Posted on 10/02/2009 2:00:55 PM PDT by WeatherGuy
Some Chicago officials say anti-American resentments likely played a role in Chicago’s Olympic bid dying in the first round today.
President Obama could not undo in one year the resentment against America that President Bush and others built up for decades before, they said.
“There must be” resentment against America, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said, near the stage where he had hoped to give a victory speech in Daley Plaza. “The way we [refused to sign] the Kyoto Treaty, we mislead the world into Iraq. The world had a very bad taste in its mouth about us. But there was such a turnaround after last November. The world now feels better about America and about Americans. That’s why I thought the president’s going was the deal-maker.”
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Blame it on Axelrod!
Because his former PR firm did all the work and was paid millions for the project of presenting Chicago’s bid.
Follow the money trail!
This needs to be investigated.
Four of the five co-chairs of Obama’sinaugural committee continue to have unpaid leadership roles in Chicago 2016, including Pat Ryan, the chairman and CEO of Chicago 2016; John Rodgers, the treasurer and director of Chicago 2016; Bill Daley, the former Clinton administration commerce secretary and brother of the Chicago mayor; and Penny Pritzker, the Chicago businesswoman and Hyatt hotel heiress who led Obama’s meteoric presidential campaign fundraising.
Pritzker’s family also owns or manages a handful of hotels singled out by Chicago 2016 as accommodations for Olympic workers, press and family members.
Ryan and Priztker each contributed $100,000 or more to Chicago 2016, as did White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers, an Obama family friend, who also served on the Chicago committee. It still counts Obama confidant and vacation companion Eric Whitaker among its members. Jarrett was replaced as vice chair by Martin Nesbitt, the treasurer of Obama’s campaign and another Obama family insider.
ASK Public Strategies, the Chicago-based corporate public relations company founded by Obama political guru David Axelrod and owned and run by some of Obama’s top presidential campaign consultants, was paid “in the tens of thousands” of dollars by Chicago 2016 to do “communication management [and] communication planning,” said former Axelrod partner Eric Sedler, who did not work for the Obama campaign but is in Copenhagen, along with Pritzker and Jarrett.
“ASK has worked on the bid for three years and for two thirds of that time our work has been pro bono,” said Sedler, who would not speculate on whether the company would be in line for more Olympic work if the IOC picks Chicago.
Of course not. It was all racism.
Didn’t we just have some Olypics here? I remember Hillary trying for NY...
Bwhahahahaha!!!!! I knew these losers were going to find a way to blame everyone but themselves.
Predictable.
So these losers are going to blame their failure on Bush’s policies?Incredible BS!
You mean they didn’t bow down and worship the messiah???
BLASPHEMY!!!!
Not really. Let’s all be honest and admit that Rio de Jenairo will put on a much less corrupt Olympics than Chicago could have. With the except of Detroit and New Orleans, Chicago is easily the third most corrupt city in the U.S.A.
“The way we [refused to sign] the Kyoto Treaty”
Global Warming Deniers to blame!
Yeah, they hate us for being strong when we are strong. They hate us for being weak when we are weak.
No one with brains is going to buy this line of crap. It’s old. Very old.
Oh my, when all else fails resort to the old party line: it is because of the evil boooshhhh.
I guess that explains why the games were awarded to a city that's 50% black.
No, it wasn’t the extortionistic tendencies of the Chicago thugocracy or the pervasive climate of violence or the fact that many Chicagoans didn’t want them there. It was Bush, the new Goldstein.
BWWWWWWHAAAAAA!!!
Well, that certainly didn't take long.
And they'd have us believe they never listen to Rush, huh. LOL
Obamah made pretty speeches, apologized to the world, made it all better, didn't he?
>> Bwhahahahaha!!!!! I knew these losers were going to find a way to blame everyone but themselves.
The administration and media elites will believe their own BS, as will the 20% of the populus that is intractably hard in the tank for them.
The other 75% of America is rolling on the floor laughing at them.
The left-wing fundamentalists are nothing if not opportunistic.
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