Limbaugh on Chicago: “Who knew the Olympic Committee was a bunch of racists?”
posted at 3:38 pm on October 2, 2009 by Allahpundit
An easy joke but a good one.
“When you stop to think about it, folks, doesn’t it make sense?” Limbaugh asked. “Our president, Barack Hussein Obama, has been running around the world for nine months telling everybody how much our country sucks…. Why would anybody award the Olympics to such a crappy place?”…
“[Obama] doesn’t realize that the hatred for this country has not abated. There may be some love for him, but their certainly is no respect for him,” Limbaugh said.
“He doesn’t understand how delighted the world is to make him look foolish in order to take a swipe at our country,” Limbaugh said of the president. “We’ve got a two-year-old manchild with a Mars-sized ego, which today crashed and burned.”
The IOC’s rejection of Chicago’s bid was a “bitch-slap,” Limbaugh said. “Upside the head.”
Even Brazil’s president thought The One had it in the bag. Whether Rush is right that this was a message to Obama that anti-Americanism is bigger than him or George Bush or whether the IOC simply balked at the fact that Team Barry’s presentation was, true to form, less about nuts and bolts than about romantic feelgood Hopenchange nonsense, I think Jay Cost’s on target about what it means for the permanent campaign here at home.
I, for one, am exhausted by our new permanent campaign. That might sound strange coming from somebody who runs the Horse Race Blog, but it is true. The ominpresence of the Obama campaign apparatus is, frankly, wearing me down. I can’t get away from him or it, even in my down times. Watching the Office on TBS used to be a real pleasure for me and the missus, but now we must be interrupted by the President of the United States cracking lame jokes at us in the promotion of a second-rate comedian. There is no escape. And so it continues today. What should have been a story about Chicago – or better yet, Rio (good for you, Rio!) – is now a story about…Obama. Of course. Because just about everything in the public sphere must, must become a story about Obama. Because Obama injects himself and his campaign appartus/mindset/worldview into everything.
I was hesitant to place a bet on the outcome of the health care debates, but I’ll place one here. Sooner or later, the American people are going to say, “Enough is enough” with this constant, incessant politicking that is inevitably built around the person of Barack Obama.
It’s the person of Barack Obama that beat Clinton and McCain, though, not anything important having to do with policy. Just compare his personal approval ratings with the approval of his domestic measures. Can you blame them for thinking that the key to solving every problem is a big, bright flash of that thousand-watt smile?
Incidentally, I’m already seeing lefties on Twitter grumbling that The One’s opponents are “enjoying” today’s failure, as though it’s unpatriotic not to be heartbroken that a billion-dollar graft opportunity for Richard Daley and his slimy cronies — which even Chicagoans were evenly split on, mind you — got flushed down the toilet. The fact is, it’s only because the stakes for the country were so low and Obama’s ego so overweening that an “unforced error” this dumb can be laughed at. But keep an eye out for tut-tutting about it from the left, along with the inevitable blaming of Bush and playing of the race card in some form or fashion. The script is always the same.
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Sums the whole disgusting mess right up!
BTW: I think Chicago might have had trouble even without the Corruptocrat-in-Chief pimping for it. Strikes me as a logistical nightmare to get all the necessary venues, housing, etc. crammed into a reasonable space there, even though Osama Obama’s buddyroos were willing to sacrifice their properties for big, big bucks to make it happen. You’d probably have to move some events to Milwaukee….
MrScribbler on October 2, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Rush was great today. He was facetious, but on target, with the idiocy of Obama and Obama’s massive ego.
cubachi on October 2, 2009 at 4:07 PM
I like that Rush called him an imbecile. Remember Alinsky’s rule that ridicule is a powerful weapon.
Lou Budvis on October 2, 2009 at 4:07 PM
In other words, it was un-American for The PRecedent to even think it was the job of the federal government to lobby for the olympics. That is behavior more suited to Indonesia or any other nation, but decidely UNAMERICAN. Take your Indonesian Precedent with you and go find a nation that is more suited to your collectivist mindset, which is every other nation on Earth. You people are not suited for America, which explains why you would foist an ineligible, un-American moron on the rest of us.
progressoverpeace
–Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will be in Copenhagen to make the case for Rio. King Juan Carlos of Spain and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero will be there, too, boosting Madrid, and new Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama will be on hand for Tokyo.
–So, obviously, every other country had their top honchos in Copenhagen, but we didn’t? And stop the personal insults.
Jimbo3 on October 2, 2009 at 4:07 PM
There here in your own comment section. Cornfed called us all unpatriotic. Dave and Bleeds had their own similar comments.
Apparently this is worse than losing in Iraq.
Esthier on October 2, 2009 at 4:08 PM
So Barry won’t be able to see the Olympics from his window.
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Maybe Barry should of pitched another city in another of the 57 States.
roflmao
donabernathy on October 2, 2009 at 4:08 PM
I loved this post on Breitbart
WoosterOh on October 2, 2009 at 4:08 PM
By 2016 out of ayers, Rahm, Obama, axelrod, rezco, daley, half will be in jail.
The way things are chilling weatherwise, they will have goose bumps full time to slow down runners and swimmers.
seven on October 2, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Gee, it’s almost like they got “marching orders” or something…
lovingmyUSA on October 2, 2009 at 4:09 PM
TRANSACTION DATE 10/02/2009
CHICAGO GRAFT UNITED MASTERCARD EXP 01/2012
PAYEE: IOC-COPENHAGEN
CARDHOLDER: B. HUSSEIN OBAMA
AMOUNT: 14 GAZILLION DOLLARS AND NO SENSE
**TRANSACTION DENIED**OVERLIMIT**
(Hat tip: DONTREDONME at PJM)
Norwegian on October 2, 2009 at 4:09 PM
No public opinion involved, so no msm could spin for a win. Barry, you’re a crook and a loser.
marklmail on October 2, 2009 at 4:10 PM
You guys are letting me down. Two pages and no jokes about the IOC clinging to guns and religion??
Kaisersoze on October 2, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Meanwhile our men, and women in uniform are in harms way, waiting for some resolution from the commander in chief. Who is doing what? Licking his wounds over not being able to out speech, others, into getting an over bloated sporting event for their city. Hardly a national issue, in my opinion.
More, and more are without jobs. Struggling to put food on the table, and doing harm to their health, as they struggle daily to work thru the stress at not having a job, or money coming in, or worried if their job will be there tomorrow.
Elsewhere, Americans are scared to death their health care is going to be put in the hands of a corrupt, incapable, irresponsible government, and the price so high, a job won’t be enough to pay for it. Same with this crap, and trade nonsense.
All for what? To stroke the ego of a man, and woman who by all accounts, hate white people, and their own country, because their faces aren’t on the currency? To appease a bunch of former, and wannabe hippies, that smoked some weed, and saw unicorns their euphoria?
Frankly, I’m sick of all of this too, and I’m about at my ropes end with it. I’m sick of the whining from the left, the hate, and vitriol, the accusations of racism too. Look around you. Your country is falling apart, at the hands of the President. Not by accident, but by design, then tell me how much he loves this country? I’m concerned for my country, and am being accused of not loving it, because his ego took a punch today, over some damned olympics.
Well you can get glad in the same clothes you got mad in. I can too. So to answer all of those who accuse those of us, of being concerned at the downfall of our country by the hands of an angry man, who happens to be black, that continues to trash the people, and this country, I have two words for you.
BITE ME!!!
capejasmine on October 2, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Ummmm… hit me this morning…
The Olympic Committee is a PRIVATE Corporation… the Chicago bid was a PRIVATE bid…
Why was our tax dollars spent to send both Barry, AND Michelle over there? Isn’t that using Tax dollars to promote a PRIVATE enterprise? and thus Misappropriation as I’m sure Congress did not appropriate money for this?
Romeo13 on October 2, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Not at all. Not even close. It was Shrillary promoting Spitzer’s licenses for illegals during the primary debate that killed her, and it was the MSM’s lying and covering up for the idiot messiah, the credit crisis and McShame’s moronic mishandling of a winning argument, along with huge white guilt and the thought of electing a Precedent that did it. This isn’t rocket science.
progressoverpeace on October 2, 2009 at 4:11 PM
This and much more entertaining snark at hillbuzz
RushBaby on October 2, 2009 at 4:13 PM
Hell, and I though rooting for your country to not go even more in the red was patriotic.
The left just can’t grasp the fact that Barak and Michelle’s presentation was absolutely horrible, Chicago is a dump of crime and corruption, and the world still hates on America.
I’ve seen better presentations by 4th graders doing book reports.
uknowmorethanme on October 2, 2009 at 4:14 PM
“Rowdy” Gaines sho’nuff blames Chicago’s failure on Bush:
Dude.
notropis on October 2, 2009 at 4:14 PM
So you have that feeling also? Thanks, nice to know I’m not alone…
lovingmyUSA on October 2, 2009 at 4:14 PM
He was on LAST year’s Men’s Health as well…I called and told them to roll their magazine up and shove it up their a$$. The girl that took the message said they had received a lot of the same type of calls.
HornetSting on October 2, 2009 at 4:14 PM
Thank you very much for making my point about your inability to understand what America is. We are unique in the world. The US has always been different than “every other country” which is why we have outperformed them all and been the engine of the world. Go live in a country more suitable to your personality and taste in governance, because you don’t belong in America.
progressoverpeace on October 2, 2009 at 4:14 PM
That’s what happens when you spend all your time complaining about Bush.
VanPalin on October 2, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Ace has the best headliner going right now…it’ll make you laugh, it’ll make you cry:
http://ace.mu.nu/#293135
AUINSC on October 2, 2009 at 4:15 PM
I agree with your theory.
Dave R. on October 2, 2009 at 4:15 PM
So tell them “we’re all Globalists today.”
Patrick S on October 2, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Wrong, Rush! …he has at least a Jupiter-sized ego.
Jay… that’s all he’s got.
mankai on October 2, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Rowdy Gaines??? The same Rowdy Gains who didn’t get to participate in the 1980 Games because of Jimmy Carter? I used to like him… not any more.
behiker on October 2, 2009 at 4:17 PM
So hoping that Chicago fails in it’s bid to get the Olympics is the moral equivalent of hoping that the US loses a war?
Those on the left have a real strange sense of equivalency.
MarkTheGreat on October 2, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Or Robert Downey Jr.?
GnuBreed on October 2, 2009 at 4:18 PM
mike_NC9 on October 2, 2009 at 4:18 PM
Michelle and Oprah…..that’s a lot of fuel.
HornetSting on October 2, 2009 at 4:18 PM
“Incidentally, I’m already seeing lefties on Twitter grumbling…”
They are not only grumbling, they are quoting;
Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, meanwhile, wrote that the news effectively ended the Obama campaign motto of “Yes We Can” by dawning in a new slogan: “No, You Can’t.”
“This is a big win and a massive relief for taxpayers,” she wrote. “But Chicago cronies are not going to take this well. Gird your loins.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/02/conservatives-revel-in-ob_n_307794.html?page=7&show_comment_id=32093588#comment_32093588
What a bunch of whiners.
Jason58 on October 2, 2009 at 4:18 PM
So,I guess the Hopey/Changey World Tour of Apologizing for America isn’t paying off very well for Team Obama!!!
canopfor on October 2, 2009 at 4:18 PM
We can only hope that Obama does this much good for Reid.
joedoe on October 2, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Go live in a country more suitable to your personality and taste in governance, because you don’t belong in America.
–Isn’t it difficult for you to type at the same time you’re trying to unbutton your blue jean overalls and flannel shirt to have sex with your pigs?
Jimbo3 on October 2, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Call them “xenophobic” and ask them why they hate Hispanics so much.
mankai on October 2, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Michelle and Oprah…..that’s a lot of fuel.
HornetSting on October 2, 2009 at 4:18 PM
HornetSting: Thats $58,600.00/per/Hr. to run AF/1 !:)
canopfor on October 2, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Bill Buckner Moved to Tears as Obama Relieves Him of “Biggest Sports Fail” Title http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/10/bill-buckner-moved-to-tears-as-obama.html
Mervis Winter on October 2, 2009 at 4:21 PM
Obama’s plans for The 2016 “Yes We Can!” Chicago Olympics have BEEN LEAKED. Obama planned on recruiting his best talent:
.
Tax Cheat, Tim Geitner to handle all things financial
Jailed Financier, Tony Rezko to handle all real estate purchases
Slumlord, Valerie Jarette to supervise construction of Olympic Complex
Billionare Puppet-Master, George Soros to buy up all the phony tickets
Ex-Ballerina, Rahm Emmanuel to choreograph the opening ceremonies
A.C.O.R.N. to handle athlete’s eligibility/registration
The New Black Panthers to provide security and assist judging events
V.P. Bumbler-in-Chief, Joe Biden to warn everyone to stay away from all the events
Fashionista, Michelle Obama to design all “Team U.S.A.” apparell
Rev. Jeremiah “G-ddamn-America!” Wright to offer the invocation
Shyster-Lawyer David Axelrod to announce events along with Olbermann, Mathhews, & Dowd
Terrorist, Bill Ayers to blow up the (fake) Olympic Villiage and other structures right after the opening ceremony
Truther, Van Jones to blame the explosion on the Bush administration
Al “Always-Blame-Whitey” Sharpton to organize inevitable win-or-lose fiery burn-Chicago-to-the-ground riots
No-Justice-No-Peace, A.G. Eric Holder to investigate the Bush administration’s role in the “War-On-Chicago”
Former LA Governor, Kathleen “Katrina” Blanco to declare state of emergency
Mayor Ray “Chocolate-City” Nagin to handle evacuation
Homie-Land Security Secretary Janet “Beware-the-White-Extremists” Napalitano to declare Marshall Law
Robert “Bagdad-Bob” Gibbs to declare the whole thing an amazing success
What could go wrong?
NightmareOnKStreet on October 2, 2009 at 4:21 PM
I’m with Jay Cost here. There’s been several times on Obama posts that I wanted to write that I’m worn out. And to tell the truth, with his signature presence plus his signature dissembling, it won’t matter if he turns the lights down a little, like the original Head and Shoulders commericial, I’ll see the dandruff anyway.
Also, as for “what it means”, I see a pattern developing of Obama being a big jinx. Everything he touches is a failure or an impending one. (Not all of it is deserved but a heck of a lot it is and it won’t matter because it never matters. It’s his watch.) He’ll always be called The One but if doesn’t have a success soon that moniker will morph to the the meaning “Pariah”.
Dusty on October 2, 2009 at 4:21 PM
Jimmy Carter I: Makes an ass of himself for boycotting the Olympics because of Afghanistan.
Jimmy Carter II: Focuses on Olympics instead of Afghanistan and Olympics make an ass of him by boycotting Chicago.
pearson on October 2, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Uh Barry, one of the reasons America is hated is because we dominate in the Olympics. I’m sure the government controlled media would have referred to people cheering for the USA in Chicago as an angry mob.
mike_NC9 on October 2, 2009 at 4:22 PM
CBP on October 2, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Any American looking at this objectively would be glad to see that American taxpayers (they had already lobbied for the Federal govt. to buy Valeri Jarrett’s slums for the Olympic village) and the Chicago taxpayers have been spared the huge expense and corruption that would accompany the Olympics in Chicago.
Christian Conservative on October 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Go live in a country more suitable to your personality and taste in governance, because you don’t belong in America.
–2 personal insults (one after warning); one in return.
Jimbo3 on October 2, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Very little mention was made by the media about one Valerie Jarrett being with Lord Mayor Shortshanks Daley and Mama Michelle in Copenhagen; at least the reason why she was there were not mentioned.
Valerie Jarrett is one of Daley’s favorite political cronies and one who just happens to own a slew full of slum buildings in an area of the city that just happened to have been selected as the potential site of the Olympic Village if the city had one the bid to host the games.
Jarrett would have made millions off of having those buildings bulldozered over and the Village built in their places, while forcing the poor residents who presently live in those buildings out into the street and being forced to fend for themselves.
That is why it was truly refreshing today to see the look on her face when it was announced that Chicago was the first city eliminated, especially watching those dollar signs she had flashing in her eyes fade away as her face fell into a mask of complete and total shock.
pilamaye on October 2, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Must’ve been those crayons he used….
lovingmyUSA on October 2, 2009 at 4:27 PM
–Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will be in Copenhagen to make the case for Rio. King Juan Carlos of Spain and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero will be there, too, boosting Madrid, and new Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama will be on hand for Tokyo.
–So, obviously, every other country had their top honchos in Copenhagen, but we didn’t? And stop the personal insults.
Jimbo3 on October 2, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Yes, other countries have always sent their heads of state to pitch their Olympic bids, but never super powers. Super powers have more weighty, life & death, world shaping considerations than fun & games, entertainment venues.
It is what was part of American exceptionalism, at one time POTUS was more than just another pitch-man selling Sham-wows!
Archimedes on October 2, 2009 at 4:27 PM
That’s just Jimbo reeling from the realization that he has not a clue what the character, nature or traditions of America are and that he has expressed his own confusion so clearly for all to see. He thought the US was just like Brazil or Spain or Japan … just another country in the world that should follow the pack. We extend him a little slack – so long as he picks up and emigrates soon to a country more suitable to his collectivist ideas.
progressoverpeace on October 2, 2009 at 4:29 PM
I thought Drudge summed it up with “The Ego Has Landed”. Thank you, IOC!
MochaLite on October 2, 2009 at 4:29 PM
Word on the fruit loop is the real reason “Ms”. Michelle Obama went to Denmark was to complete “her” gender re-assignment surgery. All these years as a pre-op was getting her down.Miss Thing wanted to be free of that “thing”.
inevitable on October 2, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Ya know,maybe the world,er Olympic Commitee,was horrified
over the 2X4 Board Riots in the streets of Chicago,with
thugs running amuck!!
I mean,you know,a picture is worth a thousand words or
sumpin like dat!!
canopfor on October 2, 2009 at 4:30 PM
There is no insult there and nothing personal about it. You expressed your love of how other nations run themselves, so you clearly belong there, instead of in America, where we do things diffferently than the rest of the world. You don’t like the individualistic nature of America. Obviously, you would be happier elsewhere. Don’t be embarrassed. Just move.
progressoverpeace on October 2, 2009 at 4:31 PM
As far as the left’s ‘tut-tutting’ – GET USED TO IT! This is only the beginning.
GarandFan on October 2, 2009 at 4:32 PM
I’m praying that Jarrett, Axelrod, and their Chicago buddies got their short hairs yanked. I heared a lot of cronies were buying RE all over the place near the proposed sites.
Suckers.
Beyond that, unforced error, indeed. Why weigh in? Just like interjecting himself in the cop-professor fiasco.
What was he thinking, and who’s advising this idiot?
BuckeyeSam on October 2, 2009 at 4:32 PM
You guys are cracking me up!
jennifernaz on October 2, 2009 at 4:32 PM
So that justifies it? You call for a stop to personal insults and then engage in them yourself.
Esthier on October 2, 2009 at 4:33 PM
I thought Drudge summed it up with “The Ego Has Landed”. Thank you, IOC!
MochaLite on October 2, 2009 at 4:29 PM
+1!
I sprayed my screen with the AM coffee with that headline,LOL!
Archimedes on October 2, 2009 at 4:34 PM
According to Huffington Post readers, the rabid right is to blame for the IOC dissing Chicago. The division in the country (which obviously is all wingnuts’ fault) is why they steered clear.
It has nothing to do with the Celebrity failure. It has nothing to do with the corruption and crime of Chicago.
uknowmorethanme on October 2, 2009 at 4:35 PM
–2 personal insults (one after warning); one in return.
Jimbo3 on October 2, 2009 at 4:25 PM
So that justifies it? You call for a stop to personal insults and then engage in them yourself.
Esthier on October 2, 2009 at 4:33 PM
—–
They don’t understand the concepts of “values” or “hypocrisy” so you have to give them some rope…
uknowmorethanme on October 2, 2009 at 4:36 PM
When does AxleRod start to circle the wagons,and say that
this is a Victory for Obama,and its the eight years of
Bush, as the reason Obama lost!!!
That spin is coming,or already in progress,I bet!!
canopfor on October 2, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Not yet, but he isn’t even a quarter of the way through his first term. Give the man some time.
Socratease on October 2, 2009 at 4:38 PM
It’s all Bush’s fault that anything goes bad in the world.
You have to be really stupid to believe that.
technopeasant on October 2, 2009 at 4:40 PM
It’s all Bush’s fault that anything goes bad in the world.
You have to be really stupid to believe that.
technopeasant on October 2, 2009 at 4:40 PM
technopesant: Bat Sh*t Crazy,comes to mind,hehe!:)
canopfor on October 2, 2009 at 4:41 PM
Yes, other countries have always sent their heads of state to pitch their Olympic bids, but never super powers. Super powers have more weighty, life & death, world shaping considerations than fun & games, entertainment venues.
It is what was part of American exceptionalism, at one time POTUS was more than just another pitch-man selling Sham-wows!
–2012 bid: World leaders included British PM Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
–2008 bid: After speeches by Vice Premier Li Lanqing and other representatives of the Beijing Olympic Games Bid Committee…
–It looks like all the other world leaders did attend the bids.
Jimbo3 on October 2, 2009 at 4:43 PM
I do, Esthier. It’s real clear to me that no one cares anymore, so let’s fight fire with fire.
Jimbo3 on October 2, 2009 at 4:44 PM
I mean, some of you pick on AnnfromCA. How proud your mothers must be to know that you big men are picking on a woman.
Jimbo3 on October 2, 2009 at 4:45 PM
According to Huffington Post readers, the rabid right is to blame for the IOC dissing Chicago. The division in the country (which obviously is all wingnuts’ fault) is why they steered clear.
It has nothing to do with the Celebrity failure. It has nothing to do with the corruption and crime of Chicago.
uknowmorethanme on October 2, 2009 at 4:35 PM
And has nothing to do with gang violence and murder so common place, in the exact ‘hood where the venues were to be built, that make Chicago the #1 murder capital of the world. #1!
Can you imagine the national embarassment caused by the rampant havoc those gangs would have inflicted on Olympic tourists and participants. Dear god, we dodged a bullet (literally) with Rio gettng the games.
Archimedes on October 2, 2009 at 4:45 PM
ZingGgGgG!
the_nile on October 2, 2009 at 4:46 PM
For the first time in her adult life Michael Obama is not proud of every other country outside of America.
Alden Pyle on October 2, 2009 at 4:47 PM
You love embarrassing yourself as much as your Precedent. The US has always been different from ALL OTHER COUNTRIES. We are the only individualistic nation on Earth and the US governmental structure has always been different from every other country in the world. We are the only nation for which parties are NOT fundamental political entities (they do not exist in our Constitution) and our structure is unlike any one else. You obviously don’t understand this and think that the US is some moronic party-oriented, virtual government without any reasonable separation of powers – like all of the Euro-style parliamentary systems that the rest of the world has adopted.
YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND AMERICA.
So, stop with your examples of what “every other country” does. We are not every other country. We are unique. We are individualistic. We are a nation that does not comport with your sense of how nations should be structured and follow the lead of others. You belong somewhere else. And please take your moron Precedent with you.
progressoverpeace on October 2, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Jimbo, that’s no different than many here are feeling after eight years (and counting) of Bush=Hitler. That doesn’t make them right either.
If you believe in civility, defend it.
Esthier on October 2, 2009 at 4:48 PM
My fave: Oprah was so distraught by the news that she ate Denmark.
petefrt on October 2, 2009 at 4:50 PM
It’s President, not Precedent. And I’m as much of an American as you, and maybe more of one. How long have you lived in the US, progressoverpiece? Then we’ll talk about who understands America.
Jimbo3 on October 2, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Most excellent!
BottomLine5 on October 2, 2009 at 4:59 PM
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will be in Copenhagen to make the case for Rio. King Juan Carlos of Spain and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero will be there, too, boosting Madrid, and new Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama will be on hand for Tokyo.
–So, obviously, every other country had their top honchos in Copenhagen, but we didn’t? And stop the personal insults.
Jimbo3 on October 2, 2009 at 4:07 PM
=================
LMAO…….Why did we send our national clown?
David in ATL on October 2, 2009 at 5:00 PM
as i posted earlier today,
without acorn and an 8-1 spending advantage obama is crap.
he isn’t over-exposed; obama was overrated from the start.
look at all he actually accomplished in Chicago as a community organizer and all that he accomplished as a state senator in springfield and as a US Senator in dc:
NOTHING.
ab so effin lutely ZIP.
as a leader, obama is a zero.
yes: he is a hardcore leftist.
yes: he is antizionist and isolationist.
but the key to his present job is the fact that he was owned by the machine and soros.
without their help – and the help of their minions – seiu, acorn ACT, CAP et al etc – obama is a zero.
a total loser.
reliapundit on October 2, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Oh, but they were sooooo pitiful in their whining:
“I guess I’m the only TRUE American here today” and “I guess you all are just America haters”
No one wanted to accept that we all just hate the corrupt bastards that run Chicago and we were glad THEY LOST!
anniekc on October 2, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Jimbo, that’s no different than many here are feeling after eight years (and counting) of Bush=Hitler. That doesn’t make them right either.
If you believe in civility, defend it.
–Esthier, there’s a difference between saying Bush (or Obama) is Hilter (or the AntiChrist) and saying that someone commenting here is an idiot, liar, or should leave the country because they’re not a “real” American (or the equivalent). One’s not personal.
Jimbo3 on October 2, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Very happy to see that the IOC has all those racists there.
larvcom on October 2, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Since Our Fearless Leader has been busy showing the free world his distain for them, is this the payback?
holymoly on October 2, 2009 at 5:04 PM
I wasn’t drawing a direct correlation but just talking about others who would abandon their own beliefs in morality when given the chance.
Besides, you’ve just done the same thing right back to him, saying you’re more of an American than he is. If that’s what you want to do, then fine, but you can’t then complain about what he wrote to you.
Esthier on October 2, 2009 at 5:07 PM
No. He was elected to be a precedent, and that’s all he is – The Precedent.
You don’t seem to know jack about America.
Maybe you think so, but you still don’t know jack about this nation, its structure, its traditions, or its character.
LOL. Born and raised, unlike The Precedent. Why do you ask? Especially when it’s perfectly clear that I have a much deeper knowledge of this nation, and a much better understanding of our founding and guiding principles.
We’ve been talking about who understands America. You don’t. You worry about “every other country” and what they do. Go move to one of them and then you don’t have to worry about being in a uniue nation, anymore. Of course, your moron Precedent might take care of our “uniqueness problem” by destroying our nation and desecrating our values and traditions. But that is what you want, right? You think that the US is just like Brazil or Spain or China. You really should move. I’m telling you, you would be much more comfortable in a country that is that just like “every other country”. It fits your collectivist, un-American personality much better. And, as I keep requesting, could you take your moronic, ineligible, un-American Precedent with you? Please.
progressoverpeace on October 2, 2009 at 5:08 PM
I bounced around a few of the whiny lefty sites. Same crap: We’re all unpatriotic, blah blah blah. So absurd they’re not even worth linking. And here I thought it was un-American to label people unpatriotic?
Rather than examining why the bid failed, all they know is to lash out at the rest of us who are too busy laughing at the clown in the White House. As I noted on another thread, the media will stop talking about this by Sunday, so damaging it is to Obama’s ego and credibility. But if the rest of them want to keep whining and reminding us of Obama’s colossal failure, by all means have at it.
JammieWearingFool on October 2, 2009 at 5:14 PM
inevitable
Please don’t do that.
JAM on October 2, 2009 at 5:15 PM
At least his unforced errors didn’t get us into any unnecessary, preventive wars.
Not yet, but he isn’t even a quarter of the way through his first term. Give the man some time.
Socratease on October 2, 2009 at 4:38 PM
What about his unforced error of dropping the ball on the “necessry war” in Afgahnistan?
Or the coming renewed war due to his spinelessness re: Georgia & Ossetia.
On top of this our feckless Commander in Breifs has no doubt enboldened countless others around the globe, ie; possibly revolution in by pro Ortega/Chavez/Zelaya forces in Honduras, an atomic Iran through it’s proxies, who knows maybe will think this the most opportune time to start bullying Taiwan to rejoin the fold. Or I imagine that the Taliban & al Queda might see an opening to make a push for either Afgahnistan and/or Pakistan.
The ramifications of electing Sir Talks-a-lot are unending and the damage to our standing in various alliances cannot be overstated!
Archimedes on October 2, 2009 at 5:16 PM
I was in tears the entire time I read their pathetic laments…tears of laughter!
AUINSC on October 2, 2009 at 5:16 PM
As I child of Dutch immigrants I sure am proud today.
rollthedice on October 2, 2009 at 5:17 PM
How old are you?
Jimbo3 on October 2, 2009 at 5:21 PM
As Rush would say it.
alohapundit on October 2, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Besides, you’ve just done the same thing right back to him, saying you’re more of an American than he is. If that’s what you want to do, then fine, but you can’t then complain about what he wrote to you.
–What I wrote was I was as much as an American than him, and maybe more so. That’s a bit different. And are you saying that someone who gets hit by a bully has no right to hit back?
Jimbo3 on October 2, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Rush also said that the Spaniards should have convinced Obama to stay in Copenhagen and pitch Rio after Chicago was knocked out.
Madrid surely would have gotten the games in 2016 then!
LOVE Rush.
David2.0 on October 2, 2009 at 5:27 PM
sorry,sometimes I can’t help myself.I’m so ashamed…;)
inevitable on October 2, 2009 at 5:27 PM
“maybe more so” isn’t much different than what he’s said to you.
Defending yourself is one thing. Responding in kind is another.
Again, I’m not saying you shouldn’t do it. Sometimes it’s effective. You just can’t do that and appeal for civility. The two are mutually exclusive.
Esthier on October 2, 2009 at 5:30 PM
I think it’s hilarious! They’re so childishly pathetic – and Americans see that now! It’s pretty exciting!
They feel so guilty for cheering for the jihadists to win against Bush – they actually think that our lauging at Obama for failing to win a sporting event is an equivalent sin!
It’s hilarious! I haven’t been to any lefty sites – but I hope they are just wallowing in self-righteousness over this! Only makes us look better!
HondaV65 on October 2, 2009 at 5:30 PM
pearson on October 2, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Good point.
NebCon on October 2, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Mr. Polanski? Is that YOU again?
NightmareOnKStreet on October 2, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Need a tissue?
hawkdriver on October 2, 2009 at 5:34 PM
I would just like to throw something else into the mix. Contrary to the whining by the CNN anchor that this wasn’t “fair”, it was fair. The US has had the Olympics in Los Angeles (1984) and Atlanta (1996). Trying for them again, so soon after Altanta, is a bit much. South America has never had them and Rio is a world class city. I just think it was time for the Olympics to be in South America…their turn.
Blaise on October 2, 2009 at 5:38 PM
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