Romney's Running for the 2012 Olympics was MASTERFUL!!!

[strollingbones]

smoke and mirrors....


John Hunstman: $1million donation to the SLC Olympics followed by a $250million investment from Bain.

Others of the final tally of 53 corporate sponsors were already under Romney and Bain Capital’s influence. Marriott is led by close family friends — now campaign finance co-chairs; plus, Romney was sitting on the company’s board at the time. Sealy, which Bain Capital owned, became a sponsor. So did Monster.com, where one of Romney’s sons worked as a consultant. The vice-chair of General Motors was on Marriott’s board of directors with Romney, as were the directors of Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Sears; all became sponsors. Many other sponsors had extensive business dealings with Bain Capital companies, or had top-ranking executives with past connections to Bain Capital companies. And most of them have come through for Romney again, by donating to his campaign.

Daily Kos: Follow. The. Olympics. Money. Bain+Romney 1999-2001

seems the olympics werent as profitable as good friends who just happen to be rich

 

[bodecea]

smoke and mirrors....


John Hunstman: $1million donation to the SLC Olympics followed by a $250million investment from Bain.

Others of the final tally of 53 corporate sponsors were already under Romney and Bain Capital’s influence. Marriott is led by close family friends — now campaign finance co-chairs; plus, Romney was sitting on the company’s board at the time. Sealy, which Bain Capital owned, became a sponsor. So did Monster.com, where one of Romney’s sons worked as a consultant. The vice-chair of General Motors was on Marriott’s board of directors with Romney, as were the directors of Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Sears; all became sponsors. Many other sponsors had extensive business dealings with Bain Capital companies, or had top-ranking executives with past connections to Bain Capital companies. And most of them have come through for Romney again, by donating to his campaign.

Daily Kos: Follow. The. Olympics. Money. Bain+Romney 1999-2001

seems the olympics werent as profitable as good friends who just happen to be rich

Bribes take a cut from the profit.

 

[buckeye45_73]

MADE IN BURMA: Romney Outsourced 2002 Olympics Uniforms

And so did OBama's boy, Ralph Lauren, so.............you're a hypocrit

Hypocrit? Romney was in CHARGE of the olympics - not Obama...

His good friend Ralph Lauren is in charge of the unis. Why doesnt Obama bitch about Ralph Lauren's outsourcing of his clothing or the Olympic uniforms.....Look man if your gonna attack Romney you have to attack one of Obama's biggest fans and campaign donors.

 

[buckeye45_73]

Seriously? You use the word masterful? Next you're going to say you're a non-partisan independent

That's like finding a true atheist, they're arent many, but people say they are because they think it makes them look smarter.

 

[rdean]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LVKJjA_VxU]Mitt Romney's Olympics: A National Disgrace - YouTube[/ame]

Wonder how many of Mitt's friends profited by that infusion of Government millions?

 

[Ravi]

smoke and mirrors....


John Hunstman: $1million donation to the SLC Olympics followed by a $250million investment from Bain.

Others of the final tally of 53 corporate sponsors were already under Romney and Bain Capital’s influence. Marriott is led by close family friends — now campaign finance co-chairs; plus, Romney was sitting on the company’s board at the time. Sealy, which Bain Capital owned, became a sponsor. So did Monster.com, where one of Romney’s sons worked as a consultant. The vice-chair of General Motors was on Marriott’s board of directors with Romney, as were the directors of Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Sears; all became sponsors. Many other sponsors had extensive business dealings with Bain Capital companies, or had top-ranking executives with past connections to Bain Capital companies. And most of them have come through for Romney again, by donating to his campaign.

Daily Kos: Follow. The. Olympics. Money. Bain+Romney 1999-2001

seems the olympics werent as profitable as good friends who just happen to be rich

hahahaha!

 

[L.K.Eder]

can't be that masterful unless he managed to qualify as a member of the track and fields team.

i will watch closely. so far i think he might be the bus driver.

London 2012 Olympics: American and Australian team buses get lost from Heathrow to Olympic Park - Telegraph

 

[strollingbones]

i am really beginning to think republicans are polly annas in slacks...believing something is profitable when it was simply a bail out by friends to make mittens look good....

 

[Ravi]

Crony capitalism?

Did you see where Mitten actually spent Olympic moolah on Olympic pins featuring his face???

Mr. Narcissist

 

[JoeB131]

Let's be honest WHY ROmney had to go in and "Save" the Olympics.

Because his LDS Buddies went out there, bribed IOC officials into giving them games they weren't ready for.

Salt Lake City bribery scandal: the buying of the Olympic games

A bribery scandal has forced the resignation of the leaders of the Salt Lake City group which is organizing the 2002 Winter Olympics. The revelations of the past month have demonstrated anew the pernicious consequences of the takeover of international sport by giant corporations, especially the American-based media monopolies.

Frank Joklik, president of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC), resigned January 8 after acknowledging that cash payments and other benefits were provided to members of the International Olympic Committee to influence the IOC's 1995 vote which awarded the 2002 games to the Utah capital city.

Senior Vice President Dave Johnson also resigned, and SLOC ended a $10,000-a-month consulting contract with its former president Tom Welch, who headed the successful campaign to bring the Olympics to Salt Lake City.

Three days later Salt Lake City Mayor Deedee Corradini announced she would not seek reelection in 2000, as had been expected. While Corradini, a Democrat, denied that her decision had anything to do with the Olympics bribery scandal, over the past week city council members had called for her resignation.

There are allegations that the SLOC supplied visiting IOC members with prostitutes, that SLOC officials made campaign contributions to an IOC member who was running for mayor of Santiago, Chile, and that they provided college tuition for the children of IOC members from Ecuador and Libya. A cash contribution went to another IOC member from the Netherlands.

This is the mess created by the Mormons who run Salt Lake City, that Romney had to go in and clean up. Because if the Olympics had turned into a fiasco, it would have been a big black eye for the Mormon Church.

This looks like a Job for Super Mitt!

Now here's the thing. The Olympics were only a three week event that everyone forgot about a few weeks later. But the honor and dignity of the Mormon Cult was on the line, and Mitt had to go in and save them from themselves.

Would he have made such an effort for AmPad? Or GS Steel? Or Dade Instrument, companies that he and Bane looted?

 

[Seawytch]

Reversible Mittens DID save the 2002 Olympics and it was a good thing. We needed it. It was right after 9/11 and we needed to show the world that we would not be broken by terrorists.

The Olympics is another one of the good things Willard did that he can't talk about since he had to get a HUGE "government bailout" to make it happen.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

And yet, I remember so many cheering Chicago, ergo, the United States, NOT getting the 2016 Olympics.

That's the difference: Romney is a real leader, Obama is a joke

 

[JoeB131]

Reversible Mittens DID save the 2002 Olympics and it was a good thing. We needed it. It was right after 9/11 and we needed to show the world that we would not be broken by terrorists.

The Olympics is another one of the good things Willard did that he can't talk about since he had to get a HUGE "government bailout" to make it happen.

Except that 9/11 hadn't happened when Mitt had to clean up the mess left by his fellow Mormons bribing IOC officials.

 

[Jackson]

Reversible Mittens DID save the 2002 Olympics and it was a good thing. We needed it. It was right after 9/11 and we needed to show the world that we would not be broken by terrorists.

The Olympics is another one of the good things Willard did that he can't talk about since he had to get a HUGE "government bailout" to make it happen.

Romney is a humble man. You don't hear him saying, "I saved the Olympics when nobody else could, I did it. How wonderfult I am." That is what Obama would be doing. "I, I, I!"

When it would be in his best interest to remind people of this accomplishment ( and whereabouts from 1999 until 2002), you just don't hear him spouting his own praises. That's not the kind of man he is.

 

[L.K.Eder]

Reversible Mittens DID save the 2002 Olympics and it was a good thing. We needed it. It was right after 9/11 and we needed to show the world that we would not be broken by terrorists.

The Olympics is another one of the good things Willard did that he can't talk about since he had to get a HUGE "government bailout" to make it happen.

Romney is a humble man. You don't hear him saying, "I saved the Olympics when nobody else could, I did it. How wonderfult I am." That is what Obama would be doing. "I, I, I!"

When it would be in his best interest to remind people of this accomplishment ( and whereabouts from 1999 until 2002), you just don't hear him spouting his own praises. That's not the kind of man he is.

swooooon

 

[L.K.Eder]

"One of the things he talks about most is how he heroically showed up on the scene and bailed out and resolved the problems of the Salt Lake City Olympic Games," Santorum said during a campaign stop in Columbus, Ohio. "He heroically bailed out the Salt Lake City Olympic Games by heroically going to Congress and asking them for tens of millions of dollars to bail out the Salt Lake Games in an earmark."

 

[zeke]

Why do some of you posters have to come on here and post things that make Mitt not look like the God Of Buisiness that Rethugs worship?

Why do you do that. Ruin or at least cast doubt on the Mittens Messiah?

Why would you point out that Mittens tapped his multi millioniare rich friends to bail out the Olympics.

Why would you point out that there was a bribery scandal involving the Olympics.

Don't you all know you are casting aspersions on the Rethugs Business Messiah.

And they don't like it.

And they will put everything you write on ignore. Cause if you don't read it, it didn't happen.

 

[jgarden]

Romney's Running for the 2012 Olympics was MASTERFUL!!!

The last president who was elected based largely on his business prowess was Warren G Harding, an influential self-made newspaper publisher.

Harding is best remembered for The Teapot Dome Scandal and has been ranked as perhaps America's worst president.

Although William Henry Harrison died after serving only 32 days in office, he still ranks as the 38th most successful president - so what that say about Harding who ranks 43rd?

The moral of the story is that having a strong background in business has not produced good presidents - they require different skill sets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Presidents_of_the_United_Stateswho

 

[edthecynic]

And yet, I remember so many cheering Chicago, ergo, the United States, NOT getting the 2016 Olympics.

link it!

Whenever CON$ervoFascists play dumb you know what they are pretending not to remember really happened.

Here is the radical right-wing extremist Americans For Prosperity (but not while Obama is president) cheering the loss of the Olympics and then again when it was on the first vote. CON$ervoFascists are America-hating scum.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3_Dd1gItVc]AFP Republicans Attendees Cheer Chicago Olympic Loss - Oct 2009 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Si modo]

smoke and mirrors....


John Hunstman: $1million donation to the SLC Olympics followed by a $250million investment from Bain.

Others of the final tally of 53 corporate sponsors were already under Romney and Bain Capital’s influence. Marriott is led by close family friends — now campaign finance co-chairs; plus, Romney was sitting on the company’s board at the time. Sealy, which Bain Capital owned, became a sponsor. So did Monster.com, where one of Romney’s sons worked as a consultant. The vice-chair of General Motors was on Marriott’s board of directors with Romney, as were the directors of Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Sears; all became sponsors. Many other sponsors had extensive business dealings with Bain Capital companies, or had top-ranking executives with past connections to Bain Capital companies. And most of them have come through for Romney again, by donating to his campaign.

Daily Kos: Follow. The. Olympics. Money. Bain+Romney 1999-2001

seems the olympics werent as profitable as good friends who just happen to be rich

Yet, it made a PROFIT. Money out - money in > 0. No "smoke and mirrors", it's simple arithmetic.