Posted on 10/03/2009 1:34:40 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
President Obama, I come from Chicago. I was born in Chicago. Chicago was where I grew up. Mr. President, you are not a Chicagoan.
Yes, it's true. I, Charles Henrickson, was born and raised in Chicago, in the city. I was that rarest of creatures there--a registered Republican. And I love my hometown. Even as I detest the corrupt Democratic machine that runs it. The Chicago I grew up in, the Chicago of Hizzoner da Mare, was corrupt, yes. But the Chicago of today, under da Mare's kid, Richie, is both corrupt and radically leftist, fostering the likes of an outsider community organizer named Barack Obama.
The Kenyan-Indonesian-Hawaiian is not a true Chicagoan. And he's not a very good pitchman, either. Competing to host the 2016 Olympics, Team Obama (Barry, Michelle, Oprah, and Richie) could not even muster a bronze medal, finishing fourth out of four to Tokyo, Madrid, and Rio de Janeiro.
What do the DUmmies have to say about the Denmark Debacle? We'll find out, in this THREAD, "Chicago eliminated from 2016 Olympics bid."
But before we do, let's mount the podium and sing along, in honor of Team Obama's last-place finish:
OBAMA (THAT BUMBLIN' CLOWN)
Tune: "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)"
Obama, Obama, that bumblin' clown
Obama, Obama, he will fumble around--and flub it
Bet your teleprompter he'll lose the games for Chicago, Chicago
So bad that Oprah Winfrey will have to frown
Olympics are slim picks, when Barry's your shill
You do things like lose out to Brazil
He had the task, Chicago to sell
I had to laugh, he came with Michelle
O Chicago, Obama let you down!
Obama, Obama, that bumblin' clown
Obama, Obama, he'll fumble around--and flub it
Bet your teleprompter he'll lose the games for Chicago, Chicago
So bad that Oprah Winfrey will have to frown
Olympics are slim picks, when Barry's your shill
You do things like losing out to Brazil--still
He had the task, Chicago to sell
I had to laugh when he came with Michelle
O Chicago, Obama--Obama sure let you down!
Now let's go to the DUmmieland venue, where the favorite event is Synchronized Swearing, and read the DUmmie comments, in Rationalization Red, while the commentary of your humble guest correspondent, Charles Henrickson, native Chicagoan and the wag tailoring the doggerel, is in the [Barackets]:
Chicago eliminated from 2016 Olympics bid.
[The agony of defeat.]
Knocked out of the first round of voting
[Could not round up enough dead voters.]
At least Brazil will be saddled with the monetary problems, not the US.
[Let the rationalizations begin!]
Chicago would have become a living hell of Daley crony land-grabs
[So what would be different?]
Bread and Circuses are not really needed here.
[Graft and Patronage are!]
would any of the real problems of the city been dealt with till after 2016? At least now citizens of the city can ask real questions and hope they might be answered. If Chicago had gotten the games, everything would have been cheerfully ignored for the good of the games.
[See, Barack WANTED Chicago to lose! It's for the best!]
he can't compete with all those pretty ladies of carnival. He is cool. He is smart. He is charming. He is not a busty chorus line in nothing but feathers.
[Maybe if Oprah and Michelle had worn nothing but feathers, it would have helped. . . . Or not.]
In the eyes of the world America still has the stink of an unnecessary war, torture, and the instigation of a worldwide recession on it despite Obama's efforts to rebuild its image.
[Bush's fault! Of course!]
ESPN Radio didn't miss a beat. Colin Cowherd: "Rough month for Obama. First health care, now this." This must be why KO left sports broadcasting.
[Colin Cowherd is the Worst Person in the World.]
I'm sick to my stomach about it. . . .
[Barf Alert!]
Every other leader went. If he didn't Chicago would have lost for sure.
[Instead, with Obama leading the way, they came in last.]
Our Prez tried.
[Give him a ribbon for participation.]
one positive aspect to this lost bid. Americans are largely ignorant of the horrible time foreigners are given entering the U.S.
[Now we can be ready for all the foreigners who won't be entering here in 2016.]
I think this was a deserved rebuke. The President shouldn't have gotten involved.
[LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]
Way to go Obama. Another loss...a very avoidable one.
[It's a Troll Triathlon!]
Perhaps we are not so popular anymore? Even the world's best propagandists can't hide the disgusting truth about our criminal activities forever.
[Are you referring to the Daley Machine?]
There's nothing disgusting about the U.S. I love my country, and it is the best in the world. . . .
[From worst to first, in nine short months--thanx to Obamassiah!]
I'm amazed at how many thought Chicago was a foregone conclusion. Why? Because we're the United States, and everything is ours by right? Those days are gone.
[Hooray! Down with America! Viva Obama!]
The Republicans wanted him to fail. They are to blame. . . .
[Yes! Yes! Blame the Republicans! Blame them for everything! BAAAD Rethuglicans!]
errrrr . . . yeah I dont think the ioc is controlled by the gop
[SHHH!!! QUIET!!!]
the republicans wanted him to fail and they succeeded
[It's Rovian Mind-Control!]
Obama is not to blame for the IOC choice of Rio. . . . What Obama IS to blame for is acting like a Mayor instead of the POTUS, putting the personal prestige of the Presidency on the line without having sewn everything up in advance. His fault. Not Repugs, or RWers, or Beck, or Pelosi, or Reid, or any other scapegoats. HIS fault, for squandering political capital on a trivial matter. . . What will wavering Blue Dogs make of him now? Who will follow his lead and go out on a limb for him? And he has nobody to blame but himself. Olympic-sized fail.
[EPIC Fail! And the Gold Kewpie Doll goes to you, DUmmie rayofreason!]
Chicago's not all that. I mean, it's a nice city, has a lot going for it, but if Obama wasn't from there it would never have been as much in the running as it was. It's no Rio.
[Thanx to Obama--who, btw, is NOT "from there"--Chicago lost out to a city with an even WORSE crime rate!]
Now Obama can get back to promoting something that would REALLY benefit all Americans. . . .
[Like resigning?]
This Olympics nonsense is a dumb diversion. I voted for Obama hoping for health care reform and and end to the wars. In my book, he's zero for two.
[Zero possumus!]
It's time to let someone else have the limelight. Go Rio!!!!
[That's Rio de Janeiro, for those of you in Rio Linda.]
The latest incident of a gang violence in Chicago did not help the cause.
[THAT'S RACIST!]
It'd be nice to see it hosted South America for a change. Brazil or Rio either one would be historic for South America.
[Yep, Brazil or Rio, either one.]
I blame the racisim of the tea baggers.
[They would have thrown tea bags into the Chicago River and turned it black.]
So none of the steroids and the blood doping with be in the US? Sounds good to me.
[The Paucity of Dope.}
We're like a married couple that no one wants to visit because while one spouse is a nice likable person, the other is a rude obnoxious a-hole. They won't come here because they'd rather not have to deal with our right wing lunatics.
[Lock the Republicans in the attic, and maybe somebody will come and visit us.]
Obama is an idiot! . . . I see more and more tone deafness. The bailouts are the biggest ($$$$$!) example. He can't seem to communicate with ordinary people and convince them that the government is not going to take over their health care, unionize all doctors within the SEIU, and make all the decisions in DC. And now this. How DARE he squander political capital on something that was so iffy, so that he appears to be weak and incompetent!
{Sorry, rayofreason, one comment like this gets you a Kewpie Doll, but two make you a . . . LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]
WTG Brazil!!
[A Brazil nut checks in.]
Ironically, only people who would have benefitted from the Chicago Games would have been Republicans. Or as they're otherwise known, Chicago's "Democratic Machine", a cesspool of corruption and cronyism. . . .
[So Daley, Blago, Emanuel, Obama himself--they're all really REPUBLICANS???]
Ah, but do the wingnuts realize this?? Only a few days ago, this country WON the right to stage a major international sporting event. We're going to host the 2014 Gay Games right here in CLEVELAND!!!!!!
[WHOO-HOO!!! USA! USA! USA!]
And it's gonna be FABULOUS!!!!
[I can hardly wait for the Synchronized Swishing!]
I feel like i'm on crazy pills here. . . .
[Understandable.]
F*CK THE OLYMPICS!
[Coming to Cleveland, 2014.]
When it comes to selling America, the president is our greatest asset.
[Two letters too many there.]
International Sailing hates Lake Michigan. U.S. would dominate sailing events if they were on Lake Michigan.
[That's it! It's a Vast International Sailing Conspiracy! Barry got sailboated!]
I think many people underestimate the true value of the olympics. would we have ever had a butter Shawn Johnson, if it not have been for the olympics?
[D*mn! Obama's incompetence has COST us more butter gymnasts!]
All poor Carla had to do is be beautiful and confident, that’s enough to put He-shelle in a foul mood. That’s her “checking out the competition” look. Funny thing, she wears that expression a lot. Hehe.
Nope, that’s deep-seated envy that gnaws at her soul. Every woman can recognise that expression. The really funny part is that Carla, like the other women of whom He-shelle is bitter-jealous, is focussed on the event, the speech. He-shelle feeds her own inferiority complex herself by making everything about her, and being bitter when she doesn’t come out first. Which is quite often. Hence the perpetual bitter expression. My mother could’ve told her that her face’ll freeze like that, looks like it did. :D
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BTW, did you hear Rush commenting on this? It was HILARIOUS! He kept repeating:
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA! Mmmmm...Mmmmm...Mmmmm!!!
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA! Mmmmm...Mmmmm...Mmmmm!!!
And yet you never heard of the Maurice Seymore studio? That was THE photo studio of Chicago (and the entire midwest) from the 1930s to the 1960s. My father's and her husband ran that studio. ALL the showbiz folks of the Midwest had their photos done there. Once some friends and I went to a deli in San Diego. On a far wall was a photo of Shecky Green. I told my friends that the photo was done by the Maurice Seymore studio. I told them to check for themselves. When they came back they said I must have had astounding eyesight. Nope. I told them I knew that Shecky Green was from Chicago which meant that his photo HAD to have been done at the Maurice Seymore studio.
Maurice (Serge) did the actual photography. However, since he had almost zero personality, it was his wife, Sonya, who really brought in the clientele with her scintillating personality. Think Auntie Mame. I once visited them when a kid in Chicago and was astounded when EVERYBODY in that city seemed to know her. Cops, cab drivers, and, especially, showbiz folks.
Ask the Chicago old-timers and I bet they all know about that studio.
OT: An American (non-Latin) friend of mine has a Brazilian wife and at least once a year they go down the Amazon to a jungle town where they buy preserved piranhas to sell in the states. Very good sellers because folks love to display those fierce looking fish. Of course, the Amazon is like a world away from Rio.
Anybody out there want to make it thru the recession, preserved piranhas is one way to make it to the other side of Obamonics.
I don't want to get Frank too excited but there is a Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute calendar out there as reported in NewsBusters.
Here are the featured women in that calendar:
Kate Obenshain, Clare Boothe Luce, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Marji Ross, Bay Buchanan, Kellyanne Conway, Michele Bachmann, Carrie Prejean, Phyllis Schlafly, SE Cupp, and Star Parker.
Ben Burch will be going for the gold in pole vaulting.
And H.L. Mencken. Anita Loos was madly in love with Mencken and it was rumored that they had an affair. However, Loos found out that Mencken preferred hot blonde chicks rather than women with brains like Loos. Annnnd...based on that experience, Loos wrote "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."
Existing. Merely by looking like the incredible natural beauty that she is was more than enough to induce hatred from Michelle.
Looks to me like the slit in the back of that dress has been hastily and badly “pinned” together. It’s all puckery and uneven. I’ll bet she sat down in the limo and “rrrriiiiiip” went the skirt.
Heheheheh.
And, preserved pirhana would be a great name for a band.
I just finished reading a bunch of her books, thanks for reminding me of that story :) She was a very interesting woman, witty without rancor, unlike Dorothy parker.
Omg. Wow. What ever could she do to deserve that? Is it one perpetual snarl for Michelle?
And if Bruni was the one shooting that hateful look, wouldn't every lib in the country say it must be driven by racism?
So true! And the media would make it an 'event', news talk shows would have days worth of 'debate' about it.
I’m glad Rio got it. Or Brazil. Either one.
I had HEARD of the Maurice Seymour Studio, probably, and I'm sure I had seen their work around. And since you mentioned it some months ago, I googled it, etc.
I told them I knew that Shecky Green was from Chicago.
Shecky Greene, although he's the generation before me, lived about a mile or two from where I grew up.
franksolich's ideal woman:
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