I am one of those people who was happy to see the International Olympic Committee shut out the Chicago bid. I know that people on the Left accuse me of rooting against my country, but — as usual — the people on the Left are wrong. I wasn’t even rooting against a President I do not generally admire, although I was glad to see him humiliated publicly in this fashion.
How can you square these statements?
Well, I feel that Barack Obama has shown – many more times than I needed to reach a conclusion on the subject — that he believes that there is no problem so intractable that it cannot be remedied by his personal intervention and a jolly good oration, which of course will reference the Miracle of his Rise to show that if only we would ______ then ______ would finally be able to see the _____ of its ways and we’d all be able to ______ at long last.
This Olympic fiasco, I hoped, would be embarrassing enough and pointed enough to provide a clear data point that this is not always the case, and this lesson, had it sunk in, would come at very small cost to America. After all, the loss of the Olympics in a city is considerably less painful than losing the city itself… which is where this kind of naive ego-centrism can lead us when dealing with ruthlessly self-interested regimes like Iran, Russia and North Korea — expanding nuclear powers all.
Barack Obama is not accustomed to getting the kind of faceful of egg he was given at Copenhagen. I had hoped that this would be enough to perhaps persuade him to look at the results rather than the desire, and perhaps conclude that there is almost nothing — not even a really good speech — that can persuade people into acting against their own self interest, and that he might perhaps reflect upon the fact that instead of Oprah and the First Lady, Chicago would have better been served in my friend Scott Ott’s words, by sending “traffic flow specialists, civic engineers, architects, economists… all the experts needed to convince the IOC that Chicago was up for the task.”
In other words, lead instead of cheerlead. But this President seems incapable of doing that. I don’t know how many days he has spent actually behind the desk in the Oval Office as — you know — Chief Executive, but given the number of town halls, events, ceremonies and other on-camera activities I would be willing to bet the number is not large.
Anyway, that was my hope: that humiliation on the cheap might persuade The World’s Smartest Politician to show some intelligence and change his mind based upon the evidence, the way his presecessor, The Greatest Moron in the History of The World, did when confronting a failing strategery in Iraq. That hope lasted for all of a few days. Now we see 150 doctors wearing white lab coats assembled to help Barack Obama give another career-saving speech, this time trying to get the 93% of Americans who are fundamanetally happy with their health care to act against their own self interests.
And by having them wear white lab coats, you see, he is making sure we realize they are doctors. But I remain confused. Couldn’t they also be lab technicians? Perhaps they need to wear that reflector thing on their foreheads. Damn it, no — Dentists wear those too, and no one would be persuaded to give up their current insurance just because a hundred and fifty dentists wearing white lab coats and reflectors nod in agreement. What they should have had was stethoscopes around their necks! That would have gotten this bill passed!
And so it goes. Yet another speech, with props appropriate for a fourth grade show and tell, to sell the rubes on something they seem unwilling to want to buy. And another appeal to oratory in place of substance. And meanwhile, out at the edge of the campfire’s glow, lean and cruel wolves circle red-eyed and hungry, watching and learning.
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1. drjim:Very well put! I agree that he can’t seem to do anything not involving him being the Big Cheese and getting his own way, but I don’t think he’ll learn anything from this as he’s incapable of doing so.
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Oct 6, 2009 - 12:29 am 4. Marc Malone:Campaigning is easy. Governing is much harder. Sadly, he is only fit to campaign, and it doesn’t work for governing. Governing requires actual substance, not just style. (Well, some style might be nice; like not throwing like a girl.)
Sadly, when he got rejected, his poll numbers went up, as people rallied to their President when the world dissed him, not understanding that he deserved some serious dissing. He’ll, thus, learn nothing.
Oct 6, 2009 - 12:40 am 5. Jan Van Goyen:Obama is still tripping on being President thinking he’s a bigger rap star than Jay-Zee. What does Obama do but lay down a non stop rap and try to sell millions of records? Obama obsesses over poll results the way JayZee does record sales. When you are a con man then talk is your currency. Not taking constructive action
This smack down will not penetrate. He is out of touch due to surrounding himself with stooges and sycophants. They will keep on message in his bubble.
It will take a lot more to shake and wake this jello head. Even then we will be dealing with red jello. It is much better in life to be guided by principles but when you have been abandoned by your mother and by your two Muslim fathers …we don’t have a healthy situation here
Oct 6, 2009 - 12:48 am 6. Gaffe Prices:Baraq Hussein 0bama thought it was going to be date night, beer summits, victory gardens, and
tennis matchesteleprompter exchanges in vague platitudes, and veiled threats and warnings.B.O has never accomplished anything in his life; except showing up and scamming all the good will that rolls in. Anything that you give him comes with another price tag, and you are the one who’se going to be picking up the check, that is, unless he owes you one, and we all know who that is right now- big banks who expect payback (citi-bank, AIG, etc), unions (Chrysler GM), Pharmaceuticals, Insurance companies, you know, all his crony welfare capitalist buddies.
0bama is bored by all this now; he believed the messianic rhetoric, so he’s just waiting for the next perk up the ladder; the others who set him up knew all along it was a just bait and switch technique.
If anything it shows just how generous the American people are; but the American people don’t like it when someone or some person’s have tried to play them for suckers.
Yet there he goes on his first night back, out on “date night” for a photo op.
As Mr. Whittle pointed out, this was a lesson that comes with the least possible cost, almost negligible, to this country.
I call on this hopeless, compromised, spineless, incompetent, corrupt, miserable puppet-king to resign. Over this. Before things get more out of hand. You are incapable of responsible leadership, not without first suffering a total and complete breakdown. (And then what would he do?)
By way of comparison, his fellow democrat candidate, rep. Dennis Kucinich was neither vague nor ambiguous in his opposition to both the wars and presence of American soldiers in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of operation. He called unequivocally for the end to American participation in these wars, he was clear in his stance and opposition, during his campaign, which is the (ostensible) stance of the extreme Left in this country.
I say “ostensible”, because I don’t believe the Left is for withdrawl, in the first place: I believe they seek defeat, (as per the Vietnam scenario) and they can taste this perverse and psychotic goal, nay victory within their grasp: 0bama knows this strategy full well, yet pretends otherwise, as though he is “…unable to make a decision”.
And this is in violation of the oath of office he took when he became commander in chief of our Armed Forces. This is why he must resign: Because his (unstated and therefore hidden) objective is an unacceptable option. And as per the “bait and switch”, is not revealed to the American Public.
That is why those calling for a strategy of victory, and those calling for a total withdrawl of forces in Iraq and Afghanistan (what about Bosnia? Hmmm?) must unite and stand up to 0bama on the floors of the House and Senate, and do what can be done to stop this charade before it gets even worse, and lethal.
0bama appears to know not the difference between conceit and arrogance: for in conceit, one who knows little or nothing pretends to know all, and know all about everything: this is highly doubtful.
When you are right, you are compelled to be arrogant: 0bama keeps his agenda and plans secret; and proffers a phony possibility (the …“can’t make up his mind” ruse) in its place.
And he is not arrogant about his intentions. As I said above, he keeps them secret. So arrogance is not a satisfactory explanation.
Oct 6, 2009 - 12:58 am 7. carla:Yep. He now understands that the IOC is composed of racists, and probably unregistered conservatives.
Oct 6, 2009 - 2:14 am 8. vivo:There was nothing embarrassing or humiliating for Obama. The real fight was between the IOC and the USOC. Obama did his patriotic duty by trying to shift the IOC thinking. Leaders of the other countries were there. He would have been amply criticized if he had not shown up.
The Obama haters are just simply howling at whatever he does. We hear the ‘noise’. It’s getting boring.
Oct 6, 2009 - 2:38 am 9. Instapundit » Blog Archive » BILL WHITTLE: Did Obama Learn From the Olympic Debacle?…:[...] BILL WHITTLE: Did Obama Learn From the Olympic Debacle? [...]
Oct 6, 2009 - 3:11 am 10. Emma:@vivo
“The Obama haters are just simply howling at whatever he does. We hear the ‘noise’. It’s getting boring.”
Yes, I remember being quite bored by the endless howling of the Bush haters. But live by the sword…
Oct 6, 2009 - 3:24 am 11. george:This is a great piece – but I stumbled over the paragraph with the “fill-in-the blanks.” Might just have been me, of course.
Oct 6, 2009 - 3:31 am 12. vet66:This goes along with the reference to support from the AMA. Who populates the AMA? Try Doctors with no specialty other than being residents, emergency room doctors who don’t wish to be in private practice and non-practicing physicians most of whom are dedicated to competently treating their patients.
Physicians with specialties attain the title of Diplomate in the specialty they represent. Most of them have offices, employ people, pay high taxes including malpractice premiums, and incur the expense of actually providing a service used by emergency room doctors. Being surrounded by doctors who work for an employer who provides coverage for them does little to advance the cause of physicians who, in all probability, show up the final bill as “consultants” who shoulder the lion’s share of liability. I will leave it to your analytic skills to determine who needs/supports tort reform the most.
Obama and the “white coats” is nothing more than smoke and mirrors providing cover for the special interest group of tort lawyers like John Edwards, master of the junk science crowd, in bed with Obama.
Oct 6, 2009 - 3:37 am 13. Hogarth:He would have been amply criticized if he had not shown up.
Really? Just like every other president has been roundly criticized for not groveling at the feet of the UN writ small IOC? Because try as I might, I don’t remember any other president personally lobbying for a lost and trivial cause, and I don’t remember any criticism being directed at them for it. I do remember the infantile plastic turkey stuff, though, just in case you don’t.
Why? Because they knew what being the President of the United States meant, and they knew that is a pay grade or two above mayor.
Obama is a small man trying fruitlessly to fill a very large pair of shoes. His gigantic ego and his unquenchable need for aggrandizement led him to believe that he could bend the IOC’s will simply by deigning to orate to them, and he embarrassed us all.
Oct 6, 2009 - 3:43 am 14. Euler:Rio won because it would be the first Olympics in South America. That feelgood ‘everybody gets to host the Olympics.’
That being said, I hope to God that somebody in the Obama Administration learned some kind of lesson about the cost and effects of jetting him over and campaign for every little cause.
Oct 6, 2009 - 3:55 am 15. Byron Dickens:Barry knows what he’s doing.
Oct 6, 2009 - 3:59 am 16. genghis:VIVO
Your hero and heroine looked like fools. But we’re used to that.
Oct 6, 2009 - 4:00 am 17. Parabellum:What makes you think those 150 people were doctors?
Oct 6, 2009 - 4:10 am 18. Jim:We should go easy on Obama. This is his first real job. Cut him some slack.
Oct 6, 2009 - 4:20 am 19. Steve_in_CA:“And so it goes. Yet another speech, with props appropriate for a fourth grade show and tell, to sell the rubes on something they seem unwilling to want to buy. And another appeal to oratory in place of substance.”
I am concerned that, with few exceptions, fouth grade is the level that the typical American voter is at. As a one-time substitute teacher, my observations suggest that fourth grade is the dividing point between a fantasy, dream world and a realistic view of reality. That is looking at real world problems whilst riding a unicorn, waving a magic wand.
Oct 6, 2009 - 4:26 am 20. Indiana Redneck:Of course Mr. Obama didn’t learn. As Gaffe (#2) and Mr. Whittle more eloquently put it, Obama brings nothing to the table. Those that support Obama have fallen into the cult of personality. He has no experience leading anything. Heck, he has no experience doing anything. He’s a stuffed suit with all the qualities of Dorothy’s companions down the yellow brick road – no brain, no heart, no courage.
He’s like a modern-day Jimmy Carter.
Oct 6, 2009 - 4:26 am 21. ~Paules:Mr. Obama values his celebrity status more seriously than the office he holds. He has the singular talent of most actors which is the ability to deliver a script convincingly – words written for him, but not by him.
When it comes to policy, his ideology is less important than the constant demands of his ego. He craves the constant adulation of the crowd. The quiet confidence that comes from knowledge and self-reflection is utterly missing. It’s all about me, me, me all the time. I’ll leave it to professionals to diagnose the condition, but I know arrested development when I see it.
Is Mr. Obama capable of changing his mind based on the data? Based on a logical interpretation of events? Based on facts? I rather doubt it. It seems to me that the maintenance of his ego is job one. Watch for his mean and dark side to emerge when the public finally rejects him.
Oct 6, 2009 - 4:46 am 22. Sandra:I can only imagine the rolling of the eyes that took place as Michelle and Barrack stepped forward with their “personal” messages in an effort to woo the committee members to vote for them and their city. They apparently were unimpressed with the sentimental, personal narratives of Team Obama. The two of them came across like self-absorbed teenagers so full of their own wonderfulness that surely those provincials sitting in judgement would rule in their favor. Oh, yes. Affirmative action is non-existent in Europe. You don’t earn extra points for ethnicity or skin color. You are judged on character. Make a note of that.
Oct 6, 2009 - 4:51 am 23. Paul from Hamburg:“There was nothing embarrassing or humiliating for Obama.” Keep saying it Vivo, eventually you’ll believe it, even if no one else does.
Oct 6, 2009 - 4:53 am 24. Brownie:Obama and most of his minions are psycho/sociopaths and these people never learn from anything. All they are interested in is power and control and will never stop using whatever means available to them to achieve it. As we can see being cold-blooded and soulless doesn’t necessarily make a person smart but it does make them relentless.
Oct 6, 2009 - 5:00 am 25. Jmurphy:I have no criticism of the President supporting the Chicago bid. It was nice to see him support the country for a change. As a Chicago area resident, I would have loved to go to some of the games (my selfish interest) but it probably would have been a financial burden on the taxpayers, and without doubt would have been a bonanza for the local corrupt politicians, contractors, etc (damn near all of them).
Oct 6, 2009 - 5:02 am 26. Anne B.:Here is one Chicagoan who was *relieved* to hear that we wouldn’t be getting the games. Tax hikes, cost overruns, big ugly jerry-built stadia which probably wouldn’t even be ready in time, traffic and security problems. If the Barry/Michelle/Oprah roadshow really did cost us the games, then I thank them. (Though in hindsight I think that perhaps Rio had it in the bag all along, and the televised vote was just for show.)
The reply at #3 sums Barry up. He has never had to work for anything in his life. He’s the Affirmative Action hire: petted and praised (and paid) just for showing up. What a shock to learn that this doesn’t work outside his little circle of admirers.
Oct 6, 2009 - 5:04 am 27. Jmurphy:I have no criticism of the President supporting the Chicago bid. It was nice to see him support the country for a change. As a Chicago area resident, I would have loved to go to some of the games (my selfish interest) but it probably would have been a financial burden on the taxpayers, and without doubt would have been a bonanza for the local corrupt politicians, contractors, etc (damn near all of them).
Oct 6, 2009 - 5:09 am 28. Rick in PA:However, the main point here is if the Administration learned anything from this. His Administration’s competence does not have a very good track record (to grossly understate the situation), and now it should be apparent that his approach to “reset” international relations is interpretted as weakness. He also needs to learn that leading this country in the international arena is not a popularity contest. It is not as important to be liked as it is to be respected by foreign countries, and feared by thugs.
On the money, Mr. Whittle. If a picture is worth a thousand words, results are worth 1,000,000. What is it they say about the road to hell? Paved with…
Oct 6, 2009 - 5:12 am 29. Thomas_L......:I wish Bill Whittle was president or at least had the president’s ear. Nah. Wouldn’t work. This guy is not a listener and doesn’t think he has anything more to learn. Hubris always leads to downfall and tragedy. Alas.
Oct 6, 2009 - 5:19 am 30. goy:@21. ~Paules: – Watch for his mean and dark side to emerge when the public finally rejects him.
True dat.
Oct 6, 2009 - 5:20 am 31. Gary Ogletree:Barry has been a spoiled brat his whole life, never having to grow up, never having to work very hard. He is headed for a big fall, a total crackup. His world view is so skewed, his friends are so corrupt and incompetent, he will have the mother of all failed presidencies. Obama will enter the language as a warning for hubris and delusions of unearned grandeur.
Oct 6, 2009 - 5:24 am 32. Sebastian Shaw:Given the MSM is amplifying corrupt Roland Burris’ absurd claims that President George W. Bush’s 8 years in office marred the decision to dismiss Chicago from the 2016 games while ignoring the fact President Obama & Michelle Obama talked about themselves in their own self-absorbed glory shows President Obama has not learned his ways. President Obama is nothing more than flatulence given human form thanks to his gross narcissism. Obama can only see his own fictional glory rather than his true self as an impotent follower of Saul Alinsky.
Oct 6, 2009 - 5:40 am 33. Morton Doodslag:Hints that there would be a problem began well before He took office. But does anyone else remember his first vacation? He went to Camp David barely two weeks in office, stopping long enough on the way to tell a bunch of first graders that his “work” was “really hard”. “WORK”!? A mere two weeks in? The high crimes and destruction wrought on the USA by Obama, who is proving himself beyond all doubt to be the worst President in history, must be eternally hung around the necks of the malignant clowns, dupes, communists, criminals, and morons who foisted him on America.
Oct 6, 2009 - 5:49 am 34. Daveyardbird:The white lab coats got me thinking where have I heard that before and then it hit me. Nathans Famous! When Nathan began selling his hot dogs for 5 cents in Coney Island, when the competition was selling it for a dime, he hired actors and dressed them in lab coats to eat at his hot dog stand, to show the public that he sold a quality product.
Oct 6, 2009 - 5:52 am 35. Just One of the Flock:mmmm mmmm mmmm
Oct 6, 2009 - 5:54 am 36. The Monster:Rio won because it would be the first Olympics in South America. That feelgood ‘everybody gets to host the Olympics.’
Obama won because he would be the first black President in America. (That is to say that substantially more people voted for him for that reason than was the margin of victory.)
And now that we’ve had our second first black president, there is no history to be made by re-electing him. There is, however, some history to be made by electing certain likely challengers.
I believe the expression is “hoist by his own petard”.
Oct 6, 2009 - 5:56 am 37. AThinkingPerson:Wasn’t it George Will that counted Obama and Michelle’s use of “we” and “I” during their Olympic prostration? It has always been about Obama and his legacy. Never has he put AMERICAN interests above his own.
What else is there to say about a man who will pass out lab coats to “doctors” to further his health care debaucle?
No wonder Pelosi hasn’t started “draining that swamp” yet. The sucking sound would start at the White House.
Oct 6, 2009 - 5:57 am 38. Ben:Obama, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton, make up a trio has never held a job, never managed a business, never had to make a living, like most Americans. They are like three stooges in a pod. They all think they are infallible in every thing they do, or say. They never seem to be able to see themselves as others do, as (one of the 3 stooges) It is very doubtful that Obama will see his appearance before the Olympic committee as the idiotic failure it really was. because none of the three stooges actually know how to deal with reality.
Oct 6, 2009 - 5:59 am 39. deguello:O +HOs=0,or for those who prefer words:Drool from the fool,+lies from the buttfaced wife,+hoof stomping from the lachrymose pachyderm,=0
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:08 am 40. deguello:#8 VIVO: “Patriotic duty?” In the mouth of a libtard,that’s as insincere, and surreal as “antisemitism” uttered by a nazi.Since when is it the “patriotic” duty of the president to bring a bread and circus-show,into a typical urban hellhole,to enrich his allies and contributors?
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:12 am 41. Ricky Raccoon:Wouldn’t these make great Halloween costumes..or for the next tea party.
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:29 am 42. tanstaafl:…the Miracle of his Rise to show that if only we would (get with the program) then (we, the peeps) would finally be able to see the (glory and miraculousness) of its ways and we’d all be able to (breathe a sigh of relief that our brilliant Savior had come) at long last.
(For the record, I felt exactly as you in paragraph #1.)
…that humiliation on the cheap might persuade The World’s Smartest Politician to show some intelligence and change his mind based upon the evidence…
I think the character issues, the rigidity of Barack Obama’s personality, preclude reflection & enlightenment, on this or any other topic.
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:32 am 43. Delia:17. Parabellum:
“What makes you think those 150 people were doctors?”
Death Panel?
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:37 am 44. ahem:Bill Clinton was the first Black President. Obama is the first Marxist president.
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:37 am 45. Terri:Have to agree with Gary, the name Obama will be synonymous with arrogance, hubris, incompetence, out of control spending and debt, a cult of personality, failure, plus a whole lot more.
We’re already using it here in our office when we know someone says a bald faced lie, is grossly exaggerating, is feigning association with a group or idea, takes credit for something they didn’t do or is hiding more than they disclose. Brad is trying to pull an “Obama” on all of us. The latest usage based on current events applies when one is all braggadocio prior to closing a contract they’ve put little to no effort into and typically do not deliver the goods. In this instance we label such a failure as “No cigar, Obama”.
Alternatively create an “O” with your index fingers and thumbs while showing disappointment.
If there other usages for his name, I and my colleagues would like to hear them..
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:40 am 46. Connie du Toit:Jimmeh Carter thought that telling the Russians that we weren’t going to attend the Olympic games in Russia was going to cause them to set aside their tyrannical ways. 50 years of murdering millions would come to an abrubt end if we would run along side their athletes. That’s the audacity Carter believed in. Obama is just following suit.
World stage performances, such as the Olympics or Cophenhagen, are what it’s all about to them. They believe the world revolves around diplomacy, but their own brand of it… the talk-only variety, with no threat backing it up.
No, the nation has elected a weak, ineffectual Darling, and the world’s tyrants are, as you say, circling the perimeter with their fangs dripping blood.
Nothing will teach Obama a lesson. Even a bomb dropping on the U.S. will be met with more cries of “this requires immediate discussion!”
If you’ll forgive me… Obama doesn’t carry a Big Stick, as former presidents have done. He carries a Big Shtick and we’re his comic relief.
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:40 am 47. Jeffrey:There is no lesson here for the liar in chief. Yesterday he went out and suited up a bunch of people to look like doctors, had to make sure they looked the part so he could tell the American idiots (that’s what he thinks we are)that doctors, all those there are supporting his plan.
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:44 am 48. misanthropicus:“they must think your stupid” well he thinks your stupid, after all you elected him.
On Obama’s Waterloo Olympics, Geography, Liberal Superstitions & Peter’s Principles (Part “n”)
Time and again:
A) It’s the geography, stupid – no matter how “transactional” the IOU politics are, there still is some idealism amongst those voting jackets (particularly the Euros), who want the radiance of the Olympic events to spread as uniformly as possible on the globe (I am a card-carrying sports hater, to clarify my position in this matter – I see nothing but “panem & circense” in this, fact well understood & used by fascists and commies alike).
So, in the present situation, the UU had very little chances to overcome the voting states’ sympathy for Brazil, since the American Southern Hemisphere never hosted an Olympic game in history, while the Northern American Hemi had SIX! And the fact that Brazil clearly has the ability to handle the matter, financially, made the deal simply unreachable for the US, Obama & Michelle’s presence adding to the US winning assets less weight than a constipated robin’s dropping.
B) However, there is a much more disturbing aspect to this Olympics affair than losing some sports business, aspect which is the clear belief nurtured by many Americans who are still allowed to vote (and issue children, as well!) that Obama’s presence/ intervention could/can change(d) this, or other unfolding processes & events in the larger world.
This is very scary, indeed, and not only because Obama sincerely believes this, too – but because this wide-spread public superstition is STILL LEGITIMIZING Obama’s absurd (if not seditious) presidency, and enables him to further, incompetenly tinker with other, vastly more complex and dangerous affairs, where Obama’s serene doltishness can bring nothing but misery for this country.
The Olympic games affair is over – “tant pis” would Marie-Claude say, and this is right.
But the manifestations of superstition that have surrounded Obama magical trip to Danemark, and the fact that we live in a society where there are so many (voters) still believing that Obama is able to change Jupiter’s orbit (or Iran’s, Rusia’s or China’s geopolitical objectives), with a speeach about himself are something to worry about, because this protective cushion will give him the chance to hit next time against genuine, major interests of this nation -
Believe Peter’s principle: Obama will not exit the stage without fulfilling his highest level of incompetence – very costly situation for America -
And since the “anti-patriotic” accusations come from Bill Ayres, Jane Fonda’s and Michael Moore’s ilk – the auditions for Monty Python have stopped twenty years ago, guys -
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:53 am 49. leishman:mmm…mmm…mmm…Barack Hussein Obama.
‘Bama-man he think he God.
IOC did not applaud.
mmm…mmm…mmm…Barack Hussein Obama.
FLOTUS think she one smart cookie.
IOC say no way, wookie.
mmm…mmm…mmm…Barack Hussein Obama.
POTUS there for just five hours.
IOC send him to showers.
mmm…mmm…mmm…Barack Hussein Obama.
‘Bama try to lend a hand.
IOC say go pound sand.
mmm…mmm…mmm…you loser-man Obama.
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:53 am 50. Tony R:It’s took 43 individuals 220 years to give the office of the President of the United States a respected and fearsome position on the world stage.
It’s taken only one individual 9 months to turn it into a laughing stock.
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:58 am 51. johnt:I have it on unimpeachable authority that those people in the white lab coats were all veterinarians, appropriate for what the Dems and our Chief Bumbler have in mind.
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:58 am 52. TOhio:Also, they were quite at home in the WH, dogs being their constituency.
Another reason why I’m glad that Chicago didn’t get the Olympics is because it would have rewarded corruption.
Everyone knows that Chicago is a corrupt city. It is probably the most openly corrupt city in America. So, why on earth, should we reward this type of behavior?
I’m amazed that here in the United States of America, that absolutely nothing has been done about the dirty political environment in Chicago. People now take it as a given. And no one even challenges it.
An openly dirty city, with greedy sell-my-soul politicians, does not deserve something that the world still looks on with hope and admiration.
I’m glad that Valerie Jarrett, Mayor Daley, President Obama and the whole crooked bunch got smacked. If the IOC can do it, maybe, just maybe, we’ll have some Americans with spine who are willing to take on and bring down the whole bunch.
Oct 6, 2009 - 7:00 am 53. Poor Citizen:Its a shame that the author is taking it so tough because we did not get the bid. I am much older and I can assure that its not the first time America did not get a bid for an Olympics and not the last time. You learn with maturity and experience that it has really nothing to do with personality and/or failure, however, politics does play a part. Dont give up hope, I am sure that a. Rio will do a tremendous job and b. The next time a city gets to host an Olympics, they too, will do a great job. Stay strong cuz just like the president says “the audacity of hope.”
Oct 6, 2009 - 7:07 am 54. Kate Rafferty:I’m not embarrassed. America is a great country. Right now we have a fool for president and those who voted for him should be more than embarrassed.
Oct 6, 2009 - 7:08 am 55. Michael W. Perry:You almost got it right. I worked in a hospital once. Long lab coats usually meant lab techs, the people who do blood draws. Nurses could wear a variety of tunic tops, so the key was to look for white slacks. But that didn’t work either. Some parents, whose kids were there a long time, took to wearing while slacks because they saw their role as almost medical. Many understood their child’s condition better than the doctors.
Stethoscopes aren’t themselves a sign. Quite a few hospital staff wear them. The one sign that almost always worked (or at least did then) was wearing a pricey double-tubed stethoscope. They’re only useful for catching subtle sounds like malfunctioning heart valves, and that’s usually a diagnosis only MDs are concerned with. Regular hospital staff wear one with a single tube that divides to go to each ear. It works well enough for most purposes, is rugged and costs about one tenth the price.
Keep in mind that Obama and company aren’t concerned about the well-informed, meaning those who see through a white-coat ploy. Those people already have solid opinions on way or the other. They’re aiming at the clueless sort who think what Obama is doing must be good because the press has tagged it “health care reform.” They’re the people who believe in “hope and change.”
Oct 6, 2009 - 7:16 am 56. NCBob:For Obama, this had NOTHING to do with country or games! This was another of his and Chicago’s crooked scams. The were millions, maybe, billions to be made from land deals, building contracts, phantom jobs, kick backs, pay offs, and other shady deals. Chicago, it’s aldermen, the Daley’s, the community organizers, union bosses, the three card monte dealers on the south side, all know how to make bucks out of such things.
Oct 6, 2009 - 7:18 am 57. Robert Oler:This was Obama’s opportunity for pay back to all the hustlers who helped him in the past. He failed!!
LOL
this is a pretty typical right wing rant
“The Greatest Moron in the History of The World, did when confronting a failing strategery in Iraq.”
Iraq/Iran I guess that they all look the same.
we would not be in the mess we are had it not been for Bush the last and the thunderheads in his administration…
ohh well…did you mean Iran and wrote Iraq?
Seesh
Robert G. Oler
Oct 6, 2009 - 7:19 am 58. arthur williams:Stethoscopes would never work. They could all be orderlies and LPN’s with those around their necks.
Oct 6, 2009 - 7:23 am 59. Tish:The hubris of this man is so glaring one needs shades to look at him. His loss was my personal victory.
Oct 6, 2009 - 7:25 am 60. Andrew X:That final line is brilliant. I forsee using it in many a conversation.
Oct 6, 2009 - 7:28 am 61. amherst:To my way of thinking, Obama is viewed as the POTUS but I don’t believe he has it in him and I don’t believe that he is the REAL POTUS. (Cheerleader, maybe) He is a prop and props can’t think, act, lead. My question beggs an answer: Who or what groups is the REAL President. How did theyit get in control? Let’s name them…afterall THEY are the ones telling Obama what to do, when to move, what to say, how to smile (the list goes on). How did this consortium which now makes up the real presidency come into play. It’s a dangerous group. No mistaking that!
Oct 6, 2009 - 7:47 am 62. cfbleachers:My poor hometown. It really can’t catch a break. For years, if you met a foreigner and they asked where you were from…and you told them Chicago, they would smile broadly and fix their hands into a machine gun pose and start air-Capone rat-a-tat-tatting.
After 1968, a certain segment of the population would give a knowing glance to anyone under 30 and ask if the “crooked cops” ever administered a beating to your cranium.
During many of the sporting seasons, the hapless Cubs or hapless Bears or hapless Hawks took turns bringing on national comedic bloodsport.
And now…this.
Dragged across the world stage like poorly stitched ragdoll, clumsy, limp and tattered for the world to see…
This was the near equivalent of watching Ali dispatch Jean Pierre Coopman, the “Lion of Flanders”, in a match so one-sided, Coopman was drinking champagne between rounds and Ali was laughing so hard he couldn’t and wouldn’t hit the guy for a while.
The sham of a presentation, so unworthy of even entering the ring…was there simply to offer a little circus act distraction.
I suppose the main differences between the two contests were, a) that Ali at least let Coopman hang around for 5 rounds before he administered the beating everyone knew was coming; b)Coopman was at least self-aware enough to know he was a tomato can.
So, a first round knockout in a fight we were never in, in the first place…placed on a national stage, because the Lion of Hyde Park brought his pride to bear on the proceedings…was in the offing.
And we all know what happened next…down goes poseur, down goes poseur, down goes poseur.
Wait til next year.
Oct 6, 2009 - 7:54 am 63. JKB:Like anyone listens to their doctor. If they did, they wouldn’t smoke, be overweight and would exercise. No, doctors are ignored when there advice goes against our self-interest and those don’t cost us money or surrender our lives to busybodies.
Oct 6, 2009 - 7:58 am 64. gracie:Obama is always in campaign mode.
I do not understand why we are so surprised that we did not get the 2012 Olympics. Rio has never had the Olympics, and Chicago is a hellhole. The cities were all visited and opinions made by the IOC.
Maybe members of the IOC don’t like BHO and Michelle. Maybe they are blaming Obama for the state of affairs in the world, cozing up to enemies etc. Who knows??
I find it disgusting and degrading the Adm is blaming Bush. These guys need to man up and take the mantle on. Guess Obma and the fiasco with McCrystal are Bush’s fault. McCrystal should resign while he’s ahead. Obama will find a way to hurt this man.
Yeah, we would not have known the guys in the Rose Garden were doctors without those cute little lab coast. I have one, it’s part of a Halloween costume.
Oct 6, 2009 - 8:11 am 65. Fat Man:Being awarded the Olympics is like having the King of Siam give you a white elephant. The Olympics are a sure fire money draining proposition. Montreal just finished paying off the 1976 games. To not host them makes the people of Chicago better off by billions of Dollars. Rooting for Obama to get squashed on this one was a two-for, cheap lesson plus money saving.
Oct 6, 2009 - 8:23 am 66. heathermc:Back when the financial crisis hit, McCain and Obama and etc rushed to Washington for a meeting with Bush. Pelosi and Reid were there too. Anyway, it was striking that Pelosi and Reid COMPLETELY IGNORED Obama, who was in fact their presidential candidate. Why? Because Obama was to them, and now to us, an empty suit. He had NO PRESENCE in that meeting. And he has not presence now. He is a disaster.
Oct 6, 2009 - 8:24 am 67. Common Sense:#8″There was nothing embarrassing or humiliating for Obama. The real fight was between the IOC and the USOC. Obama did his patriotic duty by trying to shift the IOC thinking. Leaders of the other countries were there. He would have been amply criticized if he had not shown up.”
I don’t think so…
“The Obama haters are just simply howling at whatever he does. We hear the ‘noise’. It’s getting boring.”
Typical Liberal tactic to label anyone who disagrees with you a “hater” to try to deflect the validity of their points.
Oct 6, 2009 - 8:29 am 68. TwoDogs:This is what you usually get with an affirmative action hire : an unqualified, incompetent boob.
Oct 6, 2009 - 8:34 am 69. kathy:22. Sandra: “I can only imagine the rolling of the eyes…”
It was worse than that – watch the video: you can see them cringing, wincing and actually getting embarrassed for M, O & O.
Oct 6, 2009 - 8:44 am 70. tanstaafl:The IOC doesn’t fall for Barack and Michelle’s hokey shtick in Copenhagen (”Get your nutty American inspirationalism off me!”) and the follow up is to concoct a gathering of white coats in the rose garden.
The fragile ego precludes learning.
Along with other lies on healthcare*, Obama keeps repeating that “doctors & nurses” support him, whereas, reportedly, only about 17% of doctors belong to the AMA.
You Mislead! Fact-checking Obama
Oct 6, 2009 - 8:45 am 71. AThinkingPerson:#22 Sandra: “Affirmative action is non-existent in Europe. You don’t earn extra points for ethnicity or skin color. You are judged on character. Make a note of that.”
Loved this bit of your post! If only character were the measure of a man in the US. We wouldn’t be suffering under Obama right now.
Oct 6, 2009 - 8:50 am 72. Eric:Obama is a Marxist. Everything he does is about him and personal power. He’s a clueless idiot in matters of governance that really matter like economics where he and his fellow economic illiterates are laying the groundwork for decades of high unemployment, stagnant growth, reduced power and innovation, deprivation and for what? To achieve his, and Soros’, socialist Utopia. If only there was a way to keep the suffering to only those that voted for him.
Oct 6, 2009 - 9:04 am 73. Bill Whittle:As a coda, I read a comment over at Ann Althouse’s blog, regarding the fact that they had to hand out lab coats to the doctors who showed up dressed as real doctors: in business suits.
BETA CONSERVATIVE wrote:
When the Trial Lawyers visit will they hand out douche bags?
I’d give a largish sum of money to have written that one myself.
Oct 6, 2009 - 9:06 am 74. elaine:Bill, your desire that Obama learn a lesson won’t happen, because the man’s incapable of learning from his mistakes.
Doubt me?
What’s his response in any situation where he’s proven wrong or has failed?
It’s someone else’s fault.
The economy is still tanking? It’s Bush’s fault, or maybe his economic advisors didn’t know how bad the economy was. Most Americans are against his healthcare plan? Then most Americans are stupid. Failed to get Chicago the Olympics? We played a good game but got beaten. What about cap-and-trade? Oh, it’s those mean, old, nay-saying Republicans.
EVERY failure is someone else’s fault; and when your internal narrative plays that all day, you’ll never learn from your mistakes, because, in your own mind, YOU never make a mistake. Failure is always someone else’s fault.
On an unrelated note… I wonder how many of those lab-coated doctors were Obama campaign donators?
Oct 6, 2009 - 9:07 am 75. Poor Citizen:Dont panic, sometimes your country is not picked. Next time maybe it will be picked. The president tried as hard as any president would have tried. You learn as you mature and get older that you do not always get what you want. It will be ok…really….now dry your tears and grab some pride. America is a great country.
Oct 6, 2009 - 9:12 am 76. ked5:Obummer, learn a lesson because he made as stupid choice? one that reflects badly on his alledged intelligence? ROFMLOL!!!!!
don’t'cha know? it’s all racism and he’s just a victim.
Oct 6, 2009 - 9:29 am 77. RagnarD:Brilliant, just brilliant. At another blog, AskMom also said that this was “…the world’s most comprehensive vanity publishing gig…” in reference to “Why Is This Man Laughing?” which I think is on a par with your statement. Gerard also provides a link back here.
And to quote another PJM writer, “The terrible ‘If’s’ accumulate.”
Oct 6, 2009 - 10:07 am 78. john from cinncinatti:the summer olympics held in the middle of winter…ok its in the southern hemisphere. oops.
Oct 6, 2009 - 10:59 am 79. barbie:me i’m glad we don’t have to pay for that bit of theater. maybe Chicago and the Obama crowd can get Barnum and Bailey to come to town.
It was Bush’s fault that the Olympics didn’t go to Chi-town. I don’t think that the sometimes violent demonstrations by half of Chi’s citizenery played a role. It is unlikey that the carnage dalily broadcast depicting drive-by shootings (a potential Olympic event) and bludgenings haad any impact. And, of course, Chicago’s unofficial title as sleaze capital of athe midwest ws not a factor. No, no. It was Bush and the incipient racism of the IOC. Denmark is a very pale city.
Oct 6, 2009 - 11:04 am 80. JShope:Sharpen your teeth, True Americans. The current administration continues to endanger the sheep dogs, and send them, unprepared, to the wolves.
The time is coming quickly where we will need the internal will and ability to defend ourselves against attacks on our honorable history, religion, capitalism, Republic, freedom, and our very lives.
Oct 6, 2009 - 11:04 am 81. myth buster:6. Don’t say “crony welfare capitalist buddies.” Use the dictionary term- fascists.
Oct 6, 2009 - 11:16 am 82. Paul from Hamburg:#65 “To not host them makes the people of Chicago better off by billions of Dollars.”
Sorry, you are wrong on that one. Not hosting the Olympics makes ALL OF US better off by billions of dollars. I don’t have much confidence in Obama, but I am very sure that he would have managed to use federal money to pay off all cost overruns.
Oct 6, 2009 - 12:03 pm 83. tanstaafl:Even Barack Obama senses, on some level, that he should call for the men in the white coats.
Oct 6, 2009 - 12:54 pm 84. tanstaafl:…Obama, but I am very sure that he would have managed to use federal money to pay off all cost overruns.
Reportedly, in his various pitches for the Olympics over the months & years, Mayor Daley has taken pains to emphasize no new local taxes.
That opened up wide speculation as to what non-local taxation might look like.
Barack’s replacement in the Senate, the not so honoUrable Roland Burris, (”too corrupt to even try for a full term”) is blaming the Olympics loss on…you guessed it…the horrible tenure of one GWB.
But whoever believed a Chicago pol, past or present, in the first place ?
Oct 6, 2009 - 1:09 pm 85. Class Clown:The thing that always strikes me the most about Obama is this sense that he seems to think that being elected was the end, as if that was all he had to do. That once he made it to the top, the hard work was over, and he would have the power to do whatever he wanted.
Oct 6, 2009 - 3:08 pm 86. vivo:64. gracie:
“Maybe members of the IOC don’t like BHO and Michelle. Maybe they are blaming Obama for the state of affairs in the world, cozing up to enemies etc. Who knows?? ”
Pajammers like this one are either ignorant of the facts or simply ignore them to show their hate. They were probably members of the OJ trial.
It was all about MONEY. The IOC didn’t get their way with the USOC. No money, no games. Obama didn’t say a word about adding a bribe, so they cut him off. I wonder what kind of televised coverage Americans will get in 2016 . . . Brazilian electronics/software are incompatible with USA standards.
67. Common Sense:
“Typical Liberal tactic to label anyone who disagrees with you a “hater” to try to deflect the validity of their points.”
You can spot a ‘hater’ when you see foam coming out of their mouths. Common sense.
Oct 6, 2009 - 4:28 pm 87. kenb:to the 57 -
He means Iraq, of course; the line refers to what some people were saying about Bush, before he changed strategy and instituted the surge – like your own next line about the “thunderheads” (sic). Did you comprehend at all what you were reading? “Seesh”, indeed.
Oct 6, 2009 - 4:28 pm 88. 48 Laws of Power:at the rate obama is violating the laws of power, he soon will be left with none. could you imagine one of the truly powerful people in history going to stump for games? it would never happen.
his weakness puts us all at risk.
his inability to get anything done, except for the 2010 bailout for democratic election victory, shows he does not understand the trappings of power.
Oct 6, 2009 - 4:44 pm 89. AZDude:Vivo is pulling our collective legs. No on can be so stupid as to believe the IOC didn’t embarass The One, or The One didn’t embarass himself. Really, no one can be that stupid. Everyone can see the whole world is laughing at Obama.
Oct 6, 2009 - 4:50 pm 90. Mike, CO:“In other words, lead instead of cheerlead.”
Well, Obama is missing a lot more than leadership. He does not play to win, except when he perceives winning as a personal victory. He accepts failure when he is not directly accountable for it. He would have to rectify this “I before team” mentality before he could begin to lead. He cannot even conceal the egoism when both his and his wife’s Olympic speeches were saturated with first person personal pronouns.
Oct 6, 2009 - 5:55 pm 91. goy:If only BHO had recounted to the OIC his wonderful little anecdote about what an ‘Olympic’-level Bowler he is.
Oh wait… the OIC probably saw that show.
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:11 pm 92. DAROGR:Thank you Bill, perfectly stated.
How sad Barack failed to learn his lesson from this. It was his big chance to learn and he chose to ignore it. Instead he and his cronies will blame the Right, the OIC and yes, even George W. Bush.
When people cannot learn from their mistakes, they are destined for a fall. Barack Obama is destined for the greatest fall in the history of this country, maybe even the world.
I just hope that he does not choose to take the country with him. I hope decency will prevail. I think there is a trace in him. It may not be in his wife or in his staff, but I think he may have a bit in him. I hope so.
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:22 pm 93. Ella:I miss Bush.
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:25 pm 94. Now and Then:87 goy
Hey . . . aren’t you on the wrong thread? I’m just as sure as I’m a 10 on “Goy’s Magic Scale of Moral Mysteries” that some of your conservative cronies are busy elsewhere decrying political correctness. Careful, you might fall out of favor with Of Guello and adrinkingperson . . . they don’t cotton to no liberal sensitivity. Unless, of course, you’re being completely disingenuous. No, that’s not possible. So, get thee to a liberal arts college of your choice. I suggest an all-girls’ school. They’re the weaker sex you know. Might come in handy for you.
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:28 pm 95. stu wiliamson:Last man in: FWIW.
Obama had no option to going to Copenhagen and embarrassing himself and the nation – again.
David Axelrod has been the key planner for Daley’s Olympic Games proposal, and has innumerable ties with Ad agencies, publicists, meeting planner, production mnagers, hospitality firms, hotel owners and travel agents. Emanuel and Daley and the whole Chicago Machine are in lock step with engineers, building designers, steel construction firms, concrete construction firms, hotel builders, paving and highway tycoons, etc. etc, etc. They would have made hose Habitant crooks in Montreal looked like small change. And the Big Cahoonga was to step out of the White house in ‘016 into Top Dog for Chicago’s Greates Sting. For BO it was, “ow high, David?”
Diplomacy and statesmanship did not enter into it. Everything they do is part of a SCAM – Swindle Complacent Americans Massively.
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:47 pm 96. Pragmatist:VIVO invokes the OJ Trial where RACIST Blacks unashamedly played the RACE CARD and let the guilty murderer off despite the overwhelming evidence against him. Which is actually a perfect analogy for ‘libtards’ giving the Obamanation a free pass despite the overwhelming evidence against HIM.
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:49 pm 97. jerryofva:Left wing Moonbat Trolls like VIVO just don’t get it do they and how it shows when they post the pathetic nonsense that they do such as this.If it wasn’t so sad it would be hilarious.
Just like on another thread Davis S defended the Obamanations Health Care reform and in the SAME paragraph admitted it had not even been written yet. But such is the depths of their worshipful state that they cant even see how ridiculous and stupid they constantly make themselves look.
Vivo, is that white spittle I seen on your lips?
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:52 pm 98. Pragmatist:# 44 ahem : I think you will find the Obamanation Barrack, you can call me HUSSEIN now I WON, Obama is the first Narcissistic, Inexperienced, Incompetent, Black , Communist, Mohammedan, BOGUS POTUS, Teleprompter Kid, Laughing Jackass, Anti American, antisemitic, Islamophile,USURPER President to give him his full title.
Oct 6, 2009 - 6:55 pm 99. steveg:There is also the possibility that the IOC turned down Chicago because it would be hard to have a summer olympics in a town that rarely broke 70 degrees this most recent summer.
Oct 6, 2009 - 8:28 pm 100. Richard:The two speeches were absolutely the most embarrassingly narcissistic and plainly ineffective I have ever heard fall out of the mouths of politicians. Just horrendous. I, Me, My, ME, ME, MEEEEE.
They sounded like 5th graders at Show and Tell.
Oct 6, 2009 - 10:00 pm 101. Pragmatist:Its quite simple really.
OBAMA = ACORN, ACORN = OBAMA
Therefore OBAMA + ACORN = ACORN Squared = Incompetent Racist CORRUPTION
OBAMA + UNIONS = Incompetent Racist Communist CORRUPTION
OBAMA + ACORN + UNIONS = ACORN Squared + UNIONS = Incompetent Racist Corruption Squared + Communism = Destruction of the USA as we know it.
Oct 7, 2009 - 12:38 am 102. claudine:VIVO
Nope. The IOC is a racist enterprise. There can be no other rational explanation for Obama’s failure. It is just not humanly possible to resist his rhetorical skills. I think that it is high time that Al & Jesse take action. I, myself, will buy no more Havarti cheese.
Oct 7, 2009 - 1:36 am 103. Donna V.:I will now proceed to summarize the next 250 Vivo posts at PJM:
“Haters, you’re all haters,…,racist haters,…,redneck haters,…,violent haters,…,teabaggers,…, Beck is an idiot,…,Palin is an idiot,…,did I mention that you’re all hateful haters?”
There ya go! Vivo, never say I don’t do anything for you. You can now take your well-served rest in the asylum and I’ll cover for you.
Since I can predict ahead of time what your reaction will be, it’ll be no problem at all. Not like I have to think or anything to imitiate a leftist troll. No need to thank me,…,I know you must need a rest,..,
Oct 7, 2009 - 3:12 am 104. Paul -Indiana:mmm mmm mmm
Oct 7, 2009 - 4:26 am 105. deguello:Obama cannot learn an Olympic-sized lesson. Olympics is an European concept,created by dead white males,and not easily understood by our race-limited presidential groveller.I suggest you re-write as: An OPRAH_SIZED lesson;this even this dweeb will understand!
Oct 7, 2009 - 9:56 am 106. vivo:96. Pragmatist:
“VIVO invokes the OJ Trial where RACIST Blacks unashamedly played the RACE CARD”
RACIST Blacks = Pragmatists = ignorants
102. claudine:
“I, myself, will buy no more Havarti cheese.”
You don’t have to do that. The IOC is not Danish, it’s international. Enjoy your delicious Havarti, I will.
103. Donna V.:
“I know you must need a rest,..,”
We can see from what you wrote that YOU need a rest. I’m bogging you so much it hurts. It’s very relaxing at my asylum and the people here have more sense than some pajammers.
Oct 8, 2009 - 3:21 am 107. maxsmodels:I doubt he will learn and to be honest, I would not be surprised if he somehow tries to blame the Bush administration.
Oct 8, 2009 - 3:24 pm 108. Now and Then:103. Donna V.:
Why so angry?
Oct 8, 2009 - 3:50 pm 109. Betty Blue:Vivo, you forgot to mention Sarah Palin. Come now, they’re not going to let you back into the asylum, unless you make at least one snarky remark about Palin. Also, did you remember to blame it all on Bush?
And—”bogging”? You’re “bogging” Donna V. so much it hurts? What are you doing? flinging chunks of boggy marshland at her? (Well, mud-flinging’s kinda what you do in all your posts.) At any rate, I think you’re really hurting Donna much, with your “bogging”.
You really do need a rest!
Oct 8, 2009 - 4:12 pm 110. selwyn mills:Bravo!! I never laughed so hard in front of my computer..there were so many great comments..the unconscious idea of Obama’s setting up the men in the white coats just in case he needed to be taken away suddenly. He may not have made one of his grandiose speeches about the Olymps but he certainly looked like he is ready for a sanatorium.
When I got the news of the rejection, I got the image of a silent movie of a arrogant villian walking along a street as if he owned the world and walks directly into an open manhole.
Oct 8, 2009 - 4:20 pm 111. rob murtoff:so the news from Chicago in the days immediately preceding the IOC vote . . .
Anti-Olympics protests – several protesters arrested
teenage honor student beaten to death in the street with a stick by black gangs – broad daylight, replete with graphic video footage
teen beaten to bloody mess in middle class neighborhood the next day – “there was blood everywhere”
how can anyone be surprised that the world (well, let’s face it, mostly Europe) didn’t find Chicago a good venue to represent the spirit of peace, good will, and human ascendancy that the Olympics is supposed to embody?
even the man-god couldn’t turn the tide, and really it’s not even fair to blame him. what shocks me: some folks were bemused by the vote outcome.
Oct 8, 2009 - 7:34 pm 112. BettyBlue:Made a mistake; should have said, “I DON’T think you’re really hurting Donna much with your “bogging”.
Vivo, I really think you’re getting bogged down.
Oct 8, 2009 - 8:13 pm 113. ZZMike:[Sorry to hear about the unwelcome mail. It's the Price of Fame]
I wrote a little about the circus at
http://freedomactionnow.wordpress.com
“White Coats for Obama”
The few names I could check are all Obama donors. The lead doctor in the photo is a Kerry donor. I suspect there were few Republicans in the group.
Oct 9, 2009 - 9:12 am 114. FreeWillie:“lead instead of cheerlead.”
I think you just nailed it.
I confess that I have read no other comments so I may be repeating. I apologize for that. I just didn’t have time to read the other 108 comments.
Oct 9, 2009 - 3:55 pm