally "private donations" to get where they got, unlike these "paid by Corporations types we see in the Olymics in the last decade.

Carter hurt folks who had struggled to get into the olympics all over "International Politics." I think that and the "hostage situation" cost him his Presidency.

[AP]

10. I wonder if Carter's real fear was that USSR would use homefield advantage

to trounce Americans and that it would be bad publicity.

If he thought the US could go in there and win every medal, it probably would have been better to go.

[elfin]

9. It was Bush! Remember?

At the winter Olympics when he sat with Sasha Cohen, bought and paid for by the Beef Association?

[Dob Bole]

11. Zell Miller!!!

That is part of the reason people think he was such a great governor (although he WAS a progressive at the time...) he presided when the Olympics came to Georgia in 1996.

[AmerDem]

12. This guy!

[oasis]

14. Colin Powell.

[Cheswick2.0]

Bush 2

Remember in 2002 when he tried to glom onto that skater he thought was going to win..... but she ended up sucking?

[gardenista]

17. KKKarl, are you stealing from Goebell's playbook again? nt