Chicago loses olympic bid! - Page 3

Don · #1 (**permalink**) 10-02-2009, 09:07 PM

Chicago lost on the first round with the lowest vote count of the four finalist countries.

Ron61 · #2 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 05:41 AM

Buzz,

I am happy that Rio got the Olympics but not because it is any kind of slap to our president. I was in Seattle when they had the Worlds Fair and the crowds and expense of putting on an Olympic or World Fair event are enormous. And Chicago is areal pain of a city in my opinion. To cold and windy much of the time as it is close to the lakes. Also has a history of crime that makes most other places seem relatively safe. I wouldn't want to live in any city that staged either of these events as the taxpayers are paying for them for years after they are over.

Now Rio is a place that I wold love to go to watch. Also to just see the sights there as I have never been.

Ron

bdeutsch · #3 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 06:11 AM

Currently in Europe for two weeks on business; as I type this I am to the north of London. Happily head home next Friday.

I offer the following bit that I read this morning; offered not as a personal opinion, but just to provide a glimpse into what at least one European paper had to say about topic.

Taken from today's The Times ...

Title of the article is Chicago's humiliation points to failure of Obama rhetoric. Here is an excerpt from text:

"Loved by many but feared by none; full of lofty vision by achieving nothing with his grandiloquence,...Chicago's dismal showing at the IOC meeting in Copenhagen after the President's personal, impassioned, last-minute pitch is a stunning humiliation for him and will only feed the perception that on the world stage, he looks good but carries no heft."

The item goes on to say that "the perception is growing that Mr. Obama's soaring rhetoric, which captured the imagination during last year's election, is simply not enough when confronting the myriad challenges of the presidency. His spectacular Olympic failure will only add to that."

Again, this piece does not necessarily reflect my opinion and not sure to what degree The Times reflects the general European attitude of President Obama.

cobra de capell · #4 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 08:52 AM

Losing shouldn’t be a big deal to him since he already said he’s NOT interested in VICTORY.

Oh....wait.....that was only for our troops...not for a sports event that would have further enriched his den of thieves at more taxpayer expense.

imagine, if you will......

Houston is vying for the Olympics and Bush went to Copenhagen to personally try and sway the vote. Imagine the outrage from the left about all the problems and here he is, off on a boondoggle.

But since it’s Obamalamadingdong, it’s ok..

computerworks · #5 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 09:12 AM

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imagine, if you will...... Bush went to...

...China, and sat in the stands for 4 days, eating peanuts and watching the games.

No one complained. He was showing the flag.

Same deal.

cobra de capell · #6 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 10:12 AM

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...China, and sat in the stands for 4 days, eating peanuts and watching the games.

No one complained. He was showing the flag.

Same deal.

Actually, it's not the same deal at all. Attending the games is something that past presidents have done regularly....no prior president has pitched personally for the games.

Your BO is a loser.

computerworks · #7 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 10:42 AM

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Well, I'm happy for you Computerworks.

...you needn't be. Trust me, it means nothing.

Dwelling on the Olympic thing is myopic, at best.

My friends on the IOC said Rio had a lock, regardless.

Dan40 · #8 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 01:51 PM

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President Obama not only failed to bring home the gold, he could not even muster the silver or bronze.

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.

Just another example off total incompetence by the obummer cabal. Their vetting, policies, research, protocol and speech writing. aren't equal to junior high Government students.

cobra de capell · #9 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 10:51 AM

Your friends on the IOC?

No one is dwelling on Obama's huge failure here - even I had thought that it was a lock for Chicago - it simply shows that Egobama talks but no one is listening, lately.

As for being happy for you, I lied.

computerworks · #10 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 10:52 AM

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As for being happy for you, I lied.

I knew that.

Jamo · #11 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 10:56 AM

French delegate was pissed about all of the Obama posse/security...couldn't walk across the hotel lobby.

Bush in the pool stands like an average guy, riding his bike on the race route, taking pics with our Olympians...class.

snakebittexan · #12 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 11:00 AM

"Class" and Bush, oh the 1st Bush----I would say 'down to earth" or "approachable" for #2.

Jamo · #13 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 11:03 AM

Down to earth and approachable is what made him a class act in my book. I choose my words carefully, thankyouverymuch.

cobra de capell · #14 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 11:06 AM

The bottomline: Obama went to Copenhagen with the attitude that he is Barack HUSSEIN Obama, the world’s greatest rock star and “leader of the free world”. He believed that the little people could not deny him anything he wanted. However, he failed to take into consideration all his trips abroad and to the U.N. that found him apologizing for America’s past actions and trashing America in general. By doing that, he removed all respect the world ever had for this country. In other words, the world agreed with Obama that America was, and still is, an evil and hateful place. Chicago didn’t lose this Olympic bid, Obama did. He and his big mouth have spent the last year setting them up for this failure.

computerworks · #15 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 12:40 PM

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The bottomline: Obama went to Copenhagen with the attitude that he is Barack HUSSEIN Obama, the world’s greatest rock star and “leader of the free world”. He believed that the little people could not deny him anything he wanted. However, he failed to take into consideration all his trips abroad and to the U.N. that found him apologizing for America’s past actions and trashing America in general. By doing that, he removed all respect the world ever had for this country. In other words, the world agreed with Obama that America was, and still is, an evil and hateful place. Chicago didn’t lose this Olympic bid, Obama did. He and his big mouth have spent the last year setting them up for this failure.

...or, not.

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Yup...well said.

Exactly as posted on freerepublic October 03, 2009 01:41 PM by FlingWingFlyer

Jamo · #16 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 04:43 PM

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...or, not.

Exactly as posted on freerepublic October 03, 2009 01:41 PM by FlingWingFlyer

CdC...any explanation for failing to cite the author?

Not cool, man.

cobra de capell · #17 (**permalink**) 10-04-2009, 09:01 AM

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CdC...any explanation for failing to cite the author?

Not cool, man.

My understanding of the rules: only copyrighted material must prompt an author/link notation.

Also, since Computerworks is following up on all my posts, if I forget to make a notation, he will make sure that that is done - so, I've got a backup.

Being cool - not a goal.

computerworks · #18 (**permalink**) 10-04-2009, 09:09 AM

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My understanding of the rules: only copyrighted material must prompt an author/link notation.

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FreeRepublic - All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law

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Originally Posted by cobra de capell

Also, since Computerworks is following up on all my posts, if I forget to make a notation, he will make sure that that is done - so, I've got a backup.

No, I will simply continue to delete those posts

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Being cool - not a goal.

Mission accomplished.

Just quit being our "cub reporter" who has to rush back here with posts made elsewhere by smarter people. If you think you have that job, you're fired.

This is an off-topic area of a car site, not a political blog. Our rules.

Jamo · #19 (**permalink**) 10-04-2009, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by cobra de capell

My understanding of the rules: only copyrighted material must prompt an author/link notation.

Also, since Computerworks is following up on all my posts, if I forget to make a notation, he will make sure that that is done - so, I've got a backup.

Being cool - not a goal.

For everyone else's edification...if you're not the original author, include a citation to the origin. Plagerism has not a goddamn thing to do with copyrights.

And if anyone else gets cute...you're gone. We've had enough.

Jamo · #20 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 11:08 AM

Yup...well said.