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White House: Opposing Obama's Olympics Lobbying Is Unpatriotic or Something

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Posted by Grutle Slavith8727 2009-10-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 ya know...
some of us just like to go between points A and B in greater Chicago. It is hard enough to do so now. With an Olympics it and prior construction it would be near impossible.

Posted by 3dc 2009-10-04 00:48|| 2009-10-04 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 HMMMM, HMMMMM, wehell, a lady friend here on GUam believes that the USA should not fret about losing the 2016 Olympics bid as SOUTH AMERICA + RIO are long overdue to hosting one - she does think, however, that POTUS BAMMER should have sent Lady Love MICHELLE-O intead of self, IIUC so that the USA + OBAMA ADMIN could still gain political points wid the Amer people + UNOC-World while still letting Rio have the Olympics, i.e. "lose with grace"???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-10-04 00:48|| na]">[na] 2009-10-04 00:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Hear hear 3dc. All it takes is somebody changing a tire on the side of one of the expressways and the entire highway net comes to a complete halt. No redundancy in the system whatsoever. Daley the Elder had all sorts of expressways planned that were never built, and you'll get the Olympics in Chicago three times in a row before you build another highway in that city.

Posted by Steve White 2009-10-04 01:14|| 2009-10-04 01:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Tarzan say - Carmen Miranda pictures required - and Bob Hope movie - Road to Rio only then will it all fall into picture.

Posted by Tarzan Crereling6523 2009-10-04 01:20|| 2009-10-04 01:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey, don't you dare question my patriotism! (Dissent is still patriotic, right?)

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-10-04 01:24|| 2009-10-04 01:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Congratulations and best wishes to Rio for landing the 2006 summer olympics. See, Ima good sport and have no bitter feelings [other than shame and anger at the world class carbon footprint left by AF-1 between Wash DC and Copenhagen].
/heh

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-10-04 01:29|| 2009-10-04 01:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Top 10 reasons President Hussain did not get the Olympics

10. Dead people can't vote at IOC meetings
9. Obama distracted by 25 min meeting with Gen. McChrystal
8. Who cares if Obama couldn't talk the IOC into Chicago? He'll be able to talk Iran out of nukes.
7. The impediment is Israel still building settlements.
6. Obviously no president would have been able to acomplish it.
5. We've been quite clear and said all along that we didn't want the Olympics.
4. This isn't about the number of Olympics "lost", it's about the number of Olympics "saved" or "created".
3. Clearly not enough wise Latina judges on the committee
2. Because the IOC is racist.
1. It's George Bush's fault.

Posted by Besoeker in Duitsland 2009-10-04 03:09|| 2009-10-04 03:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Who's he rooting for?

It's not who he's rooting for, it's what he's rooting for. He's rooting for the office of the President.

Posted by gorb 2009-10-04 05:29|| 2009-10-04 05:29|| Front Page Top

#9 How much did he get paid to diminish the office? How much more would he have been paid had he actually been successful? Who would have benefitted? He is either self-serving or a fool. Neither belong in the office.

Posted by gorb 2009-10-04 05:30|| 2009-10-04 05:30|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm glad he could find the time between looking in the mirror, scheming to get out of Afghanistan, laying

Posted by gorb 2009-10-04 05:38|| 2009-10-04 05:38|| Front Page Top

#11 the groundwork for

Posted by gorb 2009-10-04 05:40|| 2009-10-04 05:40|| Front Page Top

#12 social-izm in the guise of public healthcare, and plotting to fatten his post-presidential bank account in order to squeeze in a few minutes with his top general in Afghanistan in response to some inconvenient public perceptions about maybe having been ignoring him.

Posted by gorb 2009-10-04 05:43|| 2009-10-04 05:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Sorry for the mess. Fred, your filters wouldn't allow the word I wanted to use get through, so I replaced it with "social-izm". Is this intentional?

Posted by gorb 2009-10-04 05:45|| 2009-10-04 05:45|| Front Page Top

#14 Gorb,
I saw this explained elsewhere. Soci@lism contains ci@lis, which is a male enhancement drug used by spam bots.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-10-04 08:46|| 2009-10-04 08:46|| Front Page Top

#15 "He is either self-serving or a fool."

No reason he can't be both, gorb.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-10-04 10:27|| 2009-10-04 10:27|| Front Page Top

#16 Hey, Chicago got 18 votes in the first round. 18! ~~President~~ Jarrett has ordered a full accounting of the 76 racist countries that opposed.

Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-10-04 11:16|| 2009-10-04 11:16|| Front Page Top

#17 Soci@lism contains ci@lis

Actually, Soci@lism contains varying amounts of Communism which is often associating with economic decline and piles of corpses, something even more annoying than spambots.

Posted by SteveS 2009-10-04 12:37|| 2009-10-04 12:37|| Front Page Top

#18 Well, advocating Barak Insein Obama's failure for the Olympic is really a tempest in a teapot compared to Congressional Demoncats rooting for the US defeat in Iraq.

Posted by HammerHead 2009-10-04 12:45|| 2009-10-04 12:45|| Front Page Top

#19 Thanks for the explainer, DV!

Posted by gorb 2009-10-04 23:11|| 2009-10-04 23:11|| Front Page Top

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