Did the Olympics Committee force Obama to go to Copenhagen?
posted at 4:15 pm on September 28, 2009 by Allahpundit
Geraghty’s spot on. There’s no way The One would risk his political capital on a personal appeal in Denmark unless he’d been assured that Chicago will get the games if he makes a cameo. It’s a done deal; the only question is who approached whom. I think the IOC probably forced his hand: Given the terrible optics of the trip plus the fact that, as Geraghty reminds us, Obama said as recently as two weeks ago that he wouldn’t go himself, he had every incentive to avoid this — unless the IOC sweetened the pot by promising him the games if he showed up. Once they did that, he had no choice. Imagine the public’s reaction if he stayed home and the games were awarded to another country, and then someone at the IOC leaked the fact that he’d been told that Chicago would have been the pick if he’d taken a day out of his schedule for a little gladhanding in Denmark. Everyone who’s dumping on him right now for going would be dumping on him then for not going, and he surely knows it. I can just picture the angry blog posts estimating the number of jobs and total revenue lost to Chicago because its favorite son wouldn’t get on a plane. The IOC made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. Well played, chumps!
Via Breitbart, here’s Gibbs doing his best to explain the reason for the trip without explaining the real reason for the trip. Smart exit question from smart lefty Michael Roston: Given the metaphysical certainty that there’ll be massive corruption involved in Chicago’s handling of the games and the equal certainty that righty blogs like this one will rub The One’s face in it, how bright was it of him to get involved in this in the first place?
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Ummm, because it’s a recession? Because the Olympics are nothing but a big ol’ money pit for most sites? Because who gives a flying f*CK where they’re held? Because there are bigger issues at hand than the Olympics that perhaps the President should focus on?
I honestly couldn’t give a sh*t where they hold these things. Really. They’re being held in my home country next year, I think, and seriously I had no idea until my cousin told me over Labor Day. I DON’T CARE.
If this is the only thing the President has to worry about right now, then fine. But let’s face facts, some ugly stuff is going down and he’s too busy worrying about the Olympics in Chicago to take any kind of lead on any of it….
mjk on September 28, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Wasn’t there a German paperhanger with a little mustache that was also obsessed with the Olympics?
Hening on September 28, 2009 at 5:35 PM
I vote for Rio. I’m sure their opening cermony will be much better than Chicago. After all what are they going to do…unseal Al Capone’s vault……um never mind.
milwife88 on September 28, 2009 at 5:35 PM
If I recall correctly of my time living in Chicago, it’s the “Avoid the drive bys and gang shootings on the El” events that are most exciting.
mjk on September 28, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Obama doesn’t have time to fulfill his duties as Commander-in-Chief, but he does have time to fulfill his duties as Chicago Olympics lobbyist-in-Chief, National Car Salesman-in-Chief, Health Care Takeoverer-in-Chief, Speechifier-in-Chief, Bank Nationalizer-in-Chief, Child Indoctrinator-in-Chief, Economist-in-Chief (how many jobs has he “saved or created” now? – answer: If you still have a job, Obama considers it one that he saved. The “created” jobs are all in his bloated administration.).
The campaign is over and so is most of the worship. It is time for him to start serving the country that elected him and stop serving his own personal and partisan political interests.
Ordinary American on September 28, 2009 at 5:36 PM
I can just see Bill Ayres Bernadette Dohrn, Rev Wright and Rev Pflegar being the ‘ambassadors of good will’ for these Olympic Games. The Olympics will bankrupt Chicago and the graft will bankrupt the Olympic Games which is a good thing for that venomous anti semitic organization. Kill two birds with one stone.
eaglewingz08 on September 28, 2009 at 5:37 PM
I live in Chicago and would be extremely happy to see the Olympics go to Rio. The argument is whether or not it’s worth it for the host city. We have lost too many major conventions due to skyrocketing union costs. At a recently held tradeshow, I was charged $150 when I requested an extension cord and had to wait four hours for a union electrician to plug it in. And by the way, try disputing that bill. Now imagine how this city will get gouged by all unions waiting to feast off an entire Olympic Village. There will be nine years of girding our loins waiting for the inevitable tax hikes to pay for our Dear Mayor’s Last Wish before he kicks.
sherry on September 28, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Considering the fact that Chicago is less than thrilled about hosting the Olympics in the first place…this could at the very least, be entertaining to watch, as it all falls down. lol
capejasmine on September 28, 2009 at 5:38 PM
I don’t recall saying that. But on balance, I would say “sure”. If a weakling like Carter had been reduced to begging in 1979, don’t you think we still benefited on balance in the end from hosting the 1984 summer games?
You people need to quit seeing every little freaking thing through a partisan political filter. Like I said, yeah… embarrassing that Obama has to act like a trained monkey to get the games, but who cares. It’s freakin’ Obama, he’s going to be remembered as a lightweight pushover anyway.
DaveS on September 28, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Like I said, I think the FIFA World Cup in 2018 would be a much bigger benefit to the country. It’s distributed all over the country, and it’s a bigger event.
DaveS on September 28, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Just another opportunity to get out that stuffy old Oval Office and get on Air Force One….hell that can’t keep him off that plane. Has he actually sat in the Oval Office yet?
This POTUS thing is hard….
d1carter on September 28, 2009 at 5:41 PM
There’s only one Olympic City – Los Angeles, my hood.
Apologetic California on September 28, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Not very, but then he isn’t very bright.
Schadenfreude on September 28, 2009 at 5:42 PM
There is no way they are going to have London host the games in 2012 and then give it to another English speaking country in 2016, even with all the bribes given to the Olympic Evaluation Commission. Most likely they want Obama there just for the drama and will end of picking Rio.
Gabe on September 28, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Still, the dummies are the taxpayers, national and local, who’ll foot the bills, including fot the Olympics’ deficit and corruption.
Schadenfreude on September 28, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Just what an already suffering city needs… debt they can’t pay off for thirty years, and large swathes of land torn down and turned into buildings that will forever be a ghost town afterward the event.
How many low income housing is going to be demolished for this?
Enoxo on September 28, 2009 at 5:44 PM
That’s having it backward. The question is why the heck do we want the games again? America doesn’t need the quote-unquote “honor” of hosting the games to make us feel good about ourselves. How many people who isn’t a Chicago-pol or Obama cultist really care? If we want to host the games again, at least have it in a nice city like San Francisco. I’m sorry man, I would much rather visit Rio de Janeiro than the stink hole that’s Chicago.
year_of_the_dingo on September 28, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Here, while we’re at it, everybody should go sign the petition showing support for the US bid and get a cheesy bumper sticker.
DaveS on September 28, 2009 at 5:44 PM
The only thing that makes this whole story even remotely amusing is the thought that there is a good possibility that it will be President Palin opening the games in Chicago in 2016 and that the prospect of that happening will drive the left and their flunkies in the media completely insane.
Hellrider on September 28, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Agreed. But Chicago is the US host city in contention. It’s not about “making us feel good about ourselves”. It’s about reminding the world of our bada$$ness.
DaveS on September 28, 2009 at 5:46 PM
uh ah uh ah dodge dodge uh ah ah.
Can we get someone who can speak. It’s hard to follow someone that has no train of thought.
I wonder where in Chicago they are going to put the Olympics at. Chicago is a nightmare to drive through and around. Both airports are in very bad areas. Can’t they move it out to the burbs.
I wish Zero would get down to work of leading this country out of the mess we are in and quit worrying about trapsing all over the world.
Brat4life on September 28, 2009 at 5:46 PM
If the games are going to cost more money than they bring in than I am against them.
Since the Chicago Machine is going to be in control of the purse strings, and the Thug-in-chief is going out of his way to help it along, I think we can fairly asses that:
1.The Daley bunch is foaming at the mouth to get their hands on the Olympics money.
2.Political posturing and donations for building contracts will be rampant.
3.The cost over runs are GUARANTEED. Who will pick up the slack? The federal government (The citizen)
portlandon on September 28, 2009 at 5:47 PM
On a side note, I read this really interesting book, The Devil in the White City:
The people who built the White City, came up with all sorts of innovations and inventions and novel architectural and engineering ideas…meanwhile one of America’s most infamous serial killers, HH Holmes used the influx of people to the city to mask his killing spree.
There is no way people could replicate that city today, there would be too many taxes, unions, environmental impact studies, permits, consultants etc.
BTW, this was the first time anyone saw a Ferris wheel, and it absolutely gigantic. It was meant to rival the Eifel Tower.
Now…back to our regularly scheduled program…..
Terrye on September 28, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Obama has become the lobbyist and Chief for his buddies over there in Chicago.
Traveling on the tax payer’s dime so that he can bring his friends all the contracts for the Olympics, its a friggen joke.
Rbastid on September 28, 2009 at 5:48 PM
DaveS:
This is not Obama’s job. He was not elected to drum up the Olympics for us. He has a job to do and thus far he has done just about everything else, but the thing he was elected to do…which is govern.
Terrye on September 28, 2009 at 5:50 PM
The Olympics show that? I don’t think so.
I think we already show that since a good portion of the atheletes competing for other countries all train in the US, go to US colleges, all use state of the art equipment made in the US, etc…
Face it, the Olpympics has lost it’s spirit. Now it’s just who can create the best athlete in a lab some where.
reaganaut on September 28, 2009 at 5:51 PM
There’s a difference between being ‘right’ and being good–and capable, and competent, and honest, and mature.
I think the Clinton Machine was a mostly-dead horse ridden by a mentally ill woman, so I’m not impressed with Obama barely defeating it; the McCain campaign speaks for itself ( and I’m not impressed there, either )
Obama is a ruthless, clever little +hit who is the willing tool of people and groups who are even more ruthless and clever than he is. Should we congratulate him for that–or be impressed?
The worst part of your message is your sympathy for him.
Janos Hunyadi on September 28, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Seriously, Chicago, summer? C’mon, like the ghetto isn’t bad enuff, you got to add heat an humidity.
Think umbrella drinks, crazy hawt chicks in thongs, emerald blue green ocean and a nice breeze coming in off the beach. Helloooooo RIO!
Alden Pyle on September 28, 2009 at 5:52 PM
It is absolutely his job. He’s our head diplomat.
DaveS on September 28, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Scroll down to see the end of a typical school day in Chicago. Warning (death).
Okay well I have lived in Chicago and suburbs my whole life. I’ve been mugged, seen a woman shot in a driveby about 20 feet from me, had a brick thrown through the window of our apartment. (Probably racial – we were the only whites in the neighborhood.) My car gets stolen every 5 years or so. I think we are too violent to have an Olympics.
Ted Torgerson on September 28, 2009 at 5:57 PM
With apologies to father Guido Sarducci,
Chicago Olympic event: “Find the Birth Certificate in the deep dish Pizza”
KZnextzone on September 28, 2009 at 5:57 PM
DaveS:
It is absolutely his job. He’s our head diplomat
No, he is not a diplomat. He is the President of the United States and so far as I know, no other president has pranced all over the planet drumming up the Olympics or anything of the kind for his home city and the cronies back home. It is beneath the dignity of his office. As if there was any dignity with this guy.
Terrye on September 28, 2009 at 5:57 PM
That’s too funny.
That little ditty is sure getting some good mileage. Maybe indoctrination will be the source for all of those mythical green jobs we’ve been awaiting.
hillbillyjim on September 28, 2009 at 6:01 PM
I mean every time this man goes jumps on Air Force 1 for a jaunt around the world, the American people pick up the tab,not Mayor Daley.
Terrye on September 28, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Dude. The Chief Executive of the United States has as much business dealing with some bid for the Olympics as he has going on some moronic late-night talk show.
The US doesn’t need to be “sold” to anyone, and certainly not by the moron who has spent most of his time in office running around the world telling everyone how terrible our country was until he got into office. American cities that want to vie for the Olympics are on their own to go for it. The US is not in the business of getting the Olympics. This is NOT a job for a President, though it seems almost appropriate for a Precedent – I’ll give you that.
For some reason, you seem to think that our nation should run just like other nations, where the government runs everything and everyone looks to the government for all issues. How quickly we have fallen. Not just because of the idiot in the White House and the lunatic Washington junta, but because too many Americans have already forgotten what America is. Sad.
We are not a nation that needs our government to “sell” us to anyone. We are a collection of States and individuals who do our own things and make our own ways in the world. The US, as a national entity, has no business mucking around in a bid to get the Olympics.
progressoverpeace on September 28, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Hear, hear.
progressoverpeace on September 28, 2009 at 6:03 PM
DaveS….laughable as usual. No the Prez should not be diddling for the Olympics. At least you are leaving AP alone….for now.
CWforFreedom on September 28, 2009 at 6:03 PM
We all know if it was not Chicago that he would not be doing this
CWforFreedom on September 28, 2009 at 6:03 PM
Key point in bold. It’s beneath the dignity of the office, but not Obama. It hurts nothing for him to do it.
And yes, the president is our chief diplomat. He is also our chief law enforcement office, and commander-in-chief of the military. He is our chief executive, and actually runs the state department.
You should know these things.
DaveS on September 28, 2009 at 6:04 PM
1) How would you know that? 2) So?
He personally wrote a letter to the head of FIFA supporting the US world cup bid. Granted, Chicago would be one of the sites, but… so?
DaveS on September 28, 2009 at 6:06 PM
I live in the Chicagoland area and would love for the Olympics to go to Rio. It’s not just the corruption, Rio would benefit from the infrastructure upgrade more than Chicago would.
bkm on September 28, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Maybe someone pointed this out already, but why not just hold the Olympics in Athens, where it began, every four years? They just built that new Olympic Park for the ’04 games. Just keep using it. Every country pays to support and upkeep it and be done w/it! Why keep practically bankrupting every city that holds the damn games?
JAM on September 28, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Meh…
Not counting on Chicago having the Olympics until it is announced.
1)Obama just insulted Poland etc with pulling out of the missile defense agreement on the anniversary of WWII invasion of said country
2)He insulted the Brits numerous times
3)On his trip to Turkey didn’t he force the guy taking over Nato to apologize? and he reneged on asking Turkey to apologize for wartime atrocities, at the same time trying to force Western Europe to take Turkey into the EU?
They just might want him there in order to deliver a lesson in humility and hand 2016 to Madrid, Tokyo or Rio. The O is not as loved as he was on Jan 19.
journeyintothewhirlwind on September 28, 2009 at 6:09 PM
progressoverpeace on September 28, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Your premise is absurd. The fact that the president would personally help lobby for the games is not indicative of some grand, apocalyptic conspiracy to usurp states’ rights. Is it a little extraordinary? Sure… I think that’s kinda sorta the point.
DaveS on September 28, 2009 at 6:10 PM
That would be hysterical, actually. And awesome. LOL.
DaveS on September 28, 2009 at 6:11 PM
No one forced the 0ne to go to Copenhagen. Just like no one forced him to run for POTUS. He wanted it, all of it, now he’s got it and he can’t handle it, any of it.
4shoes on September 28, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Considering the Greeks aren’t using any of the venues they built for the ’04 or whatever games, that would make way too much sense.
mjk on September 28, 2009 at 6:15 PM
I’ve often said, and it is apparent I am correct, that one could have taken any of the gitmo detainees, cleaned them up, put them in a suit, and they would have done less damage to our republic than the jugeared Ozero community organizer/marxist/thug.
I highlighted “CIC” for a reason. Ozero has met with ONCE.. ONE TIME.. ONCE. Sarah Palin as gov visited her NG troops a lot more than that. ONCE. People are on the receiving end of live fire and he met with the commander ONCE.
BUT the jugeared friend of Alinsky and Bomber Ayers had plenty of time to meet with the Olympic Committee. Mr. Styrofoam pillars probably thinks he’s Zeus or something. Next thing you know he’ll be trying to issue his next kid directly from his little head just to prove his godliness
bullseye on September 28, 2009 at 6:20 PM
Americans have taken notice
Schadenfreude on September 28, 2009 at 6:21 PM
No, it’ll just create the impression that America is a commercialized hell-hole, ’cause we have to run the event at a profit. Unlike countries that have never hosted the games before, people here don’t want their tax dollars spent on this stupid bullshit. Without massive subsidies, our effort is gonna suck compared to other cities (to Beijing in particular). It is going to be a national embarrassment.
year_of_the_dingo on September 28, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Believe it or not, if Chicago got it, I’d say Americans should boycott it. No disrespect to the athletes, but it’s the city and it’s corrupted officials who have stained this city and the state of Illinois. Don’t get me wrong, there are many good citizens of Chicago who are mad as hell about how their city has been diminished in the name of Progressive liberalism, but Chicago still does not deserve the Olympics.
pjean on September 28, 2009 at 6:23 PM
I never said it was. I just said that it is neither the job of the federal government, nor the traditional role of it. We are a nation without a national airline. We used to be a nation without a national auto manufacturer (until this moronic marxist took power). We do not run sovereign wealth funds for “the nation”. We are different from just about all other nations in that our federal government has never mucked around in these areas. To have the federal government actively lobbying for the Olympics is not a usurpation of states’ rights, but a turn away from the traditions of our nation – and a stupid one, at that.
It’s not extraordinary, it’s just pathetic and un-American. It’s something that Indonesia would do, not the US.
But, as Terrye started into, The Precedent looks at destroying any dignity of the office as a plus. That is his goal in this more than anything. He wants to make a mockery out of the office, just as he is trying to make a mockery out of everything our nation holds dear.
progressoverpeace on September 28, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Well Romney has a history of cleaning up Olympics corruption. History may repeat itself.
Lonetown on September 28, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Interesting blog post about Obama & Chicago Olympics dated 6/22/2008.
What Makes an 18 Month Totally Unqualified Junior Senator Run for POTUS? Does $50+ Billion Taxpayer Dollars the “Chicago Way” Explained Why!
Long article but lays out some good information that needs thoughtful consideration.
AngelStandlngBy on September 28, 2009 at 6:28 PM
I can’t wait to see all the property owned by the OBamas, Renko and Daley which gets sold for $500k per acre for this debacle.
On a side note, I’ve lost the link, there was an excellent piece today about how Valerie Jarrett had approached the administration about getting a majority of the project HUD funding!!!! WHile every other Olympics are funded by the city in which its held, WE, you me mom dad son daughter grandma etc., will pay to build this site.
Enjoy your term Barry, you’re going down as an EPIC FAILURE!!
redneckjoe on September 28, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Wow… imagine the hysteria and hyperbole we’d be reading in these very comments if the left talked about boycotting an Olympics in our own country because it was being headed by a Mitt Romney, or because the president at the time was a George Bush, or whatever.
You people are a disgrace.
DaveS on September 28, 2009 at 6:30 PM
I was also wondering what sort of backlash there will be from the other prospective sites when they find out the IOC did a little pay-for-play?
The already fraud of a commission will be the laughingstock of the international community. Taking Barry’s place of course.
redneckjoe on September 28, 2009 at 6:30 PM
There were groups in Seattle trying to put together a preliminary bid for the Olympics a few years ago. The people here, we told them not just no, but hell, f*king no! The worst thing that can happen to any city is an Olympics. I wonder how Athens fared as a result. They could barely get their facilities open in time.
Another reason I am glad I not longer live in Chicago.
Mallard T. Drake on September 28, 2009 at 6:31 PM
People still watch the Olympics?
Lehosh on September 28, 2009 at 6:32 PM
AngelStandlngBy on September 28, 2009 at 6:28 PM
You guys should work together with the birthers, and maybe make a video.
DaveS on September 28, 2009 at 6:33 PM
I’m hoping that he DOESNT get it. The embarrassment of “Teh Won” prostrating himself to the corrupt IOC and not getting it would be sweet.
wildcat84 on September 28, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Wow the international community is going to makes us dance on the end of their string for at least the next 3 years, and 3 months. It is now 399 till the 2 Nov 2010 elections aka Democrats Armageddon.
Dr Evil on September 28, 2009 at 6:35 PM
I remember when my family and I were glued to the TV during the Olympics. We lived and died by the medal count and by who won and how many medals. I remember when Mark Spitz was a true American Hero.
Not any more. Who really gives a rip who wins when they are all professional atheletes mostly on steroids with multi-million dollar Wheaties deals when they are done.
For all I care, the Olympics can go the way of the dino.
DuctTapeMyBrain on September 28, 2009 at 6:38 PM
BTW, wont it be great when he goes there and does his butt-kissing and we still don’t get it.
The most impotent president evah!
DuctTapeMyBrain on September 28, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Nice of you to scan an article and make a blanket assumption on the content, Dave S. You’re so daggone predictable.
AngelStandlngBy on September 28, 2009 at 6:46 PM
i was the only person in the world who predicted obama would go and why: the chicago machine wants to get its hands on the olympics
reliapundit on September 28, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Maybe they’re setting him up for an embarrassment. Isn’t Europe pretty pissed off at Obama right now?
Go Rio!
misslizzi on September 28, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Don’t worry, Dave. The Precedent has announced that he’s going to open United States Airline – a federally owned and operated carrier to “provide competition” to the private airlines. United States Airlines will likely get the major Olympic routes (just to strengthen the competition offered by this “public option”) and will put the US more in line with the other countries of the world that run national airlines, too. Don’t you want to be just like everyone else?
That is the equivalent of a bid by United States government, and personally by The Precedent, to get the Olympics. It’s ridiculous.
progressoverpeace on September 28, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Is that really a prediction or just plain and simple logic?
Daley’s a huge slut. Every Chicagoan knows that.
Now the world will know it.
misslizzi on September 28, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Excellent job!
progressoverpeace on September 28, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Ugh, Juan Williams just made a silly and pathetic defense of this on Special Report.
ThePrez on September 28, 2009 at 6:55 PM
And the panel let him slide by not pounding home how totally un-American the whole idea is.
progressoverpeace on September 28, 2009 at 6:57 PM
And all I could keep thinking was, “if this was Bush….”
ThePrez on September 28, 2009 at 7:00 PM
What’s the over/under on Obama lighting The Torch???
BigWyo on September 28, 2009 at 7:02 PM
DaveS so it would not bother you if he only goes to bat in this manner for Chicago? Just silly
She didn’t say you did aszhole
CWforFreedom on September 28, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Speculating on what the IOC will do is silly. No one knows what the IOC will do so for you to claim that Chicago getting the games is a done deal now is pure fantasy. Olympics experts all said that this is the most difficult to predict and all said that if he didn’t go then Chicago wouldn’t get it. This pseudo analysis is nonsense. You ought to only comment on things you know. If you aren’t following the story, don’t pretend to know what you are talking about.
mike volpe on September 28, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Great – Chicago can build another “White City”…
rhodeymark on September 28, 2009 at 7:09 PM
The world loves an American president who’s willing to beg for petty things. Good job Obama. That’s something you do so well.
TheBigOldDog on September 28, 2009 at 7:19 PM
*Get Rich Quick* *Act Now* *Earn Big Money From Your Home*
(unsubstantiated information but go for it anyway)
Betting odds on how many Chicago/Illinois elected officials will end up in prison due to their corrupt activites leading up to the olympics:
The current line is 15 imprisoned: 22 Indicted: 3 suicides.
The line may change as we get closer to the date.
MayorDaley on September 28, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Corruption attracts corruption; the IOC attracts the Anointed One.
Dhuka on September 28, 2009 at 7:22 PM
How about the Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow-milking relay?
mrt721 on September 28, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Does anyone think people will go to Chicago to see the games?
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What good is your health care reform if you imprison people if they don’t buy it. Shouldn’t you want to buy it because it’s so good?
tarpon on September 28, 2009 at 7:26 PM
I pray to God that the entire Olympic Committee ignores the 0bamas and holds the Olympics ANYWHERE outside of the USA, and especially no where near of ‘Daley Town’.
Small chance, admittedly, but worth the prayers nonetheless.
LegendHasIt on September 28, 2009 at 7:31 PM
I find it ironic that Romney saved the Salt Lake City games and wasn’t asked to go present the case for these games. He has a history with the IOC. But of course obambi doesn’t want to share the glory, let alone with someone from a different party.
karenhasfreedom on September 28, 2009 at 7:44 PM
You don’t seem to be grasping this… Chicago is the only city that is bidding. Are you asking me to become enraged at a hypothetical/strawman?
DaveS on September 28, 2009 at 7:47 PM
When I was a child, we had a bull. The bull had a ring in his nose to make him do what we wanted him to do, and he did it. Does our bho have a ‘ring in his nose’ to make him do what the rest of the world wants, or is our bho doing this for our bho? Lots of money is in the hands of bho, our Republic is in bho hands, and our bho does not seem to be accountable to anyone. Do you think we might wake up and say this is not going to fly?
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letget on September 28, 2009 at 7:48 PM
Hey this is gold for Dear Leader- if he wins in 2012 he can play Nero when he opens “his” games.
If he loses in 2012 he can get waist-deep in that sweet Chicago Olympics graft.
jjshaka on September 28, 2009 at 7:49 PM
Not just you mama. I pointed this out a couple days ago.
For me it’s only the freecanadacreditreports.ca flash ad that causes it. Does the same thing on other sites as well; on every computer I’ve tried.
Try hitting the ‘stop loading this page’ button before the sidebar ads have time to load.
13blackcats on September 28, 2009 at 7:49 PM
mjk, I toally agree with you. Olympics are nothing ut a monumental waste of money. I visited Vancouver recently, as you probably know they are the host of the next winter Olympics. Well, its citizenry is angry, the townhall is bankrupt and so it the city for the a while to come because of the expenses associated with this Olympics. And exactly like in Chicago, local people don’t want it there. It’s all a circus, and usually the organizers/host towns take 20 years or more to pay off the debt. I was reading somehwere recently that Montreal just finished the debt they incurred from organizing the 1976 Olympics…can you imagien how long it will take Chicago?? Chicago is bankrupt as it is, they don’t forget that back in 1976 when the Montreal Olympics were held there wasn’t any recession, or anyways nothing of proportions of this one that we had/have…so, bottom line: Olympics is synonimous with waste of money…let the third world countries organizing them, or countries like China and other ‘willing’ kooks, they’ll struggle with the debt for the next centuries….
jimver on September 28, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Ordinary American on September 28, 2009 at 5:36 PM
seesalrun on September 28, 2009 at 8:09 PM
“I can no more disavow Valerie Jarrett’s pay to play than the Daley machine.” Chicago!
FeFe on September 28, 2009 at 8:18 PM
I can see it now, that funky logo of his that gets reformed and reused for everything somehow converted into a new logo for the Chicago Olympics. Shudder!!!!
karenhasfreedom on September 28, 2009 at 8:19 PM
BigWyo on September 28, 2009 at 7:02 PM
I needed a laugh. It’s not funny but I still laughed. The visual is vomit inducing.
seesalrun on September 28, 2009 at 8:20 PM
President of the United State of Chicago.
TN Mom on September 28, 2009 at 8:23 PM
If America had an armpit and arpits had “A-holes”, Chicago would be the A-hole of America’s armpit.
We are broke, we shouldn’t be shelling out tons of dough so a few people can play some games. Seriously, I’m really happy you can run wicked fast, but honestly the Olympics jumped the shark a long time ago, guys only watch it to see the cute chicks in the gym leotards and skimpy skate suits.
Get sponsorships and have them pay for it all, thankyou.
Alden Pyle on September 28, 2009 at 8:29 PM
the three big Chicago Os :-) hahaha, good one…more like Oprah, Michelle, Valerie Jarrett – the ‘vagina monologue’ brigade is taking Copenhhagen by storm :) that + Dear leader (or you can count him on the said brigade lool :-)…
jimver on September 28, 2009 at 8:34 PM
I became obsessed with the Chicago world’s Fair after reading Devil in The White City. There is a dvd available on Netflix about The 1893 World Columbian Exhibition narrated by Gene Wilder. You cannot imagine the scope of that fair. When you see all the pix and the exhibits, and buildings constructed in 18 months, out of the swamp that was Jackson Park – it is jaw dropping. But, this was done in a time before before capitalism was severely crushed by the unions. The Olympics are slated to go at the other end of the “Midway Plaisance” in Washing Park. I cannot even imagine the cost over-runs due to the greedy politicians and unions of Chicago. Think of it, Chicago is the city that turned Kristol from a die hard socialist to a capitalist, upon arriving here and witnessing the corruption.
Queen0fCups on September 28, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Obama was pretty clear that he had more important things to worry about than ACORN’s vast corruption.
Afghanistan, Iran, GITMO, Honduras, NEA call, soaring unemployment, disasterous economy, terrorist cells in New York, citizen moral…Shame on me for not immediately recognizing that the top priority to be handled was scoring the Olympics.
AngelStandlngBy on September 28, 2009 at 8:43 PM
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