CHICAGO ELIMINATED IN FIRST ROUND

Millions for nothing, but, the manchild managed to squeeze in a 25 minute meeting with General McCrystal on the tarmac. Word had it that Obama might make a quick trip to Afghanistan before returning home, but I guess it was better for the good general to leave his post and accomodate Obama.

Just think of all the disappointed corrupt Chicago machine pols and their big money developer friends who were all set to cash in on the building boom!

What a pity. All that corruption will just have to find a new outlet.

For the first time in my adult life, I’m glad the US lost something! Should be a wakeup call for pres. Mickey Mouse, but I’m afraid that he’s just going to try harder to ram something down our throats to make up for it.

Barry, Michelle, Valerie, Oprah and a cast of thousands… too bad… so sad!

GOD IS GOOD!!!!

Missy: Word had it that Obama might make a quick trip to Afghanistan before returning home, but I guess it was better for the good general to leave his post and accomodate Obama.

Oh, what “word had it”? The one you just made up? Gen McCrystal was in London not Afghanistan, and flew to see the President in Copenhagen.

Dick Morris is correct. Obama and Michelle are listening to people who are totally out of sink with world reality.

#1 Obama should have stayed put and talk to his military commanders about Irak and Afghanistan. Independents would have liked that. With Public Option out of the table, that would have been a good thing. No discipline!

#2- Michelle’s speech about her ’sacrifice”, a total Blunder!

#3 Obama’s advisors have no understanding of European traditions. Europeans hate American Politicians!

They went to lobby the Europeans and one thing that Europeans hate is the American slick lobbying process. Europeans strongly believe that Americans are superficial, or skin deep only., that Americans are not intelligent and cannot have a serious conversation about a book or politics.

#4-On top of it , they took Oprah with them. She represents this superfical world of Americans that Europeans hate so much.

#5-Plus, if Obama thinks that people don’t like him in America because he is black, Europeans are very racists and afraid of American Blacks because they think they are too agressive and dangerous. They watch a lot of Hollywood movies. Imagine what they think about Chicago.

Gee, when are the Americans going to understand that Europeans don’t like them no matter what and it had nothing to do with George Bush.

Finally, who wouldn’t want to go to Rio? Copacabana, Garotas in the beach and the best caipirinhas, dancing Samba…cannot beat that, not even Obama.

This made my day Zero is a falling star everywhere and Orca Winfrey is just a caricature.

“orca winfrey” hahaha i nominate that for comment of the day. well there goes bama’s jobs program. the olympics would have employed alot of hot dog vendors…

From halfway to OP 3 40F and Free Enterprise prevails.

I love Drudge’s headline: “The Ego Has Landed”

WOw what will Obama do with the unused Stimulus money he was rat holing to finance the Olympics?

This is all Glen Beck’s fault! How dare he bring up the tangled web of Obama/Jarrett financial crony connections at such a critical time. This is just more proof that FOX is an enemy of the State. (And a friend of real Americans:)

GO RIO!!!!!!

In some kind of cosmic irony, Obama and company left a carbon footprint exactly the size of Chicago.

This really has nothing to do with Obama. I live just a few blocks away from Washington Park where the Olympic Stadium was to be built and 1 1/2 miles from where the Olympic Village would have gone. The problem with the Chicago bid is that they did not put their finances in order until the last minute. We also have some issues with our transportation system. There were a lot of good things going for it but politically, Rio had the edge because the Olympics have never been held in South America. You really can’t think of crime because the murder rate in Rio is four times that of Chicago. The infrastructure cost is double that of Chicago’s bid. This came down to a regional vote.

Personally, I was looking forward to charging $500 a night for my extra bedroom.

The other side of this is that Mayor Daley didn’t have the backing of the people. Don’t let them fool you. Only about 48% of Chicagoans supported the Olympic bid. He now has to submit a vision of Chicago that does not include the Olympics and that is where is he going to fail. And you can believe the African Americans in the Washington Park neighborhood would have been displaced and now we’ll see if he is really committed to the development of the area or turn his focus back to downtown and the northside.

@Missy

Word had it that Obama might make a quick trip to Afghanistan before returning home, but I guess it was better for the good general to leave his post and accomodate Obama.

Are you basing that on what Bill Kristol is predicting?

It makes sense. He can deflect from today’s ego-brusing, put Afghanistan back in the front of the news-cycle for the weekend, and bring the Good General back to the “office”.

Missy: Why would I make that up, get a grip.

ok, prove it, quote and supply a link to “Word had it that Obama might make a quick trip to Afghanistan before returning home,”

I can’t help but think that IOC played the one like the fool he is. Why else would the one risk the embarrassment of showing up just to walk away empty handed? A few of our close friends, France, England, Germany, and Poland, (all recently snubbed by the one) and their friends, knew Chicago wasn’t going to win, yet they drop hints that Chicago is in a dead heat with Rio. Of course, the one’s ego gets the best on him and he believes if shows up in person, he will sway the needed votes to Chicago, he even has MO make a tearful speech of the sacrifices she has made to fly all the way to Europe, how could they not vote for Chi-town.

Then they dropped the hammer on the one, Chicago was first to be eliminated, their plan worked perfectly. So much for the one’s understanding of foreign relations

so this is what obama meant by fixing the economy. What is it they say about putting all your eggs into one basket? Especially a basket with a big hole in it. Just kidding, I know this isn’t his fix for our economy. Actually I’m not.

Thank you, God!

Well, the beer of choice now is Goose Island. There is the 3-1-2 and the dark Ale. The 3-1-2 is a little fruity so I tend to go with the dark ale… that with a Chicago-style pizza…. the IOC doesn’t know what its missing.

You folks need to get to Chicago at some point.

Here’s another thought on the matter: Obama has been the most omnipresent President in history. He’s on TV ALL THE TIME. He’s spent more time talking to David Letterman than he has General McChrystal in Afghanistan (though he did meet with Gen. McC. on the tarmac in Copenhagen for 25 minutes… guess who did most of the talking?)

Obama thinks that whenever he speaks the vast majority of people listening swoon in delight. That may be true for the typical campaign rally of Obamabots but it is NOT true of anyone else in the real world. Why do you think French President Sarkozy lectured Obama about living in the real world?

Take heart conservatives. The fantasy of Obama crashed and burned in Copenhagen just as it crashed and burned in the UN Security Council a few days before. Obamabots may still be drinking the Kool Aid but fewer and fewer people outside that delusional orbit are still sippin’ that fluid.

mike, the only problem with your assessment is that the olympic vote had nothing to do with obama. this was mayor daley’s vision and they made missteps a year ago that caused concern for the IOC. there was a lot of issues with financing and the insurance to cover cost overruns. daley had the city council sign it but then has a press conference almost insinuating that he wouldn’t honor it if tax payer were on the hook.

then you have the fact that Rio had a very strong bid and were the sentimental favorites going in to the vote. if you look at it, chicago wasn’t even considered a strong contender until this past summer when the city council approved the insurance package.

i know you guys think that everything is about obama but sometimes that’s just not the case. this is one of those times.

Bumpersticker……..

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Uh, try over TEN MILLION dollars for the POTUS,FLOTUS and FATUS.

I just saw Sen. “I paid for this Senate Seat” Roland Burris (D-IL) suggest that the reason Chicago didn’t get the Olympics is because of George Bush.

These racebaiting, incompetent, corrupt clowns are becoming unhinged.

>>A few of our close friends, France, England, Germany, and Poland, (all recently snubbed by the one) and their friends, knew Chicago wasn’t going to win, yet they drop hints that Chicago is in a dead heat with Rio.>>

Kind of makes me think of the UN Iraq vote with Colin Powell…when France ditched us.

Which kind of makes me think of Lucy, Charlie Brown and the football…

10. Dead people can’t vote at IOC meetings.

09. Obama was distracted by David Letterman’s confessions.

08. IOC wasn’t impressed by the new events such as human skeet shooting, quickest joint rolling, and 100 yard ACORN hooker dash.

07. Community organizers weren’t able to forgerize the ballots.

06. Chickens came home to roost.

05. The IOC president sounded like a James Bond villan.

04. Barry’s IOC speech was concluded with the songs “All of me!” and “You’re so vain”.

03. Not enough wise Latina judges on the committee.

02. IOC is racist.

01. It’s George Bush’s fault.

@FedUp:

I’m thinking that Chicago & the Obama’s should reimburse the taxpayers for the totally unnecessary and wasteful expense to ferry all those narcissitic, egomaniacs to Copenhagen

Totally agree and with interest!

USMCdaughter1, give your Dad a salute from me.

Timothy, you are on target but I would rather be in Rio than Montana tonight.

Snow and bitter winds. Yeah, Rio is better…

Ummm Billi, are you angry because you had corrupt politician relatives in Chicago that would have profited from extorting money off the games? Wanna bet that even the OC knew how rampant corruption would be and even they couldn’t ignore it like they have elsewhere?

As has been pointed out, the Olympic games are money losers for the host city. Considering our current economy, do you actually think that supporting the pissing away of money on meaningless “games” is patriotic? No surprise coming from people who gave the enemy comfort, support, and hope when they tried to undermine the WOT just so they could get back into power.

I think there is an angle that hasn’t been considered. It’s an open secret that Olympic officials are the recipients of all kinds of “gifts” from those trying to land the games. THEY are the big fish and the special ones. YOU cater to them, not the other way around.

So here comes ego 1 into Denmark and they are just supposed to bow to him out of his sheer magnificence? How insulting. How condescending. How arrogant.
They sent a VERY clear message as to what they thought of his little stunt. They gave him the bird…and he deserved it.

@Aye Chihauhau
As you seem a history buff, you probably already know that Chicago hosted two World Fairs – the picture you posted in this thread from 1893 and one in 1933.

Your question on what remains from 1893? Only 2 Exhibit Bldgs remain, some statuary scattered throughout the city, and several sites (former Japanese Pavillion site) that go up and down in their general maintenance – Here is an excellent set of facts on the 1893 event – from the Field Museum (The Field Museum was a utility building/storage area for the event)
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/columbianexpo/introduction.asp

The impact of the World Fairs — on the city — was profound — lots of information on this. Perhaps my favorite story is that of a young architect named Frank Lloyd Wright who is reported to have been fascinated by the Japanese Pavillion and was seen there non stop — observing the Art, furniture, the culture, etc. This impact arguably, ushered in a new style of architecture. Also, Chicago and Japan struck up a strong friendship — and influenced the city…see link below. If you look at older components of the city, you will see chrysanthemum symbols in buildings, lightposts, sidewalks — etc.

Here is great article on Frank Lloyd Wright and the influence of the 1893 World Fair’s Japanese Pavillion.
http://www.trishmorse.com/Japanese-Garden.htm

There are SO many great stories — perhaps the two Ivy Law School graduates – Drama Obamas, could have drawn on how Chicago and the World came together through these events and in turn gave back to the world in profound ways…just sayin’.

ENJOY THE ARTICLES !!!

@ Old Trooper, thank you I will. He’s the best

New Jersey vs. Rio…hmmm….let me count the ways LOL!

I heard that the office of the Weekly Standard broke out into cheers when Chicago lost. You gotta love an organization that seeks to promote “American Values” to want a great American City to loose the games, is some what myopic and more partisan then they should be. Everyone wants a crisis so they can break our country a part. The right does not see its responsible for being good Americans, outside of constant attacking of the president in any way it can. We will see how this plays out in 2012, but I bet it won’t work.

@BlASSt said: “The right does not see its responsible for being good Americans, outside of constant attacking of the president in any way it can. We will see how this plays out in 2012, but I bet it won’t work.”

Seemed to work just fine for the left. They hated President Bush with every fiber of their being and STILL DO. And let’s not forget “This war is LOST” by Harry Reid. Dems did everything they could to make us lose in Iraq. That’s a lot worse than cheering as the Narcissist in Chief failed to win the Olympics for his corrupt Chicago cronies.

@Patvann:

Are you basing that on what Bill Kristol is predicting?

It makes sense. He can deflect from today’s ego-brusing, put Afghanistan back in the front of the news-cycle for the weekend, and bring the Good General back to the “office”.

Bringing Afghanistan back in the news cycle also brought “President dresses down his General” which seems to me will not be too popular among the people at a time when the military polls quite a few points higher to the question of who they trust to handle the Afghanistan war.

It was talking heads on FOX in early afternoon, I wasn’t in the room to see who it was but would have recognized Kristol’s voice, it wasn’t him. Was gardening that afternoon and happened to be indoors at that moment.

One good thing, our television is left on while I work outside as a comfort for our dog……Rio! I bet he thought everyone was talking about……. him. He’s been on an ego trip all weekend so perhaps I can understand how easily the White House whiz kid fell victim to his own press.

@Blast
…keep grinding those axes…
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We don’t need to grind our axes — your antique media/outspoken Lefties are slowly staring to grind theirs…all we have to do is ignore your (and like minded hard core lefties) continuous inconsistencies and cast our votes this Nov 2009 and in 2010, 2012…A voice heard and a ballot cast is stronger than any metaphorical axe.

The authors of Flopping Aces (and readers) offer outstanding, fact-based insights on issues — which I am sure you have read — so I offer this additional piece on the subject of this conversational thread…

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/michelle_obamas_olympic_gimme.html

(you must be so proud of your fellow, anti-capitalism, lefty Micheal Moore..why would he charge normal price for his movie’s tickets…did I hear he wanted to make a profit?)

@Johnny From SC:

Whoa, there, Johnny boy!! No one here disrespects the “Office of the President”, and in fact, do respect it SO much that when it is going down the tubes, we want to fix it and restore it (and the country it represents) to honor. I’m sure can see that that is the intention here, but your comment is based on you not liking what you are reading because your sense of judgment comes into question in your own mind because I’m guessing you voted for Mr. Obama.

And, your comment here [The U.S. is in mess and it was not created by President Obama.] tells me that if you, like the President, never get beyond your negative sentiments about the prior Administration and blaming GWB for the present situation (which I do disagree with the validity of your statement) then we cannot move on and fix the CURRENT problems as a country, do you agree? It reminded me of the 12-step program (not from personal experience, btw), and I knew there was something there for you. I found it. It’s step #10:

Step 10 – Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

It probably wouldn’t hurt for Mr. Obama (as well as the Obama supporting, Bush Derangement Syndrome victims) to look at the rest of the 12 steps! I’m sure you’ve heard this great song by Mr. Don Henley, haven’t you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3ORwO5xDUE&feature=PlayList&p=18236567401648D2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=27

LOL! Mr. Henley probably never expected a conservative to apply this to BDS victims…

By the way, I don’t condone the lyrics in ‘Get Over It’ about killing lawyers…that part, not so good.

@Johnny From SC:

helps the economy

Actually, it does not help the economy by going in the hole. Chicago is broke, they have laid off police to funnel money into the bid, they cut corners on snow removal and street repairs which resulted in more traffic accidents and funneled that money to the Olympic bid. They have scheduled three city government shut downs through December 2009 because they don’t have the money to pay city workers.

Another thing, being from the Chicago area I was able to listen to a local radio discussion. For some reason some of the games were to take place in Madison, WI, that’s a crazy bit of drive time to get from one game to another. That couldn’t have been attractive to the Olympic Committee judges.

Also, recent history has shown that the games do not show a profit, they in fact cost more than what is bid and a number of cities spend years paying off the debt, I read where it took one host city 30 years to pay off their debt.

London bid $4 billion, look what happened, following excerpts are from Sunday’s Washington Post:

Myths About Landing the Olympics
By Stefan Szymanski

In 2007 the U.K. government announced that the real cost of the Games would be closer to $15 billion than the $4 billion they had initially promised. Olympic accounting is shrouded in mystery, but since Los Angeles in 1984, there have been no cases where the Games can show a net profit.

Oh, but the tourists will boost the economy:

3. The Olympics will boost local tourism.

True, many foreigners and Olympics die-hards will come, but far more of the attendees will be locals taking the chance of a lifetime. And of those who do travel from abroad, many will be what’s known as “time-switchers”: people who would have come anyway but plan their trip to coincide with the Games. Tourist arrivals usually fall after the Olympic circus leaves town

Kind of like “Cash for Clunkers,” get the drift.

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But; it also allows the US to provide jobs for builders,

Remember all the angst about Halliburton? One of the few large outfits with the ability to do the work necessary under harsh conditions. The company that already had won the contract bidding under the Clinton Administration and was given the bridge contract to do…………what they were supposed to do, example being, repairing oil wells they helped build in the first place? Bet steam is coming out of your ears at this point, Halliburton has a way of tripping some triggers.

Well,

2. Winning the Games means a gold rush of jobs for the host city.

The truth is that the local economy doesn’t get much of a boost while those shiny new athletic venues are being built. Many of the jobs created are filled by specialists who come in from outside — to construct a BMX bicycle track, it helps to have built one before — and they take their pay home with them. To the extent that local labor is tapped, suppliers are taken away from other projects in the area, raising costs in the process. It would be nice to think you could create an Olympic city by hiring an army of the unemployed, but mega-projects like this do not work like that.

Raising costs…………ever need to buy plywood during hurricane season while living in areas not affected or live in a community when a nuke plant is being constructed? Whew! When our plant was constructed, it took all available trade members and then some to build that thing. It was great until completion, but then we had to suffer with the “then somes” high paid unskilled workers that were rubber stamped into the unions because they needed bodies. Our unions and union built facilities suffered from that for years until the “then somes” retired or were weeded out in other ways. Kind of thinking that may be why “mega-projects lik this do not work like that.”

That construction also boost the cost of construction for private individuals, corporations and government construction, costs passed onto to taxpayers.

source for above c&p:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/01/AR2009100103891.html?hpid=opinionsbox1