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Ready for an Olympic Party, Chicago Loses Its Date
New York Times ^
| October 2, 2009
| MONICA DAVEY
Posted on 10/02/2009 10:10:28 PM PDT by kingattax
CHICAGO — Talk about short parties.
As word arrived that Chicago had been eliminated from consideration for the 2016 Olympics in a first round of voting, stunned silence fell over thousands of residents who had gathered in a plaza in the heart of this city’s Loop, for what nearly everyone here seemed certain was to be a victory party.
Some people gasped, others gave frowns of astonishment, and then, still carrying their CHICAGO 2016 signs and wearing the orange Olympics T-shirts they had just been handed, people began to leave.
“It’s unbelievable,” said Janie Carter, 55, staring up at a now empty stage in Daley Plaza, where Chicago bid leaders seemed not sure what to do next.
“Everything seemed so good for us, and everything seemed to be going our way. I don’t know. But we can still hold our heads up. We’re still here.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2016olympics; chicago; loser; obama; oprah; rio2016
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posted on
10/02/2009 10:10:28 PM PDT
by
kingattax
To: kingattax
Noooo...... you only got 18 votes!
2
posted on
10/02/2009 10:15:05 PM PDT
by
notaliberal
(Right-wing extremist)
To: notaliberal
3
posted on
10/02/2009 10:17:52 PM PDT
by
Tawiskaro
To: kingattax
Curious——where was ACORN and the Chitown mobsters? What happened to the Chicago dead vote? Stunning outcome.
4
posted on
10/02/2009 10:18:39 PM PDT
by
petertare
(--.)
To: kingattax
NO MORE HOPE AND CHANGE FOR YOU!!!
5
posted on
10/02/2009 10:18:45 PM PDT
by
bray
(Stalin is in the WH)
To: kingattax
stunned silence fell over thousands of residents who had gathered in a plaza in the heart of this city’s Loop, for what nearly everyone here seemed certain was to be a victory party. Good practice for 2012, for those bastards that gave us Obama.
6
posted on
10/02/2009 10:20:10 PM PDT
by
LouD
("against all enemies, foreign and domestic...")
To: Tawiskaro
I love it! Today was a good day!!!
7
posted on
10/02/2009 10:20:17 PM PDT
by
notaliberal
(Right-wing extremist)
To: kingattax
Maybe Obama can get Burger King to turn Joseph “Joey the Clown” Lombardo’s old Chicago machine shop into its corporate headquarters.
To: kingattax
Why Why Why ... We deserved it so much ...
9
posted on
10/02/2009 10:22:53 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: Tawiskaro
How many of these “thousands” had jobs? Maybe they were all city workers?
To: kingattax
Tears by me out the heart.
11
posted on
10/02/2009 10:23:26 PM PDT
by
YHAOS
To: Tawiskaro; kingattax
It looks like Tawiskaro found some “frowns of astonishment.”
To: kingattax
LOL
Two words
EPIC
FAIL
Obama be thy name.....
13
posted on
10/02/2009 10:27:26 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(Cave quid dicis, quando, et cui)
To: kingattax
Yeah, few things were more hilarious than seeing those hundreds of Hussein Cult devotees, ready to sing the praises of their Lord Obama...being dumbstruck.
Their little tin god struck out.
To: SkyDancer
LOL Now that’s a blast from the past.. I can still hear his whiney blubbering in my head.
15
posted on
10/02/2009 10:29:00 PM PDT
by
Freedom2specul8
(I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
To: petertare
That was one election the Daly machine couldn’t fix.
To: Tawiskaro
I recognize him (red neck tie, LR) from surrender of
(City of) Paris in Spring 1940.
must be 100+ years old..fine work.
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posted on
10/02/2009 10:31:14 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Zer0 to the voter: "Welcome to 'MY' DeathCARE ® Plan"...Sucker! ...now just die. :^)
To: kingattax
To: skinkinthegrass
A good addition might be the famous photo crashing squirrel.
19
posted on
10/02/2009 10:35:11 PM PDT
by
Carl LaFong
(Experts say experts should be ignored.)
To: Mad-Margaret
That was one election the Daly machine couldn’t fix. Or Acorn.
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