World Gives Obama A Big F U

randallscott35 · #1 10-02-2009, 12:48 PM

Not even putting Chicago in the final 2 when they were a prohibitive favorite to win should give Obama a sense of world view of America at this minute. Maybe he should've stayed in America this past week instead of hobnobbing with this bribe taking group.

randallscott35 · #2 10-02-2009, 12:54 PM

Haha, didn't see the original thread. I'm sorry. Please just insert this one into the other.

dellinger63 · #3 10-02-2009, 01:08 PM

I think this is far more a loss for the mayor than Obama who i don't think gives a crap about Chicago or Daley. This was Da Mayor's baby. Locally the people were just showing up for the victory party only to be told go home.

randallscott35 · #4 10-02-2009, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

I think this is far more a loss for the mayor than Obama who i don't think gives a crap about Chicago or Daley. This was Da Mayor's baby. Locally the people were just showing up for the victory party only to be told go home.

Dell, to not even be in the final 2 is a world wide slap at Obama. If he had simply lost to Rio, different story....The fact is I really think Obama is arrogant enough to go over there and think it will fall in his lap. I'm, tired of the news conferences and late night TV shows.

GBBob · #5 10-02-2009, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by randallscott35

Dell, to not even be in the final 2 is a world wide slap at Obama. If he had simply lost to Rio, different story....The fact is I really think Obama is arrogant enough to go over there and think it will fall in his lap. I'm, tired of the news conferences and late night TV shows.

Randall..he had to go man...He didn't want to but was in a no win situation. If he didn't go and they lost it would have been unpatriotic, etc.

randallscott35 · #6 10-02-2009, 01:16 PM

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Randall..he had to go man...He didn't want to but was in a no win situation. If he didn't go and they lost it would have been unpatriotic, etc.

Nonsense, you think Bush goes? He didn't have to do anything. Trotting out Oprah and reading from the prompter should be enough....The problems are here. We simply don't need the Olympics here. I'm happy for Rio. Now create some jobs and pull the troops out.

brianwspencer · #7 10-02-2009, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by randallscott35

Dell, to not even be in the final 2 is a world wide slap at Obama. If he had simply lost to Rio, different story....The fact is I really think Obama is arrogant enough to go over there and think it will fall in his lap. I'm, tired of the news conferences and late night TV shows.

This is, of course, pure nonsense.

But my guess is you and everyone else who will try to score that point already know that.

If it's a slap at anything, it's at the way the country has been arrogantly handled since 2000. I'm not sure that the IOC not giving the U.S. the Olympics was predicated on the last 8 months, or Obama.

Something tells me that it's not the last eight months of American leadership that made Chicago lose. To be perfectly intellectually honest (something you may want to try sometime in situations like this), something tells me it has nothing at all to do with the last President either, even if that is an infinitely more likely scenario if we're inclined to place blame on that office.

The fact that it was going to be a gigantic clusterf*ck of massive proportions from a logistical perspective is probably the "prohibitive" frontrunner for real reason why Chicago didn't get it.

But why worry about things like that when a pathetic attempt at scoring cheap political points is just so much fun?! I understand the impulse, I really do.

Riot · #8 10-02-2009, 06:54 PM

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The fact that it was going to be a gigantic clusterf*ck of massive proportions from a logistical perspective is probably the "prohibitive" frontrunner for real reason why Chicago didn't get it.

Agreed. I couldn't imagine how the city and surrounding suburbs for 50 miles wouldn't be completely shut down due to gridlock, trying to hold an Olympics on the lakefront. The affordable hotel rooms needed alone are mind-boggling.

Love my home town, but not the place for a summer Olympics. Rather glad they didn't get it.

GBBob · #9 10-02-2009, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

I think this is far more a loss for the mayor than Obama who i don't think gives a crap about Chicago or Daley. This was Da Mayor's baby. Locally the people were just showing up for the victory party only to be told go home.

Exactly...Their final 45 minute presentation was a snooze fest and no one trusted that Daley could pull it off without bankrupting the city.

dellinger63 · #10 10-02-2009, 01:15 PM

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Exactly...Their final 45 minute presentation was a snooze fest and no one trusted that Daley could pull it off without bankrupting the city.

I heard more than once Daley wants to add another star to the city flag and this was his chance