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Obama Strikes Out: Chicago Eliminated From 2016 Summer Olympics Bid (First Cut)
Friday, October 2, 2009
| Kristinn
Posted on 10/02/2009 8:29:51 AM PDT by kristinn
Headline says it all. Madrid, Rio and Tokyo still in the running.
TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2016olympics; chicago; hopeychangeyfail; obama; obamafail; olympicfail; olympics; zerofail
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Just a matter of time until it’s because of race.
141
posted on
10/02/2009 9:04:35 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
To: khnyny
O: "It's YOUR fault!" MO: "It's YOUR fault!!!"
"Like the Wonder Twins of the Olympiad, the First Lady and the Queen of Daytime TV may soon bump power rings to take the form of an invincible Olympic support team."
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Oprah-Michelle-Obama-Olympics.html
142
posted on
10/02/2009 9:04:47 AM PDT
by
444Flyer
( "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."--Mignon McLaughlin)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
I am in good company. Sometimes you can be wrong and still right.
Brazil's best-selling novelist Paulo Coelho put his substantial literary weight behind Rio de Janeiro's 2016 Olympic bid here Thursday.
"The idea of the Olympics is not only to change the body but also the mind.
"In Rio, my city, it will mean a lot to have the Olympics not only in terms of sports but also transformation."
He added: "Each of the five Olympic rings symbolises a continent - we need one of those rings to be fulfilled - we need to host the Games in South America for the first time."
143
posted on
10/02/2009 9:06:08 AM PDT
by
kabar
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
DUmmieland is so shocked over the news that cant even come up with someone on the right to blame yet. See post #142.
144
posted on
10/02/2009 9:07:03 AM PDT
by
444Flyer
( "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."--Mignon McLaughlin)
To: OB1kNOb; kristen
145
posted on
10/02/2009 9:07:24 AM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(Barack Obama: Just Another Wright Wing Extremist)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
The symbol of the Olympic Games is composed of five interlocking rings, colored blue, yellow, black, green, and red on a white field. This was originally designed in 1912 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games. Upon its initial introduction, de Coubertin stated the following in the August, 1912 edition of Revue Olympique:
The emblem chosen to illustrate and represent the world Congress of 1914...: five intertwined rings in different colors - blue, yellow, black, green, red - are placed on the white field of the paper. These five rings represent the five parts of the world which now are won over to Olympism and willing to accept healthy competition.
These five parts are generally taken to mean the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania.
146
posted on
10/02/2009 9:08:24 AM PDT
by
kabar
To: Zakeet
147
posted on
10/02/2009 9:08:33 AM PDT
by
weeweed
(can't....................resist......new........user.....name.......................)
To: 444Flyer
LOL!
Axelrod is still spinning for Obama on CNN. It’s been like a 20 minute interview now ...ooh. Actually, he is babbling and stepping in it big time.
On a serious note, this is a signal that Obama and the US in general does not have the same clout internationally that we once had in years past. To me, that is the bigger issue which this loss highlights. Obama seems to have had a problem with “American exceptionalism”, well, this is the result, and this is what he gets.
148
posted on
10/02/2009 9:10:09 AM PDT
by
khnyny
To: kristinn
PWNED
To: kristinn
The Olympics blow off the windy city.
HAHHAHAHAHH!
150
posted on
10/02/2009 9:12:27 AM PDT
by
alarm rider
(The left always tell you who they fear the most. What are they telling you now?)
To: 444Flyer
"Like the Wonder Twins of the Olympiad, the First Lady and the Queen of Daytime TV may soon bump power rings to take the form of an invincible Olympic support team." Then again, they may not.
Great find.
151
posted on
10/02/2009 9:12:27 AM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
To: autumnraine
I would have loved to see their faces when they were told no way.
152
posted on
10/02/2009 9:13:15 AM PDT
by
sunny48
To: kristinn
WOO HOO!!!
153
posted on
10/02/2009 9:14:20 AM PDT
by
nutmeg
(Obamunism is destroying America)
To: kristinn; Slings and Arrows
TOTUS must be feeling blue today.
To: al_c
That picture needs to be bigger, or a bigger HA HA!
155
posted on
10/02/2009 9:14:56 AM PDT
by
pctech
To: kristinn
156
posted on
10/02/2009 9:15:05 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(There is no "gray area" on issues. I see things from both sides, but I choose the right side.)
To: a fool in paradise
157
posted on
10/02/2009 9:15:47 AM PDT
by
paulycy
(Screw the RACErs)
To: kristinn
158
posted on
10/02/2009 9:16:24 AM PDT
by
greyfoxx39
(ObaMugabe is turning this country into another Zimbabwe as fast as he can with media's help.)
To: kristinn
Social Justice!
159
posted on
10/02/2009 9:16:32 AM PDT
by
Earthdweller
(Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
To: kristinn
I guess the overtures to terrorist and dictatorial regimes wasn’t enough. I’m so sorry for the first lady’s “sacrifice”.
Oh well, there is always the Gay Games.
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