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Obama Olympic torch fizzles for Chicago
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 10/6/9 | Debra J. Saunders

Posted on 10/06/2009 7:54:48 AM PDT by SmithL

If you want to understand why some conservatives were gleeful over Chicago's fourth-place finish in its bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games - after President Obama and the first lady flew to Copenhagen to pitch the American city to the International Olympic Committee - consider this quote in the New York Times from Anita DeFrantz, an IOC member from the United States: "I hate the fact that these elegant people were here, and then our country got treated that way."

These elegant people? So the other folks who didn't win for their cities are what? Slobs?

You see in that sentence all the presumption of Obama and his political base.

The 2008 presidential campaign reveled in the argument that the cosmopolitan Obama would boost America's image abroad. Alas, the Copenhagen experience suggests that international types may have fuzzy feelings about the United States post-Dubya - but that doesn't necessarily mean that America will reap tangible benefits. And unlike a beauty contest, the IOC losers can't even bring home a Miss Congeniality prize.

The Drudge Report offered this headline after the news that Chicago placed fourth out of four cities in the running: "The Ego Has Landed: World Rejects Obama." Sure, that verdict is hyperbolic, but Drudge hit on the self-conceit that preceded this fiasco.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 0bama; hubris; olympics; usoc
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To: Enterprise
"It's nothing to get all wee weed up over."

Honestly, I lost that tingle up my leg about this a while ago!
21 posted on 10/06/2009 8:46:31 AM PDT by The Louiswu (I live vicariously, through myself.)
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To: mainepatsfan
Oprah came along for the ride.
Maybe they were using "The Secret" and thought
they could make it happen just by thinking and wishing it...
They were then actually surprised when it didn't work
the way "The Secret" seminar DVDs explained.
22 posted on 10/06/2009 8:54:29 AM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: Bringbackthedraft

SFC? Are you sure?


23 posted on 10/06/2009 8:59:16 AM PDT by GauchoUSA
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To: DieHard the Hunter

Jon Stewart always refers to O as elegant. It’s some sort of meme with these silly people, probably connotes some inchoate bundle of emotions that we don’t really understand.


24 posted on 10/06/2009 9:24:53 AM PDT by Mamzelle (Who is Kenneth Gladney? (Don't forget to bring your cameras))
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To: Mamzelle

> Jon Stewart always refers to O as elegant.

WOW. Well, he better never call me “elegant” or we’ll have harsh words...

Now that I think about it more carefully, “elegant” is THE PERFECT studied insult with which we can label Obama. It is more subtle than “perfumed prince” but just as bad.

It evokes images of a mincing Pharaoh, elegant yet not a pleasant thought at all.


25 posted on 10/06/2009 9:34:33 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Mamzelle
Jon Stewart always refers to O as elegant.


26 posted on 10/06/2009 9:38:59 AM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs)
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To: MinuteGal; rlmorel
I didn't know that Illinois Senator Dick "Turban" Durbin was among the junketeers to Copenhagen. Turban is the most subversive, dangerous and insidious leftists radicals in the Obama coterie of legislative agents. He's like the German U-boats at the beginning of WW2.....he runs deep, silent and deadly.

Nice take, MG.

The Chicago mob planned to sucker the IOC........they arrogantly told the IOC how great the Games would be FOR THEMSELVES. “You can play a great game and still not win” Ohaha said on the loss.... without a shred of introspection.

CHI/GO CAME IN LAST WHILE THE SAVIOUR SPOKE Supposedly the voting was close and USOC intelligence indicated a visit from Obama could well seal the deal. But the facts of the ground indicated (1) Rio offered up more money than we did, (2) there has never been an Olympics in South America (so they were a natural to win). So why didn't brainiacs Jarrett, Daley, Axelrod and Emanuel factor all that in? They had options. They had sources. Supposedly they had USOC intelligence. They could have decided not to embarrass America before the world. They could have ditched that cockamamie presentation.

Obama should shoulder the blame for injecting himself into the decision- making process........... with the self-centerred expectation that he and Mrs O could steamroller the IOC on the strength of their own wonderfulness. Appears the IOC resented the Obamas rolling into town with the idea they could blitzkrieg their way to be the 2016 choice.

Mmm, mm, mmm......delicious to savor how the Chicago mob was mugged by Danish-style sensibility. Ohaha actually justified his stupid bid for "diversity games," Mrs O's ridiculous "sacrifice trip to Denmark".....two planeloads of cronies looking to make a buck, all financed by taxpayers. Makes you wonder how dumbhead Axelrod---architect of the presentation fiasco----- made a living before he got his filthy hands on our tax dollars in the WH.

Mrs O: "I said, you know, 'I'm gonna hug you now and then I'm going after you in Copenhagen!'" And she said, 'You too!' So, the gloves are off." The world is getting tired of the Ghetto-Talking Obamas in your face-style 24/7.


27 posted on 10/06/2009 12:34:05 PM PDT by Liz
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

"How 'bout a quickie under the table as a show of confidence, while the IOC votes.

"Fugeddabatit, mister. I didn't make "the sacrifice" so you can get it on."


28 posted on 10/06/2009 12:38:51 PM PDT by Liz
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To: paulycy

The original Sun King used to take a jeweled box containing his poop out onto the palace balcony for the crowds to marvel at. Ours puts his in legislation.


29 posted on 10/06/2009 12:41:57 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: mainepatsfan
This guy has an ego bigger than Napoleon’s...and that will also lead to his eventual downfall.

Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Actually the entire book of Proverbs as it deals with fools, arrogance, pride, haughtiness, treachery, deceit, lies, etc., seems to be tailor made for 0bozo, as he seems to delight in sinful behavior & actions with ZERO sense of humility.

HOWEVER not to express arrogance on my own part, the book of Proverbs speaks equally to me as well.

30 posted on 10/06/2009 12:42:48 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: RWGinger

I’m pretty sure that Debra is syndicated - Town Hall, I think.


31 posted on 10/06/2009 12:52:10 PM PDT by SmithL (The Golden State demands all of your gold)
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To: SmithL

Thanks
I will go to site and read her


32 posted on 10/06/2009 2:11:57 PM PDT by RWGinger
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To: Deb
a jeweled box containing his poop

Yep. That's the one. He's been reincarnated as a Community Organizer.

33 posted on 10/06/2009 2:18:37 PM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs)
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To: mainepatsfan
This guy has an ego bigger than Napoleon’s...and that will also lead to his eventual downfall.

A Napoleonic ego without Napoleonic genius to back it up. Definitely a winner.

34 posted on 10/06/2009 3:14:19 PM PDT by thulldud (It HAS happened here!)
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
Oprah came along for the ride.

Traveling as freight.

35 posted on 10/06/2009 3:17:20 PM PDT by thulldud (It HAS happened here!)
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To: SmithL
All you need to know about Anita


36 posted on 10/06/2009 3:20:59 PM PDT by MadelineZapeezda (Promoted by God to be a Mother!!!! Thanks, Susan)
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To: thulldud
If we could just get him to invade Russia in the winter time.
37 posted on 10/06/2009 3:23:11 PM PDT by fish hawk (Lord, help us to attain knowledge and the wisdom to apply it toward your ultimate will.)
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To: Liz

“OBAMA CRONIES LINED-UP TO PROFIT Obama’s cronies have too much influence over the office of the President of the United States. That they can literally compel him to expend millions of tax-payer dollars to use two US govt planes, govt personnel, and other govt resources, to make a personal appeal to the IOC, speaks of a terrible, systemic corruption. Also makes one wonder if Obama was getting a cut of the deals.”

— — —

These Chi-Thugs know a LOT about Zer0’s background since well before his pre-”college” days, and can lord over him for the next 3+ years until he is ushered out.

He will have his hands and legs tied up trying to please them following this wonderful debacle he’s gotten himself into.


38 posted on 10/06/2009 6:52:33 PM PDT by HighWheeler (The higher the concentration of libs, the bigger the tragedy that follows.)
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To: GauchoUSA
PMFJI, but yes. Debra's the Chron's token right-of-center columnist.
39 posted on 10/06/2009 10:06:13 PM PDT by Tenniel2 (Memo to politicians: Don't worry about "shovel-ready." Worry about "pitchfork-ready.")
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