Chicago got eliminated in the first round of voting. Chicago got the *least* number of votes. Apparently the Cult of Obama is not as wide-reaching as the Obamists would like it to be.
Watch the CNN anchor go bonkers.
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Obama’s Olympic failure will only add to doubts about his presidency
Mr Obama was greeted — as usual — like a rock star by the IOC delegates in Copenhagen — then humiliated by them. Perception is reality. A narrow defeat for Chicago would have been acceptable — but the sheer scale of the defeat was a bombshell, and is a major blow for Mr Obama at a time when questions are being asked about his style of governance.
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Let the excuse-making and finger-pointing begin!
Disappointed White House Struggles to Explain Chicago’s Defeat
Axelrod blamed the internal machinations of the International Olympic Committee for the rejection. He argued that the bid by Madrid was led by a former president of the IOC, who was calling in years’ worth of favors, and that Rio de Janeiro, trying to become the first South American host, had a strong case as well.
The IOC ended up choosing Rio to host the 2016 Summer Games.
“I don’t view this as a repudiation of the president or the first lady,” he said. “I think there are politics everywhere, and there were politics inside that room.”
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WORLD REJECTS OBAMA: CHICAGO OUT IN FIRST ROUND
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Rahm Emanuel: Olympic critics get seats
And even as the president and First Lady Michelle Obama were leaving Copenhagen this morning following their appeal to the International Olympic Committee, the Republican National Committee was circulating an email complaining of the White House’s “wrong priorities” (see that below the fold.) The RNC chairman today, chiding the president for “verbal gymnastics” in Copenhagen, noted the newest numbers on rising unemployment back home (see below as well.)
Rahm Emanuel, the Chicagoan who is chief of staff for Obama, has an answer: “You know, we’ll make sure they get some good seats once Chicago does host the games.”
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“It’s Bush’s fault!!” 😉
You know that the IOC has pretty much already picked the NEXT venue by the end of the Olympics like ten years prior? Despite the “changes” after the Salt Lake City “scandel” (which then produced the “best” Winter Games to date, go figure :o) nothing has really changed.
Rio has been ‘coached’ to clean up its act and remove and/or hide various aspects of its homeless population in order to qualify (win) the right to host the Olympics. When the IOC focuses so much energy on ‘coaching’ a city on “qualifying” you can pretty much easily guess who was going to get it. The CHANCE to host the first South American Olympics has been played up for the last 20 years at least and it was pretty much a “gonna-happen” in most Olympic watchers so the only people that were “surprised” the Rio won it where those in the main stream media who don’t pay attention to “subtle” facts like Rio being the only ‘qualified’ South American entry :o)
Randy
> You know that the IOC has pretty much already picked the NEXT venue by the end of the Olympics like ten years prior?
Just about everyone who has ever heard of the IOC knows that it works via the greasing of palms. That’s one of the most sadly hilarious parts of this: Obama actually believed his own cult of personality, and thought that by going to the IOC and regailing them with praises of himself, they’d give a damn. Perhaps if he’d shown up with Air Force One loaded with gold, hookers and blow he might have succeeded, but he once again managed to completely misunderstand the actual process.
While all that MIGHT be true, you know that after SLC it was the IOC which came up with the entire campaign ‘shtick called “change” :o)
Randy