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Name: XpUser
Just a few minutes ago the International Olympic Committee told President Obama to "get lost." The first four contenders for the 2016 Summer Olympic - Chicago - was eliminated. I wonder how it will reflect on the President. Any thought? Was his trip to Denmark to lobby for Michelle hometown done in vain?
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/33138...
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Next eliminated is Tokyo. The remaining contenders are Madrid & Rio de Janerio.
Bad as it may be for the Chicagoans, the only thing that annoy me is we taxpayers will have to pay the cost of the President's travel entourage including the advance secret service scouts.
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"...little politic talk..." An oxymoron perhaps?
Guess Blagojevich's last minute offer to throw in the Senate seat in exchange for hosting the games didn't help.
Bummer on the news. Chi-town would have been a really fun place to go see the Olympics -- good food and nice folks. I am so upset over the news, I think I'm going to try to self-sooth by ordering a deep dish sausage pan pizza while watching Oprah after chewing a piece of Wrigley's gum.
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I imagine any President would have done the same for Abeline, Columbus, or Louisville; not just Chicago.
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Poor guy ... sigh! Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.
If Chicago got the nod: he'd catch hell for using his fascist/communist/marxist/muslim celeb status to hoodwink IOC into rewarding corrupt Chicago & its politics.
If Chicago loses: it reflects on him badly that he couldn't seal a simple Olympic Host deal let alone lead the greatest nation in the world.
Better him & not me or anyone I know personally.
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"If Chicago got the nod: he'd catch hell for using his fascist/communist/marxist/muslim celeb status to hoodwink IOC into rewarding corrupt Chicago & its politics.
If Chicago loses: it reflects on him badly that he couldn't seal a simple Olympic Host deal let alone lead the greatest nation in the world."
Amen to that. Besides, consider how much we'd also have to ante-up to bring the thing over here anyway. Sorry, but my "ignorant-white-American-male" genes flare up on stuff like this. If it ain't college hoops or college/pro football, who cares...
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"Besides, consider how much we'd also have to ante-up to bring the thing over here anyway."
I couldn't agree more. Despite the heavy traffic & brisk business closely associated with the Olympic Games, the short-lived sports jamboree usually end up being a net-loss economically for host cities at the end of the day.
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Correct me if I am wrong but isn't Chicago all but detitute as it is? How many hundreds of millions would have had to be spent build some fancy stadium or arena just for the olympics to be held there? For a city that is already in hock up over it's head this was screaming BAD IDEA from the get go. Personally I think any city that is stealing tax dollars to support any sports should loose any and all federal aid. While living in Pittsburgh I was asked to vote on whether or not we should build a new stadium for the Steelers. Like everyone else there I voted NO! It was voted down 97% to 3%. The next year the city announced it was raising taxes to build two new stadiums instead. I promptly set in motion a plan to move. They still today owe almost $35 million on the old three rivers stadium that is now a parking lot that the tax payers have to pay $5 a day to park in. Talk about a capitolist enterprise!
LikelyPractice makes perfect but only if you practice perfectly!
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Not just Chicago, the State of Illinois as a whole is quite strapped for cash right now -- with about $13 billion budget shortfall hanging over it like an ominous cloud. It is the third "brokest" right behind NY & Cali.
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I applaud the IOC decision. They just saved us hundreds of Million$ in Security alone.
If America and Americans (I are 1) invested as much in education as we do in Sports, we wouldn't be ranked somewhere around 37th in the world in Education.
We might actually be able to understand more than half of what's posted here.
There is nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you.
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Huh? Wad he sae?
Just think of what we could do if we took the $10 billion a month we are throwing at Iraq and put into things like education or the homeless problem or medical care?
LikelyPractice makes perfect but only if you practice perfectly!
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