Posted on 09/25/2009 10:38:17 AM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is joining a growing list of Obama administration officials who will travel to Denmark next week to support Chicago's Olympic bid.
The International Olympic Committee is meeting in Copenhagen on Oct. 2 to choose a host city for the 2016 Summer Games. Chicago faces tough competition from Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Tokyo.
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The list, ping
If they send Michele Obama again, they’re probably gonna require a genetic sex test. Just to be sure.
If it wasn’t for the rest of us ending up paying the bills for them, I’d say let Chicago have it; they deserve a good screwing, for all the ones they’ve perpetrated on the country.
Olympics are always a losing boondoggle...except for the one’s whose pockets get lined with public money.
This is starting to look like the 1936 Olympics. History doesn’t repeat itself but it does rhyme.
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