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2009-10-02 -Short Attention Span Theater-
He May Walk on Water, but He Can't Bring The Games to Chicago
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Posted by Sherry 2009-10-02 11:15|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 I guess Chicago politics don't work so well outside state lines.
Posted by gorb 2009-10-02 11:38||   2009-10-02 11:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Tokyo's also been eliminated. Go Rio!!!
Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-10-02 11:39||   2009-10-02 11:39|| Front Page Top

#3 "Having the 2016 Olympics is a f***** valuable thing and ... OH CRAP ..."

LMAO!!
Posted by DMFD 2009-10-02 12:00||   2009-10-02 12:00|| Front Page Top

#4 As a resident of the Chicagoland area, allow me, for the first and undoubtedly last time in my life, to thank the International Olympic Committee. You have saved the citizens of this corrupt burg from years of increased corruption and millions in added taxes.
Posted by Dreadnought 2009-10-02 12:12||   2009-10-02 12:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Oprah, Michelle and The One, and no IOC Chicago selelction.....hints of racism coming in 5,4,3,2,1.......
Posted by NoMoreBS 2009-10-02 12:23||   2009-10-02 12:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Catch the chicken Baracky!

I can't do it Micky.

Catch the chicken you bum!

Dreadnought, are you saying that for the first time in your life you are proud of the IOC?
Posted by swksvolFF 2009-10-02 12:24||   2009-10-02 12:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Ditto for this Chicagoland resident. Thank you, thank you, thank you IOC.
Posted by Steve White 2009-10-02 12:24||   2009-10-02 12:24|| Front Page Top

#8 You have saved the citizens of this corrupt burg from years of increased corruption and millions in added taxes.

Really. I never underestimate pols capacity to do just that at anytime for any reason. I'm sure another excuse will pop up. It's only Friday.
Posted by Procopius2k 2009-10-02 12:26||   2009-10-02 12:26|| Front Page Top

#9 The point lost in all the noise is, it would be best for the Olympics to go to Rio. The Olympics should always be held in an emerging country (if democratic, so the much better) as a way to stir those countries to make the improvements in a major city that help after the Olympics leave.

Chicago doesn't need what the IOC brings, nor does Tokyo or Madrid. Rio would benefit most. That's why Rio should get the Games.
Posted by Steve White 2009-10-02 12:26||   2009-10-02 12:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Now if they had sent Daley over to Copenhagen instead of the saintly duo...
Posted by borgboy 2009-10-02 12:39||   2009-10-02 12:39|| Front Page Top

#11 Doesn't the IOC realize who Obama is?
Posted by JohnQC 2009-10-02 12:41||   2009-10-02 12:41|| Front Page Top

#12 Re#11: Si! Un hombre sin cojones!
Posted by borgboy 2009-10-02 12:44||   2009-10-02 12:44|| Front Page Top

#13 > The Olympics should always be held in an emerging country

In 2012 they might just be...
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-10-02 12:53||   2009-10-02 12:53|| Front Page Top

#14  Doesn't the IOC realize who Obama is?

Sure they do. He's the guy with the sign draped around his neck that says "I'm stupid. Roll Me."
Posted by Gloger Hapsburg8576 2009-10-02 13:33||   2009-10-02 13:33|| Front Page Top

#15 Would be funny if the Olympic Committee decided Chicago was just too corrupt.
Posted by rjschwarz 2009-10-02 13:38||   2009-10-02 13:38|| Front Page Top

#16 The Olympics should always be held in an emerging country (if democratic, so the much better) as a way to stir those countries to make the improvements in a major city

Well, then, how about Flint, MI - might be emerging and certainly lots of Democrats.


O's ego either overcame his advisors, or his advisors are deeply incompetent. There was no need for him to put his credibility on the line, especially when a cursory inquiry would have predicted this outcome.
Posted by KBK 2009-10-02 13:58||   2009-10-02 13:58|| Front Page Top

#17 Obama's backup plan: when the mayor of Rio takes the podium for the announcement, Kanye West will grab the microphone and exclaim how Chicago is much better and should have won.
Posted by DMFD 2009-10-02 14:03||   2009-10-02 14:03|| Front Page Top

#18 Consider that he may have made the inquiry, gotten a positive response, and been double crossed. Because we can.
Posted by Whamble Speaking for Boskone7193 2009-10-02 14:03||   2009-10-02 14:03|| Front Page Top

#19 CNN meltdown
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-10-02 14:07||   2009-10-02 14:07|| Front Page Top

#20 What's Obama's childhood got to do with Chicago?
Posted by Grunter 2009-10-02 14:18||   2009-10-02 14:18|| Front Page Top

#21 Guy at CNN is incredulous. Get used to it buddy, Chicago came in behind Zimbabwe.
Posted by JohnQC 2009-10-02 14:20||   2009-10-02 14:20|| Front Page Top

#22 "No Se Puede!"


#17: LOL, DMFD!
Posted by eltoroverde 2009-10-02 14:28||   2009-10-02 14:28|| Front Page Top

#23 Rio for the win; looking at the 4 choices I agree to the point of obvious.

WS7193, could be. If I were IOC, that trio with trumpets would show me up. If the fix was on and they showed up to take credit for what would be our IOC surprise victory I would be pissed. If they knew beforehand that Chicago was out but they showed up anyways to somehow change the IOC outcome, I would be pissed.
Posted by swksvolFF 2009-10-02 14:54||   2009-10-02 14:54|| Front Page Top

#24 In case anyone missed Drudge's best headlines ever:

The EGO Has Landed
World Rejects Obama: Chicago Out in First Round

Obama + Michelle x Oprah = Zero
Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-10-02 14:57||   2009-10-02 14:57|| Front Page Top

#25 Note that Newsweek is already out saying this is a good thing for Obama.
Posted by DoDo 2009-10-02 16:21||   2009-10-02 16:21|| Front Page Top

#26 You know, this could be a karma bitchslap -

Make fun of the special olympics.

Lose the global olympics.
Posted by Beavis 2009-10-02 16:45||   2009-10-02 16:45|| Front Page Top

#27 http://www.angelfire.com/il/simpsonsfun/images/Nelson.wav
Posted by Parabellum 2009-10-02 17:20|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]  2009-10-02 17:20|| Front Page Top

#28 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2JRz8kzmZY
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-10-02 17:33||   2009-10-02 17:33|| Front Page Top

#29 
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-10-02 17:33||   2009-10-02 17:33|| Front Page Top

#30 Haha!
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-10-02 17:34||   2009-10-02 17:34|| Front Page Top

#31 "The One" needed the Minnesota Supreme Court, but they had other commitments
Posted by BigEd 2009-10-02 17:49||   2009-10-02 17:49|| Front Page Top

#32 Chicagoboyz' Lex Green: Does this remind anyone else of the Crowley/Gates matter? Another case where Obama really did not need to get himself involved. Yet he waded into it, made ti about himself, when it did not have to be about him, and did no one any good by doing it, and squandered credibility in doing so?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-10-02 19:26||   2009-10-02 19:26|| Front Page Top

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