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1 posted on 10/03/2009 5:52:17 PM PDT by AJKauf
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Huh? I WASN”T “rooting” for Chicago! I can not think of a worse place to have the Olympics!


2 posted on 10/03/2009 5:55:24 PM PDT by tuckrdout ("Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." - Thomas Jefferson)
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"Most" Americans may have been rooting for Chicago, but the polls I saw in Chicago placed the pro-faction just over 50%.
3 posted on 10/03/2009 5:56:19 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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Uh, I was rooting, am rooting, for America.....that’s the problem....we got American hating people in the Whitehouse! The America I’m rooting for has NOTHING to do with Chicago!


4 posted on 10/03/2009 6:00:17 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Democrat party has always been the party of slavery, sedition, subversion, socialism and surrender)
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5 posted on 10/03/2009 6:02:55 PM PDT by BigLittle
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At first I thought it might be cool. Then I did more reading and discovered that the Olympics aren’t necessarily a good investment with a real return.

And I thought the egalitarian thing is to give it to South America...we’ve had our share of Olympics.

Then you factor in the corruption in this state and it looked like a recipe for fiscal wrongdoing.

I don’t know why we were told somehow that Chicago had the inside track or and edge over the competition. I mean, who said so?


7 posted on 10/03/2009 6:06:01 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (Europe stole my vegetables)
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The Hussein Administration cranking up the "Ugly American" stereotype to 11.

Bunch of commie maniacs.

8 posted on 10/03/2009 6:06:32 PM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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....Michelle doing her black ‘overcoming-the-odds’ shtick didn’t impress the white Euros...they don’t have that much guilt.


11 posted on 10/03/2009 6:34:31 PM PDT by STONEWALLS
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Almost all of Michelle’s statements were heartfelt and well meant

No they were not. This is the only disappointing statement I have ever heard from this man. But it is a very big one. Here is where you have your voice crack, Michelle. Here is where you bat those false eyelashes. None of this was "heartfelt." Any sentient person knows it.

How could he say this? I really cannot express how disappointed I am that he could say this.

12 posted on 10/03/2009 6:35:02 PM PDT by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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The article is about much more than the Olympics. IMO, everyone should really read the whole thing.

I do share the concern about a weakend President but the trouble is the only one who can change that is Obama. And not by ramming through the current agenda. In otherwords, he needs to grow up as Sarkozy indicated.

Barring that changes need to occur by installing a Congress to police him. If the world doesn’t respect him, then they need to respect our Congress. We cannot be both in both branches as we are today.

But since everyone is focused on the Olympics, no, I wasn’t rooting for chicago. I think it’s a lousy city to host the Olympics. But I’m not against hosting them. Just choose better.


13 posted on 10/03/2009 6:44:40 PM PDT by Soul Seeker ( of Kos.)
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For about 90 years Chicago has been seen both domestically and internationally as a criminal enterprise. I have lived in that geographical area most of my life. The IOC’s vote dosen’t surprise me.
17 posted on 10/03/2009 7:22:54 PM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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I think most Americans were rooting for Chicago

I think that an ever expanding percentage of Americans have caught on to Zero's systematic destruction plan for our country and root against anything he wants to do.

26 posted on 10/04/2009 4:38:53 AM PDT by lovesdogs (10/04/09 - 1092 days left until obama is toast/392 until midterms.)
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Before Obama gave his speech he said, “We’re not taking anything for granted. So I’m going to go talk to some voters.”

Apparently to Obama selecting the Olympic site is just like the Iowa caucus.


27 posted on 10/04/2009 5:15:56 AM PDT by Atlantan
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I think most Americans were rooting for Chicago.

Um, no. Almost any other city would have been a better candidate.

31 posted on 10/04/2009 6:36:03 AM PDT by altair (I want him to fail)
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Why Obama lost so badly? Overseas he doesn’t have his huge home court advantage. Without the ObamaMedia surrounding and covering him up with their spin he really is the Naked Emperor. Sarkozy saw it a while back, the rest of the world is seeing it now. Take away his dressmakers in the media and it ain’t a pretty sight, unless you are attracted to condescending arrogance and bumbling statesmanship.


35 posted on 10/04/2009 7:00:19 AM PDT by Humbug
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