Posted on 10/02/2009 2:00:55 PM PDT by WeatherGuy
Some Chicago officials say anti-American resentments likely played a role in Chicago’s Olympic bid dying in the first round today.
President Obama could not undo in one year the resentment against America that President Bush and others built up for decades before, they said.
“There must be” resentment against America, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said, near the stage where he had hoped to give a victory speech in Daley Plaza. “The way we [refused to sign] the Kyoto Treaty, we mislead the world into Iraq. The world had a very bad taste in its mouth about us. But there was such a turnaround after last November. The world now feels better about America and about Americans. That’s why I thought the president’s going was the deal-maker.”
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Blame it on Axelrod!
Because his former PR firm did all the work and was paid millions for the project of presenting Chicago’s bid.
Follow the money trail!
This needs to be investigated.
Four of the five co-chairs of Obama’sinaugural committee continue to have unpaid leadership roles in Chicago 2016, including Pat Ryan, the chairman and CEO of Chicago 2016; John Rodgers, the treasurer and director of Chicago 2016; Bill Daley, the former Clinton administration commerce secretary and brother of the Chicago mayor; and Penny Pritzker, the Chicago businesswoman and Hyatt hotel heiress who led Obama’s meteoric presidential campaign fundraising.
Pritzker’s family also owns or manages a handful of hotels singled out by Chicago 2016 as accommodations for Olympic workers, press and family members.
Ryan and Priztker each contributed $100,000 or more to Chicago 2016, as did White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers, an Obama family friend, who also served on the Chicago committee. It still counts Obama confidant and vacation companion Eric Whitaker among its members. Jarrett was replaced as vice chair by Martin Nesbitt, the treasurer of Obama’s campaign and another Obama family insider.
ASK Public Strategies, the Chicago-based corporate public relations company founded by Obama political guru David Axelrod and owned and run by some of Obama’s top presidential campaign consultants, was paid “in the tens of thousands” of dollars by Chicago 2016 to do “communication management [and] communication planning,” said former Axelrod partner Eric Sedler, who did not work for the Obama campaign but is in Copenhagen, along with Pritzker and Jarrett.
“ASK has worked on the bid for three years and for two thirds of that time our work has been pro bono,” said Sedler, who would not speculate on whether the company would be in line for more Olympic work if the IOC picks Chicago.
Of course not. It was all racism.
Didn’t we just have some Olypics here? I remember Hillary trying for NY...
Bwhahahahaha!!!!! I knew these losers were going to find a way to blame everyone but themselves.
Predictable.
So these losers are going to blame their failure on Bush’s policies?Incredible BS!
You mean they didn’t bow down and worship the messiah???
BLASPHEMY!!!!
Not really. Let’s all be honest and admit that Rio de Jenairo will put on a much less corrupt Olympics than Chicago could have. With the except of Detroit and New Orleans, Chicago is easily the third most corrupt city in the U.S.A.
“The way we [refused to sign] the Kyoto Treaty”
Global Warming Deniers to blame!
I don’t think so....I think Zero just made an ass of him self and I think it was another country’s turn.
Yeah, they hate us for being strong when we are strong. They hate us for being weak when we are weak.
No one with brains is going to buy this line of crap. It’s old. Very old.
Oh my, when all else fails resort to the old party line: it is because of the evil boooshhhh.
I guess that explains why the games were awarded to a city that's 50% black.
No, it wasn’t the extortionistic tendencies of the Chicago thugocracy or the pervasive climate of violence or the fact that many Chicagoans didn’t want them there. It was Bush, the new Goldstein.
BWWWWWWHAAAAAA!!!
Well, that certainly didn't take long.
And they'd have us believe they never listen to Rush, huh. LOL
Obamah made pretty speeches, apologized to the world, made it all better, didn't he?
>> Bwhahahahaha!!!!! I knew these losers were going to find a way to blame everyone but themselves.
The administration and media elites will believe their own BS, as will the 20% of the populus that is intractably hard in the tank for them.
The other 75% of America is rolling on the floor laughing at them.
The left-wing fundamentalists are nothing if not opportunistic.
Did anti-American resentments play role in Chicago’s bid losing?
No it was anti BigEarsYOUGOTTALOVEMECAUSEI’MBLACKobambi and anti Michsmell-I’m-takinDaGlovesOff-sucka, sentiment that played the role.
BWAAAA HAAAA HAAAA.... It’s BUSH’s FAULT!
You saw that movie on Encore, last night?
They’re not doing Obama any favors with this article. No one buys it.
This isn’t satire? Please say it’s satire.
Lake Placid, Atlanta, Salt Lake City...
Rio was a good choice, South America hasn’t had one.
They have to clean up the drugs, crime and gangs though.
Bush’s fault and racism seem to be the only things they have anymore. Sad mental disease.
Ohhhhh good point.!!!
Yep, you can’t go to Europe and tell ‘em how lousy the U.S is and then tell ‘em how great Chicago is.
“Let’s all be honest and admit that Rio de Jenairo will put on a much less corrupt Olympics”
Maybe better. Definitely prettier women. Less corrupt?? I’m not ready to go for that one. Even the most corrupt American politicos are generally pikers when compared to those in Latin America.
Besides . . .
Won’t it be Winter during this Summer Olympics ?
Chicago was rejected because of its continuing lawlessness.
All one has to do is see photos of thugs rioting and beating one another in the streets to know that Chicago is not a place for international games or visitors.
Chicago is beginning to look like Haiti in the the public’s eye.
Then you load up Air Force 1 with a huge entourage in order to force te IOC's hand your way.
Are you F'n dumb?
Nahh. The non-American nationals just took the Obamamessiah’s advice about America not be the major world power anymore/
Do we get a refund on Michelle’s travel costs?
The transparency of a President trying to insinuate his office into this matter is SO APPARENT.
Obama wanted to pay off the crooked Chicago machine politicians who helped him.
Here's an "Olypic" for you:
Rio has Chicago beat on the violence and murder rate.
So, begging for sympathy as Michelle was doing must’ve struck the crowd as particularly asinine.
But Kyoto and Bush will do as scapegoats, since they can’t call the IOC racist.
severe BSD 10 months out...
Funny how little old Salt Lake City could land the Winter Olympics but Chicago couldn’t get the Summer Olympics even with Obama making the pitch. Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm.
Chicago’s loss is probably more related to sobby, whiney politics only works on American sheeples. Obama was more of a liability than an asset because he thrives on that stuff.
These people act like anti-Americanism didn’t exist prior to Dubya, which is silly.
Also, Obama has his own special brand of arrogance: he thinks the world is obligated to love America because of his own personal charm and postmodern speechifying. I’ll bet Europe winds up finding Obama even more irritating than Bush.
the word was that Chicago & Rio were the frontrunners before he got there....and by the time he left, Chicago was in last. Way to go, Obama.
Six Degrees to Blame Bush is a brand new trivia game based on the liberal concept that any Obama problem can be passed off to former president George W Bush within six easy steps.
The game requires a group of players to try to connect any Obama problem to Bush as quickly as possible and in as few links as possible.
Those Chicago officials ought to stick to collecting graft.
With a sales team like Bambi and Sasquatch how can ya lose? (/s)
Hey, Chicago, blame President Obama for chickening out at the United Nations General Assembly / Security Council sessions for not calling out Iran on their nuclear missile program. Why do you think France’s President Sarkozy is upset at Obama for not telling Iran’s president to his face what he thought of Iran’s program? Now, the United States has punted the ball back to Europe on this issue, leaving the Europeans to deal with the Iranian mess.
Today’s IOC vote was merely sweet European payback. Bill Clinton MIGHT have done a better job of securing Chicago’s victory.
Those damn white crackers did this.
It can’t have anything to do with Obama spending over 8 months telling the world what losers our country has always been, before he took the helm.
It can’t be because his lies are seen around the world.
It can’t be because Obama has made it clear that he will do everything he can to make the USA a failure.
It can’t be that the world now sees Obama as a coward and nothing more than an empty suit, that will say anything and take the credit for absolutely anything he sees as positive.
It can’t be that the world sees Obama as a crook and a complete FAILURE.
It can’t be that the world sees us reverting to a 3rd world country and heading to bankruptcy.
No, it simply must be something before the ONE began to rule the world.
Yikes, the ignorance is embarassing.
It was way past time for the Olympics to be held in South America, and the Committee chose a notorious party city. Maybe people want to have some fun. Duh.
This sore-loser-ism looks so bad when a jolly, largely Afro-Hispanic city has won the honor for the first time.
Wow. Dems are even dummer than imagined.
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