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The Disingenuousness of Leftist Claims About the Olympics

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 5th, 2009 at 11:47 AM  | 

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The Democrats are in full push back against conservatives who cheered Barack Obama’s defeat at the hands of the International Olympic Committee.

During the Bush era, Republicans from Karl Rove to Joe Wilson questioned — in ways both veiled and overt — the patriotism of Democrats who challenged the administration’s Iraq policy, pre-war intelligence and surveillance programs.

But the joyous reaction in some GOP quarters to the International Olympics Committee’s snub of Chicago — coupled with the party’s rapid-fire reaction to bad economic data – has some Democrats turning the tables and asking if Republicans are the ones cheering against America now.

At the 4:30 mark in this video, you can hear Texas Democrat candidate John Sharp, running for the Senate, attack RedState for cheering Obama’s defeat.

This is the most bogus crap I’ve ever witnessed. Leave it to a sympathetic media to egg it on.

For eight years we have witnessed the left cheer every defeat in war, say “screw them” about America deaths in Iraq, have elected Congressmen declare our soldiers war criminals, have an elected United States Senator compare our soldiers to Nazis, and now have the Chairman of the Democratic Party encouraging Virginia to deny our soldiers the right to vote and the President of the United States begin a systematic effort to undermine our successes in Afghanistan after embarking on a seven month long world tour to apologize for America.

That the left would call conservatives unpatriotic and un-American for cheering Obama’s defeat at the IOC means they have a bastardized idea of what patriotism means and does nothing to wash the blood of our nation’s freedoms and soldiers off their hands.

I love America, therefore I must cheer this Obama defeat — and it was an Obama defeat.

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  • peg_c

    at too many times and in too many ways during my lifetime to count. Howard Dean hollered about taking back the flag, when they spurned and repudiated the flag over and over again. They have excoriated our best citizens – our military – repeatedly and heinously. Immediately following 9/11 many on the Left blamed US. They are working to destroy this country from within (ACORN being a huge part of this effort). This is the very opposite of patriotism.

    Democrats are unpatriotic – or they vote for those who are. Same result.

  • ciscoguy

    I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: This is an embarrassment for Obama that his supporters should welcome. If the left ever seriously thought Obama could charm rogue nations out of nukes, the fact he couldn?t even win over the IOC for hosting a sporting competition closes the case on that school of thought.

  • spimnyborg

    it simply never ceases to amaze me – the *audacity* that someone might have a viewpoint that differs from theirs

    ?Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.? – William F Buckley Jr.

  • janis

    important to them is Obama. America is just the backdrop for his wonderfulness. If they cared at all about this country, they would never have been cheering for a loss in Iraq. And when they did that, it was all about cheering for a loss for Bush. For them, America as our homeland is not a reality, so they feel no loyalty or love for her and what she has traditionally represented.

    They will be so very happy if America is defeated in Afghanistan and then gets hit at home again. We deserve it, you know, for not worshiping at the altar of Obama.

  • Joe_Cor

    To even attempt to make the issue of supporting the President in his bid to raise real estate values in some sections of Chicago into a matter of patriotism shows that the left has jaw-droppingly trivial sensibilities of citizenship.

    To a conservative, patriotism is a love of country, of freedom, a dedication to preserving those things that make this country a unique place to live. It’s defending our soldiers in the field when they’re putting their life on the line for our liberties.

    To a leftist, patriotism means supporting Obama in his bid to bring home a trophy, no matter how small or inconsequential — no matter how inappropriate it is for him to be involved in the matter at all — so that he can have a confetti party thrown for him afterwards.

  • penguin2

    He thinks that is what is wrong with our country. No, he doesn’t understand the difference between joy at the failure of a presumptuous egotistical man and recognizing what is right for this country. It was Obama who made it all about him and his Chicago cronies.

    I suspect that most of the nation is more concerned with the unemployment rate using the official number of 9.8%, or the one that reflects the true unemployment or underemployed of 16-17%. Add in a jobless recovery, a failed stimulus, and dithering on the war in Afghanistan which is costing more American lives. Obama apologizing on the world stage which is an embarrassment to our nation, certainly does not deserve anything but derisive laughter. He embarrassed himself.

  • texas214

    This wasn’t about the Olympics or the USA, it was that the President, First Lady, and Oprah felt the just their “wonderful, understanding, all knowing prescence” alone was all that was needed.

    We laugh at self important fools.

  • izoneguy

    Send this link to John Sharp:

    Michelle Obama’s Olympic ‘Gimme’ Speech
    http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/michelle_obamas_olympic_gimme.html

  • Richard Mullins

    extinct. Really, guy’s like John Sharp have moved leftward and they haven’t had a good time doing so. Last year was a special case, but they think they even have a chance anymore. The Days of Dolph Briscoe and the late Ann Richards are over. The Dems still haven’t figured it out. BTW, they should just look for Tony Garza again and have him run for senate. He’s got money and a better chance to win.

  • janis

    that I laughed when a bigtime drug dealer in my area finally got busted and went to jail. He thought for years that he was smart, so clever, so well-loved in the community that he’d never have to pay the price for his behavior. But he did and he is and will be for the next 13 years more.

    As for Obama, he’s been stupid enough to believe his own myths about himself. We didn’t and we finally saw him get what he earned–rejection and the snickering of the world at large, and of us here at home. And for all the leftys who wish to shriek at us in outrage, there are plenty on their own side in the media who also made remarks about Obama’s hubris in doing what he did.

    Doesn’t Camille Paglia have her column come out on the first Wed. of the month? That oughta be a good one!

  • Richard Mullins

    Also, if this video gets in the Hands of the RPT, John Sharp can hang up being a senator. Maybe I should send them the link, it would great fodder.

  • http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

    two articles from the Telegraph (UK) blogs, here and here.

    Yeah, there’s some minor jabs at America as a whole in both articles but the authors save the b-slapping for Obama himself.

    From the 2nd article:

    As I?ve written before, the key reason why the president receives such loud applause at international settings like the United Nations is because he apologizes for his country on foreign soil at every opportunity, and says America is no better than anyone else. It is a message which resonates well with those who oppose America and believe the US needs to be humbled. It actually strengthens anti-Americanism rather than weakens it.

    [snip]

    The IOC?s decision is a slap in the face for Obama?s world leadership, and further confirmation that the veneer of popularity is not the same as global power. President Obama naively believed that his ?new era of engagement? would carry the day in a hostile environment. It was a huge miscalculation that further demonstrates the vacuousness, as well as arrogance of the Obama doctrine.

  • izoneguy

    worst nightmare in all so many ways.

    John Sharp will be rejected for the loser he is…..

  • janis

    Especially that last one. :-)

  • drfredc

    This is a lot more about the ongoing extremist political bigotry of the left than it’s disingenuousness.

    As long at the left continue to get away without being specifically called for their political bigotry against conservatives, expect this behavior to continue unchecked. They don’t mind being called disingenuous or any of several other lesser labels to define their clearly bigoted behavior. These various lesser labels for their bigotry are not politically charged hence they roll right off the left. Call their behavior bigotry and watch them squirm…

    The left has basically taken the racial bigotry that was a strong part of some of their party before they co-opted the civil rights movement. They’ve replaced it with extremist political bigotry of the right. It’s like they won’t even board a Fox bus, because it’s got some blacks sitting where ever they want.

  • ciscoguy

    The tenet of minimal government has given way to the nanny state. Our divine rights to life, liberty and the pursuit has been replaced with the right to strip certain people of life, liberty on the terms of the state, and guaranteed happiness, so long as what they offer makes you happy. Oh, and they?re not too keen of your idea that your right to live free comes from a Creator, either. Religion is the opiate of the masses, donchaknow?

    Jefferson has to be rolling over in his grave with what his party has become.

  • aloisius

    I have to disagree here. The cheering I experienced and overall exuberance with calls to buy tickets to Rio appeared to me to cross the line.

    In no way was cheering at America’s failure *ever* a valid response to any situation. It is unseemly. Criticizing the president, his policies and his choice to debase America by begging the IOC to host the Olympics here are perfectly valid, but America lost here. Even if you think the Olympics makes bad economic sense, it doesn’t change the fact that we lost here and that makes us look bad.

    If the country dips down into a deeper recession and people lose their jobs, their houses, their savings and in some cases, take their own lives, will we cheer again because Obama was in charge?

    If Afghanistan changes for the worse and a American soldiers die by the truckload, will we laugh because Obama is President?

    And why is “the left did it first!” a valid argument? That is a child’s rationalization. Be adults and lead by example.

  • Aaron Gardner
  • janis

    We laughed at Obama because he, again, decided that his personal charm and sheer presence would be enough to seal the deal with the IOC. If you bothered to read the articles from Denmark, you could see for yourself that the Danes were contemptuous of the way that Barrack Hussein Obama flew in to Copenhagen, sprinkled a little fairy dust around and then flew out again.

    We’re not laughing at America losing, we’re laughing–bitterly–at the notion that our nation is represented to the world by this utterly incompetent mountebank and marxist. Mostly we’re laughing, again bitterly, at the fact that 52% of our fellow citizens were so stupid as to vote for this fraud of a POTUS.

    As for the scenarios you mention in an attempt to shame us, no, we won’t be laughing. We’re not laughing at those things now and they are happening. Your guy’s a disaster for this country, but, hey, we didn’t elect him, you did. So count on this– we’re laughing at you, too.

  • aloisius

    I’m sorry, you’ve assumed too much.

    Even if you are simply laughing at his failure, you give the appearance that you are laughing at America by being overjoyed that it went to Rio. Without context or explanation, that can easily be misunderstood as taking pleasure in America’s failure. Frankly, that disgusts me.

    Even if you had only the best intentions, and I fail to see how cheering someone’s failure can be considered anything but petty, the relative ease that this can be misunderstood is reason enough to not do it.

    I thought Obama going to the IOC was a stupid idea. Now that he’s failed at getting the Olympics here, I’m ashamed and angry. Nothing about the situation makes me happy.

  • janis

    damn about how you perceive anything. Nor am I inclined to explain my intentions, best or otherwise, and you are wasting your time trying to chastise any of us who laughed at the arrogance that is Obama.

    None of us laugh at America. But lots and lots of us laugh at pinchfaced scolds like you.

  • Kyle-MI

    Here is what is boils down to. Liberals and Democrats care more about hosting the Olympics in Chicago seven years from now then establishing just democratic governments in Iraq and Afghanistan right now. To them the Olympic bid was more patriotic than the war on terrorism. To me, I cannot think of anything less important for the federal government than hosting the Olympics.

  • Aaron Gardner

    * I will even give you a bonus point for this**:

    Without context or explanation, that can easily be misunderstood as taking pleasure in America?s failure.

    ** But then I have to retract those points because the context and explanation has already been addressed in multiple front page posts.

  • ciscoguy

    in that it exposes the fallacious notion that the Obama Doctrine of denigrating our nation repeatedly on foreign soil will earn the respect and goodwill of foreign leaders. It certainly doesn’t work for Iran or NK (have they “unclenched their fists”?), and this is proof positive that it doesn’t even work with the honorable nations of the world.

  • Vladimir

    …any more than buying a Camry is, or shopping at WalMart, using a Nokia phone, etc.

    Plus which, a thriving Brazilian economy makes it all the more likely that their state-and-Soros-owned oil company, Petrobras, will be able to pay back the $10,000,000,000 that the Obama Administration loaned them.

  • Joe Rivers

    Let me ask you something.

    Did it “cross a line” when left-wingers made a movie (or two) about a hypothetical assassination of President George W Bush?

    Did it “cross a line” when Democrats constantly held up funding for the troops?

    Did it “cross a line” when Ted Kennedy stood in the well of the Senate and accused Bush of “lie after lie after lie after lie”?

    Did it “cross a line” when Democrats produced obviously fake documents purporting to show that Bush was a slacker in the Air National Guard, and Dan Rather ran with it a few weeks before a presidential election?

    Did it “cross a line” when several ACORN officials condoned childe prostitution?

    You’re really arguing from a strong position.

    Not.

  • nickinvirginia

    The short term knock on the President for not getting the Olympics might be tempting but what is the actual advantage? Pretend for a seond that you are an Independent, or a moderate. You know, those people who actually decide elections. To see people cheering on our defeat to host the Olympics looks petty, very petty. Not to mention that one poll showed 84% of Americans in favor of Chicago hosting the Olympics.

    To actually be happy that a foreign country gets to host the Olympics instead of the United States of America simply because you don’t agree with the President makes absolutely no sense. It shouldn’t matter what party the President is. The Olympics aren’t partisan, and every American should want to have the honor to host the world so that they can see our dominance. Matter of fact, I distinctly remember watching a video about a year ago of President Bush saying how proud America would be for Chicago to host the Olympics and that they had his full support.

    The Left cheered against American interest during the previous 8 years. To now turn around and be against our hosting of the Olympics, simply because the President is named Obama, is to do the same thing they did. It is hypocritical, and it makes no sense! Who cares if the President supported it? This isn’t legislation or liberal idea. Its the damn Olympics. Enough with these “they did it first” excuses for partisan shots. Take the damn high road when the President is pushing for something that should be in everyone’s interest. Being against everything the man does, even when it has nothing to do with ideology, is just plain stupid.

  • Joe Rivers

    Exactly what did we do wrong?

  • Joe Rivers

    Exactly what did we do wrong?

  • nickinvirginia

    not to mention the fact that the other 3 nations also sent their heads of state, so The One going really wasn’t some over the top gesture.

  • nickinvirginia

    to be against the US hosting the Olympics because Obama is the President or because Liberals used the same tactics for the past 8 years. It makes no sense, no sense whatsoever. It does nothing to advance the cause, all it does it make the Right look petty to the people who actually decide elections.

    There are certain times where all sides should come together to support a common cause, and I can’t think of one better than the Olympics. This isn’t health care or a debate over the role and breadth of govt. It is the Olympics, where the United States would get to host the world and show our dominance. To show our patriotism (did you see the opening to the Chinese Olympics?), and to show that our athletes can beat the cr*p out of the rest of the world.

    In other words, if you were a Whtie Sox fan (personally, I am a Yankee fan), would you stop supporting the White Sox, because President Obama is a fan? I’d hope not, it would make no sense. And it makes no sense to be against hosting the Olympics just because the President is for it.

  • janis

    What is it about this situation that confounds people like you so? If Obama had stayed out of it and hadn’t made it his mission to see if the Olympics could be gotten for Chicago with his personal “touch”, then no on would be laughing about it, they would have ignored it as a small deal. But Obama was the one who made it a big deal by going and by making an ass of himself.

    As for that poll you quoted on Chicago residents, you need to go back and look at it again. 84% of them were laughing, too.

  • Joe Rivers

    So there really is nothing we did wrong, per se (contrary to the claim in your original subject heading). It makes no sense to you. Well, it’s been explained pretty fully, and I don’t think I can improve on what’s been said by the site editors.

    Although perhaps you should allow for the fact that some people are entitled to disagree with you about what constitutes a “common cause” without being per se “wrong”.

  • Joe Rivers

    So there really is nothing we did wrong, per se (contrary to the claim in your original subject heading). It makes no sense to you. Well, it’s been explained pretty fully, and I don’t think I can improve on what’s been said by the site editors.

    Although perhaps you should allow for the fact that some people are entitled to disagree with you about what constitutes a “common cause” without being per se “wrong”.

  • Joe Rivers

    It’s not me, boss!

  • janis
  • janis

    And did they stand up in front of the whole world and try to sell the IOC on their country’s worth by telling their own personal story? And did they spend the past 9 months knocking their own countries before they tried to sell the IOC on how great those same countries really are?

    No, no, and no. Obama didn’t do what he did because of any other reason beyond thinking that it would be another big triumph for Obama. Instead, it was a defeat and a humiliating one at that. Not for America, for Obama, Both Barry and Michelle and their little friend, Oprah, as well.

    As to George Bush saying that he was all for it months ago, he didn’t then try to tell anyone listening how great it would be for him personally, did he?

  • BlueLandRed

    “Death of a President”

    on US liberals… it was, after all, created (in shockingly bad taste) in Britain by British filmmaker, Gabriel Range.

    Other than that, I agree with you.

  • Tbone

    It only trails the United Nations and the European Union. I’m glad that it isn’t going to be in the United States. I personally appreciate the Obamas and Oprah showing up and peeing on the floor to seal the deal for Rio.

    Now, let’s get rid of the United Nations.

  • E Pluribus Unum

    So, I think it’s OK if we hang that one around their necks in a discussion of who exactly is crossing the lines of political behavior. Just my opinion. They don’t have a single problem blaming the entire right side for deeds done by various and sundry weirdos, American conservatives or not.

  • Achance

    this whole mission on the Olympics was simply to help get his Chicago communist cronies’ hooves in the corrupt trough. Actually, conservatives and Republicans should be opposed to the Olympics going to ANY Blue place. All it does is line the pockets of corrupt Democrat politicians with bribes for every permit and contract, bribes to have your worthless property bought by the OC or condemned by the government. All the construction on project labor agreements with favored union contractors, all the work going out based on union members bribing the union dispatcher to get dispatched to the job. And everybody who gains off that stuff is very well aware that some significant percentage of the ill-gotten gains had best find its way to Party coffers or that person will cease to exist in the eyes of the Party – and sometimes literally as well.

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    IMF, and the World Bank are probably pretty close.

  • baldego

    If he had stayed behind and we didn’t win, he would have been blamed for not trying. People would say he sold out his city, forgot where he came from, yadda yadda. I’ve lived in Chicago my whole life and while there were those against the games, I think the overwhelming consensus was that the temporary inconveniece and potential mishaps far outweigh the economic potential and huge amounts of money to be made by the area’s small businesses.

    I, personally, don’t think there’s ever anything wrong with showing up, making your case, fighting the fight for your hometown and not being afraid of failure…whether I agree with the president or not.

  • Aaron Gardner

    There is something wrong with showing up to that while at the same time ignoring his Generals. I would think winning a real war would be more important than winning the war for the Olympics.

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    You are much better off without it. by the time all the graft, union thuggery, and sweetheart deals were made you Chicago folks would be paying for it for about twenty or more years.

  • randy streu

    but to me, worrying about thuggery and corruption coming to Chicago is like worrying about bringing fire to the sun.

  • Tbone

    You have got to be kidding. Ever hear of the SEIU? LOL.

  • Finrod

    Montreal is *still* paying for the 1976 Olympics. If Chicago had gotten the 2016 Olympics my best guess for when they would have finally paid it off would be 2050.

  • janis

    He’s damned. For his stance on abortion alone, he’s damned. For his standing with tyrants instead of those on the side of freedom, he’s damned. For lying through his teeth on any and all occasions, he’s damned. For not supporting the same troops that are dying daily by sending them reinforcements, he’s damned.

  • baldego

    Not in Montreal, in Chicago. Forgive me, but the prospect of hundreds of thousands of new people visiting my city who need to eat and shop excites me (and almost sends a thrill up my leg, lol). C’mon guys…awaken your inner Capitalist!! And I encourage you all to come visit Chicago. I’m sure you’ll find the deep dish far outweighs the “thuggery” and “corruption”!

  • JadedByPolitics

    Valerie Jarret sell off her SLUMS to make multi-millions of dollars instead of the 100′s the CRAP is worth. He is damned PERIOD for allowing soldiers to die in a God forsaken HELLHOLE while he traipsed off with Oprah and his just now proud of America wife instead of meeting with his General for hours instead of 25 minutes. He is DAMNED because he refuses to be VICTORIOUS in this “good war” but was hell bent and determined to be victorious for the Olympics. He was DAMNED when he lied and said he was not going 2 weeks before and like everything else he says CHANGED his mind and spent over 2 million dollars of taxpayer money for multiple jets to fly over. He is DAMNED for being a hypocrite who cannot keep his word for longer then a couple of weeks.

    Everything The Won says comes with an expiration date some quicker some slower but ALWAYS they expire.

  • http://www.wingnutsandmoonbats.com peterq

    Obama would be being hailed as the great dealmaker.

  • mdd1956

    Chances are, if the Olympics went to Chicago, the country ultimately would end up with years of corruption charges and investigations…..we don’t need a presidency embroiled that way ….. we need to defeat their ideas.

  • mrdose

    We lost and Brazil won. DUH! Brazil is a rising star economically. They drill for lotsa oil. They put sugar in their gas tanks. They have nude women and great beaches. They have aggressive economic plans.

    We have a crashing economy. We are energy dependent, with no plan to reduce the dependence. We’re going left while most of the world is headed right. We are battling terrorism, with little help or concern from others. We’re sorry, I guess BUSH did it.

  • mrdose

    We lost and Brazil won. DUH! Brazil is a rising star economically. They drill for lotsa oil. They put sugar in their gas tanks. They have nude women and great beaches. They have aggressive economic plans.

    We have a crashing economy. We are energy dependent, with no plan to reduce the dependence. We’re going left while most of the world is headed right. We are battling terrorism, with little help or concern from others. We’re sorry, I guess BUSH did it.

  • http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

    He also made it all about him. M.O. made it a big deal and all about her.

    The IOC is just as political a body as any national government. He and his wife got smacked around by their own hubris.

    That’s why: So what?

  • Warrior

    is remotely similar to not getting an Olympic venue. It’s apples and oranges. So the answer to all your ridiculous questions is “no”.

    But that’s the kind of thing the left has been doing for years though. If you’re so damn indignant, you could mosey on over to the Daily Kos and excoriate them for it.

    Somehow I doubt you will.

  • Warrior

    show our “dominance” anymore than it will show Brazil’s “dominance”.

    And it’s not a shot at the U.S., it’s disgust w/the Hubris that is Obama. After his posse dissed Rio, then tho Won blew into town with a bunch of “celebrities” — well. it looked like a powerplay, i.e. browbeating. And folks just don’t like being bullied, whether in the schoolyard or the international scene.

    So, basically, it was quite satisfying to many people on the right and left that this self-important buffoon fell flat on his face. Just sayin’

  • Warrior

    you missed out on the cash windfall, but bigger things are at issue here.

    The Won seems to think the field commander of our troops fighting and dying in Afganistan is an afterthought. Just some star struck fan who just needs a little patting on the head and sending on his way.

    Obeyme is so out of touch with reality, I think a whole lot of people are hoping the Olympic failure will finally wake his silly a** up. He needs to realize he is not some “activist” propped up by the local thuggery to bring home the bucks for Chicago. He is PRESIDENT of the greatest and most powerful countrry on earth.

    He needs to start acting like it.

  • Warrior

    I doubt anyone would have blamed him for not going. No other president has drug himself half-way around the world to go hat in handin front of the IOC for a hand-out.

    No one would have even noticed.

  • scubadiver49er

    Not to mention the cost overruns in the billions of dollars to be paid for by the taxpayers, for hosting the Olympics, when we can least afford it – yes even in 2016 I predict. This was supposed to be the payback to those, the likes of Valerie Jarret and Richard M. Daley, etc. Chicago can’t even afford to fix the slums that the Olympic Village was supposed to be built on, and they were going to then force these poor folks out & get paid obcene amounts in doing it. And, especially after BHO’s derogatory comments over the last 4 months, trashing our country, sealed the deal for the Olympics going elsewhere. The trio of BHO, Michelle and Oprah got exactly what they deserved! It all smacks of arrogance, and deceit.

  • lionheadcobranest

    (aloisius) [I] totally agree with everything you said,[]and it really just shows you what the [GOP] is really all about[](doing anything to bring this popular [P]resident down).[ T]hey are green with envy because no matter what the[y] say/try to lie about,this [P]residen’t

    [pause]

    [No. I'm sorry. There is no excuse for that. That is like clown porn; in a just universe, the perpetrator of such an offense against the English language would be forced to wear mittens and kept away from all communication devices for the remainder of his or her natural life. I'm not going to bother correcting the rest of this. There's no point. - Moe Lane]

    is well liked/respected all over the world compared to bush who was scorned/hated all over the world.it’s a real shame how these anti-american hate filled people act towards america not getting the olympics.that does not sit well with the majority of americans seeing how the gop are acting,it turns alot of people off and the gop know they can’t loose anymore votes/people not trusting them/their motives.however let them keep doing what they are doing that’s just means more people voting for the dems because they scorn the gop lol.

  • scubadiver49er

    In that respect, yes, all of the additional traffic throughall of the various businesses would have been great, except for what happens when the Chicago Police Department, whose ranks have steadily declined, go on strike because the illustrious mayor STILL hasn’t negotiated a contract with them? They’re out over two years now without one and counting. It will be interesting to see whether or not RMD EVER gets around to it. And even if they do come to an agreement, while the CDP has every available policeman “watching” the Olympics, who’s “watching” the rest of the City in their place??? I wonder who’s business would have gotten trashed next???

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Hey Aloisius, Funny, your twitter feed suggests you celebrated Barack Obama’s victory, specifcally to a Queen song.

    So why are you saying “we”?

    I guess you thought that *my* side didn’t have the technical chops that *your* side had to do something as basic as figure out who you are.

    Begone.

    P.S. Pretty ironic that you were *ashamed* of being pro-America during the last Olympics, and now you come here to lecture us for not being properly “nationalistic” about them.

  • Jack_Savage

    and not some middle schooler texting their bff and maybe we would be able to understand why you think this poor excuse for a president is so popular then maybe we could address your points instead of wasting a minute of our time trying to figure out if you got out of school early and scored some really good weed and maybe the majority of Americans think its pretty funny this guy got pimp slapped by some french weenies except they dont look like weenies any more compared to obama

  • Aaron Gardner
  • Right_Again

    can’t bother with capitalizing, can’t spell, can’t space properly, overuses /, projects anti-American sentiment on us– it must be a real KosKid.

    If Obama’s narcisism is at all tempered because of his folly in Copenhagen I will consider the loss of the Olympics a victory for America.

  • Aaron Gardner
  • Right_Again

    Sometimes it is good to see the left up close and personal. It reminds us of the quality of the writing regularly posted at RedState. I tend generally to take it for granted.

  • baldego

    to work out a contract. I’m hoping HRH Mayor Daley will be out by then…fingers crossed! I’m sure the CPD and the security provided by the Secret Service would have been ample. I don’t think the potential for crime to occur is enough to rule out the potentially positive impact the Olympics could have. The IOC must not either since they chose Rio!

  • Jack_Savage

    This was not about America. Obama’s trip was not about America. The whole thing was all about Obama.

    This wasn’t rooting against America (although I must admit that Chicago has fallen quite far on my list of cities). This was rooting against an arrogant pack of a**holes.

    Which is VERY American, in my view.

  • surveyor

    This congress and the house and the senate whom dont represent us any more,call us childish mames,disrespect the ones who put them in office to suposedly represent us and cant even stand up to support the very document the swore to uphold,now arguing over support of our troops.The oluypics is the last thing we need right now!I dont know if anybody has noticed our economy is going in the tank,the government is trying to take over everything,even our kids,now if they get there way well even go to jail if we dont adopt there health care.The rest of the world does’t trust our money anymore,just how more evidence do you need that this guy is taking down what we knew as the USA.What used to be democrats has become something other than that.What used to be republicans no longer represent the people they represent them selves,I’m not a radical i a patriotic vet and believe in this country the way it was.

  • surveyor

    Its a worthless body,and im sure N.Y could build something nicer there.Take to some other country.

  • Richard Mullins

    real estate in NYC. Really, the UN is taking up space and killing the view. No need to have that home of Tinpot dictators and other thugs any more.

  • surveyor

    I’m with you Texas 214,I love seein a fool go down,now matter how much money he has behind hin or how much clought he “THINKS” he has.

  • Richard Mullins

    but those days are long gone now.

  • silvernana

    because I didn’t want the taxpayers footing the bill for it while the thugs in Chicago and the White House made money off of it through their shady dealings. It also was good for Obama to realize he isn’t the president of the world, and everyone else is not enamored with him.

  • memez

    I agree completely with everything you posted!! You hit the nail on the head. Thank you

  • jimcap

    Sorry, but I will NEVER root against my country. My country is still my country, no matter who is president. Do I like Obama? NO! Did I like Clinton? NO! Did I like Carter? NO!

    But I love the United States of America! And I spit in the eye of anyone, anywhere, no matter what their politics are, who cheers and celebrates when our country doesn’t win. And I make no apologies for it.

    Our country, the USA, the greatest country in all of history by far, is always #1 in my book. And our country is a lot more than the guy in the White House—no matter who that guy is!

    When the next Olympics roll around in 2012, I intend to be in front of my TV, rooting all the way for our American Team to kick the asses of the socialist “international” world!!! I don’t care that Obama will be president during those games. That means zero to me. Our team comes first! And our country comes first. Always!!!

  • jimcap

    I could care less about Obama. This was a defeat for our country in front of the entire world. I would have LOVED to kick Brazil’s third world butt in front of everyone!

    Chicago is still an AMERICAN city, in an AMERICAN state; Brazil is a dirt poor, socialist backwater.

    Who could be happy about losing to Brazil? I don’t get it.

  • jimcap

    When people see conservatives gleeful, jumping up and down, because our country lost the Olympics to Brazil, it make us look disloyal and a bit crazy.

    Sorry, it just does.

    We have to persuade the people in the middle that we can once again be trusted with power. When we’re high-fiving for America to LOSE, how do you think that image comes across in most “middle of the road” households?

    In fact, it even angered me, to see some of my conservative brethren, acting like kids who just won a pickup basketball game.

    When we’re seen cheering and hooting because the USA lost, we’re no better than the leftists who cheer on the enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    Let’s always remember that people are watching how we act. Our audience is much bigger than each other.

  • Richard Mullins

    which Rio will most likely have to do. Besides, they happen to be a way for the Host city to lose money and really be in the red afterwords(so I guess you like to have Chicago bleeding red ink even worse than it is). I think you seem to be a little like a troll around here. You might want to clarify yourself.

  • Richard Mullins

    Your comments are sort of condemning you. I wonder about you even being a conservative(maybe a conservative democrat). It really seems to me that you have a secret past. You might answer to that.

  • Vegas_Rick

    We’re are simply enjoying the fact the the Obamassiah’s monumental hubris has come back to smack him in the face. We’re cheering the fact that the MSM promoted this trip as the salvation of the Olympic effort, and that they were rendered speechless when it failed. We’re cheering the fact that no previous president was so full of himself that he felt the need to personally lobby the Olympic committee.

    You assume that those in the middle are to stupid to draw the same conclusions. You surely are.

  • Vegas_Rick

    There is a TON of information available to help you make sense out of the issue. There’s plenty of information right here on this site.

    For me, at least, it’s not real hard to figure out why it’s a bad idea to have the “leader of the free world” (he’s not) groveling in front of a multinational committee in an effort to bring billions of dollars to corrupt democrats in and around Chicago. All while the tax payers fund the inevitable budget overruns.

  • Xasteius

    We are rooting against the evil traitor who was put into the highest elected office in the country. Obama’s motive for bringing the Olympics to Chicago was not to bring glory and honor to the US, but rather to grease the palms of his political cronies and to distract attention from his failing policies that are actively hurting this great nation.

    President Obama has made it a point to tear down this country and its people during the last 10 months in front of the world. He went to the Copenhagen thinking he could charm the IOC just like he charmed (read: deceived) 52% of the electorate in the US. He failed. Miserably. And hence we celebrate his personal failure to win the Olympics.

  • blooch

    “If Billy, Sam and Joey jumped off a cliff, would you jump, too?”

    It’s called American Exceptionalism. We don’t do what everyone else does…or at least we didn’t used to.

    If we’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t, so be it. But I guarantee you that if Obama had chosen not to make the trip because he was too busy working with General McChrystal on salvaging Afghanistan, and if he was subsequently savaged by Chicago, the USOC and the International press for failing to make a “game-winning” appearance, RedState would be one of the first places hailing him for having his priorities straight.

  • blooch

    Obama is sending Holder and Duncan to Chicago to deliver a taxpayer-funded emollient to Fenger HS in Chicago:

    “Duncan says Fenger is set to receive $500,000 in federal money to help it stabilize after the violence. The school can use the money for counselors and other programs.”

    http://www.wgntv.com/news/wgntv-top-obama-aides-chicago-youth-violence-oct7,0,2440235.story

    Just the beginning of a torrent of our money pouring into Chicago and other similarly afflicted urban areas.

  • Martin Knight

    Hopefully, next time Obama would have learned his lesson and he’d send someone there with a speech that is *not* about him.

    Did you even listen to that speech? And Michelle Obama’s tall tale of sitting in her father’s lap as a 20 year old to watch Carl Lewis?