Talk about Revisionist History…. this is worse than “1984″… you remember, the book by Huxley, the one that used to be required reading before the dolts took control.

PhilipJames on October 2, 2009 at 6:53 PM

:-) A companion to Orwell’s “Brave New World” no doubt ;-)

Coming in dead last means that the spent hundreds of thousands of US taxpayer dollars, and a huge lefties, CARBON FOOT PRINT, (big deal it means nothing as it’s made up anyhow), and accomplished:
Zero
Nada
Nothing
Zilch
Less than 1

Jeff from WI on October 3, 2009 at 6:21 AM

$2-3 MILLION LOST just for the trip in Copenhagen. Shouldered by Federal money ie., all taxpayers.

$100 – 200 Million sunk cost for failed investment in Chicago. Not a problem. It’s Obama’s cronies’ money anyway.

The bright side: Conservatives in Chicago won’t suffer TAX HIKES DUE TO THE POTENTIAL “NET COSTS” OF OLYMPICS.

OBAMA ONCE AGAIN MADE HISTORY. ANOTHER FIRST!

Good or bad … it’s still history. LOLOL!!!

The Bright side? Obama proves to Chicago thugs his full solidarity.

Nothing can ever come between Obama and his Chicago Cronies.

Cheer up, Daley! You have a WH under your thuggish beck and call!

Oops … I didn’t mean Beck. LOLOL ‘gain!

Just a thought.

Coming in dead last means that the spent hundreds of thousands of US taxpayer dollars, and a huge lefties, CARBON FOOT PRINT, (big deal it means nothing as it’s made up anyhow), and accomplished:
Zero
Nada
Nothing
Zilch
Less than 1

Shamelessly lifted from another comment on the Olympics…

Spreading it around, as it made me laugh (and we can all use one of those)…

Top 10 Reasons Chicago Didn’t Get the Olympics [Rich Lowry]

4. This isn’t about the number of Olympics “lost”, it’s about the number of Olympics “saved” or “created”.

No, and while we’re at it, the first thing that Obama (by way of his henchmen) did to New York was to fly Air Force One over the city, like, really close to the skyscrapers.

Showed you how much he cared for New Yorkers.

Niko on October 2, 2009 at 7:25 PM

To quote Iowahawk, what are they gonna do, NOT vote for him? Har har har.

Instead we get an ignominious first round defeat-magified by expectations of success from his obsequious MSM sycophants- for the whole world to see and ‘all the perfumes in Arabia cannot erase the egg from thy stained face’.

Without a prearranged “agreement” with the IOC, Obama and his advisers should have realized that not even the Great One’s verbal metier could trump Rio’s pitch of hosting South America’s first olympics.

- I don’t have all the facts, but the IOC acted stupidly.

Left Coast Right Mind on October 2, 2009 at 7:30 PM

+1000. Brilliant slip-in, LCRM.

If Chicago won the bid Obama would have taken credit and/or been given credit by a breathless media. If he’s going to get the credit for a success then he gets the blame for a failure. End of story.

But I daresay in a week I expect him to say “Let me be clear: I’ve always been consistent in believing Chicago wasn’t the best venue for the Olympics.”

As one delegate told me: “here’s the richest woman in the world with more personal trainers,dietitians and chefs at her disposal than some nations and she’s even bigger than that plain woman in the gaudy tent. What kind of message would that send to young people about physical fitness and athletic excellence”.

[All of the above is a lie but I'm trying to get a job with a major media outfit.]

First they sent in the big guns, or is that big buns of Oprah and Michelle,

Lonetown on October 2, 2009 at 6:06 PM

Big buns and big mouths!

Chicago’s Olympic bid was almost unwinnable but The Genius had more time for it than McChrystal. Smart power in action.

God these stupid liberals are tiresome.

Basilsbest on October 2, 2009 at 7:46 PM

This pisses me off more than anything. Okay, I would have been fine with Michelle O going to Copenhagen. (on her own dime)
Obama should have flown straight to Afghanistan and actually acted as CIC. He should seriously be doing the job that GW Bush was not afraid of doing. We have men and women DYING, and he’s all about making money for his friends in Chicago.
UGH!!!!!!!!!

God these stupid liberals are tiresome.

Adding to the absurdity is the wackily now out of place LA Times farticle today pimping Michelle-O as wearing a gold outfit “going for the gold.” An unintentional self-parody of the Obamas and the LA Times blind worship of them all wrapped into One seedy sales pitch by LA Times writer / hack Johanna Neuman.

These people have lost their freakin’ minds.

He’s an embarrasment and an ahole.

- If getting the 2016 Olympics held in Chicago would be “in the bag” just by having Obama show up at the IOC, does that mean that whatever he said/did actually changed the panel’s mind and disqualified Chicago?

- Lack of executive experience glaringly obvious as Obama can’t make a sales pitch.

- What if Chicago’s chances to land the games were not as good as reported, and Obama believed (or was led to believe) that going to Copenhagen himself would cause the IOC to see things his way? Plays into his arrogance.

- What do American leftists think of European collectivists now that they’ve rejected their messiah?

- Also glad that Tokyo did not win the games, or we’d be treated to 10 minutes of Olympic coverage, in between hours upon hours of segments such as; “Hiroshima and Nagasaki: America was wrong”.

- I don’t have all the facts, but the IOC acted stupidly.

- The media has to know that they’ve tied themselves to the mast of a sinking ship. At some point, they’re going to have to save themselves and salvage whatever is left of what they think is their credibility. The good news for them is that Obama is providing daily opportunities to do just that. It’ll be interesting to see what issue(s) get(s) that ball rolling (if any), which outlets bail first (if any) and which ones stay aboard until the S.S. Obama hits the ocean floor.