Why did the International Olympic Committee so resoundingly reject Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Games?
George W. Bush.
It's Bush's fault.
That's what some Democrats believe, like Jesse Jackson.
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
"There must be" resentment against America, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said, near the stage where he had hoped to give a victory speech in Daley Center Plaza. "The way we [refused to sign] the Kyoto Treaty, we misled the world into Iraq. The world had a very bad taste in its mouth about us. But there was such a turnaround after last November. The world now feels better about America and about Americans. That's why I thought the president's going was the deal-maker."
State Rep. Susana Mendoza (D-Chicago) said she saw firsthand the resentment against America five years ago when she was in Rio de Janeiro. "I feel in my gut that this vote today was political and mean-spirited," she said.
"I travel a lot. ... I thought we had really turned a corner with the election of President Obama. People are so much more welcoming of Americans now. But this isn't the people of those countries. This is the leaders still living with outdated impressions of Americans."
U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said she was approached by a consul general at the plaza as they waited for word Friday. "He said ... he was hearing that there wasn't enough time for Barack Obama to dispel the old image. ... But I don't know if that's it."
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And Joe Scarborough declares that "Republicans have gone off the deep end"?
I'm sure there are some people who celebrate the fact that Obama's mere appearance in Copenhagen wasn't enough to make the IOC swoon and surrender to his wishes.
I think some of what might seem celebratory is actually commentary on the fact that Obama chose to politicize the IOC's process by making it a referendum on him, something it never was.
That tweet from the Weekly Standard that Scarborough cites doesn't sound like a celebration statement. It seems more like shock to me.
Limbaugh wasn't celebrating Chicago's loss. I didn't interpret his commentary as cheering against America.
Scarborough doesn't get it.
I think it should be noted that about half of Chicagoans didn't want the Olympics because of the tremendous price tag and debt that would result from hosting the Games. Those people certainly celebrated the news. Were they Republicans?
Furthermore, if any Republican was sincerely happy about Chicago's Olympic defeat as a reflection on Obama, I don't think that begins to compare with Democrats, even ELECTED Democrats, cheering for America's defeat in Iraq when President Bush was the Commander in Chief.
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I think a lot of conservatives (if I'm typical) are simply laughing at Dear Leader's antics and at the predictable response at the IOC. The pundits darkly hint that it's George Bush, or racism or any of the tired Democrat refrains that I don't think they, themselves take seriously.
The Democrats voted in a very poor choice for president. The Republicans offered up John McCain, who might not have been much better.
Were McCain and Dear Leader the best and brightest America had to offer? That is the question we need to ask ourselves for 2012.
I agree with LL. Will there be some one who will step out from behind the curtain and present him/her self as a viable conservative candidate in time and with the financial backing to run in 2012?
I believe anyone in Congress for more than two terms should leave, just like the terms of the President...what is the difference?
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