Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

If Chicago hosts the 2016 Summer Olympics, will you buy a ticket to go watch an Olympic event?
State Journal Register ^ | October 1, 2009 | steelers 6

Posted on 10/01/2009 7:28:10 PM PDT by Steelers6

If Chicago hosts the 2016 Summer Olympics, will you buy a ticket to go watch an Olympic event?

Yes 23.7% No 76.3%

Total votes: 615


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2016olympics; obama; olympics; poll; tickets
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-8081-100101-120 ... 141-147 next last
To: NFHale

“And I DEARLY love my Country and am a Patriot too. That’s WHY I am this way about this issue.”

Each to their own, although you sound a bit like a drama queen here. However, I do not like, nor ever have, the mixing of politics with the Olympics. Such as when Carter called it off for our athletes back when, pimping them after years of their investing time and energy to become the best they could be in their sport; and the Carter boycott accomplished nothing in the short run nor in the long run, except for to cheat our athletes out of their one potential shining moment of glory and pride.

So you can stay on your high horse, but I’m behind our athletes, and I’m not behind ruining their chances at the Olympics for your particular political axe to grind nor anyone else’s. It hurts no one but our athletes. So enjoy your personal indignation as I continue to hope we get the Olympics here in the USA.


81 posted on 10/02/2009 5:54:46 AM PDT by flaglady47 (A post a day keeps the lefties away.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 79 | View Replies]

To: Steelers6

No, but then I’d most likely not buy a ticket for any location. However I’d bet they’ll fill venues most of the time.


82 posted on 10/02/2009 6:01:08 AM PDT by deport
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: flaglady47

flaglady47:
RE your “Drama Queen”, “High Horse” “Personal Indignation” and “your particular political axe to grind” statements:

You just lost your right to courtesy from me. I’ll withdraw my “No Offense, Ma’am”.

Take it any way you want it. And stuff it anywhere you want it.

Have a great day.


83 posted on 10/02/2009 6:35:47 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By any means necessary.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 81 | View Replies]

To: Steelers6

Won’t go and won’t watch. If Chicago gets the Olympics it will only be because the US network covering it (NBC) will offer to pay millions more than the other countries. I could just see it now. The O-lympics will be all about O-bama.


84 posted on 10/02/2009 6:37:40 AM PDT by jersey117
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: NFHale

Take it any way you want it. And stuff it anywhere you want it.

Have a great day.

I will, thank you, particularly if Chicago wins the Olympics. You hsve a great day too. Toodles, sir.


85 posted on 10/02/2009 6:40:49 AM PDT by flaglady47 (A post a day keeps the lefties away.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 83 | View Replies]

To: flaglady47
drama queen ???

while youre busy celebrating all the diversity in dear city, and prayin for childs games to watch, we have the very real struggle of FReedom vs tireless commie/islamofascist tyranny and troops dyin in the field...

sorry but I wont consider that toilet to be part of MY country so long as the masters and slaves thereof are more concerned about multiculturalism than assimilating into a free America...

86 posted on 10/02/2009 6:49:50 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force... Like fire, a dangerous servant & master. GW)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 81 | View Replies]

To: Gilbo_3

You go ahead and concentrate 24/7 on your issues, and I will be watching the Olympics and cheering our teams on. Each to their own. Geez, drama queens everywhere.


87 posted on 10/02/2009 7:02:43 AM PDT by flaglady47 (A post a day keeps the lefties away.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 86 | View Replies]

To: flaglady47

No way, if Obama has anything to do with the Olympics I wont even watch them, besides, the Winter Olympic’s are wear it’s at. I don’t think Chicago is for the Winter Olympics unless mens downhill will ski down the mountain of corruption, at that hill is so big and steep no one would dare try it ...


88 posted on 10/02/2009 7:06:15 AM PDT by Scythian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 87 | View Replies]

To: Gilbo_3

Hey Gilbo_3!!!

Chicago RINO alert brother.


89 posted on 10/02/2009 7:08:16 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By any means necessary.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 86 | View Replies]

To: Scythian

“No way, if Obama has anything to do with the Olympics I wont even watch them,”

You aren’t even thinking about our athletes, are you. Sad.


90 posted on 10/02/2009 7:08:53 AM PDT by flaglady47 (A post a day keeps the lefties away.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 88 | View Replies]

To: digger48

Not to mention The Chicago Pentathlon- Two Drivebys and three Escapes from Custody.


91 posted on 10/02/2009 7:12:20 AM PDT by Inwoodian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: JusPasenThru
If you have to use the phrase, “as long as you stay where you belong”, it's not a safe city. It's a sign of the Apocalypse.
92 posted on 10/02/2009 7:13:45 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: BunnySlippers

Our office in Brentwood was literally ON the marathon route.....wifey and I flew away for vacation during the L.A. Olympics.


93 posted on 10/02/2009 7:16:50 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Mmm mmm mmm - Barack Hussein Obama (repeat endlessly))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Steelers6

I would only go when there is an event with flying pigs.


94 posted on 10/02/2009 7:18:32 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: red irish

So let’s pray Cincinnati is not a target. I believe prayer can stop a lot of this. Ask for God’s mercy. I’ll join you.


95 posted on 10/02/2009 8:11:27 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: flaglady47

clueless troll alert...no wonder bambam was so successful in chicago...


96 posted on 10/02/2009 8:22:59 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force... Like fire, a dangerous servant & master. GW)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 87 | View Replies]

To: Gilbo_3

By 2016 if the Democrats get their way, and there are enough traitors and fools that vote to ensure that they will, no one but Democrats and their fellow travlers, will have any money. The rest of the population will be confined in camps as their slaves.


97 posted on 10/02/2009 8:26:47 AM PDT by sport
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 96 | View Replies]

To: flaglady47; NFHale
NFHale, I agree 100% with your comments.

flaglady47, 0bozo is methodically destroying our country every day in numerous ways, and bringing the Olympics to Chicago is nothing more than pumping another $5 Billion in payouts & graft to his polilical cronies like Valerie Jarrett & Mayor Daley's Chicago mafia. I have been to and thru Chicago a number of times since I live less than 6 hours away. Yes, there are some good spots, but overall it is a cesspool of crime, corruption, violence, bribery & graft. This is typical 0bozo MO, to payoff his political backers. In fact the proposed site for the Olympic Village in Chicago would enable the builders to tear down the project hellholes that Valerie Jarrett was in charge. See Michelle Maulkin's website for this story. 0bozo is a commie pig usurper and everything he touches turns to graft & corruption.

Speaking of our athletes, I love our athletes. However because of Title IX politically correct bullsH_t restrictions on colleges, our top athletes are being denied the funds & competitive levels that are necessary for them to improve & hone their skills. In the last Olympics our top athletes no longer get that competitive level because of Title IX restrictions. The Olympics themselves are a corrupt socialist venue led by global, anti-American socialists, and giving the 2016 Oympics to Chicago is nothing more than New World Order socialists rewarding now the top socialist-fascist-commie in the world, Baaruk 0bozo 0bama.

I hope & pray that the Chicago Olympic bid is miraculously denied.

98 posted on 10/02/2009 8:32:26 AM PDT by rcrngroup
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 81 | View Replies]

To: Gilbo_3

“clueless troll alert...no wonder bambam was so successful in chicago...”

Yeah, I’ve been a troll since 1998. And yourself?


99 posted on 10/02/2009 8:33:52 AM PDT by flaglady47 (A post a day keeps the lefties away.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 96 | View Replies]

To: sport; Gilbo_3

Aww, come on...we’re just being “drama queens”...

That could NEVER happen HERE...

Especially with such intelligent citizens like Chicago evidently produces (well, at least ONE, here, today) ...who are so desperate (and dumbassed) for the Olympics that they can’t see the symbolism that FuBO winning it really means.

But hey...”Drama” tag on.


100 posted on 10/02/2009 8:34:33 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By any means necessary.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 97 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-8081-100101-120 ... 141-147 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson