Comments on: Can You Blame Obama for Olympic Loss? http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/02/can-you-blame-obama-for-olympic-loss/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:38:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Freedomof Speech, Te http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/02/can-you-blame-obama-for-olympic-loss/#comment-59796 Freedomof Speech, Te Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:55:03 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=16263#comment-59796 To all our Brazilian friends. Congratulations on hosting the Olympics. You also suffer high crime. I personally want to thank you for winning this great "honor". I also wish you the best of luck in staying within budget - you will need it. Lastly, if you need any extra cash don't hesitate to ask. Americans will work overtime or an extra job to ensure out tax dollars are available to the new world order. To all our Brazilian friends. Congratulations on hosting the Olympics.

You also suffer high crime. I personally want to thank you for winning this great "honor".

I also wish you the best of luck in staying within budget – you will need it.

Lastly, if you need any extra cash don't hesitate to ask. Americans will work overtime or an extra job to ensure out tax dollars are available to the new world order.

]]> By: jim smith http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/02/can-you-blame-obama-for-olympic-loss/#comment-59737 jim smith Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:18:57 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=16263#comment-59737 Can you imagine the Olympics in Chicago? Two different pickpockets in the same pair of pants while the local corrupters set new Olympic records for your fraud, your lying and your Mayor Daley worrying that here in 2009, he hasn't started receiving his first of 10000 payments yet. Can you imagine the Olympics in Chicago? Two different pickpockets in the same pair of pants while the local corrupters set new Olympic records for your fraud, your lying and your Mayor Daley worrying that here in 2009, he hasn't started receiving his first of 10000 payments yet.

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]]> By: kagiso edwards http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/02/can-you-blame-obama-for-olympic-loss/#comment-59495 kagiso edwards Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:08:42 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=16263#comment-59495 Every day there is an Obama Superstar story .... The man never did anything other than get elected .. The only reason he succeeded is that the MSM will NOT do their job, have sold out to a political viewpoint that is dangerous to America ... and is hurting us now .... Even Obama's low rent housing project was and IS a flat out disaster ... full of rats and broken windows and overflowing toilets ... Obama and his cronies took the money meant to keep those homes decent for the poor .. so now the poor who cannot leave those apartments... suffer ... Guess what America, keep Obama free to do what he wants .. He will our nation in the same condition as those dumps he was trying to use as Olympic-funded projects for those very parts of land in Chicago .. Wake up Americans and politically fight this Obama .. because wherever he gets his way, you can be sure it will hurt the economy, the safety, the freedoms, and the well-being of all Americans of the USA .. Every day there is an Obama Superstar story …. The man never did anything other than get elected .. The only reason he succeeded is that the MSM will NOT do their job, have sold out to a political viewpoint that is dangerous to America … and is hurting us now …. Even Obama's low rent housing project was and IS a flat out disaster … full of rats and broken windows and overflowing toilets … Obama and his cronies took the money meant to keep those homes decent for the poor .. so now the poor who cannot leave those apartments… suffer … Guess what America, keep Obama free to do what he wants .. He will our nation in the same condition as those dumps he was trying to use as Olympic-funded projects for those very parts of land in Chicago .. Wake up Americans and politically fight this Obama .. because wherever he gets his way, you can be sure it will hurt the economy, the safety, the freedoms, and the well-being of all Americans of the USA ..

]]> By: Andre Kenji -Itatiba http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/02/can-you-blame-obama-for-olympic-loss/#comment-59483 Andre Kenji -Itatiba Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:30:48 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=16263#comment-59483 Not that the Rio de Janeiro politicians are any better than the ones of Chicago. They are corrupt, even for the low standards of Brazil. Not that the Rio de Janeiro politicians are any better than the ones of Chicago. They are corrupt, even for the low standards of Brazil.

]]> By: Bobby Smythe,Oldsmar http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/02/can-you-blame-obama-for-olympic-loss/#comment-59465 Bobby Smythe,Oldsmar Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:11:09 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=16263#comment-59465 Ha,Ha,Ha arrogance got him nowhere ! Ha,Ha,Ha arrogance got him nowhere !

]]> By: Freedomof Speech TX http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/02/can-you-blame-obama-for-olympic-loss/#comment-59457 Freedomof Speech TX Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:05:00 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=16263#comment-59457 Where was the Jolly Green Gore - you ask? He was flying around somewhere in his jet with gas guzzling black suburbans to whisk him around upon landing. Oh, I forgot. Gore's a VIP; he needs a substantial entourage. Where was the Jolly Green Gore – you ask?

He was flying around somewhere in his jet with gas guzzling black suburbans to whisk him around upon landing.

Oh, I forgot. Gore's a VIP; he needs a substantial entourage.

]]> By: Tod, Colorado http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/02/can-you-blame-obama-for-olympic-loss/#comment-59455 Tod, Colorado Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:00:47 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=16263#comment-59455 The administration is so clueless! The O's should not have gone on OUR money! Again, it's all about them. The administration is so clueless! The O's should not have gone on OUR money! Again, it's all about them.

]]> By: John Roane Sarasota http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/02/can-you-blame-obama-for-olympic-loss/#comment-59435 John Roane Sarasota Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:52:08 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=16263#comment-59435 No. But it was stupid for him to go there. Especially when you take into consideration two big plans for a couple of people the cost had to be over a million just for fuel. Where is Al Gore screaming about carbon foot print and polluting the air with jet engine waste? No. But it was stupid for him to go there. Especially when you take into consideration two big plans for a couple of people the cost had to be over a million just for fuel. Where is Al Gore screaming about carbon foot print and polluting the air with jet engine waste?

]]> By: Jerry from Chicago http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/02/can-you-blame-obama-for-olympic-loss/#comment-59410 Jerry from Chicago Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:32:34 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=16263#comment-59410 It would have been nice for the Olympics to come to America. It would have created a number of new jobs, some of which might even have become permanent. Foreign money coming into the U.S. would have helped the economy. I don't blame Mr. Obama for failing to bring the Olympics here, but there are things he did that contributed to the loss. Such as, his world apology tours, apologizing right and left for America's "arrogance, dismissiveness and derisiveness". Also, his assumption that his mere appearance in Copenhagen, especially in the company of Oprah and Mayor Daley, would make all the difference. I guess he figured that his big smile and personal charm would work the same way on the IOC as it did on the U.S. electorate. There were also some things that Mr. Obama didn't do. Such as his homework. He didn't spend the necessary time doing the pre-work with IOC officials and finding out what was most important to them. He didn't coordinate his approach with Mayor Daley, who at one point said that the City of Chicago would underwrite and guarantee the cost of the Olympics, but later waffled on that comment. Further, Mr. Obama failed to make an early and continuous commitment to the IOC as to what America, and Chicago specifically, could do for the good of the Olympics. Instead he and Mrs. Obama chose to sway the IOC on the basis of their own struggles and triumphs and on what the Olympics would do for America and Chicago. Maybe, just maybe, this loss could be a blessing in disguise for Mr. Obama. Maybe he has learned something, such as smiles and charm and being a nice guy aren't enough. Maybe, but I'm not holding my breath. It would have been nice for the Olympics to come to America. It would have created a number of new jobs, some of which might even have become permanent. Foreign money coming into the U.S. would have helped the economy.

I don't blame Mr. Obama for failing to bring the Olympics here, but there are things he did that contributed to the loss. Such as, his world apology tours, apologizing right and left for America's "arrogance, dismissiveness and derisiveness". Also, his assumption that his

mere appearance in Copenhagen, especially in the company of Oprah and Mayor Daley, would make all the difference. I guess he figured that his big smile and personal charm would work the same way on the IOC as it did on the U.S. electorate.

There were also some things that Mr. Obama didn't do. Such as his homework. He didn't spend the necessary time doing the pre-work with IOC officials and finding out what was most important to them. He didn't coordinate his approach with Mayor Daley, who at one point said that the City of Chicago would underwrite and guarantee the cost of the Olympics, but later waffled on that comment. Further, Mr. Obama failed to make an early and continuous commitment to the IOC as to what America, and Chicago specifically, could do for the good of the Olympics. Instead he and Mrs. Obama chose to sway the IOC on the basis of their own struggles and triumphs and on what the Olympics would do for America and Chicago.

Maybe, just maybe, this loss could be a blessing in disguise for Mr. Obama. Maybe he has learned something, such as smiles and charm and being a nice guy aren't enough. Maybe, but I'm not holding my breath.

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