Chicago eliminated from 2016 Olympics
There was one lone cry of "Recount" but most gathered here simply stood open-mouthed, staring at the jumbo screens above.
Maybe the world doesn't heart Obama so much after all.
Hat tip: Pink Freud
And don't miss this: Jim Treacher's Letterman Top Ten List apparently read on the air by Dennis Miller. UPDATE: Mark Levin, too. Check out Treach's blog for details.
Oprah isn't going to get to light the torch! I'M IN TEARS HERE PEOPLE!!
ReplyDeleteFIRST!
ReplyDeleteFIRST! (city eliminated)
ReplyDeleteOh, Poop!
ReplyDeleteThe used car salesman couldn't sell the Pinto, even after all that sacrifice his wife made, flying over there. Imagine that.
ReplyDeletecc
ReplyDeleteThat is hilarious.
Hat tip to RB :
Look at Love Doll Face !
ROFL
From PajamasMedia:
ReplyDeletePost Hoc Criticism of Obama’s Copenhagen Trip Justified
It would be easy to read too much into the rejection of Chicago as the site of the 2016 Summer Olympics despite the president’s personal lobbying junket to Copenhagen in order to plead the city’s case before a meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
But neither should the president get a pass or an “A” for effort — or any other spin one wishes to put on the decision by the IOC to bypass Chicago as host for the games.
In a word, this is a disaster for the president.
“If he goes and does not bring home the Olympics, it’s going to be kind of a blow for him on the international stage where he is immensely popular, which is really the reason why they think it will help the bid for him to go,” said Kenneth Vogel, a senior reporter for Politico.
He placed the prestige of his presidency directly on the line and failed. That’s the bottom line. He gambled with the one thing no president should ever gamble with unless the stakes are much higher than his hometown getting the Olympic games.
Only one person demanded a recount?
ReplyDeleteMmmm Mmmmm Mmmm!
ReplyDeleteI think Mayor Daley is running @ 35% approval.
ReplyDeleteThis will really help those numbers.
I'm up late. Has anyone blamed this on racism yet? Three black Americans go lobby for this thing, and they don't get it...can that happen without someone trying to make it about race?
ReplyDeleteComment section at Althouse:
ReplyDeleteWill there be an Olympic event for tightest ass crack thong?
ROFL!
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/10/rio.html
Only one person demanded a recount?
ReplyDeleteMaybe they'll get their lawyers on it.
Oh sure, CC, Teh WORLD is RACIST!
ReplyDeleteThe SEIU must not have an office in Copenhagen?
ReplyDeleteI'm up late. Has anyone blamed this on racism yet? Three black Americans go lobby for this thing, and they don't get it...can that happen without someone trying to make it about race?
ReplyDeleteYou know it's coming.
Squatch, in five, four, three...
ReplyDeleteThe Night Chicago Died
ReplyDeleteOUCH.
ReplyDeleteCommentary Mag.
The Limits of Egomania
Obama received a nasty rebuff and a stern reminder that the rest of the world doesn’t necessarily care what he thinks. Chicago is out of the Olympics bidding process–in the first round. Why did Obama invest so much personal capital and time for this? Well, he simply can’t help himself. It’s the same force of ego that drives him on to those TV talk shows again and again and that imagines that a grand speech with no content and no appeal outside his base will be a game changer on health-care reform.
It’s also another reminder that, apparently, there isn’t anyone influential enough in the White House to keep the president from embarrassing himself. No one to say, “Enough with the talk shows.” No one to explain that presidents should not invest their personal credibility and standing to beg the IOC on behalf of his hometown. No one, unfortunately, to direct him back to the job of making timely, forceful decisions to defend America’s real interests. Not an interest in getting the Olympics, but the interests in defanging Iran, in maintaining robust alliances with friendly democracies, in executing a winning strategy in Afghanistan, and in readjusting domestic policy away from job-killing measures and toward job-creating ones.
Obama didn’t get the Olympics. He did get a slap in the face. Maybe he will learn something about multilateral institutions. At the very least, he may want to consider finding some advisers who will tell him to stop doing such silly things.
Rosemary O'Rourke, 70, was near tears as she stood frozen, struggling for words as she watched the screen in horror.
ReplyDeleteAsked how she felt, she said: "Sick. If any city could do it, I believe Chicago would have done it better."
These guys think Obama is golden. That he simply cannot be denied.
I have to admit thinking last night that he'd get it for them, just because the outside world seemed to kiss his ass just for existing, but I am delightfully surprised this morning.
Hopefully his healthcare power grab will go down in a flaming mass just like this did.
Riehl World
ReplyDeleteThe Obama's Olympian Defeat: Next Time Send Sarah Palin
Would it really have made sense to award the Olympics to a country when the most visible advocates for the United States are on record as having spent much of their lives not being proud of their country? I mean, if they've been so ashamed of America for so long, what kind of country must it be?
Next time, perhaps they should consider relying on advocates who truly are proud of America and like her just the way she's been. Yes, Sarah Palin does come to mind just now. For all the talk of Michelle's marvelous biceps, I guess arm twisting the IOC into granting Blagoland the games was just too herculean a struggle for the neophyte diplomat and her husband. Oh well. Maybe Michelle managed to get some shopping done if nothing else.
I didn't know that the Olympic bid committee were closet racists. That can be the only reason that Chicago, 44, Oprah and WAB failed.
ReplyDeleteOh and Good Afternoon C2ers. TGIF.
ReplyDeleteWaaay too much chum out there, the shaaaarks are having a field day!
ReplyDelete/someone may need to take away my mouse. LOL!
Hi Erik!
ReplyDeleteDaley disappointed, 2020 bid not likely
ReplyDeleteTribunes take. I especially like this :
"We now have the chance to move forward, free of the demands of the IOC, but equipped with plans that can address the real problems Chicagoans face on a daily basis. Chicago is now armed with an organizing capability never seen before, and an opportunity to continue the momentum and create better schools, more efficient transportation, and safer streets."
In honor of Brazil's getting the Olympics, I submit This little ditty.
ReplyDeleteIf only someone could get into the White House, and have this playing non-stop for a week, can you imagine?
Racist...all racist I tell ya.
ReplyDelete/Actually it was GWB's fault...the world hates us.
BOOOOOHOOOOOOOO BOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Like my old football coach use to say.
ReplyDeleteWell boys...looks like someone put a turd in their punch bowl.
Bush Border Control Policy Sinks Chicago's Olympic Bid
ReplyDeleteChicago Loses Bid for 2016 Olympic Games
It looks as if the Bush administration policy on making it much harder to get a US visa (which Obama has yet to alter) has come home to sink Chicago's Olympic bid:
In the official question-and-answer session following the Chicago presentation, Syed Shahid Ali, an I.O.C. member from Pakistan, asked the toughest question. He wondered how smooth it would be for foreigners to enter the United States for the Games because doing so can sometimes, he said, be “a rather harrowing experience.”
The SECOND comment on today's Olympic post at HuffPo....
ReplyDelete"IOC are just a bunch of conservative red-neck racists"
The IOC must hate black people.
ReplyDelete/Kayne
If only someone could get into the White House, and have this playing non-stop for a week, can you imagine?
ReplyDeleteLMAO thinking of Rahm pirouetting around the Oval Office.
NY Nana said...
ReplyDeleteIn honor of Brazil's getting the Olympics, I submit This little ditty.
Here's my choice for a little celebrational ditty.
Then again, the FIRST comment at HuffPo is blaming the Vast Rigth-Wing Conspiracy.
ReplyDeleteYou just can't make this stuff up!
Pink Freud said...
ReplyDeleteBush Border Control Policy Sinks Chicago's Olympic Bid
OK, that's one blamegame down.
I wish they'd hurry up and get to the race card,it's way more entertaining than that old tired Bush's fault stuff.
eschew, they're like children. They can't blame themselves, they have to blame their sibling.
ReplyDeleteThe IOC must hate black people.
ReplyDelete/Kayne
It wasn't a fair count!
/Rabbit Bait
I knew Obama should have sent ACORN to petition the IOC.
ReplyDeleteI knew Obama should have sent ACORN to petition the IOC.
ReplyDeleteHe did! He went himself.
Oh, I love this too:
ReplyDelete"The effort itself was a victory, a tremendous coming together of good people and good work," said Quinn, speaking to the local NBC affiliate from Copenhagen.
I heard that it cost an obscene amount of money to put the bid together. I don't want to be wrong, so I'm going to try to find the figure - but it was astronomical.
They spent a lot of money for basically squat. Good work!
sasquatchonsteroids said...
ReplyDeleteOK, that's one blamegame down.
I wish they'd hurry up and get to the race card,it's way more entertaining than that old tired Bush's fault stuff.
Team "O" (Big"O", Mrs."O" and "O"prah), didn't deliver the goods.
First source: $48 million dollars just to put the bid together.
ReplyDeleteCC: The number I heard was 50 million dollars just for the bid alone. Sounds about right. Toronto tried it a couple of times and each time it as about 25-30 million. Huge uproar about it too from the left believe it or not.
ReplyDeleteContinuing to read: Bids were from the private sector (?), so no harm, no foul, I guess.
ReplyDeleteWho paid for the Obamas' trip?
Best responses:
ReplyDelete"The Ego Has Landed"
-Drudge
Coming soon from Maureen Dowd: "IOC to Obama: No Olympics for you, boy!"
-Jonah Goldberg
P2, that's in line with what I'm finding, too.
ReplyDeletePretty soon we're talking about real money. ; )
The IOC is all Wee Wee'd up!
ReplyDeleteCorrespondence Committee said...
ReplyDeleteThey spent a lot of money for basically squat. Good work!
Our government doing what they do best...spend a lot of $'s with no results.
If the POTUS was my 401K manager, I'd fire his ass!
Pi Guy said...
ReplyDeleteBest responses:
"The Ego Has Landed"
Ouch!
Comment roundup:
ReplyDelete"How is The Won going to face TOTUS after this?"
ROFL!
Michael Medved is sounding very celebratory. LOL He just called it "an epic birthday gift" - his birthday is tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteMedved: Obama didn't even come home with the bronze!
ReplyDeleteCongrats to Rio.
ReplyDeleteI'm wearing a thong today to honor them.
Backwards.
Medved: Obama didn't even come home with the bronze!
ReplyDeleteNice!
*spitting nails*
ReplyDeleteDept. Social & Health Services in WA State is one seriously broken agency. It's has over the last 10 years a litany of kids killed and abused under it's watch.
So who does it go and hire as an senior admin?
Some one forced to resign in WI over dead and abused kids.
Revels Robinson lands post in Washington state
The Milwaukee bureau, under her leadership, was heavily criticized for the way it handled the November 2008 beating death of Christopher Thomas. Christopher and his sister had been tortured by their aunt, Crystal Keith, a court-ordered kinship foster parent, even as caseworkers repeatedly visited their home.
WA State is completely under (D) control.
Remember this next time a (D) says "it's for the children."
Chicago is now known as the y City, as this decision took the Wind out of them.
ReplyDeleteObama is Randy Daytona today.
ReplyDeleteThe Golden Boy who couldn't even Bronze.
/Walken
Pi Guy
ReplyDeleteYou win! Shades of my childhood! I saved it, as it is just great.
They just don't make them like they used to.
Trubble in Paradise?
ReplyDeleteValerie Jarrett's Big Day
As Robert Draper's brilliant portrait of Valerie Jarrett a few months ago made clear for the first time, there is considerable tension between her and the other key members of Obama's team, including Rahm and Axelrod. Jarrett, because she's such a good friend of both Obamas, can get the president's ear on just about any topic she wants, at any time. That sort of roving brief is most unsettling for the other senior aides. She's also a very strong-minded woman who sees herself, as one knowledgeable observer puts it, as the "keeper of the flame": the one member of Obama's inner circle who is focused on keeping him real, keeping him to his promises, not allowing him to sucked into Washington games. That's bound to create friction with everyone else.
The Olympic bid has been Jarrett's project. She's been running a special unit devoted to it from inside the White House, the first time a presidency has devoted so much effort to such a bid. Jarrett, of course, breathes and bleeds Chicago - she's passionate about it, as are the Obamas - particularly Michelle of course, who grew up there and associates it with her parents (she mentioned her late father in this morning's speech to the committee). Also, American bids have to be entirely financed privately, and Jarrett is peerlessly well-connected in Chicago's business community.
Jarrett will have been the one who persuaded Obama that it was worth betting some presidential capital on this and making the trip. And I suspect that she she did so against the advice of Rahm and Ax, who are probably thinking that with Afghanistan, healthcare, and the economy all at high levels of intensity, this is a gamble the president can do without.
If Chicago loses, Obama's team won't blame it on Rio; they'll blame it on Jarrett.
The trouble is BHO will not, is not capable of the introspection to learn from the defeat of losing the Chicago Olympics.
ReplyDeleteFrankly on the the Olympics is low stakes on the world stage, sure national pride but in the end it's sports and entertainment.
Obama is going to look somewhere else to place blame.
This just as he's entering into a real high stakes "game" with Iran. The ante for that is a glowing radioactive hole where a major city used to be. Failure is not option, there is no "out" no "oh, well next time" no where else to place the blame.
History, and the lessons of failure are lost on the narcissist.
Obama Administration: Shield Law Should Only Protect Journalists If We Don't Care About The Story
ReplyDeleteWe already found it quite troubling that the Senate committee, working on a federal "shield law" that would help protect journalists from having to reveal their sources, switched from language that was pretty inclusive, to a bill that would greatly limit the definition of a journalist to only those who work for big time journalistic endeavors. Lots of smaller, independent or amateur journalists would get no protection at all. Sen. Chuck Schumer, a sponsor of the bill, was apparently responsible for kicking out all those independent journalists.
I love the picture at the top. OMG!
ReplyDeleteTop 10 Reasons Chicago Didn't Get the Olympics
ReplyDelete(Rick Lowry)
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.
Hamas leader: We'll capture more soldiers
ReplyDeleteHamas threats: Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal is threatening to capture more Israeli soldiers in order to win the release of Palestinian prisoners.
In a speech in Damascus, Syria, Mashaal congratulated the Palestinian people on Israel's release Friday of 19 female prisoners in return for a video of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
I blame the racisim of the tea baggers.
ReplyDeleteAfter romping through the leftosphere, I can report that there is widespread outrage at the mocking from the right wing over 0bama's IOC failure with many cries of Bush! and racism!
ReplyDeleteHowever, for all of the glee coming from the right, the international media's (especially that of the UK) scorn and derision is brutal.
Pink: That's the international LEFTIST media, right?
ReplyDeleteJCM,
ReplyDeleteThe Congress doesn't have the authority to define who is an isn't a journalist. They can pass a law shielding journalists but it isn't up to them to determine who qualifies for that label.
However, for all of the glee coming from the right, the international media's (especially that of the UK) scorn and derision is brutal.
ReplyDeleteScorn and derision, directed at...? The United States? Obama?
Chicago is now known as the y City, as this decision took the Wind out of them.
ReplyDeleteIs that original, Pi? 'Cause I will twitter it at CorrComm with your name on it if it is, with your permission. LOL
CC: you have a twitter account for the blog?
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ReplyDeleteScorn and derision, directed at...? The United States? Obama?
Directed at 0bama. The Man Who Would Be God.
Global laughter. Not at America, per se, but at 0bama and his hubris.
Wow...I'd update with a couple of good examples of that, if you want to shoot them to me, Pinkie. (If they're in-thread already, I apologize - just let me know - I'm juggling about four balls in the air at the moment.)
ReplyDeleteWe do, P2! CorrComm.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I think we have one follower, maybe two. LOL
ReplyDeleteThinkProgress trots out their tired old "meme":
ReplyDeleteMission Accomplished For Conservatives Who Rooted Against America
Although the United States sent a high-powered delegation to make a last-ditch effort to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ruled out the Windy City today. Of the final four cities — which also included Madrid, Toyko, and Rio — Chicago received the fewest votes. In his speech to the IOC in Copenhagen today, President Obama tied the American dream to the Olympic spirit in his pitch for the United States:
[Chicago is] a bustling metropolis with the warmth of a small town; where the world already comes together every day to live and work and reach for a dream — a dream that no matter who we are, where we come from; no matter what we look like or what hand life has dealt us; with hard work, and discipline, and dedication, we can make it if we try.
That’s not just the American Dream. That is the Olympic spirit. It’s the essence of the Olympic spirit. That’s why we see so much of ourselves in these Games. That’s why we want them in Chicago. That’s why we want them in America.
Always looking for a way to bring down Obama, conservatives not only criticized the President’s 15-hour trip, but also spent this week denegrating Chicago, downplaying the Olympics, and rooting against America. The criticisms have included mocking “fat people” in Chicago, gushing that Rio is just plain “awesome,” and saying that Chicago is too violent and doesn’t deserve the event. Watch a compilation:
more...
Global laughter. Not at America, per se, but at 0bama and his hubris.
ReplyDeletePerhaps they also see it as unseemly for Obama to constantly grovel and apologize for our existence. They may have gotten a kick out of it the first couple of times but after the next dozen, it wears a little thin.
Correspondence Committee said...
ReplyDeleteP.S. I think we have one follower, maybe two. LOL
Well you will get one more when I get home later this evening. Can't really twitter from work.
YAY!! Thanks, P2. Steady as she goes...one brick at a time, all that. : )
ReplyDeleteWell my relief is here and it's time for me to go slay dragons. Have a good night, and I may drop into the pub later.
ReplyDelete[Chicago is] a bustling metropolis with the warmth of a small town; where the world already comes together every day to live and work and reach for a dream — a dream that no matter who we are, where we come from; no matter what we look like or what hand life has dealt us; with hard work, and discipline, and dedication, we can make it if we try.
ReplyDeleteWhere people throw bricks at your car and get in fist fights over parking spaces when the snow plows come through in the winter.
At least that's my experience. LOL
See you then, P2 - we hope!
ReplyDeleteIOC Vote count:
ReplyDeleteFirst round: Madrid 28 votes; Rio de Janeiro 26; Tokyo 22; Chicago 18 (Chicago eliminated).
Second round: Rio 46; Madrid 29; Tokyo 20 (Tokyo eliminated)
Final round: Rio 66; Madrid 32 (Rio to host 2016 Games)
Wow. Not even that close, really.
ReplyDeleteSeventy-six votes against the Barack/Michelle/Oprah team, to their eighteen.
There has been a growing narrative taking hold about Barack Obama’s presidency in recent weeks: that he is loved by many, but feared by none; that he is full of lofty vision, but is actually achieving nothing with his grandiloquence.
ReplyDeleteChicago’s dismal showing today, after Mr Obama’s personal, impassioned last-minute pitch, is a stunning humiliation for this President. It cannot be emphasised enough how this will feed the perception that on the world stage he looks good — but carries no heft.
Hehehe
This sums it all up nicely:
ReplyDeleteThat much of the world considered Chicago a serious contender for the final two slots and only failed after the Obamas interjected themselves is a matter that the President's sycophants simply are not equipped to handle.
ReplyDeleteBrown and Sarkozy rowed with Obama over Iranian nuclear announcement
Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy had a behind-the-scenes row with Barack Obama over last week's announcement about a secret uranium enrichment plant in Iran.
here
New thread upstairs.
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