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2009-10-02 -Short Attention Span Theater-
IT'S RIO! - Blame it on Bush Rio
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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-10-02 13:29|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 IOC bigwigs gonna miss out on "Leon's BBQ" - the best rib tips in the world!
Posted by borgboy 2009-10-02 13:38||   2009-10-02 13:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Obama had held out the enticing prospect of a Chicago games helping to reconnect the United States with the world after the presidency of George W. Bush.

The Karma of this is just too delicious for words. How's that "Blame Bush" gig working out for you?
Posted by Frozen Al 2009-10-02 13:40||   2009-10-02 13:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Epic fail. EPIC fail. Epic, memorable, once-in-a-lifetime you'll-tell-the-grandkids-about-it fail!

There's actually something worrisome about this whole Chicago fiasco, and it goes back to President Obama's inexperience. Diplomacy 101 tells us that your head of state only shows up on the high-profile stage when a deal is complete. The lesson that most politicians learn well before they gain positions of power is that diplomacy is done by diplomats, professionals who work through all the negotiations and the hardball tactics and the carrot/stick combinations. The principals in the matter gather to discuss high-level topics and to smile for the cameras as the agreement is being signed. Heads of state do not conduct diplomacy, they ratify it, and surprises are entirely unwelcome at those summits and signing events (hence Reagan's anger in Iceland.)

Why were you and Ramesh surprised? Because you thought that President Obama at least knew this very basic lesson. Today's announcement suggests that he does not, and it just got advertised big-time to countries who already were pretty sure we had a rookie at the helm who didn't know how to use international power. President Obama just got upstaged by an organization against whom no retaliation is acceptable, and he wants to meet with the Iranians next month? We are in deep, deep trouble.

--a reader of Jim Geraghty's "Campaign Spot" blog at NR
Posted by Mike 2009-10-02 13:57||   2009-10-02 13:57|| Front Page Top

#4 OBama's incapable of "Learning" from any past "White Man's" troubles.

He's a racist pue and simple "Black good, White bad"

Yes I hear the sheeps chorus here, "White Baaaad"
Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-10-02 14:05||   2009-10-02 14:05|| Front Page Top

#5 But he only spent a few hours in the Danish capital where the vote was held and left before the result was announced.

???? What was the purpose of wasting all those tax dollars with 2 planes on 2 separate days?????
Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-10-02 14:27||   2009-10-02 14:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Has Michelle threatened to shove tennis balls down the IOC's collective throat yet?
Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-10-02 14:39||   2009-10-02 14:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Wait until the Olympic tourists get a chance to experience Rio's crime problems. Although I have to admit the idea of the women on Rio's beaches is a hell of a lot more enjoyable than the women on Chicago's
Posted by Cheaderhead 2009-10-02 14:50||   2009-10-02 14:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Top 10 Reasons Chicago Didn't Get the Olympics [Rich Lowry]
An e-mail:

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 Beavis 2009-10-02 14:55||   2009-10-02 14:55|| Front Page Top

#9 And the procession to the stadium more interesting than a computer simulation of firework footprints.
Posted by swksvolFF 2009-10-02 15:08||   2009-10-02 15:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Obama and Michelle needed this lesson to let them know they aren't the King and Queen of the universe.
I am sure he is pouting when he doesn't get his way he's a crybaby. Things are turning against him steadily, time he opened his eyes to see his CHANGE is not at all what people thought it would be. And his own change seems to be changing his mind every day on things he stated while campaigning hard to believe anything he says.
Posted by JJJohnson 2009-10-02 16:04||   2009-10-02 16:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Oh dear. What are their slumlord friends gonna do with all that property they were hoping to remodel/resell?
Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-10-02 16:59||   2009-10-02 16:59|| Front Page Top

#12 "I'm still in a state of shock. I can't believe we couldn't get past the first round. I still thought the (Chicago) bid overall was the best," said three-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Ambrose "Rowdy" Gaines.

"Maybe there is some hangover from politics, from the last eight years," Gaines said.

Hitler won Germany the Olympics. Bushitler cost America the Olympics. It all makes sense.

Steyn at NRO's corner
Posted by Beavis 2009-10-02 17:07||   2009-10-02 17:07|| Front Page Top

#13 The IOC just saved the Chicago taxpayers, the taxpayers of the State of Illinois and in the end everyone one of us federal taxpayers a fortune.

I thank them.
Posted by BrerRabbit 2009-10-02 17:26||   2009-10-02 17:26|| Front Page Top

#14 And congrats to Brazil and the people of Rio.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2009-10-02 17:27||   2009-10-02 17:27|| Front Page Top

#15 The reason why Chicago's bid was doomed.

A fight over money.
Posted by phil_b 2009-10-02 18:28||   2009-10-02 18:28|| Front Page Top

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