Posted on 10/03/2009 4:58:51 AM PDT by Zakeet
We would like to congratulate Rio de Janeiro for winning the right to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. It will be the first time that the Games are held in South America, and it is a fitting tribute to Brazils growing stature. That said, we have to ask: What was President Obama thinking when he flew off to Copenhagen to lobby the International Olympic Committee on behalf of Chicago?
We dont doubt Mr. Obamas devotion to his adopted hometown. Or that Chicago would have been a great place for the Games. Leaders from all the other countries bidding showed up, too. And we dont buy the posturing by Republicans who said that his trip meant he was neglecting the nations business. But in the midst of everything Mr. Obama is dealing with, who needs even a minor loss?
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We like having an articulate, fiercely competitive president, especially one with such a strong moral compass. But guys, if youre going to roll the dice, next time make sure the stakes are worth it.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The left hates fair competition. Thus the left begat ACORN and affirmative action.
*eyeroll*
"America bad / America hsters good" is not a moral compass.
When the title contains the phrase “New York Times”, a “Barf Alert” is redundant.
They hoped to win in order to line the pockets of the Chicago crime syndicate, period.
True. I missed that obvious sign. LOL.
Brilliant!!!
Mr. Obama has done important, courageous things to restore Americas standing. After George W. Bush, it feels good and safer to know that people around the world feel better about this country and about this president.
We like having an articulate, fiercely competitive president, especially one with such a strong moral compass.
Major barf alert! I really wish I wouldn't have clicked on that article and read as far as I did. The NY Times is completely delusional!
The US has hosted eight Olympic Games within a one hundred year period. Sending Obama and the thick sisters to muscle the IOC makes the US look greedy.
This smells as if it were written by Mo Dowd. But she does not dare put her name on it. She drew the short straw on this one.
Obama attempted to ease concerns about poor U.S. treatment of some foreigners in the post-9/11 era, saying that "one of the legacies I want to see coming out of Chicago 2016 hosting of the games is a reminder that America at its best is open to the world."
"We look like the world. . . . Over the last several years sometimes that fundamental truth about the United States has been lost. And one of the legacies, I think, of this Olympics Games in Chicago would be a restoration of that understanding of what the United States is all about."
Even when trying to get the Olympics, the theme has to be America has been so bad, but now I'm fixing it. And I think the whole theme of his speech of "I love Chicago, that's where I live, so you should pick it" was absurd.
Thanks for posting that information.
I had not seen those comments anywhere.
What a hateful spiteful egomaniac.
I vote that rahm emanual be re-christened RAM ENEMA-U-ALL
We're already 'open to the world', Zero...been to the US/Mexico border lately?
So do conservatives. In fact, we wish we had a president like that right now.
Perhaps after the long Obama Nightmare is over the country will have enough sense to elect a president with these qualities.
The NYSlimes can afford a meaningless "slap on the wrist" to look "fair and balanced" because no one gives a rat's patootie about this Olympic soap oprah being a grave issue.
A grave issue is Afghanistan, unemployment, recession, socialized health care and Michelle's public wardrobe.
The Slimes writers should aim their limp wrists at Obama's wrists on the grave issues of our time and spare us their phony editorials "chiding" their superhero.
Leni
They're clearly stating that they thought he should only have gone if he knew the fix was in. That way he could have gone to take some credit for the previously done-deal that others put together. He could pretend that his support put the bid over the top. A spin the NY Times would have trumpeted from their front page. They probably already had the article written.
They're disappointed in him and his team for not being efficiently disingenous and phoney.
No wonder that vapid and deceitful newspaper is in the crapper. And it's no wonder that they can see a "strong moral compass" in Obama.
And safer?? Doesn't this author know that the whole world is laughing at his Messiah?
Delusional is an understatement!
Didn’t President Zero say that Rev. Jeremiah Wright was his moral compass?
- JP
“We like having an articulate, fiercely competitive president, especially one with such a strong moral compass.”
I just knew it. The NY Slimes really misses Reagan.
I bet they are crying because all they have is
Barack Hussein Obama
mmm mmm mmm
Ohhhh---this is good, ohioWfan! So true.
Did you see post 18 up thread? I thought it was excellent.
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