[TomasUSMC]

Yes, we let obambi pass out of our control

[dalebert]

what a crock

[Kakaze]

If I as a citizen have to go through security............so do you, get over it, world.

[Always Right]

So Rio won because it is easier for the terrorists to get in. That should add some fireworks to the Olympics.

[darkwing104]

More spin...They are trying protect the O.

[bahblahbah]

Allahpundit had a great retort to this... the questioner came from Pakistan... which hosts terrorist training camps...

[Oratam]

Among the toughest questions posed to the Chicago bid team this week in Copenhagen was . . . what kind of welcome foreigners would get from airport officials when they arrived in this country . . . .

Well you're sure gonna get one helluvanass-kicking now.

[Gay State Conservative]

Another reason why it was good that Hussein lost the bid...we won’t have to admit Mr Ali and his pig fornicating pals into the country.

[elpadre]

“... pointed out that entering the United States can be “a rather harrowing experience.” ... “

And how was the border experience attending Olympics in China, Russia, et al??? and freedom of moving about the host countries??

[Carley]

Foreign marathon runners arrive in the US all the time.

They run in Chicago, LA, NY, Boston, Denver.......haven’t heard of a single elite runner being denied entrance in the US.

It seems that the IOC was merely looking for an excuse to spit in O’s face.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[Syed Shahid Ali, an I.O.C. member from Pakistan . . .pointed out that entering the United States can be “a rather harrowing experience.”]

I'd rather lose the Olympics than have somebody like Syed Shahid Ali move “dirty bomb” components or—more likely—high-grade heroin through a U.S. point of entry.

[ex-snook]

We need passport control. We are in two wars and we want to host the Olympics? Insane.

[Publius6961]

Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control?

No.
It happened because it is a lousy idea.

The U.S. economy is circling the drain with a real idiot at the helm, and the failing economy can't afford the certainty of pissing away another trillion$ on the most corrupt city/state in the U.S.

The rest of the world isn't driven entirely by corruption, PC, ACORN, and SEIU.

Or an ignoramus trying to learn on the job, without a real clue, surrounded by anarchist hoods.

Good thing.

[joeystoy]

Can’t be too difficult. I was in Las Vegas last week and it seemed as if half of the hotel guest were speaking Slovenian—or some such.

[Jackson57]

But, IF Chicago had been picked to host the Olympics, you can bet it would have Obama’s victory. The media really does think we’re THAT stupid.

The fact remains, Obama failed!

[cranked]

The answer to why the US lost the bid to hold the Olympics in 2016 is so obvious and self-evident, it’s not funny.

What is funny is how the media and some pundits are willing to rhyme and reason despite the obvious and self-evident.

[JRandomFreeper]

I had occasion to go through the harrowing experience of dealing with Border Patrol earlier this week at an inspection point in southern NM. The BP guy asked if I was a citizen of the US when I presented my ID. I told him I was from Texas. He laughed, and waved me through.

/johnny

[SusaninOhio]

Gee, you mean it doesn’t have anything to do with our lying president?

[TurtleUp]

In other words, given where terrorists are currently hiding bombs and the reluctance of athletes to have probes inserted THERE, the IOC decided to go to Brazil instead of going through our TSA harrassment.

[McGavin999]

Hmmmm, didn’t seem to bother the last Olympics we had here.