Exactly.
Good fucking grief people must everything be turned into some sort of thinly-veiled political invective or McD hate-a-thon? Pettiness wears horribly like a cheap poly-blend sport suit. There is ZERO out of the ordinary about this visit---when teams wins championships some make it to the White House soon after their wins and some make it much later after their wins. Period. There is no rhyme or reason to it and certainly no socio-political shenanigans. The White Sox didn't have their formal WH honoring until 5 months after their WS win. The Lakers won in June of 2009 and didn't go to the WH to meet with the President until they were on an East coast swing deep into their new season until the end of January 2010---oooh. . .those "evil bastards" Stern and West, GMAB. I might add that their one day visit last January clearly didn't "distract" the Lakers from defense of their title come June of 2010 so that argument is bullshit IMO.
This visit is NOTHING more than:
1. The White House/POTUS traditionally honors championship-winning teams
2. The Blackhawks won the last SC
3. The Hawks celebrated with the Cup all over the world during the off-season. The short off-season ended and then it was time for Training Camp, pre-season, then the new season
4. During this new season the Hawks will be swinging through DC for a game. Location is everything!
5. The First Lady is from Chicago
6. The sitting President is the still the fucking POTUS whether folks like or loathe him and that still actually means something not to mention he just so happens to be an adopted son of Chicago
Sheesh {{{slaps head}}}
You see I do have a couple of problems with it. First off the Hawks won the Stanley Cup 7 months ago. If the President of the United States really wanted to honor them then JULY was the time to do it. NOT near the end of the season where they are supposed to be FOCUSED on winning it again. It's unacceptable and a completely inappropriate time.
My second problem, probably more supersticious is the Stanley Cup is going to be there. The Cup I want NOTHING TO DO WITH until we win it again. Our time, or the Blackhawks time with the Cup is over. It's past, won, had for a day or two, and OVER. I hope not one of them TOUCH it. I understood it being at the UC on opening night because in the history of the building it had never been there, BUT it's over! It's time to win it again.
Sorry but IMO this is just another distraction this TEAM does not need.
Ironically ALL of the SC winning team were invited. Let's see how many of these OTHER teams allow SC members to attend. I'm guessing here on NONE of them show up. Maybe I'm wrong, but we'll see. The Flyers boys, versteeg and Boynton already turned down the invite.
There are more important things at stake right now. It couldn't be a worse time to honor them IMO.