Posted on 08/06/2016 7:01:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai
remember- obama’s victory in ‘08 all but assured chicago the 2016 olympics when they voted in 2009....or so they thought..
Chicago Loses Olympic Bid; CNN Freaks Out: “WHAT!?”
enjoy this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuE60mq0r1Q
Well, that’s it. Guess I gotta vote for Hillary now. Because my heart would shatter if LA weren’t able to host that ridiculous carnival of corruption and steroid-bloated bodies that is what the Olympics has become. After Rio they’ll be adding turd-hurdling to the water events and LA might just be the appropriate venue by then...
Oh, well.
Because having a sporting event in one of the most polluted cities in America is a way to show the world how committed the leftists are to the environment.
By all accounts, Los Angeles is a third-world city.
Didn’t Obuttma kiss IOC ass and get turned down?
What is this fool talking about?
Trump is like globull warming... he is responsible for EVERYTHING.
I wonder if Mittens had anything to do with this? Being close to the IOC and all...
Live Reaction: Chicago Loses Olympics Bid
3:35 mark “and with this president, barry obama, who has an international flavor and an international following ...there may have been a great deal of international appeal and obama may put chitcago over the edge...but that did not happen”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYQPTvLvAf4
If you remember, Bonzo worked "harder than I have ever worked in my life," to get these stupid 2016 Olympics in Chicago. OIC settled for Rio, of all places. LOL!!! I guess the turds running the OIC weren't too impressed with Bonzo either. The turd who wrote this article needs to knock off all the liberal flatulence.
The Olympics are a corrupt, parasitic boondoggle that lose money for their host victims and even cause tourism to fall.
“During the 2012 Games, the Adelphi Theatre in Londons West End suspended performances of Sweeney Todd. The British Museum received 480,000 visitors that August, down from 617,000 the previous year. Indeed, Britain received about 5 percent fewer foreign visitors in August 2012 than it did in the same month the previous year. Those who showed up spent more, sure, but London spent billions of dollars to lure them.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/does-hosting-the-olympics-actually-pay-off.html?_r=0
“The 2008 Beijing games, the priciest ever, are reckoned to have cost about $40 billion. ... Beijing saw a drop in hotel bookings during its Olympic summer.”
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/economist-explains-0
“But hotels may not see the high demandor high pricesthey expect. Barcelona and Athens did not fill their 13,000-16,000 rooms. London has 125,000.”
“British residents have bought 95% of the 3.5m tickets sold so far, reports the London 2012 Organising Committee.”
http://www.economist.com/node/21538203
ummmm. no.
exactly. F em. We’llwin the most gold medals anyway so who cares if they’re over here. The world still hates us even after Bush.
I’d like to slap that Taco!
They would have had to declare every Chapter of the bankruptcy code with all the red ink they'd be swimming in.
Let's drop the big one now.
Good. Money saved
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