President's Race to Olympics

In The New York Times editorial named “Wonderful Copenhagen” written by Gail Collins. She explains that President Obama is flying off to Denmark to help the United States get an Olympic Bid for 2016. She goes to say that there has never been a president that has gone for the United States to win a bid.
Unfortunately though, our other political party like to think negative about this matter. For instance, the House Minority Leader, John Boehner, would like President Obama to stay here in the US and take care of our current issues instead of flying to Denmark. Senator Christopher Bond of Missouri is complaining that President Obama needs to keep our country safe instead of flying to Denmark.
If the president of Brazil, prime minister of Japan, and even the King of Spain are all attending for a lobby in the Olympic bid, shouldn’t the President of United States take a couple of days to fly out and give us a chance to have to Olympic in Chicago in 2016?
Even though Gail Collins is for President Obama to help get United States a bid of the Olympics; she had an open mind to also include the negative side affects that could affect Chicago personally. First is the fact that Chicago would have to spend a lot of money to make the city look presentable to the Olympic Committee. Which brings up the second issue, the citizens of Chicago are having doubts as to this event being a positive thing. The third and final, which is also the worst downside, President Obama himself said that he would not go because he wanted to keep his “promise” in making affordable health care for the Americans.
I agree with Gail Collin’s writing from the positives to the negatives of President Obama going to Denmark to win us a Olympic bid. It’s wonderful that he is thinking about the United States and putting the country on the world spotlight. But at the same time, it is not free and it will cost a major city millions of dollars just to showcase an event.
Gail’s writing in my opinion was not attended for any specific audience. The way I see it is that she was being unbiased about the issue. She had positive and negative aspects of the President going to Denmark. She had arguments for both sides of the debate.
Gail Collins is a remarkable woman. She joined The New York Times in 1995 and became the first woman to be appointed editor in the editor’s page 6 years later. She also wrote a book named “When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present”

Missle Defence System

Sept. 17, 2009

Today, President Obama stated that he is coming with a “new approach” for the missile system that former president Bush started to build during his office. Remember the one that made Poland and Czech happy and Russia very angry with us? Well with the new system that President Obama issuing has a complete opposite effect on the nation. He stated that the new system will be “smarter, safer, swifter” than the last missile defense. Mainly because they will be using smaller SM-3 Missiles instead of 10 ground-based interceptors.

President Obama and I agree on is that we need to have a missile defense in that region just like president Bush suggested. With Iran being a threat, we need to protect our fellow Allies.

Not to sound upset with our Republicans…but WHAT is the Republicans thinking? Republicans like John McCain of Arizona fear that Russia will renew their adventurism. Did we fear their “adventurism” when we first set up the missile defense by George Bush? Geoff Morrell stated that we are only “adjusting the system” which I agree. We need to adjust our system of defense because in reality Iran is adjusting their system as well.

Ultimately in the end, it is not about upsetting Poland, Czech, or even Russia. It’s about protecting innocent people of Poland, Czech, Russia, and the rest of the world from dangerous countries like Iran.