Posted on 10/03/2009 5:00:38 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
Game over, home team lost: the U.S. won just 18 votes in the first round of IOC voting, and was knocked out in the first round. And suddenly the president was being pummeled by the right for a frivolous use of political capital—especially in the Weekly Standard, which not only blasted Obama for his failure, but anticipated that the mainstream press corps would not take the defeat seriously. “The media is faced with three facts as a result of Obama’s embarrassing failure in Copenhagen. 1) The failure itself. 2) The incompetence. 3) The lack of persuasive ability. There’s nothing ideological about any of these items,” wrote Fred Barnes.
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I am very surprised that he put his image up for such a global fall given how much time he has spent over the past year plus campaigning on the world stage.
We don't even want to know what "political capital" he'll have to spend to swing that...
Let the record show that Captain Smith died honorably.
Just sayin'...
I hope not. Id like to get the World Cup again. Even if you’re not a soccer fan, the WC is actually spread out thru the whole country, so you get the economic benefit in several regions, with less chance for the massive graft (and congestion) you would have in a one city event.
Amen....I think that’s exactly what happened.
Now faced with the reality of owning illiquid real estate in a part of town they are afraid to venture into has to have a negative effect on moral amongst team hussein.
Sorry BOzo. Your playing the ( We poor black folk done come to save the olympics) race card did not fly with the world. You are a token, an empty suit, a dolt and a loser. You should have sent Sarah Palin and given the old farts something to talk about.
I assumed the ‘bama was taking a few bushels of missing stimulus money with him to clinch the deal; I guess I mis-underestimated the enormity of his ego.
knowing bamster and his groupies they could have taken Chicago Uno Pizzaria
I think Okra would have liked to have some of that on the plane ride over to Copenhagen . Val Jerk0ff Jarret isn’t really a pizza girl she adores Thai cuisine and for plain ole’Mama Machete Machelle she tripped on cheese and grapes while polishing off that jeraboam of vintage champagne(not domestic, of course) She’s a hog about stuff like that she will not and will not ever share her caviar so don’be gone on thinkin’ yous gonna’get some leave her cracky caviar and keep ya’ damn hands off!
Obama and the rest of the race baiting profession learned that White Guilt is strictly an American thing!
I have more faith than you do.
In the end, I predict the federal government will wind up buying these properties from the current thieves, er, owners, because of some "stimulus" buyout.
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