Posted on 10/03/2009 5:00:38 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
Game over, home team lost: the U.S. won just 18 votes in the first round of IOC voting, and was knocked out in the first round. And suddenly the president was being pummeled by the right for a frivolous use of political capital—especially in the Weekly Standard, which not only blasted Obama for his failure, but anticipated that the mainstream press corps would not take the defeat seriously. “The media is faced with three facts as a result of Obama’s embarrassing failure in Copenhagen. 1) The failure itself. 2) The incompetence. 3) The lack of persuasive ability. There’s nothing ideological about any of these items,” wrote Fred Barnes.
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To be fair, I am glad 0bama spent political capital on this. It makes the outcome so much worse politically for him.
Not exactly true. Serious journalists were critical of this fiasco long before he lost the Olympics.
Since it was Titanic’s maiden voyage, Captain Edward Smith was not able to throw blame on the previous captain...
The author sure seems to want to put lipstick on that pig.
Even before Obama became the Dem nominee, smart people knew the Chicago Olympics was going to be nothing but a graft fest for Mayor Daley and his cronies. I was opposed to Chicago having them from the get go. So was half of Chicago.
Me thinks that is why congress is trying so hard to ram HC and anything else in before the Nov. elections when the dam cracks and the tide truly turns.
Heh... maybe he can lobby for the World Cup next. :)
“people knew the Chicago Olympics was going to be nothing but a graft fest”
So now we know what and who a chunk of the “shovel ready” stimulus money was destined for.....how will they get their thieving hands on it now?
I marvel that he still gets credit for eloquence at all. He seems incapable of delivering this thoughts without the aid of a teleprompter, even at the IOC. His pitch to the IOC was one of the most self-centered, narcissistic arguments I’ve ever heard, in any context, from a President. Michelle’s argument that she did it for the kids despite the great personal sacrifice people see in her effort dropped my jaw.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he did in fact have a deal, but his pitch simply turned the IOC off, and they decided to pop his ballooned sense of self-importance.
Maybe he can bring next years Folsom Street Fair to Chicago.
Why did the bid fail? Because Rahm and Axelrod thought they had bribed enough IOC electors to guarantee victory. Otherwise they would have never allowed the Obamamessiah to go over there. But Copenhagen is not Chicago. There is no honor among thieves and the electors they bribed did not stay “bought”, but instead flipped to the highest bidder.
IOW, they were beat at their own game.
Did anyone catch Rowdy Gaines’ comment that it was the “fault of the the previous administration for the past eight years”
It was Bush’s fault poor old obama lost the olympics for us! Poor, POOR barack inherited this mess!
Ok i am be a little off on dates here, bit how did Chicago make it to the final four contenders if it was Bush’s fault? They would have been stopped cold then,
I beleive the final four cities were announced when W was still president.
LOL!! No, please just leave it where it is, OK? Thank you!
“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.
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