Posted on 10/02/2009 11:28:50 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
You have every right to be mad, Chicago. Something smells rotten in Denmark, and the stench is making everybody hold their noses on this side of the Atlantic. Honk if you hate the IOC process.
This was the most frustrating defeat in Chicago's recent sports history.
This beats them all, worse the Cubs getting swept by the Dodgers in the 2008 Divisional Playoffs or the Bears losing to the Colts in Super Bowl XLI. This is worse than your favorite No. 1 seed being knocked out in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
At least we know how they keep score in those games. Runs. Touchdowns. Baskets.
Does anybody really know what the IOC weighted in selecting Rio de Janeiro as the host city for 2016 and making Chicago the first city to get eliminated? How can a bid considered by many Olympic experts even outside Cook County to be the best bid ever put together by a U.S. city come in fourth out of four?
Finishing second to Rio would have hurt but been easier to justify and understand. But fourth? Why, exactly?
We don't know now and probably never will. We are left to speculate.
An anti-American sentiment still exists that even a rock-star president and his wife or the world's talk-show queen couldn't overcome. Chicago's bid featured too much glitz and not enough grit. The final presentation Friday morning, even with President Obama delivering an eloquent speech, fell flat.
All have been offered since 10:32 a.m. Friday as plausible explanations for Chicago's early ouster. All may or may not have factored into the decision-making process of the 95 IOC members who KO'd Chicago in the first round.
But 18 measly votes? The "American Idol," voting process seems scientific in comparison.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
The 0 Regime: fiddling while Rome burns.
Chicago’s demon spawn fail to impress the rest of the world.
Their right something was rotten in Denmark. It was BO.
Well it would be a first for South America. Also it sends a message that Obama is no leader?
They should use suicide to cure their depression. :)
Chicago will just have to put on a Shadow Olympics!!
Perhaps OBumbles shouldn’t have slapped Brown, Merkel, and Sarkozy in the face when he visited their countries? What did he expect? You treat people like crap and wonder why they reject you?
It must be RAAACCIIISSST decision...Valerie Jarret said it was ‘white washed’.........
Marcellus: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Hamlet Act 1, scene 4, 87–91
Someone had to come in last...
In other words...
It's Bush's fault.
I’m all “wee wee’d up”! I’ve already got my “The IOC is ‘rasis’” bumper sticker! LOL!
The pot calling the kettle black.
Very simple. As I posted elsewhere, the IOC had all these grand expectations from all the hypes surrounding the Obamas... and then they actually met them.
End of story.
From the city with demonstrably one the most corrupt political machines in the world, this is Pot Meet Kettle.
Some of these people are so used to greasing palms it’s just amazing that someone might not get things their way.
Whether there is truth to IOC influence or not.
We need an Olympic Czar to get to the bottom of this.
Hey David Haugh & the Chicago Trib....boo hoo, your messiah boy couldn’t deliver once again for you. Guess you will need to continue with your graft & extortion & bribery the same ol’ way rather than getting a fat TAXPAYER check to fund your 0lympic payoff from 0bozo.
Put some ice on it, David.
Did Obama inherit this too????
Poor boy is such a loooooooserrrrrrr.
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