White House Calls Chicago’s Olympic Loss ‘Disappointing’

LMAO uhhhh does Rahm still have those seats available LMAO AT THESE LOSERS
TimesOnline.. This brings more doubts about Obamas presidency and his standing in the world

ROFL. . .now Rahm has a front seat to defeat

WOW 18 votes ROFL

Must be very disappointing especially to Michelle.
She and her husband sacrificed so much by going to Copenhagen.
The taxpayers only gave millions of their hard earned money.
They are so out of touch with those outside of their elite bubble.

Like other failures of Obama, this one will be ignored by the press.
However, if Chicago had gotten the Olympics just imagine the press going totally Obama crazy with:
Headlines:
“Obamalympics 2016!”
“Obama Brings Home the Gold!”
Michelle`s basketball coach brother would have been selected as head coach for the US Olympic basketball team.
In 7 years at least one of the two Obama daughters would be on an Olympic team.
There would have been a ticker tape parade through Chicago with Obama riding in the Obamamobile as the One who blessed America with the 2016 Olympic games.
We would have watched report after report about how the entire world loves Obama so much that they gave him the Olympics. The US was not awarded the Olympics, Obama was awarded the Olympics.
T-shirts and souvenirs with the “Chicago Obamalympics 2016″ sold by the bazillions.
His 2012 Presdential campaign would have had the sub-theme of he brought us the Olympics in 2016, vote for Obama again so the President can be there at his “Obamalympics”.
A new Olympic sport would be added in 2016 – “Best Toned Upper Arms”, and Michelle would get the gold medal. Whining to the reporters, Michelle would tell us all, “I sacrificed so much so America could have the gold.”
We should be so happy that Rio got the Olympics.

Barack Hussein Obama!
Mmmmm mmmmm mmmm!

That’s it world.. don’t mess with the POTUS..just for that he’s going to send more troops to Afghanistan.. that should teach you.

It’s great that Mr. Obama “feels good for having made the effort”.
Too bad it took 1.2 mil in fuel to fly TWO jets, at an exhorbitant cost to taxpayers to make him feel good.
“All he lost was some sleep”.
The rest of us lost more tax money during a recession.

Too bad it took 1.2 mil in fuel to fly TWO jets, at an exhorbitant cost to taxpayers to make him feel good.
Posted by: Lewis
did you also take the time to calculate the cost of Bush playing tourist at the olympics in China for 4+ days

Bill Clinton would have done the job! That says a lot about Clinton greater than Obama.

Maybe he should have brought David Letterman and his staff, instead of Oprah
They seem to be real good at screwing around

“they cheer when America loses out..”
WAAAAAHHH. WAAAAAHHH.
This was a win for the American taxpayer and for those who fight corruption. There’s no doubt federal funds would’ve flowed to Obama’s cronies in Chicago (Obama and WH cronies would receive payback down the road with “donations” to Obama Library a la Bill Clinton).
mmm mmm mmm Barack Hussein Obama
He lost the bid
From Michelle he hid
mmm mmm mmm Barack Hussein Obama

Can you imagine the plane ride back to the US?
Michelle and Rahm cursing
Oprah eating comfort food
Obama crying and sucking his thumb.
Mayor Daley plotting other ways to get our stimulus money.

I’d just like to say..What happened to the headlines focusing on Crime here in Chicago. Most recently, the Fenger Highschool Student Beaten to death. I enjoyed watching the news last night opening up with Chicago’s Chances for the Olympics for 20 minutes and then hearing nothing about what happened to the student.. See that.. not even I remembered his name..
SAD!!!
Posted by: Jand Bond | Oct 2, 2009 2:21:13 PM
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Maybe the Olympic Committee this into consideration. That poor child died in a supposedly safe place – outside a Chicago school – while obama was busy making phone calls on behalf of Chicago. Did obama even say a word about how unfortunate and awful this was? No. It was all about the chicago olympics for the past 2 weeks. Not even a thought of the soldiers dying in Afghanistan for the past 2 weeks. And the General had to come to him in Copenhagen – he didn’t go to Afghanistan.

But the world loves him….
Maybe Obama’s life story for the 300th time is starting to get old.

And the General had to come to him in Copenhagen – he didn’t go to Afghanistan.
Posted by: Jenny | Oct 2, 2009 2:35:06 PM
Perhaps because the General was in London. Forehead slap!

It’s a shame that this WH is so dense that they do not recognize when they’ve been slapped down by the international community.
Posted by: SjB
after 8 years of Bush..the ‘right’ is suddenly concerned about the international community..
hilarious

It was probably the absence of ‘Blago’ that tilted the scale.. or Tony Rez..

I am laughing so hard that it hurts.
Michelle thought her sacrifice and tearjerker speech would get the IOC ready for her husband.
He would ride in on a white horse to save the day. Read the prompters, flash that fake smile—that’s all it would take.
Maybe they will learn a valuable lesson.
The whole world sees through them.
You too Oprah.

There is too much crime in Chicago. Also because of the magnitude of corruption, it would cost of fortune to build an olympic village. By the time everyone put their hands in the coffers.

I wonder if the video of Chicago teens killing each other had anything to do with this.
Or Chicago leading the US in murders in 2008?
Or the political cesspool or corruption?
Nah…I think it was Obama’s ego.
People are tired of it.

… what kind of a society have we become when a decision like this is greeted with ANY thought other than “Wow, that’s a shame – but at least our President gave it a shot. We’ll get it next time.”
You know, like AMERICANS first – and spoiled political sore-losers second.
To declare ad hominem war on our current President over a decision by the IOC is to declare that there simply is NO common ground left on which we can share a unified thought as a people, be it elation OR disappointment. How pathetically sad.
…Thanks to all who continue to demonstrate to the world that we’ve become a culture of petty bullies who’ll waste no opportunity to separate us further.
Is it any wonder that the U.S. would be passed over for an event which symbolizes unity and brotherhood?
Posted by: LongTimeLiberal52 | Oct 2, 2009 2:25:25 PM
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Nice post. I’ve seen a couple repeats here of Eric Erickson’s “World Rejects Barack Obama: Hahahahaha. I thought the world would love us more now that Bush was gone. I thought if we whored ourselves out to our enemies, great things would happen. Apparently not. ” Classy. Malkin, the Weekly Standard and Fox News all are showing how anti-American, vitriolic, over the top, divisive and petty they really are- though the Weekly Standard tried to hide their cravenness by deleting references to the cheering in their office. Eyeroll. Doubt in the end it will do much for the GOP brand, which remains in the toilet.
Congratulations to Rio. I’m moving on…

At least the attention is off of unemployment increasing to 9.8%
Biden is probably grateful for that.
How will the media spin all of this?
Silly me…If it hurts Obama the MSM will ignore it.

My President went to Copenhagen and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt:
Rio – 2016

Axelrod should know: “Keep your mouth shut and people may still think you’re a fool; Open your mouth and remove all doubt.” Pathetic spin…embarrassing.
There is incompetence on display from the One on down through this administration. But with such a grandiose self-image of himself, why should anyone be surprised.

guess who said:
‘They say that the Olympics will come to Chicago if we’re fortunate enough to be selected, but really it’s coming to America, and I can’t think of a better city to represent the United States than Chicago.’
Give up? It was George W. Bush, who as stupid as he was, at least seemed to realize that Chicago was actually in America. The wingnuts hate Obama so much, that the hate has been transferred to not just Chicago, but the whole country.

“Hatred only destroys its inhabiter!”
- patx
This, coming from someone who admires Michael Moore.

Favorite Olympic Quote:
It speaks volumes about the state of things when it takes a decision by the Olympic Selection Committee to keep Chicago’s taxpayers from getting completely screwed once again.

It’s going to be a long flight back.
Karma.
It’s a you know what.

This decision is not surprising. Obama has spent the last nine months telling the world how bad the US is and yet how stupendous he is.
Why would the IOC want to hold the Olympics in a miserable country?
This is a monumental failure. Obama bet the farm – his Presidency- and lost. He has only hastened the loss of US prestige. He is further weakened but worse yet so are we.

Obama said:
“You see, growing up, my family moved around a lot,” he said. “I grew up in Hawaii, I lived in Indonesia for a time. I never really had roots in any one place or culture or ethnic group. Then I came to Chicago. And on those Chicago streets, I worked alongside men and women who were black and white, Latino and Asian, people of every class and nationality and religion.”
I,I,I,I,I
Obama says: “There is no team in I”

“Obama says: “There is no team in I”"
There is a “me…”

Speaking of Michael Moore, tonight is opening night for his new film “Capitalism: A Love Story.”
This film tackles an issue he has been examining throughout his career: the diastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans.
Frankly, this issue/film should be of interest no matter what side of the aisle you are on. Corporate America controls both Dems. and Repubs. and thus, this country.

“the diastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans.”
patx – I see your point – Let’s take pitchforks and torches too all corporations and return to a society of hunters and gathers. Thanks for the heads-up.

Speaking of Michael Moore, tonight is opening night for his new film “Capitalism: A Love Story.”
Moore said capitalism has done nothing for him, except for $50 million dollars.
Moore invested in Halliburton.
Moore moved his post production company to Canada to avoid paying tazes.
Moore used non-union stagehands to save himself money.
And you lefties worship this guy. Exactly what is wrong with you??

The real tragedy is that Obama made himself and America look weak and foolish to the rest of the world. The world just became a little bit more dangerous. Don’t kid yourselves, the world took notice.

“Obama goes everywhere he can and apologizes and bashes the USA, then thinks he can go before the IOC and make the case that we are better than the rest… clueless”
Pres Obama does not go everywhere & apologize & bash the US ….. who have you been listening to? That is another GOP myth, you know, from the people who feel if you say something long enough & loud enough it will become the truth.
I believe Pres Obama is simply trying to re-build what W destroyed.

Posted by: tjp612 | Oct 2, 2009 3:33:46 PM
“I’m assuming, tjp, that you’re referring to the ALLEGED pettiness and incivility of the Left for their criticisms of Mr. Bush”
Alleged? Have you been in a coma for the past 8 years? Do you also deny the Holocaust?
“But the truth is that those excesses on the Left were few and far between.”
Are you familiar with the work of Olbermann, Mathews, Schultz, Maher, M. Moore, etc., etc., etc.? You cannot, in all good conscience, believe what you are saying. Ridiculous.
mmm mmm mmm
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Thank you, tjp, for proving my point about “false equivalency” with your response.
You speak of “good conscience” – yet, without considering for a moment whether I might be Jewish (I am), equate my justifiable criticism of the Right’s ad hominem attacks with Holocaust denial?! Talk about demonstrating restraint and civility.
And no, I wasn’t “in a coma” during the reign of Mr. Bush – though I wish I had been. The previous President was criticized for (among other things) launching an unprecedented attack on a sovereign nation that posed no immediate threat to us, and had NO involvement in 9/11; knowingly fabricating or misrepresenting the evidence in order to start that war; assaulting the Constitution to enable domestic spying, suspension of habeus corpus, and extraordinary rendition; supporting torture as official U.S. policy; fumbling the Katrina rescue and reconstruction effort; bankrupting the American economy; conflating church and state through federal faith-based programs and judicial appointments; and contributing, by means of his incompetence in office, to the deaths of over 4,500 men and women in uniform and tens-of-thousands of foreign civilians.
Mr. Obama, who wants to provide health-care coverage for all Americans, is labeled a liar, Fascist/Socialist/Communist, and likened to Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot.
The situations cannot even be compared. Who’s in a coma now?

Geeze, Linda, we heard the Prez with his own words apologizing to foreign countries on this TV daily sitcom shows!! Too bad you do not watch “real” news because you would have heard him yourself! Good thing the rest of us know what is going on in the CZAR whitehouse!!

Rio wanted it more. Chicago, The City That Worked, no longer works. Minor issues … like a $500 million deficit next year … a demoralized majority in the city sick of the weekly murders of kids, outrageous taxes, voracious parking meter and rates … a hostile city administration to quality of city life issues … and corruption from one end of the city to the other.
WAKE UP AMERICA!!! The days of BSing the world are over. America is no longer able to impose an elitist attitude and get its way.
Maybe now (I doubt it) Barry will address ChangeWeCanBelieveIn starting with what the idiots in Congress are fraudulently calling ‘healthcare reform’. They should label it THE HEALTHCARE INSURANCE AND DRUG INDUSTRIES’ PROFIT PROLIFERATION ACT. At least the name of it would be more fitting.

“”All he lost was some sleep,” Axelrod said about the President’s overnight flight on Thursday night.”
On Airforce One? I doubt it. All he lost was 24 hours in Washington DC watching Republican Senators and health care lobbyists proudly compete to kill any health care reform.

I believe Pres Obama is simply trying to re-build what W destroyed.
Posted by: Linda | Oct 2, 2009 4:00:20 PM
Just read any of his international speeches with a willingness to see and see what his apologies amount too. As for what he’s trying to do, I can only go by his actions. Bush’s record was a mixed bag, but irrelevant in this discussion.

That is a disappointment. I kind of thought they’d give the Olympics to a South American country. But, still, it would have been great to have the Olympics in the US.
Still, I’m glad Obama tried. And, I guess I just don’t understand why people would get so excited. I mean, Rio seems like a great city, and it would be good for them.
But, c’mon…. what American wouldn’t want the Olympics in the USA. I live in the midwest… and I would have taken my kids to see.

“…Republican Senators and health care lobbyists proudly compete to kill any health care reform.”
jhw – here’s a little secret for you (in case you were not aware): The Democrats have the votes and cannot kill anything a united Democrat caucus wants to impose!
While it is convenient to blame Bush, Republicans, Rush, Beck, blah, blah, blah, it is time to grow up and look objectively at what is really going on.

Anyone who cares, do go and actually read FULL speeches from Obama, not just out of context quotes. For example, a bit more from the same speech drjohn is trying to deceive you about:
“But in Europe, there is an anti-Americanism that is at once casual but can also be insidious. Instead of recognizing the good that America so often does in the world, there have been times where Europeans choose to blame America for much of what’s bad.
On both sides of the Atlantic, these attitudes have become all too common. They are not wise. They do not represent the truth. They threaten to widen the divide across the Atlantic and leave us both more isolated. They fail to acknowledge the fundamental truth that America cannot confront the challenges of this century alone, but that Europe cannot confront them without America.” -Obama, April 3rd, France
Some apology tour. I suppose Republicans would prefer the President dismissively insults as “Old Europe” our allies who are contributing about 35,000 troops to the effort in Afghanistan.

“The wingnuts hate Obama so much, that the hate has been transferred to not just Chicago, but the whole country.”
Not true ….. you say this as if you know. Prove it …. with facts & links to those facts …. not just your opinion presented as fact.

try to refute my main point that Obama’s actions have made the world a little more dangerous.
Posted by: keys2truth
your opinion doesn’t need to be refuted, as , it’s your opinion,

“just the usual right wing crazies who show up with guns, the white supremacists who were arrested with assassination and racial shooting plans, the calls for armed insurrection, nutty folks calling for military coups…
move along… nothing here to see…”
I gave you specific evidence, you speak in generalities. Where’s your proof?
Nothing the Right has done towards Obama can be compared to the hate that was heaped on Bush by the Left. Not even close.
But back to the topic at hand (can’t argue with crazy): To get booted in the first round with only 18 votes is a big blow to the Obama Administration. No doubt about it.
The era of “Hope and Change” is drawing to a close…

“Too bad you do not watch “real” news because you would have heard him yourself!”
Speaking of “real” news, a Sacred Heart University poll found that Fox News was, by far, the LEAST trusted news organization. Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly said: “For doing the study, the folks at Sacred Heart are patriots.”

Posted by: tjp612 | Oct 2, 2009 4:13:27 PM
“The degree of success/disaster of Bush’s presidency is debatable.
“The vitriol, hate, and incivility of the Left during Bush’s presidency is not. Have we yet seen any books (“Checkpoint”) or movies (“Death of a President”) or t-shirts (“KILL BUSH”) that openly fantasize about the assassination of our current president. Get back to me when you have something…”
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Again, a false argument. Are these the only 3 examples you could find? The point here, I thought, was whether or not these excesses by the Left were celebrated or criticized by the Left (they were, especially the inexcusable tee-shirt). This still is worlds different from the current political climate, in which things like the recent Facebook poll on whether Mr. Obama should be murdered are not roundly and immediately condemned by the Right.
You ask if we’ve “yet” seen any examples like the ones you cite, and the answer is no – NOR had we seen those examples during the first 8 months of Mr. Bush’s term. Those examples were created in 2004, 2006, and 2005, respectively.
And yet, from the HOUR he took the oath of office, Mr. Obama has been subjected to daily attacks on his citizenship, patriotism, and fitness for office. Examples? Pull up ANY of Hannity or Malkin or Coulter or Limbaugh’s transcripts. As I already mentioned, a Facebook poll pondering the idea of assassination. The repeated brandishing of weapons and implications of violence at Presidential speaking engagements.
And if you think that THAT would have been tolerated during the reign of George the Younger, well, there’s nothing more I can say to you.
This meme of the “vitriol, hate, and incivility of the Left during Bush’s presidency” is a fabricated talking point, and simply not supported by some overwhelming treasure trove of documented evidence.

“Geeze, Linda, we heard the Prez with his own words apologizing to foreign countries on this TV daily sitcom shows!! Too bad you do not watch “real” news because you would have heard him yourself! Good thing the rest of us know what is going on in the CZAR whitehouse!!”
Is this a joke ….. TV daily sitcom shows ????
Face it, the president could put a gold mine in every back yard & those who didn’t vote for him & don’t support him wouldn’t admit they have a good thing.
The current Pres was elected by a majority ….. it’s a free country – the majority won ….. why is it so hard to handle.

Nothing the Right has done towards Obama can be compared to the hate that was heaped on Bush by the Left. Not even close.
Posted by: tjp612
‘birthers’
‘deathers’
’10th-ers’
‘secret muslim’
‘manchurian candidate’
‘tea partiers’
‘secessionists’
‘xenophobia’
yawn….. so much to choose from
but you’re right in 1 respect…. Bush was hated for starting a dumb war in Iraq

He’s a consummate egotist and weak beyond belief!
Posted by: s. valenti
more hilarity..
Obama believes his policies will work.. if that’s what you call ego….
Bush believed his policies would work, after all is said and done, 8 years later… we call that demonstrated, proven failure on a monumental scale.

Remember the election here,
Posted by: Shoe
sure do….
Obama & the Dems won, and the Republicans received their collective butts on a silver platter provided by Hannity and Rush.

Posted by: TnT | Oct 2, 2009 4:39:03 PM
Both incidents you cited involved white supremacists. Obviously completely inappropriate and I will not defend. If you truly believe that these incidents represents the intentions of conservatives as a whole, nothing I can say will convince you otherwise.
My point – There are fringe elements on both sides of the aisle. It is what it is. But is disingenuous to deny the left engaged in similar behavior. It simply isn’t true.
“I’ll just assume that your too lazy to admit all the other stuff in my post… otherwise it would mean you’re dishonest… and we know you wouldn’t do that….”
Couldn’t find the rest of your post (deleted?) – Let me know if it is still there and I’ll be HAPPY to address.
BTW – Doesn’t change the fact that Obama failed in his bid today to land the Olympics for Chicago and that unemployment is now at 9.8%.

The really sad thing about all of this is the uncompromising idealogical posturing on both the left and the right. Michael Moore and Rush Limbaugh are both two of the most destructive forces in this country.
Posted by: mtlgeek | Oct 2, 2009 4:10:19 PM
Please explain how Michael Moore is like Rush Limbaugh???
Also, have you seen any of MM’s movies, or are you just believing what you heard?

Did the IOC let Mickey Mouse vote? NO???? They’re just a bunch of realityists or specie-ists!!!

” But is disingenuous to deny the left engaged in similar behavior. It simply isn’t true.”
tjp612 | Oct 2, 2009 4:56:18 PM
Who on the left has a body count to equal Timothy McVeigh (who was famously arrested wearing a shirt with the quote, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants”)? Or Eric Rudolph? Or Jim Adkisson (who in what he thought was his suicide note wrote, “The future looks bleak. I’m absolutely fed up! So I thought I’d do something good for this country — kill Democrats ‘til (sic) the cops kill me.”)?
Now for your false equivalency argument to carry ANY credibility, please cite left wing fanatics from the modern era (like the ones above – and just to be fair I left out the racist murderers) with anything like a similar body count. I know of exactly one left wing murder in the last thirty years, while I’ve cited over a hundred right wing hate motivated murders above.

tjp612
don’t let the facts get in your way……
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Philly DA: No Complaints About Black Panthers
The office of Philadelphia district attorney Lynne Abraham says it received no complaints after two Black Panthers showed up at a Broad Street polling place on Election Day. One man carrying a nightstick was asked to leave by police.

If forced,
Posted by: tjp612
there you go again….( with apologies to Mr. Star Wars)
“IF” , you guys are so into this ‘if’ thing

This is why we need ACORN! Leave them alone. Losing this bid costs us 9 billion trillion good paying jobs.

What about your America sent your troop to control the vote of OLY game like you did in Afhanstan,just make it again.

“The Right – and you – are lying when you suggest Bush was the target of the same type of hatred as Obama.”
You are correct to some extent. But let me re-phrase for you:
>> Bush was NOT the target of the same type of hatred as Obama. The hatred directed at Bush was FAR, FAR WORSE!

I’d rather travel to Reo than to go 500 miles Chicago anyway. The town of corruption.

I thought old Barack Hussien Obama was going to bring everyone together. Is anyone feeling more together since he’s been in office?

“Turns out Joe Wilson was telling the truth…”
Joe Wilson’s “You lie” rated a False on PolitiFact’s Truthometer.

So now the White House is going to go with the “right-wing conspiracy” theory against the IOC, too???? Can they not just admit that Chicago sucks with it’s high crime rate, corrupt politicians, racism, pollution…and since I come from there, I can rightly say that half the city is a ghetto. The IOC got it right in spite of the Obama/Oprah caravan blowing into town. This is another instance when Obama needs to let it go and shut the hell up before he has to have another “beer in the garden” moment…this time with the President of the IOC!

As a proud American, let me just say congratulations to Rio & Brazil! Best of luck to you and I know you will put together an excellent Olympics. I bet the beach-volleyball event will be awesome on you beautiful beaches.
Nice try to Chicago & their supporters. I guess we got our hopes up and acted a little arrogant, but maybe we can get 2020. We need to accept the IOC decision with grace and humility. Peace!

Can they not just admit that Chicago sucks with it’s high crime rate, corrupt politicians, racism, pollution…and since I come from there, I can rightly say that half the city is a ghetto….
Posted by: jules | Oct 2, 2009 6:04:05 PM
I take it you’ve never been to Rio. According to my bff, it’s beautiful and the music and dancing is fun and festive, but the shanty towns have been taken over by armed and dangerous drug lords. Businesses have moved out in waves to safer places where business is possible, and there is A LOT of corruption.
Crime rate and ghettos really couldn’t have had anything to do with the final decision.
Chicago isn’t perfect by a long shot when it comes to crime, violence and corruption, but it’s a lie to say half of it is a ghetto. The lakefront is beautiful and many of the people here are amazing. If you haven’t been here during the past 20 years or so, jules, you’ve been missing out.
The real truth is that our pitch was kinda boring, and didn’t really allay fears about the world coming to America or speak deeply to legacy in the way they seemed to want. Michelle and the President spoke movingly, but the rest was a big yawn.
I’m disappointed, but, on the other hand, it would’ve been a hassle to have it here. Life goes on…

Of course they are sad! All that property they bought up in order to make millions, OUCH! Now they have to become slum lords! I wonder how much Axelrod bought.

This little trip back and forth across the Atlantic cost the American taxpayer over a million dollars, what great fiscal responsibility. I want my govt accountable on all levels, if I have to count my pennies and watch my spending my govt should have to as well. Why in the hell was this trip done, as if Oprah and Mrs. O weren’t enough.
Im sickened by the big spending the past two administrations have done, what this country really needs is a viable third party so the American people can punish both Reps and Dems at the same time. Let them know we mean business, let them know they work for us, let them know we’ve had enough!!!

Obama’s speech was awful and lacked any substance. It sounded like it was written by a dreamy high schooler. The olympics are not about him and his father and his growing up nor about Michelle’s father and how proud he would be if the olympics were in Chicago. sheesh.. This was not about them. They should have used the opportunity to market the US. But wait, Obama has been so busy apologizing to the world about the US, so why would anybody want to come here anyway? It was a big failure and horrible waste of taxpayer dollars for him to go to Denmark. The only good thing I can think about this trip is that he met with McChrystal.

Now, let’s see. Did anyone blame George W. Bush for New York’s failed bid for 2012? Did anyone scream that he’d taken us into a war that was extremely unpopular abroad and that, therefore, the U.S. had gotten its just deserts at the IOC voting?
Funny. I don’t recall hearing that. No one seemed to be paying attention.
I’m a Chicagoan who is quite glad that our city didn’t win, because I didn’t want it to do so. However, I must point out that while Rio may well stage a terrific Olympics — and I hope it does, because I love the Olympics — the crime and corruption there make Chicago look like a model of safety and probity.
BO Stinks, you are poorly informed. Chicago’s level of corruption is no greater than that of other large American cities, and its overall crime rates are actually lower than those of several others.

Posted by: bebe
give us a dollar amount of Bush’s 4 day -vacation- to the China olympics..you remember,
just hangin out …with a crashed economy, 2 wars, Iran. n.korea……
what? you don’t have those numbers?
shocking (eyes roll)

Here we go again.
2008: Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
2009: Dissent is the highest form of racism.

One big question about the selection of Rio for the SUMMER Olympics. Won’t they be held in WINTER in Rio?

Obama’s loss is America’s gain.
The mobster from Chicago loses again.

I’m not depending on this guy to actually sit down and do his job in the Oval Office instead of running around burning up jet fuel leaving massive carbon footprints he plans to punish free enterprise for. But then maybe that is a good thing. This guy is just a total joker.

Wow, I wonder how much his failed flight cost USa.

once again Obama shows he has no clout. Are taxpayers paying for the Obama’s and Oprah trip to Denmark?

American taxpayers could not afford the Olympics. The starting budget was $5 Billion. America is broke and the world knows it.

By the way, this short trip to try to get jobs for Chicago (oh, well) came with the main point of his trip, an important meeting with General McChrystal who is heading the efforts in Afghanistan. The nightly news spent 10 minutes on the Olympics story and only 30 seconds with a still shot on the real import of the trip. How sad. In case you lost count, Bush spent a full 3 years, yes 3 years of his 8 years in office on vacation and out of sight. At least Obama does important work when he takes a few hours to try to pitch for the U.S.
I respect him more every day. He has the weight of the world on his shoulders, and his own countrymen are trying to take him down. God bless and help this President to succeed–said from a TRUE Christian and TRUE patriot who realizes that united we stand, divided we fall!

So, who from the current administration should take the full responsibility and resign over this failure?

Since he has been in Office has Obama thought any about being involved in the U.S.Goverment? So far he has been involved in State & Local issues, TV and now this.
How about this country, besides your obsession with health care?
P.S. Let of Military handle the war, stay out of it.

All he lost was some sleep? I as a taxpayer lost much more since this man stepped into the WH. I wish I can only say I lost only sleep. By the way, whenever, I travel, I always lose sleep. It’s time to man up and do the job… the appeal is over and buyers remorse is on the rise.

One other question. Why couldn’t Billionaire Oprah foot the bill? Bill and Hillary’s billionaire friend footed the bill to pick up the two girls in north korea

BO put as ANOTHER 1.2 million dollars in debt! When oh when will he stop?? I don’t think he will!

Let’s examine some of the other forces involved.
Maybe we need to go back into history to see a few reasons for this decision.
The Olympic games in 1996 were marred by a bombing. The bomber, Eric Robert Rudolph bombed the Olympics because the Olympics were created to “celebrate the ideals of global socialism.” He wanted to “ager and embarrass the Washington government”and “to force the cancellation of the games or at least create a state of insecurity to empty the streets around the venues and thereby eat into the vast amounts of money invested.”(The quotes are from a statement Rudolph made in 2005 after he was captured. I found them on Wikipedia.) He was a fugitive for five years finding asylum in the southern Appalachian Mounts where apparently a lot of the local residents regarded him as a hero.
Let’s fast forward to the summer of 2009 where the right wing crazies put their racism, hatred, xenophobia, and ignorance in full display for the whole world to watch. . From listening to Lou Dobbs, I got the impression that in many communities you could be lynched for speaking Spanish. God help you if you spoke French or Arabic.
Observe how many politicians demonized Europe and its “socialist” medicine, apparently unaware that many European countries, like Germany, are in fact governed by socialists, and also unaware that our infant mortality rate is twice as high as “socialist” countries like Sweden or France.
Note the number of times gun-toters showed up at presidential rallies with loaded weapons. And, according to the latest issue of Intelligence Report published by the Southern Leadership Conference, right=wing militias are on the rise.
And what are foreigners supposed to make of Sarah Palin’s new book, Going Rogue? Does Sarah Palin mean that she wants the US to join ranks with rogue nations like North Korea and Iran. And what about the NRA? Will they insist on bringing weapons into the Olympic Games?
Let’s fast forward to 2016. If Obama is still president, might right wing militia groups or crazy terrorists try to launch terrorist attack at the Olympics for the same reasons that Eric Robert Rudolph set of a bomb in1996? And if the GOP is in power, won’t Rodolph’s attitudes toward the Olympics be a major cornerstone of US public policy?
With this information in mind, were you on the IOC, would you entrust the Olympics to a place like the United States? Or you consider Afghanistan or Somalia?
Brazil has plenty of problems, but under the leadership of President Lula, Brazil is making progress in solving these problems.
And unlike the United States, where white-is-right is getting a new lease on life, the people of Brazil actually look like much of the rest of the world.
Those are the reasons Rio won. It’s no great loss to Chicago any way, since most people of Chicago didn’t want the games. And as far a “set back” for Obama, on the way home from Copenhagen he was having a conference with General Stanley McCrystal about Afghanistan and diplomats seem to be making progress with talks with Iran.
I am glad Obama is not sweating the small stuff. Neither should we.

A local poll in my area showed some 80% didn’t want the Olympics in Chicago. One poll in Chicago showed about 50/50. Rio was a good choice.
My guess was that estimates were bad and we would have had to bail Chicago out after the games.

For the Republicans to rejoice that Chicago lost is rather amusing. This is comedy hour in politics. However, although it is not nice to laugh at the failure, Obama certainly humbled himself in going which in the long run may be an Ace. I think it would have been worst if he hadn’t gone when requested because then the failure would be truly blamed on him by Chicago and he would definitely loose the support of the home state. I think Obama is relieved probably US didn’t win because more criticism would result for excessive spending!

Unbelievable how many “Americans” are against their president. Unbelievable. Most of these posters are clueless to the politics of the IOC (including the recent removal of baseball and softball from the Olympics line-up). All these “patriotic” posters likely voted for Obama because they were worried that the world might call them racist if they did not. Now that he is in office and time has past, they feel justified in professing their desperate need for his failure, even if that would mean negative consequences for them and their children.
Nothing Obama has done or is doing represents failure, except to these posters who need to justify their desire for their president to fail.
As I always say, give Obama a Bernie Madoff mask and he will garner a lot more support from Americans.
Posted by: NotAnAmerican ———————–Don’t worry. Most Americans are for their President. You have to understand and especially on these forums that there are a bunch of hobby Obama bashers. This is why the GOP lost the last election and why they will lose the next. They offer nothing better and they figure the only way to win is by tearing at and bashing the other guy. Believe me when I say that the majority that support Obama will never let another Bush, McCain or Palin win an election. The supporters are just quiet compared to the bashers. There is a reason for that.

Did someone just say no to Obama? Oh, that wasn’t in THIS country, was it? Why was Chicago even considered in the first place? New York not good enough? Or Miami? Or LA again? Or Seattle? Or San Francisco? Or Denver? Or Phoenix? Or Dallas? Or Houston? New Orleans could have used it. Why Chicago? Take a guess! Chicago is not the best city in this country to showcase to the rest of the world. And it looks like the IOC agrees with that. I do, too. Michelle’s dad had MS – how does that relate to the Olympics? A bit of a stretch. You know, the shallowness of the Obamas is easily seen outside of this country. But if you express that opinion here, you are labeled a racist.

This may be a good thing it’s not in Chicago. The terrorists may have seen that as a perfect opportunity. They seem to love America.

Give the main stream media a few days and they will have the real reason Chicago did not get the Olympics. Of course the state run Obama media will conclude it was Bush’s fault. Why not, they blame everything else on him.

Tough luck Chicago. Congratulations to Rio de Janeiro.

Some of the pathetic “logic” used here to defend this incapable President is astounding. If ignorance is bliss, then being on the far left must be heaven.
What an embarrassment, but this time nationally.

Any country that doesn’t get selected should be relieved in this time of economic downturn. Good luck to Rio, a third world country ready to over spend what is not in their treasury?

I laughed at the Republicans laughing. My they sure took the gloves off! He who laughs first will laugh last. How disgraceful a show. It is being shown all over the world.

I think the President should address the more important things that are on his plate instead of worrying about where the Olympics are going. He needs to pay attention to business!!

Obama wasted valuable time and more of the tax payers money by taking the trip to beg for the Olympics!! He needs to be a little more frugal with our money and keep the vacations and trips down!!

I am sorry for Chicago, although I’m american I am happy Brazil won, at this moment they’re showing their economic power, they were the last to get into the economic crisis and were the first to drop out! So we americans, europeans, etc can see now that Brazil is a monster asleep which is getting awake! They will host world cup and 2 years later the olympic games, I’ve been in Brazil and I could see how much rich is that country, how much patriot is that people, like chinese people, and how it is going to be the 4th/5th global economy. Unfortunately the USA is losing influence for that countries where before WE called third world, but now they have the most stable economy in the world. So if you haven’t been there, you can’t say what you don’t know!
Derick from NYC!

First Lady Obama’s “sacrifice” remark did not go well.

The world just told all of us what they think of America and our leadership. The President needs to focus on issues and stop being Mister Personality. The election is over Mr. President time to get to work.

The president of Brazil made the case, the olympics have been held 30 times in Europe, 5 times in Asia, 2 times in Australia and 12 times in United States. I strongly believe in what he said , everybody and every continent have the opportunity to have and host this games , it’s no only Europe or USA, that going to win all the time. they are no the only people in this planet. wake up people!
THE OLYMPICS BELONGS TO EVERYBODY!

I am proud of the IOC. They made the right choice. The audacity of Amercian people to think that all should gravle at once the most powerful country in the world. we brought down a global economy, was not a ten beten to death in the streets of chicago? what self-respecting country would send their citizens to “Hell’s inferno”. Again, glad to see IOC made the best choice.

Wow, how easily some people forget the last 8 years of “I THINK PEOPLE AND FISH CAN CO-EXIST” or “YOU WORK HARD TO PUT FOOD ON YOUR FAMILY”! Lord in heaven, and another cratulations to Rio, excellent choice.

rio is the best choice. obamas team is trying to blame the process …when on earth will these morons take responsibility for the failure of the chosen one on all fronts.

Far right extremists this, far right extremists that…the Democrats classic ultra-weak fall back plan when they submerge themselves in their own waste.
And that poor Bill Clinton, another sad victim of the “vast right wing conspiracy” that induced him to commit adultery in the oval office.
Stupidity no longer seems to have limits.

ark52: Just for your info, the “someplace safe” that you mention in your post, Rio de Janiero, has a murder rate about four times that of Chicago. Nevertheless, I don’t begrudge them the chance at the games, and I hope it helps to benefit some of the grindingly poor areas of that city. I still give kudos to our president for an all out effort.

never forget
“If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just as long as I’m the dictator” dc,2000
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee-I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee-that says, fool me once, shame on-shame on you. Fool me-you can’t get fooled again”. Nashville, Tn,2002
“Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.” Poplar bluff, Mo 2004
This could give no one in a correct state of mind a warm and fuzzy feeling about a comander-in-chief!
Obama in office for 9 months. the last presidency 8 years! HUMMMMMMMMMM
GO RIO! Please host the world and please by the grace of the good lord keep all safe.

So is his presidency.

In yesterday’s ABC evening news with Gibson I heard some comments that I found more disappointing than having lost to Brazil. “An anti-American atmosphere at IOC”? Please! The U.S. hosted the olympic games FOUR TIMES. The last two in Atlanta, 1996, and Los Angeles, 1984. The olympic games is A WORLD EVENT!!! And everybody has the right to participate and, yes, win. And my big disappointment was to see that in my favorite national evening news program, nobody was gracious enough…to offer congratulations to Brazil. What a shame! THAT is a big disappointment!

Interesting. If he had just stayed out of it, there might have been a chance, but instead, he had to make it the Obama show and the Olympic Committee didn’t take kindly to it, did they?
The same message will be delivered in 2010 when the elections happen and the Dems findthemselves out of power for all this fiscal and tax-hiking games.

The American delagation did a good job of trying to secure the games for Chicago but the results were negative. No one is to blame. Remember, there were four countries competing to get the olympics in 2016 and only one could win. Japan, and two other great countries lost out as well. There wern’t any guarantees that we would win and i am glad we made the effort. Some people play the blame game but that is so childish and stupid.

No ACORN affiliate in Copenhagen, huh?

Rio de Janeiro is a beautiful and amazing city and Brazil deserved to be chosen!! We cannot blame Obama, the preparation for Olympics started a long time ago before his election.

Liberals, again thanks for the joke. Maybe next time, Oprah can be nominated for POTUS. Atleast she has effectively run something in her life.
Posted by: enough already | Oct 3, 2009 2:57:52 AM
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and she has one up on Sarah Palin because she didn’t quit halfway thru the job……

Let’s review Obama’s score card so far……
Obama’s handling of the economy and billion dollar bailouts is a total failure. Obama’s plan to reduce unemployment is a total failure. Obama’s Stimulus Plan is a total failure. Obama’s Health Care Reform is a total failure. Obama’s attempt to close Gitmo is a total failure. Obama’s strategy in Afghanistan is a total failure. Obama’s kowtowing and kissing the feet of the Arab and Communist Nations is a total failure. Obama’s attempt to control North Korea, Iran and Russia is a total failure. Obama’s mind-boggling trillion dollar deficit spending is a total failure. Getting foreign countries to like us more is a total failure. Appointing tax cheats, corrupt, communist and incompetent cabinet members and czars is a total failure. NOW THE CHICAGO OLMPICS HAS TURNED OUT TO BE A TOTAL FAILURE (LAST PLACE IN THE VOTING…..PLEASE!!! I THOUGHT CHICAGO WAS THE FRONT RUNNER). There are so many other failures, but time does not permit me to keep going.
Obama’s presidency reminds me of the joke about the guy who fel off of the roof of the Empire State Building. As he passed the window on the 20th floor of the building, the man was heard to say…”Well, so far so good…” Some may laugh out loud about Obama’s failed Presidency, but really there is nothing funny about failing. It’s embarrassing. It’s also very bad for Am

The Olympic committee is not stupid. The reason that Chicago didn’t get the games is because that place is so corrupt that very few politicians there can be trusted. Some Chicagoans were worried they would get the shaft if money suddenly ‘disappeared’.

The White house has graciously accepted defeat of Chicago and so should the rest of you on this board trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill, and particularly Repub extremists . The games in Rio is a refreshing choice.

This is a wake-up call that the USA needs to stop being the world’s policeman and benefactor. We need to take care of ourselves. We have spent countless tax dollars protecting Europeans and others and nobody appreciates our efforts.Stimulous money allowances went to Korean and other foreign car dealters. Why do we prop up other countries economies to the detriment of our own. I saw nothing wrong with the Obamas promoting Chicago. It is in the USA. To say that Chicago is too corrupt for the Games is ridiculous. Isn’t Rio worse? I thought the murder rate there was just one minus for them.

This whole fiasco exceeds the incompetence that gave us “Mission Accomplished”.

Since he has been in Office has Obama thought any about being involved in the U.S.Goverment? So far he has been involved in State & Local issues, TV and now this.
How about this country, besides your obsession with health care?
P.S. Let of Military handle the war, stay out of it.
Is is your country’s President not the Commander-in-Chief?
How many more young Americans do you want to see dead

Not so slick Hussein had better get involved with winning the war in Afghanistan and trying to do the same (if this is still possible) in Iraq. This guy has the common sense (not education, but common sense) of a struggling Fuller Brush salesman – if anybody still remembers those poor devils.
How in the world people let themselves be persuaded that a socialist is the best choice for POTUS is beyond me! He is turning the country into the Peoples Republic of the US. Even Joe Biden may have more sense than Hussein Obama, and that is saying a lot, because Biden’s brainpower was probably taxed to get on the right train back when he was commuting home daily. God save the USA, and get the idiots out of Washington, D.C. soonest!

“This whole fiasco exceeds the incompetence that gave us “Mission Accomplished”.”
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Not even close. The ‘Mission Accomplished’ fiasco killed tens of thousands of people and maimed many, many thousands more.

To John A. Let’s say Bush did not originally cause the recession but it started to go down hill at the end of 2007 and I think he was president then. In that time…nothing was done to limit the banks, correct the banks, prevent job losses, address foreclosures, stop job losses. Maybe, just maybe if a few steps in the right direction ,this recession would not have gotten as bad. No one wants to dump everything on him but he had a chance to take some action from 2007 until he left and only in the last few months did he beg everyone to go along and give the banks the money. Obama did not want to originally and neither did Mc Cain but they did the right thing to help their president out. That is more than I can say for the republicans so far. Maybe you should read some of the new books out which places the blame on the neglect of the party in power…the republican party and even some of them are saying they dropped the ball. So let’s not pontificate about who started it…..it’s who ends it or works toward ending it that counts.

When I first heard that Obama was not able to close the deal, I laughed – and knew, like everyone that does deals for a living that this was a significant setback. Here is a guy that came out of nowhere and basically did little or nothing in his career and he not only took the Democratic nomination over Clinton but out maneuvered and out campaigned the RNC and John McCain (30 year veteran and genuine war hero though, admittedly bad campaigner in comparison).
And, once in Office not only did not stick to his whole “transparent/open debate/bi partisan/ govern from the middle” campaign closing tool he has ram rodded a far left agenda into law that no one ever imagined possible , not even his base. He did it all on the Obama Brand and became Closer in Chief. For people that do deals for a living, it has been quite a showing.
Then BOOM – after ramping up and putting together a serious campaign to bring the Olympics to Chicago he doesn’t make it through the first round of voting. He has his wife out pitching it as well (of course, she was doing us all a big favor, but, hey – she thought she was going to be in the winner’s circle). There were no stops to this campaign – people that do deals for a living all thought ‘he would never head down this road and take this risk with the brand unless he had the deal closed from the beginning.’ He likes the winner’s circle and it is all part of the brand – and BOOM, he is dropped kicked into pure orbit like a rookie just out of junior college.
Naturally, he takes the high road and wipes the egg off his face as graciously as possible only to come back to genuine turbulence among his supporters and his critics – the Afghanistan situation is alarming his base and every day he waits on a decision American lives are being lost, unemployment continues to erode the credibility of his Stimulus plan, his health care plan has already missed its mark time wise and most people are sick and tired of the party line and looking real hard at the amendments (where the real law is done) and his big push to have open dialogue with our enemies is being trampled on the anvils of practicality and real-time governance.
People that do deals for a living are looking at this defeat in Copenhagen as a sign that the ether is wearing off and the Closer in Chief and well spring of the Brand is in trouble.
There are a lot of people – good Americans, loyal and supportive in every way that are glad this happened. That’s sad – that’s sad that he didn’t bother to sell the American people first. The people that do deals for a living are astonished and know that that the Brand itself is in real trouble. The laughing part when I first heard he did not close the deal – well – in my view, this is not a minor setback or a blip on the screen; this is a genuine cause for concern that the Brand is in real trouble and may have run it’s course.