Gray Lady: White House clueless on Olympic bid
posted at 9:15 am on October 3, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
I must admit I was a little surprised to read this scathing account of cluelessness and incompetence in the effort to land the 2016 Olympics for Chicago in the New York Times … until I realized it ran in the Sports section. However, political reporters Jeff Zeleny and Peter Baker wrote it, and their inside look at the run-up and the reaction at the White House shows just how much this administration has bought its own press:
Losing out on the Olympics, of course, is not the sort of war-and-peace issue that defines a presidency, and the embarrassment will presumably fade in a news cycle or two. But it provides fodder for critics who are already using it as a metaphor for a president who, in their view, focuses on the wrong priorities and overestimates his capacity to persuade the world to follow his lead. …
A sense of stunned bewilderment suffused Air Force One and the White House. Only after the defeat did many advisers ask questions about the byzantine politics of the Olympic committee. Valerie Jarrett, the president’s senior adviser and a Chicago booster who persuaded him to make the trip while at the United Nations last week, had repeatedly compared the contest to the Iowa caucuses.
But officials said the administration did not independently verify Chicago’s chances, relying instead on the Chicago 2016 committee assertions that the city had enough support to finish in the top two. Mr. Obama, Michelle Obama, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Ms. Jarrett worked the phones in recent weeks without coming away with a sense of how behind Chicago really was.
Let’s see. The White House jumped in front of a situation without understanding it, relying on the word of political cronies to shape their comprehension without checking for themselves. Only after they failed did they ask themselves about the political environment in which they made their proposal. Are we talking about ObamaCare, cap-and-trade, or the Olympics? It’s hard to tell.
No one can accuse the Times of assigning an Obama-hater to this story, either. The last we mentioned Zeleny, he was hitting Obama with a hard-hitting question about how enchanted he was with being President. It doesn’t sound like Zeleny and Baker are terribly enchanted with Obama and his staff at the moment, nor should they be.
In short, this is a microcosm of the entire administration. They entered into a situation about which they knew nothing and put the prestige of the presidency on the line without bothering to listen past themselves and the Daley Machine in Chicago. It only occurred to them that they didn’t know the first thing about the situation until after having wasted their time and distracting themselves from much more pressing — and presidential — matters of war and the economy.
It’s not the end of the world, but perhaps it’s finally the end of the fawning and obsequious assumptions of brilliance about Barack Obama that have informed his media treatment since January 2007.
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How many dealerships managed to stay afloat as a result of the program? How many people were able to keep their jobs?
bileduct on October 3, 2009 at 12:20 PM
With Obamas batting average, will the Democrats send him down to play Double A President?
Jeff from WI on October 3, 2009 at 12:21 PM
jeanie on October 3, 2009 at 12:10 PM
Which McCain are you?
dhunter on October 3, 2009 at 12:22 PM
You just did, but don’t hold your breath waiting for an answer.
mmmm, mmmm, mmmm
GrannyDee on October 3, 2009 at 12:22 PM
I guess The Oprah and The Obamas didn’t watch “The Secret” before going to Copenhagen.
Orrrrrrrrr…maybe they really didn’t want the Olympics in this horrible country. Seriously.
SouthernGent on October 3, 2009 at 12:25 PM
dhunter on October 3, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Figured this might be someone’s reaction. Not going on the defensive, it’s a waste of time. But, saturation can happen. There can be too much of a good thing. ‘Nuff said about it on my part.
jeanie on October 3, 2009 at 12:27 PM
I had heard, but finally confirmed, Chicago only got 18 votes. You can’t tell me that the White House couldn’t have somehow gathered enough information to know it was going to be this bad. A close vote wouldn’t have been as damaging, but only 18 votes? Major fail.
behiker on October 3, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Far fewer than the dealerships arbitrarily closed by the new government motors and all the people who worked at them suddenly out of work.
califcon on October 3, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Once upon a time I used to think Harvard and Obambi’s other schools were hiding his grades and other records because those grades were lousy. Nowadays it seems more likely that his grades were very good but artificially high and completely unearned. Harvard and Zero’s other schools probably don’t want made public just how willing they were to lower their standards and cook their grades for the sake of a cancer called “diversity.”
That is what sank Zero and his wife at the IOC. Both showed up with a sense of entitlement honed by years of undeserved accolades and set-aside treatment and were completely flummoxed by an IOC unwilling to lower their standards. Both Zero and Michelle-O rode their chariot into town expecting more Affirmative Action, so to speak, from the Olympics Committee and were shocked when those unimpressed Committee members told them to go to hell.
viking01 on October 3, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Valerie Jarrett, the president’s senior adviser and a Chicago
boosterslumlord who persuaded him to make the trip while at the United Nations last week, had repeatedly compared the contest to the Iowa caucuses.Akzed on October 3, 2009 at 12:30 PM
I forgot that’s why he’s called President Toonces. My other favorites are President Dreamcatcher and President Macarena.
alliebobbitt on October 3, 2009 at 12:31 PM
Sales were up in the summer, but at the expense of auto sales during the fall, since the initial post-Clunkers numbers show a sharp drop in new vehicle purchases for September.
So they just kicked the can down the road, and moved potential dealer closures and job losses from the Labor Day period to the Thanksgiving-Christmas holiday season, in hopes there would be some magic turnaround in the overall economy between May and August. They gambled and lost and now are faced with coming back to Congress to seek more bailout funds for GM and Chrysler by early next year.
jon1979 on October 3, 2009 at 12:31 PM
Yes, remind me again which issue we are discussing. This is so broad.
God help us.
gopmom on October 3, 2009 at 12:32 PM
Regrettably, I think you underestimate the fawning obsequiousness of Obama’s supporters in the media, in the political class, and amongst the elitist intelligentsia (or what passes for analytical thinkers at the university level).
The Nelson Muntz treatment is more required than ever, to be presented at every occasion where political and media dopes lie for the benefit of the administration and the narcissistic passive-aggressive president.
Keep up the psyops!
ExpressoBold on October 3, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Ted Turner to restart The Goodwill Games in Chicago after renaming them The Obama Games in 3, 2….
Caper29 on October 3, 2009 at 12:36 PM
He is the pawn of the crooks who put him in office. Having defeated the Clintons and then the Republicans, Obama felt he was invincible. Jarrett has little experience outside of DC and Chicago. No one in the Obama administration has a shred of respect for this country, the American people or the office of POTUS. They figured they send their A team, a suitcase full of money, Obama would give a speech, and it was a done deal. I would laugh, if it weren’t so pathetic.
alliebobbitt on October 3, 2009 at 12:36 PM
Who’s ass is in a sling over the loss of the Olympics? Chigago missed the boat. Will Jarrett miss the bus?
tpitman on October 3, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Those who contributed to Republican campaigns were the ones that shut down.
Why did the scorpion sting the frog?
Akzed on October 3, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Late to the party here – but… Let’s see, 2016 would have been the last year of Obama’s precendency; Olympics held in Obama’s hometown, hosted by his merry band of thugs and thieves; Visions of Obama, regal in the robes of his imperial 8-year precendency in front of his massive greek columns, addressing the whollllllle woRLD, from his union-built olympic stage….
umm, no thanks. We already had the 1936 olympics in Berlin. Come up with some original material there, punks.
Fishoutofwater on October 3, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Actually, very few because of the rebate program. Most went out at that point because the government took away their dealerships, some of them in the family for almost 100 years. Many were kept because of who they backed politically. Those that DID hang on will do so for a very short time. Now that the rebate program is over, and those who were already going to buy a car anyhow, used up those funds, it only delayed the dead time they’re having now.
Jeff from WI on October 3, 2009 at 12:42 PM
Guess maybe they didn’t know that “There Are No Secrets”…only things that haven’t been discovered yet (especially by big egos that don’t know when they’re on the opposite side of “right.”)
Nalea on October 3, 2009 at 12:42 PM
They need a good scrubbing now. That sticky stuff doesn’t come off from a simple shower. With them it’s crusty by now.
Schadenfreude on October 3, 2009 at 12:42 PM
Obama and Mayor Daly to announce next week that they’ve helped bring Rummage O Rama to the Mc Cormick Center next spring to make up for the Olympics.
Jeff from WI on October 3, 2009 at 12:44 PM
Well, the REPUBLICAN owned dealerships were closed by the obama administration so we will be working with some artifically skewed data.
Can you tell me where in the US constitution we find the authority for the federal government to redistribute wealth in this manner?
The money that was spend on CFC had to come from somewhere. Had that money been spent by the private sector, market forces would have allocated it much more efficiently. There would have been a much more positive net effect on the economy and GDP.
BTW – sales dropped like a rock after CFC ended. Government intervention ala the tax on luxury boats, always has a ton of unintended consequences
bullseye on October 3, 2009 at 12:47 PM
There is a lot of evidence bubbling up that points to Ozero wanting to Be POTUSFORLIFE instead of plain old POTUS or TOTUS. His support for the would be dictator who was ousted via legal means is very telling on this.
bullseye on October 3, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Cash For Clunkers: Another Obama program that fails to bring home the gold.
Looking like a “track record” if you know what I mean.
Skills.
ted c on October 3, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Yes, now Obama is forever going to be tormented when he walks out of the House that Tony Bought. Things he won’t see are the massive Olympic Stadiums that won’t bear his name, that weren’t built by union workers and whose land wasn’t owned by Valerie Jarrett. In its place remains the stark reality of the slums, the crime, the drugs and the “organization” that remains unfinished.
Reality.
ted c on October 3, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Remember, right after the election, and Democrats crowed, “It’s Nice Because Now We Have A Real President We Can Be Proud Of”.
Well Democrats…LOSERS!!….BBbbbwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Jeff from WI on October 3, 2009 at 12:57 PM
And as we told you yesterday, we don’t care about your opinion.
Go away. Please. Just go away.
GrannyDee on October 3, 2009 at 12:58 PM
Gee, since he wasn’t able to bring his thugs to intimidate the IOC like he did to the little old ladies attending the Iowa Caucuses,it didn’t work out so well.
AZfederalist on October 3, 2009 at 1:01 PM
I heard on NPR that the CFC was so successful that auto dealers depleted their stocks of new cars and that is why car sales have plummeted after the program ended. Yeah, right.
Dhuka on October 3, 2009 at 1:01 PM
Edited your paragraph for you Ed.
Mallard T. Drake on October 3, 2009 at 1:02 PM
The worm has turned.
{I always wanted to say that}
Terrye on October 3, 2009 at 1:02 PM
So instead of selling them closer to full price you and I the taxpayers paid for an unneeded discount? They would have sold them anyway I guess.
CWforFreedom on October 3, 2009 at 1:07 PM
September 2009 sales drops for the big 3:
califcon on October 3, 2009 at 1:10 PM
I think its important to add – millions were spent on the effort – largely relying on local and federal taxes to market thier defeat.
Additinoalyl a hospital was razed in “hopes” of locking it in as an Olympic facility and Section 8 housing “promises” to the ignorant Chicago folks, along with their developers hoping to bilk money in the end.
Yup – pretty consistent failures: spend money your country and city do not have, make backdoor promises through payola that never materialized – all the while overlooking the real crime, poverty and dismal economy around them
Obama politics folks.
Odie1941 on October 3, 2009 at 1:10 PM
INteresting who had the lowest decline (which btw – Ford beat expectations of losses). Good thing Moron in Chief doesnt want to take over the auto industry and the results are…. evident.
Just another snapshot of failed government takeovers, horrid sales and horrid investment predictions.
Ford’s stock price
GM, delisted to pink sheets (roughly 97% evaporated, Chrysler – no longer trading…
Odie1941 on October 3, 2009 at 1:16 PM
Cash For Clunkers: A great example of the gubmint printing free cheese and laying it in front of the mice.
Car Sales: How’s that for (un)sustainability!
ted c on October 3, 2009 at 1:18 PM
I’d say that Ford’s 5.1 decline over Sept. 2008 is nothing short of spectacular, considering what’s happened to the economy in that 12 months.
califcon on October 3, 2009 at 1:20 PM
Yeah, Triple-A is too good for him.
Del Dolemonte on October 3, 2009 at 1:20 PM
Did Obama wear his Mom jeans when he went to make his IOC pitch?
Looks like he’s having difficulty getting the ball over the plate in more ways than one….
Skills.
ted c on October 3, 2009 at 1:22 PM
He certainly ain’t no pitcher, and, from the looks of his czars, he might be better at catcher….
ted c on October 3, 2009 at 1:23 PM
Hey Ed, Allah:
Please verify this and do a post. This is a big story if it’s authentic.
Pretty please?
Saltysam on October 3, 2009 at 1:25 PM
In fairness to today’s newborn when they reach adulthood and are seeking a loan for their first car they should be able to claim that they’ve bought a car before. For their parents or grandparents back in 2009 via the 90 percent Federal Tax they’re paying in 2029 for the incompetent Marxist president who sold the future to pay off his UAW cronies.
viking01 on October 3, 2009 at 1:29 PM
Good point – namely since foreign companies benefitted the most – and out of domestic sales – Ford’s F 150 topped the list.
Dealerships are continuing to close, have no stock or have too much stock – blindly believing the cash for clukers would keep on rolling… and to top it off – initially closed dealerships who were in the black, largely due to political affiliations – and not profit results.
Odie1941 on October 3, 2009 at 1:33 PM
Metaphor, indeed.
Also, the epic fail of the Olympic bid underscores a much larger problem – exactly how often does this egotistical faith in their own press interfere with their behavior on other, much larger and more important issues? It is apparent that Obama sets very little store by the counsel of his own experts on Afghanistan and the economy. His administration has yet to shift out of campaign mode; the “spin doctors” hold sway, simply because this man is in love with the idea of being The President, and has neither the interest nor the inclination to be a president. This is the definition of the Machine politics that have corrupted Chicago for decades. Never mind what the right decision is; rather, what is the decision that will put him in the best possible light? We see what this sort of cronyism and partisanship has done to the city of Chicago. On a national scale, it not only won’t work, but it will prove the undoing of the United States.
uncivilized on October 3, 2009 at 1:39 PM
+1000
NoFanofLibs on October 3, 2009 at 1:41 PM
C4C screwed so many people. In fact from what I heard salesmen often had their commissions cut on these deals.
CWforFreedom on October 3, 2009 at 1:50 PM
I wouldn’t be holding my breath, Ed. It’ll be easy to throw Obama under the bus, relative to having folks admit that they went batshiat crazy over a complete amateur.
dissent555 on October 3, 2009 at 2:02 PM
Affirmative Action President?
PackerBronco on October 3, 2009 at 2:05 PM
The gray lady has Alzheimer’s.
Daggett on October 3, 2009 at 2:05 PM
Actually, this cannot be accurately claimed. The price tag for liberal social policies is fiscally obscene.
anuts on October 3, 2009 at 2:08 PM
This means one thing…and it very typical of the libtard universe.
All socialists are fiscally conservative. They hate it when they have to give their money away, which is why they just don’t pay taxes. However, the socialist in them has absolutely no problem with spending other peoples’ money.
So the definition of a Marxist is socially liberal, fiscally conservative.
BobMbx on October 3, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Well, I was glad the Olympics went to Rio. They have a big statue of Jesus on the hill overlooking the city which no one has taken down yet so they deserve something. And South America has never hosted an Olympic event. AND we, the American people, aren’t going to have to foot the bill for a corrupt sporting event in a corrupt town run by corrupt politicians who deal with corrupt contractors who will submit corrupted bids which will be terribly underbid causing the project to go over budget thus putting the burden of paying for the overrun squarely on the shoulders of everyone else at large–not just those in Chicago and Illinois. I think we dodged a financial bullet here even though we paid for AT least two plane loads of people, their meals, their hotels, ground transportation, etc in the course of this absolutely fruitless junket to nowhere. I am relieved. I must also confess to a certain amount of glee at the fact that O, Ms.O, the O, and the rest of the Hee Haw gang couldn’t land the most premiere sporting event in the world. It’s fun to watch “the world” say “no” to a megalomaniac. Unfortunately it doesn’t bode well for more pressing matters of foreign policy. But then the world knows a good joke when it sees one.
Driefromseattle on October 3, 2009 at 2:20 PM
The White House has only one mode: ANTI-AMERICAN
There was nothing clueless about what the White House did with the Copenhagen trip. The intent was to demean and denigrate the office of the Presidency and to go against all American tradition. They were wildly successful in those pursuits. Getting the Olympics for Chicago was a far-distant second goal.
progressoverpeace on October 3, 2009 at 2:42 PM
I have maintained all along that Obama was smart, but Marxist.
Now I am beginning to wonder. Marxist and a dufus.
This may be a better combination for us. Easier to defeat.
faraway on October 3, 2009 at 2:45 PM
We have one ray of hope in the fact that The Precedent is a total imbecile. He’s too stupid to fashion any complex strategy against our nation. Unfortunately, on the other side, we are in more danger because, to my view, he is not a marxist, but only wants to exact revenge on the US and the West – destroying our society for no reason other than to make us feel the pain that he thinks we deserve.
His incompetence is a plus for us, but that is offset by the truly destructive nature of his desires for America. It doesn’t take much competence to wreak havoc on a complex system, and that is all he cares about.
That’s how I see it.
progressoverpeace on October 3, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Cash 4 Clunkers was the best fastest way to kill off more dealerships than the government had already closed.
What dealerships need is steady demand based on a growing economy. What they got instead was a cash crunch waiting for the government to live up to their obligations which crippled many of them. Then when they finally got paid what they were due, (if the bankers had not already taken them over) they were faced with a dead market because anyone who was entertaining the idea of buying a car in the next year or so already had.
Many Many dealerships will close this year and next thanks to this payoff to the UAW.
conservnut on October 3, 2009 at 3:00 PM
“In fact, I am socially liberal, fiscally conservative.
AnninCA on October 3, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Actually, this cannot be accurately claimed. The price tag for liberal social policies is fiscally obscene.
anuts on October 3, 2009 at 2:08 PM”
anuts makes a really great point, that I think deserves more attention. This administration has laid waste to the whole claim of anyone being “socially liberal, but a fiscal conservative.” The two are contradictory, at least in the context of today’s Socialist Democratic Party. Today, to be socially liberal is by definition, to be fiscally socialist.
Star20 on October 3, 2009 at 3:02 PM
This is simple: look at the people involved.
Michelle Obama, despite her magnificent arms is one of the more clueless and tonedeaf people we have seen in the public eye recently. This is no doubt because, as a black woman with an Ivy League degree and high profile, high income job, she is among the rarest creatures in our society. She also exists in one of the densest bubbles ever imagined. You can’t name a topic on which she knows anything. Chicago’s chances of winning an Olympic bid? You’ve got to be kidding.
Valerie Jarrett is an imbecile. Simply watch any recording available of her speaking. Joe Biden is a legendary imbecile. And O’Bozo himself only hears what his sycophants tell him. When the sycophants are of the Chicago Dem/Mob variety, you can only imagine the poofery.
These are the people who were “working the phones”?
Jaibones on October 3, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Bumpty Odumpty acted as his empty self in too many an untinking judgment call
Bumpty Odumpty has had a great fall
All the tyrants Axelrods and all the tyrants Rahm con men
Can’t put Bumpty Odumpty’s mask back on again
MB4 on October 3, 2009 at 3:14 PM
REMEMBER RIO
voxpopuli on October 3, 2009 at 3:19 PM
She might have made millions, but either way we paid millions for the presidental trip to push for what she wanted. It would appear that under the circumstances there is a conflict of interest. She used her official position for personal interest and finacial gain. She used tax payer funding to promote her interest for personal gain and used a government office, the presidency and all those that were involved in making the arrangements, for personal gain. The fact that her efforts proved ineffective in achieving the desired goal does not negate the attempt that was made or the expense that was billed to the tax payers.
Of course this is not alarming to the Obama administration for who this type of abuse is acceptable.
Franklyn on October 3, 2009 at 3:24 PM
That Hee Haw reference is deeply insulting to all hillbillies, and I are one.
Pelayo on October 3, 2009 at 3:26 PM
Well, at least there won’t be a time delay of umpteen hours. I believe that Rio is one hour ahead of Eastern.
Pelayo on October 3, 2009 at 3:32 PM
Why does my government think it should be manipulating these things with Chinese credit?
Ronnie on October 3, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Is it?
Or are we also talking about the Gates arrest blunder, TARP, Iran, Honduras, Russia…his cabinet?
This is nowhere near the whip-smartest bunch in history…as advertised…and its OK to point this out
to doe-eyed Obamabots who insist otherwise.
Mike D. on October 3, 2009 at 3:51 PM
Realizing she lacks credibility, she grasps at something thing treasured most at HotAir, fiscal responsibility, and tries it on for size. And the rest is a matter of record.
maverick muse on October 3, 2009 at 3:57 PM
BobMx,
The definition of Marxist may be a social liberal PRESUMING fiscal conservatism in order to sell their propaganda shtick of lies. Note well, they have to lie to themselves, not just to others. They can not be true to themselves, as they are constantly revising versions, as if there’s no history.
And this above all, to thine ownself be true. Propagandists interested in thieving liberty from others just don’t get it.
Shakespeare’s HAMLET
And these few precepts in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch’d, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear’t that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
maverick muse on October 3, 2009 at 4:01 PM
MB4 on October 3, 2009 at 3:14 PM
I’ve been expressing my hope that Obama would get some sense knocked into his head from this fall from Parnassus.
Given his mind, he’s most likely to come to find stateside that he can survive this rather easily. Perhaps too easily for his own good, as his audacity of hope will motivate him to continue rashly taking careless chances without fear of ultimate consequences, the media cushioning every fall as best they can. Without being confronted with his own faults, he’d inevitably lead himself to fall as Humpty Dumpty at the point of no return.
maverick muse on October 3, 2009 at 4:11 PM
I have a dream also. It is with glee that I conger up visions of the actual debates in store for Obama and Sarah. Sorry liar, no teleprompter allowed. You will be killed by any possible GOP candidate since you can’t talk and you certainly are not honest and it will be there for all to see.
highninside on October 3, 2009 at 4:21 PM
Re: the other Gates
I have angst over Defense Sec. Gates sitting on the McChrystal report STILL, and the “20 minute” gloss-over Obama’s media are hyping in the latest London moment when Obama had yet to read the report that he was supposedly “discussing”.
About Obama’s Afghan lack of leadership, I’ve read two rumors:
1. Obama plans to replace Sec.Gates by year’s end with a yes-man who has NO concept regarding national defense except to walk away from that responsibility.
2. Obama is waiting to announce anything until Tony Blair becomes EU President, at which point Obama will continue to not make decisions.
maverick muse on October 3, 2009 at 4:21 PM
Zero.
xblade on October 3, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Ok, has everybody calmed down now?
The delirium level of yesterday’s pants-wetting “Obama Fail” frenzy had me thinking that late returns had come in and that he had lost the election.
Turns out he’s still president and will be for the next three plus years. The Obama haters were just displaying their frantic desperation to find something anything to proclaim him a failure and perform the victory dance denied them last year.
But that was yesterday. You’re already jonesing for your next “Obama Fail” fix, aren’t you?
Oh, and Chicago lost the Olympics.
Well done, conservatives…carry on wanking!
chumpThreads on October 3, 2009 at 5:05 PM
The Washington Post was kinder to the filthy lying coward.
The front page had a story (below the fold) mentioned in passing the the filthy liar was well-recieved and called the liar “disappointed.” Inside, the real story of just how bad this defeat was emerged. There was no way these games were going anywhere but Rio and it was absurd to think that the filthy liar could so enchant the committee that the outcome would have been different. Other stories talked about how Michelle Obama absolutely captivated everybody in Copenhagen with not a few times implying that she’s the new Jackie Kennedy. The sports section blamed it all on the USOC and their feud with the IOC.
Personally, I think Rio is where these games should have gone. South America as a continent has never hosted an Olympiad while all the other nations have been prior hosts. More importantly with the exception of South Korea in 1988 and China in 2008, the Summer Games have always gone to one of the big and Westernized nations since Mexico City hosted in 1968. If not a European nation or the US it was in places like Australia.
The next Winter games are in Canada and the next Summer games are in London. Why should the pattern continue with the US, Spain, or Japan? I would suggest that it needs to go to Brazil with the hope that their Olympic dreams of prosperity are not dashed when the realities of organizing such an event sink in. Contrary to popular opinion, Olympic cities don’t make the kind of money suggested during the courtship phase. Chicago spent millions just to get to the finals.
highhopes on October 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM
Wow, you must be on some really strong drugs to come up with that. The filthy lying coward still failed yesterday. He cheapened the office of the President to go to Denmark and act like he was selling Amway products. He got b**ch-slapped back into the reality that he is not God.
I’m glad he failed. It should make fools like you aware that the rat bastard traitor isn’t universally loved and that opposition isn’t limited to those who listen to talk radio and certain cable news channels. I say should because it is clear that you are one of those who will be defending the lying coward no matter what he does. You are a zombie not worthy of debate since you have nothing to add to the discussion.
highhopes on October 3, 2009 at 5:21 PM
I’m not sure why the second rumor has anything to do with the first. What am I missing?
As to the first rumor, it makes sense. Gates was retained to give the filthy lying coward political cover on military matters in the beginning days of the administration. Gates was a fool to stay on. The filthy lying coward has his choices in place in the Departments (Army/Navy/AF) so Gates and the people he kept around are in the way now. They need to be replaced so that “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and some of the various other intiatives of a party and President that loathes the military exerts its power.
More interesting to me is if Mike Mullen will get reconfirmed or if the lying coward has somebody else lined up to become his yes-man as CJCS.
highhopes on October 3, 2009 at 5:27 PM
I hit this point about 2 months ago. It took me 5 years to hit that point with Clinton, and about 2 years to hit that point with Carter.
karenhasfreedom on October 3, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Lilly-livered left “it must be Booosh’s fault“, heh.
Schadenfreude on October 3, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Obama is a complete failure at everything he has attempted. If his leftist lap dogs in congress continue to follow his crooked path they should be sent packing at the earliest possible time. Obama, Reid, Pelosi and the rest of the leftist gaggle in congress are attempting to turn this once great Republic into a second class totalitarian state and the should never be allowed to succeed.
rplat on October 3, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Remember with the libs in gov’t and MSM its the intentions that count and not the results. Kinda like a Governmental Oprah on steroids.
chickasaw42 on October 3, 2009 at 6:26 PM
If you want to see this whole thing summed up in lovely political satire just go to “www.daybydaycartoon.com”. They have it covered.
duff65 on October 3, 2009 at 6:35 PM
You forgot his theme music…
Seven Percent Solution on October 3, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Instead of dealing with Samoa (an American Territory), Obama flees to Denmark. I submit that Samoa is the new Katrina.
Obama obviously doesn’t like Pacific Islanders.
Mutnodjmet on October 3, 2009 at 6:56 PM
And remember when he first ran for the state house, he did so in a very safe democratic district AND got his opponents scrubbed off the ballot. So he didn’t even dare go into an real open election that was not stacked in his favor from the get go. Pu$$y
karenhasfreedom on October 3, 2009 at 6:58 PM
lol
Let me know when he does something good for this country.
bridgetown on October 3, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Oh dear…
That’s the problem with an “Obama Fail” high. It’s not so pretty when it fades away.
chumpThreads on October 3, 2009 at 7:29 PM
They have forgotten
They cheated in Iowa.
No ACORN this time…
Haiku Guy on October 3, 2009 at 7:37 PM
Valerie forgot to fly in her thugs from Chicago to strongarm the IOC voters.
lonestar1 on October 3, 2009 at 7:48 PM
My position vis-a-vis the rat bastard traitor in the White House has been the same since well before his taking office. There is no “high” from his recent failure. I’ve noted them all and am still waiting for the filthy lying bastard to show where his administration rises to the promises of his campaign.
Can you, dear troll, perhaps point out an Obama success? Somewhere where the coward has actually lived up to the hype? Take your best shot at defending this traitor or STFU.
highhopes on October 3, 2009 at 7:49 PM
As in “Nice committee you’ve got here, shame if something would happen to it”?
highhopes on October 3, 2009 at 7:50 PM
And I bet you think we’re all too hard on poor Roman, too. Ah, the price of genius…
Veritas on October 3, 2009 at 7:57 PM
OT but here’s Charles once again cherry-picking the Hot Air comments
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/34809_America_Loses_-_Right_Wings_Blogs_Celebrate
scalleywag on October 3, 2009 at 8:01 PM
So, instead of dealing with Samoa (an American Territory), Obama flees to Denmark. I submit that Samoa is the new Katrina.
Obama obviously doesn’t like Pacific Islanders.
Mutnodjmet on October 3, 2009 at 8:09 PM
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