President Obama is no loser just because Chicago didn't get 2016 Summer Olympics (Fail!)

NY Daily News ^ | 10/3/09 | Mike Lupica

[jimbo123]

That is only a sidebar to what happened on Friday, with an Olympic bid from Chicago that President Obama shouldn't have gone near. This wasn't the President's fight. For a smart guy, he does some dumb things sometimes.

We can talk about winners and losers all we want to now that it is over. The biggest winners of all are the people of Chicago, because their city doesn't have to plunge itself into debt to host the Olympics. This is the kind of winner New York was despite Michael Bloomberg's insane quest to get the 2012 Games, which eventually - and blessedly - went to London.

It is always the same bill of goods, though, whether it is coming from Bloomberg and then-Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff or from a Chicago bid committee that included the President, the First Lady and Oprah Winfrey, the Other first lady:

[BigLittle]

[Carley]

How convenient to ignore the corrupt cronies factor in O rushing off to Copenhagen.

This was all about his cohorts enriching themselves at the expense of the taxpayers.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The biggest winners of all are the people of Chicago, because their city doesn't have to plunge itself into debt to host the Olympics.

Debt multiplied by the graft and corruption factor.

[syriacus]

The “brilliant” Obamas weren’t smart enough to realize that two years of dissing the US on worldwide TV cannot be overturned by a one day sales pitch.

[Jemian]

President Obama is no loser just because Chicago didn't get 2016 Summer Olympics (Fail!)

No. Obama is a loser, therefore Chicago didn't get the bid.

[tommyboy]

Knowing his crowd, what do you think his “back door” cut was going to be?

[philman_36]

For a smart guy, he does some dumb things sometimes.
The shine is wearing thin on this canard. So many "dumb things" in a row adds up to pretty damn stupid.

Release the transcripts!

[HiTech RedNeck]

I’d think the IOC weighed the chances of Brazil (Rio) being able to come through, vs. that of Chicago. Brazil won, as well as being the first chance to hold an Olympics in South America.

[lt.america]

“But in the end, the President looked better making that lollipop pitch at the All-Star Game than he did with this pitch in Denmark”

Can't say I disagree. Obama definitely denigrated the office making his questionable push for Chicago. I began to wonder if he was President of the US or head of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce.

[pnh102]

The biggest winners of all are the people of Chicago, because their city doesn't have to plunge itself into debt to host the Olympics.

Gotta love the spin.

[knarf]

What?

The long legged mack daddy had sent his two bottom bitches on ahead to doften the meat, so to speak.

The planes, the fuel, the hundreds of people, the time taken away from the important matters here at home, the carbon footprint, the shopping spree before and after ....

And when they all get home and look over the bills on the kitchen table ... they see they've spent (I really don't know, but my guess is in the millions) ...

and all he got was this lousy t shirt?

(excellent freeper w/artistic/computer opportunity here)

FAILURE !

[OldMissileer]

Obama is a loser on so many levels. This just shows that he is also a putz.

[quantim]

The word 'fail' in the title is a real eye-catcher.

[Zakeet]

For a smart guy, he [Hussein] does some dumb things sometimes.

Sometimes? Sometimes? ...

I challenge anybody to come up with one constructive thing the Community Organizer has ever accomplished.

Just one.

Freepers, you're a bunch of smart people. So how about it?

How about providing one example where Obozo hasn't proven himself to be completely, totally and utterly incompetent.

You can't do it, can you?

[Condor51]

The biggest winners of all are the people of Chicago, because their city doesn't have to plunge itself into debt to host the Olympics.

Close but no cigar. The biggest winner is, ME.₍₁₎

Because Daley was gonna spread the losses to all IL taxpayers. That was becoming more apparent with every phony baloney speech. He'd pull the crap like he's done with 'us' having to pay for HIS crappy, broken down, crime-ridden, CTA system (mass transit).

(1) Okay I may not be here in 2016 but my family will.

[Dumpster Baby]

[RoadTest]

I’m kind of surpirsed that a world that seats the worst human rights violators on the Human Rights Council of the UN didn’t put their Olympics in America’s most corrupt city. I know, New York and New Orleans are competing with Chicago for that title. And I haven’t forgotten Detroilet.

[savedbygrace]

Knowing his crowd, what do you think his “back door” cut was going to be?

He already got his cut. He's in the White House.

[uncbob]

For a smart guy, he does some dumb things sometimes.

Smart Guy Get real NY NEWS

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Mike Lupica is a cliche of a liberal. Limp-wristed upper-east side pansy sniffling at the peasants who are so ignorant and so revolting. In his world, it’s a darned shame that we are even allowed to vote. We should just go to work in our factories and be seen but not heard.

[newnhdad]

I would have thought Lupicrud was a little more honest if he said this a few days before Obambi left.

[mylife]

Obama definitely denigrated the office making his questionable push for Chicago, while ignoring the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and in the economy.

Couldn't Daley pitch his own city?

[philman_36]

I'm guilty of a few infractions here so I know one when I see one.
That image is over the top and isn't helping, quantim.
You should ask to have it pulled.

[mountainlion]

Obama is not a loser because of Chicago. He is a loser because of losing billions for retires, causing thousands of lost jobs, causing hundreds of business to fail and giving away thousands of homes.

[philman_36]

See #14 and #24.

[Mac from Cleveland]

The Three Stooges, 2009:

These three are about as charming as a turd in a punchbowl....

[y6162]

“For a smart guy, he does some dumb things sometimes.”

Name one smart thing the Kenyan has done Mikey?

Mikey’s idol is going down in flames. tsk tsk...

[Charlemagne on the Fox]

President Obama is no loser just because Chicago didn't get 2016 Summer Olympics

Well, Mikey just swerved into the truth--Obama is no loser JUST because Chicago lost the bid--THERE ARE MYRIAD OTHER REASONS AS WELL.

[csvset]

Oprah’s Black Royalty. How dare those old white Europeans dis the Queen of daytime TV?

[allmendream]

His “cut” needn't be anything that crass.

Every bid, every dollar, every job. Someone who 0bama knows was going to get a taste of everything. Just the ability to “steer” some of that gives one lots of power and influence. One need not try to shake them down for 10% off the top, when he and his campaign will get at least that much in ‘services in kind’ or donations, or speaker fee's, or a ‘job’ for a cousin, etc.

[quantim]

I see you already have, so be it if removed.

Imagine one could have different interpretations, but that whole grandstanding mess in Copenhagen was political suicide.

[philman_36]

...that whole grandstanding mess in Copenhagen was political suicide.
Casey at the Bat

[knarf]

"Casey at the Bat"

Damn, I wish I had some of the clever software/programs some of you freepers have.

My mind and imagination teem with thoughts and pictures.

[philman_36]

...I wish I had some of the clever software/programs some of you freepers have.
I have no software or programs. I just use images from the Net.
My mind and imagination teem with thoughts and pictures.
The thoughts shouldn't be a problem though the pictures can take some time to find.
The good thing about FR is that the threads aren't going anywhere.