Chitown out of the running

Actually, conscience isn't the problem for Gibbs and his boss; it's spine. Thomas's question got at an Obama administration trait that is puzzling opponents and demoralizing supporters: Why isn't the president more decisive and forceful? On many of the most pressing issues -- the public option in health reform, troop levels in Afghanistan, sanctions against Iran -- the administration has hewed to hemming and hawing.

The area in which Obama has been most forceful recently has been, of all things, his effort to win the Olympics for his home city of Chicago, which caused him to fly off Thursday evening on a quick lobbying trip to Copenhagen. The first lady announced that the Olympics campaign was a "take no prisoners" mission.

Dana Milbank - Washington Sketch


Did they have to fly there? This couldn't have been done via teleconference? Is this not the 21st century? These freakin' politicians piss me off. What a waste. Are the environuts screaming bloody hell at this? Course not, mums the word. Wrong when Bush wasted (per Navy's post), wrong here.

"Take no prisoners" mission. :lol: Couldn't even take a second hit, out at first bat.
 
why would any city want the olympics...normally it just brings a shit load of debt...and look at all the olympic villages now..what is being done with them...why would anyone want to visit a city as violent as chicago?

Chicago is not a dangerous city.
Actually, you might want to re-think that asinine statement.
Obama Will Address Derrion Albert's Death | NBC Chicago
Seriously, living with ones head firmly shoved up ones ass, lends one zero fucking credibilty!

Chicago is dangerous if you go into the wrong areas. Rio is much the same with a homicide rate nearly double that of Chicago. On the other hand, Tokyo and Madrid's murder rates are miniscule in comparison to either.

The city's homicide rate dropped to 33 per 100,000 people last year from 39 per 100,000 the year before, and authorities expect the rate to continue falling despite a homicide spike from April through June.

While last year's rate was the lowest in 17 years, it is much higher than the rate for Rio's competitors. Chicago's was 18 per 100,000 in 2008, up from 16 a year earlier. Madrid's was flat at 2 per 100,000 for both years, and Tokyo's was 1 per 100,000 both years.

Rio's crime rate could hamper Olympic bid in Brazil | Sports & Recreation > Amateur Sports from AllBusiness.com
 
Actually, conscience isn't the problem for Gibbs and his boss; it's spine. Thomas's question got at an Obama administration trait that is puzzling opponents and demoralizing supporters: Why isn't the president more decisive and forceful? On many of the most pressing issues -- the public option in health reform, troop levels in Afghanistan, sanctions against Iran -- the administration has hewed to hemming and hawing.

The area in which Obama has been most forceful recently has been, of all things, his effort to win the Olympics for his home city of Chicago, which caused him to fly off Thursday evening on a quick lobbying trip to Copenhagen. The first lady announced that the Olympics campaign was a "take no prisoners" mission.

Dana Milbank - Washington Sketch


Did they have to fly there? This couldn't have been done via teleconference? Is this not the 21st century? These freakin' politicians piss me off. What a waste. Are the environuts screaming bloody hell at this? Course not, mums the word. Wrong when Bush wasted (per Navy's post), wrong here.

"Take no prisoners" mission. :lol: Couldn't even take a second hit, out at first bat.
probably not especially if the other Presidents made the trip. And God forbid Obama try to bring something in that would create jobs in an area that really needs it.
 
Major defeat for the Obamatrons, the boiking was laughed at by the world and shown to have zero influence.

I bet the rock star was surpised he couldn't close the deal. I also bet it was a blow to his ego.

Two things. I am thinking that South America will get this. There has NEVER been one there. So, a First for the Olympics , a First for South America.


As for us, the US, I think that our rep in the world and our influence is all about bush, cheney, rumsfeld, right wing asshole fundy nutjob loonies, torturing people, going everywhere and starting wars, offending everyone, being the biggest racists on the planet, being the biggest bigots on the planet, being the biggest polluters on the planet, being the biggest thieves on the planet, and being the biggest liars on the planet, and that all is something that it will take the Obamas time to repair, but hey, what the hell, white folks have had to have Black folks clean up their messes for a long time now, lol.....

Nope, this is not about Obama, and what has happened here is all about what we have been doing for a long long time, shitting on the rest of the world. This has been a problem long before the Obamas came on the scene, and their egos can handle it. They know what they own and what they don't.

Of course it's Bush's fault. Who else could it have been? Certainly not Obama's, after all the world see's Obama has a beacon of light, a rock star, the second coming. They all looked at him in front of the IOC and thought, we're going to punish Bush. Yeah, that's the ticket, because Obama is teflon.
Geeze Contessa, get real would ya? :lol:

PS, you should be on Obama's Apologetic Tour (O.A.T.), because you hate America more than he ever did.
 
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who do you think is going to work in food service, the hotels, the rental car companies, the bars, plus build all the sites for the Olympics? Of course the people would see revenue from it, it is called a pay check.
We just have a nationals here for figure skating, the first one we held brought in a few million and created many jobs for we built two new ice rinks and a new covention center.
All those entities you mention are shaken down by the corrupt Chicago politicians. That's the way business runs in Chicago. It's pay to play. It's been going on since the days of Capone and Daley 1. Yeah, a few workers will make a few bucks, but the businesses, particularly in construction and so forth will most likely barely break even. Summed up, it wouldn't make one bit of difference in the pockets of it's citizens.
Now, go look at the criteria required to get the olympics appointed to a city. It's quite obvious that Chicago couldn't meet that criteria. Factor that in with the well known corruption, and it becomes quite clear that Chicago never stood a chance in the first place. Obama had to have known this. If not, then it's just one more example of the extreme incompetence that we are seeing from the fool. This trip was nothing more than a dog and pony show meant to appease Obama's fellow corrupt cronies. Obama is nothing more than the prototypical corrupt Chicago politician.
 
And the right wing pea brains cheering because GM sales down are about Detroit and ALL the people BO owes there.

Just think how happy you pea brains would be if al Qaeda detonated a nuclear bomb in an American city...

You're a chump...show me where ANYONE is cheering about GM sales being down. Unless you mean the numbers SINCE GM became GOVERNMENT MOTORS. The LAST thing I want is a great American made car and the hard workers who make it putting dollars in Obama's coffers.

I wont even address the other stupidity you wrote about nukes landing inside the US. You're just too gone to even try to save. Logic doesn't come anywhere close to you. You're lost in the wilderness of headupyourass.

YOU just did pea brain...

And...I'LL address "the other stupidity you wrote about nukes landing inside the US"

Right wing Anti American SCUM...

February 27, 2009

What is it about conservatives and their attitudes about attacks on U.S. cities?


A few years ago, TV preacher Pat Robertson said he welcomed a nuclear attack on the State Department, telling a national television audience, "Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up." A couple of years later, Bill O'Reilly welcomed a terrorist attack on San Francisco. The Fox News personality told al Qaeda, "You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead."

And yesterday, the Bush administration's former U.N. ambassador, John Bolton, generated wild applause joking about a nuclear attack on Chicago.

"The fact is on foreign policy I don't think President Obama thinks it's a priority," Bolton said. "He said during the campaign he thought Iran was a 'tiny' threat. Tiny, tiny depending on how many nuclear weapons they are ultimately able to deliver on target. It's, uh, it's tiny compared to the Soviet Union, but is the loss of one American city -- pick one at random, Chicago -- is that a tiny threat?"

Jonathan Stein noted, "Bolton wasn't the only one who thought this was funny. The room erupted in laughter and applause.

LOL...the Washington Monthly??? Seroiusly? Are you really going show this as your only proof that only right wingers are the only ones who have ever flirted with a nuke on America? Now help me with that last part. Don't see the joke here. I see Bolton making a pretty strong point over the seriousness of the threat that Iran poses. Would Obama consider an attack on Chicago a tiny threat? No. Point made.
 
Rio's a blast.
Carnivale makes Mardi Gras look like a childrens birthday party.
Those people seriously know how to party and have a good time!
I'll be booking reservations for '16 as soon as possible!
 
wow! and generating money for brazil in the process. Too bad we couldn't be doing that here. :lol:
 
Congratulations Rio! The right country won the bid! Celebrate!

Drudge headlines:

The Ego has Landed...World Rejects Obama.....Chicago Out in First Round.
 
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Not a Rosy Picture
Andrew Zimbalist

Andrew Zimbalist, a professor of economics at Smith College, is the author of “Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-time College Sports.”

The evidence from past Olympic Games hardly suggests that there’s a resounding economic gain from being the host city. Montreal’s 1976 Olympics left the city with $2.7 billion of debt that it finally paid off in 2005.

A city looking for an economic boost, would be wise to not host the Olympics.

The Barcelona Organizing Committee in 1992 broke even, but the public debt incurred rose to $6.1 billion. Similarly, the Atlanta Organizing Committee in 1996 broke even, but the bottom line there is not encouraging. An econometric study using monthly data found that there was insignificant change in retail sales, hotel occupancy and airport traffic during the games. The only variable that increased was hotel rates — and most of this money went to headquarters of chain hotels located in other cities.

The Sydney Organizing Committee in 2000 also reports breaking even, but the Australian state auditor estimated that the games true long-term cost was $2.2 billion. In part, this was because it is costing $30 million a year to operate the 90,000-seat Olympic Stadium.

When Athens won the right to host the 2004 games in 1997, its budget was $1.6 billion. The final public cost is estimated to be around $16 billion — 10 times the original budget! Meanwhile, most of the Athens’ Olympics facilities are reportedly underutilized. Maintenance costs on the facilities in 2005 came in around $124 million and, reportedly, there is little use of the two Olympic soccer stadiums .
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If a city is looking for an economic boost, there are better ways to invest its money.

Do Olympic Host Cities Ever Win? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com
 
You're a chump...show me where ANYONE is cheering about GM sales being down. Unless you mean the numbers SINCE GM became GOVERNMENT MOTORS. The LAST thing I want is a great American made car and the hard workers who make it putting dollars in Obama's coffers.

I wont even address the other stupidity you wrote about nukes landing inside the US. You're just too gone to even try to save. Logic doesn't come anywhere close to you. You're lost in the wilderness of headupyourass.

YOU just did pea brain...

And...I'LL address "the other stupidity you wrote about nukes landing inside the US"

Right wing Anti American SCUM...

February 27, 2009

What is it about conservatives and their attitudes about attacks on U.S. cities?


A few years ago, TV preacher Pat Robertson said he welcomed a nuclear attack on the State Department, telling a national television audience, "Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up." A couple of years later, Bill O'Reilly welcomed a terrorist attack on San Francisco. The Fox News personality told al Qaeda, "You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead."

And yesterday, the Bush administration's former U.N. ambassador, John Bolton, generated wild applause joking about a nuclear attack on Chicago.

"The fact is on foreign policy I don't think President Obama thinks it's a priority," Bolton said. "He said during the campaign he thought Iran was a 'tiny' threat. Tiny, tiny depending on how many nuclear weapons they are ultimately able to deliver on target. It's, uh, it's tiny compared to the Soviet Union, but is the loss of one American city -- pick one at random, Chicago -- is that a tiny threat?"

Jonathan Stein noted, "Bolton wasn't the only one who thought this was funny. The room erupted in laughter and applause.

LOL...the Washington Monthly??? Seroiusly? Are you really going show this as your only proof that only right wingers are the only ones who have ever flirted with a nuke on America? Now help me with that last part. Don't see the joke here. I see Bolton making a pretty strong point over the seriousness of the threat that Iran poses. Would Obama consider an attack on Chicago a tiny threat? No. Point made.

Yes, I absolutely contend only right wing pea brains HOPE for an American city to be nuked...

It has to do with the right wing mental illness...the NEED to punish...

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said the American people lack "the maturity to recognize the seriousness of the threats." What's to be done? According to Rumsfeld, "The correction for that, I suppose, is [another] attack."

Newt Gingrich recently said:

"the better they've done at making sure there isn't an attack, the easier it is to say, 'Well, there never was going to be an attack anyway.' And it's almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us."

The head of the Arkansas Republican party said:

"At the end of the day, I believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [Sept. 11, 2001]" so people appreciate Bush.

Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky openly called for "another 9/11" that "would help America" restore a "community of outrage and national resolve".


GOP memo touts new terror attack as way to reverse party's decline
 
Actually, conscience isn't the problem for Gibbs and his boss; it's spine. Thomas's question got at an Obama administration trait that is puzzling opponents and demoralizing supporters: Why isn't the president more decisive and forceful? On many of the most pressing issues -- the public option in health reform, troop levels in Afghanistan, sanctions against Iran -- the administration has hewed to hemming and hawing.

The area in which Obama has been most forceful recently has been, of all things, his effort to win the Olympics for his home city of Chicago, which caused him to fly off Thursday evening on a quick lobbying trip to Copenhagen. The first lady announced that the Olympics campaign was a "take no prisoners" mission.

Dana Milbank - Washington Sketch


Did they have to fly there? This couldn't have been done via teleconference? Is this not the 21st century? These freakin' politicians piss me off. What a waste. Are the environuts screaming bloody hell at this? Course not, mums the word. Wrong when Bush wasted (per Navy's post), wrong here.

"Take no prisoners" mission. :lol: Couldn't even take a second hit, out at first bat.
probably not especially if the other Presidents made the trip. And God forbid Obama try to bring something in that would create jobs in an area that really needs it.
Cant they get paid for registering each other to vote?
 

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