Overachiever-in-Chief: Is There an Issue the President Won't Weigh in On? Obama Juggles Policy With Sports Lobbying
And believe it or not, the article is actually worse than the headline. The entire he's-doing-too-much! premise is built around the fact that Obama is trying to help bring the 2018 or 2022 World Cup soccer championship to the United States, and Obama is also trying to help bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago. In other words, he's been involved in utterly routine bouts of outreach by a POTUS, but ABC frets that it's just too much for Obama to “juggle.”
Specifically, Obama recently hosted Joseph Blatter, the head of FIFA, soccer's international governing body. at the White House for a brief meeting. And in the spring Obama sent a letter to FIFA.
And oh yeah, FIFA's Blatter also sits on International Olympic Committee, so ABC assumes that Obama pitched Blatter about having the Olympics in Chicago.
That's it. That's all ABC News points to as proof of an overextended Obama. Yet from those mundane details, ABC gets all the-sky-is-falling [emphasis added]:
From soccer to the Olympics to even the college football championship system, Obama certainly has been outspoken on sports issues. But is the president risking overexposure by weighing in on so much outside the political arena?
Oh brother.
UPDATED: Love this CF reader comment:
Overexposure?
We have one cable news outlet that's now showing a Beer Summit Countdown Clock on the screen.
And the news media have the nerve to complain it's Obama's fault that he might be overexposed???????