Posted on 10/02/2009 10:05:18 AM PDT by La Lydia
With the stunning news that Olympic officials had swiftly rejected Chicago as host the 2016 Olympics, despite a personal, last-minute appeal from President Obama, the White House was left Friday with the immediate and difficult challenge of explaining what happened. Did the president falter by making remarks that were emotional and personal, rather than giving specifics about his adopted home town? Is the defeat a sign that Obama's global popularity has begun to wane? White House advisers -- many of them Chicago natives, with a personal stake in the bid -- rushed into the back recesses of the West Wing to digest the outcome, and then emerged, looking glum, to comment.
"Obviously, it was disappointing," senior adviser David Axelrod said on CNN from the North Lawn of the White House... Axelrod blamed the internal machinations of the International Olympic Committee for the rejection. He argued that the bid by Madrid was led by a former president of the IOC, who was calling in years' worth of favors, and that Rio de Janeiro, trying to become the first South American host, had a strong case as well. The IOC ended up choosing Rio to host the 2016 Summer Games.
"I don't view this as a repudiation of the president or the first lady," he said. "I think there are politics everywhere, and there were politics inside that room..."
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That was not a repudiation, it was a bitch slap.
Any lefty site will be about how evil “Amerikkka” is, and then have the temerity to actually wonder why Chicago failed so miserably.
I'm betting that's the talking point by the end of the day.
But if Chicago had won...they'd have given Obama and Michelle all the praise and glory..
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>> “I don’t view this as a repudiation of the president or the first lady,”
It doesn’t MATTER how YOU view it, Axhole.
It matters how WE the VOTERS view it.
No matter how you spin it, Bambi ate the big one on this, and you aren’t fooling anyone.
That damn vast right wing conspiracy strikes again! All I have to say is, BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
I say good for Rio!
Obama’s arrogance was plain to see. He is disappointed to find that the world does not believe that it revolves around him.
Cool. I didn’t even have to ask for Nelson.
Talk about a kick in the pants! Oh the embarrassment. LOL
many of them Chicago natives, with a personal stake in the bid
You bet they had a stake. This cost them millions in graft and real estate speculation. Now what are they going to do with all those slum houses they were going to sell at huge profits?
Or maybe it's because Chicago perceived as a cesspool of corruption.
Oh, I get it. Obama didn’t fail, Chicago failed. Of course.
Gibbs is looking like a panicked carp that just got pulled up onto the muddy banks of the river.
Yuh think?
Egg on the face face face...
Well, when he went around telling everyone his country was cr*p, I guess they believed him. Who wants to have an Olympics in a cr*p country? What a dweeb.
Hey, White house! Try this one!
“World Rejects Obama!”
See, he is the Christ! (Sic)
Watch it happen!
Watch the fall!
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