Posted on 10/02/2009 8:18:22 AM PDT by fiscon1
I am torn by this speech. On the one hand, this was a fairly marginal speech made by the President. He did a much better job of selling the vision of the Olympic games. He certainly did a good job of telling the IOC how Chicago could benefit from the games. Yet, he was rather flat in selling the city itself. He listed off a series of individual neighborhoods like Ukranian Village and Hyde Park and he gave a short history of the city, including the great Chicago Fire that nearly burnt it down. Still, most of what he said could have been said by any representative of any city. Given that the president is from Chicago, I was expecting a much more personal appeal. He did talk about how Chicago became his own home after moving around most of his life, but I was disappointed by his salesmanship of the city itself.
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Now, if Nairobi had been bidding for the games...
LOL, for the first time as an American, I am rooting for someone else to get the games... Go Rio!
Hussein’s priorities are screwed up. I hope he fails.
FAIL! Did not make first round!!!! Yeah!!!!
“...witnessed the darker aspects of our humanity...”
yep.....we saw plenty of that in Beijing, and the IOC MUST still be smarting over it......and quite aware of street-level Chicago, not to mention the considerable probability of a muslim jihaddi attempt to attack while the world watches.
Hopefully the IOC is wise enough to avoid the certain clusterfk and potential disaster Chicago would be.........
Zero graduated from epic fail to Olympic Fail. ;)
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