AMERICA!!! You're Getting the Olympics!!! Stop moaning about it!!!

Give me fuel give me fire give me that which i desire.

no to 2016 wrote:

we don't want them

That settles it. Some anon poster on a meaningless message board speaks for the entire city.

Get a Brain Saganuts wrote:

Sagarin wrote:

Have you guys not even read this yet? It's nefarious, bordering on diabolical. And then follow the trail from there...

OH MY GOD A BIASED COLUMNIST WROTE HIS OPINION AND YOU WANT TO PASS IT OFF AS FACT AND NEWS.

YOU REALLY ARE SINKING TO NEW LOWS.

Not passing an editorial off as a FACT. I've also agreed that the left and the right will both cast this in whatever light suits their fancy. But if you don't think there is some very unseemingly stuff going on, you're not terribly bright. Note how I put the emphasis on "look further if you want the facts." The question is, will you? I sincerely doubt it.

Moreover, I don't want Obama to FAIL. But I do indeed want the gravitational pull of Pelosi/Reid and the far left to fail so as to neutralize the stacked deck. As I said before, after Clinton lost Congress in 1994, it was the best thing that ever happened to him. We need the same kind of chess match, but not nearly as badly as the far left needs to win this Olympic bid or Dow 10,000 for "animal spirits."

The economy is not going to be Obama's SUSTAINABLE friend for quite some time, and when I begin seeing tariffs and the US government effectively buying car companies, favoring unions over the bondholders, and "creating" stimulus for said car company (nevermind that it helped foreign auto manufacturers as much as US manufactures and that car sales predictably have fallen off a cliff again), I get just a little "nervous." Friggin bureaucrats.

wow

I think I spoke too soon when I started this thread!

Well, Chicago eliminated in the first round. Good call.

Rio

Madrid

last two cities

Madrid FTW...

We need Brazilian babes!!

Rio to the extreme

No, the Olympics aren't always a good thing.

Doesn't matter now, though, as thankfully Chicago didn't make it past the first round.

The Olympics are tired. All the major sports have their own international championships.

I just watched chicago get eliminated in the first round... why the announcers were shocked and bitching about it is beyond me... for those of you living in the American bubble (most of you); let me save you from your own bitching by informing you that Chicago wasn't a favorite to win at all around the world. It had the lowest chance of winning for obvious reasons. Why people thought all it would take is Obama and co to show up and it would happen is also beyond me. The Brazilian president and Madrid crew have really been prioritizing this opportunity for years and years... and they've been acting that way. Not much work was put into Chicago's bid, so no one should be surprised,... at all. Stop living in the bubble and start watching international news... this was coming for a long time, all it took was some stepping out of the box... idiots.

So which is your pick for the games? Madrid, after being a four-time bridesmaid, or Rio, since Latin America has never hosted an Olympics, and since they are the only one of the world's top 10 economies to never do so?

My bet is Rio.

Probably Rio, with the emergence of the BRIC economic community.

Frankly, I'm glad Chicago didn't get it. It would likely end up COSTING more than the revenue it would generate, and while this will be inappropriately painted by the Rush Limbaughs of the world as an international snub, awarding it to Chicago would've wreaked of non-neutrality and some political "leverage." The last city in the world that deserved it was CHICAGO, with their corruption and economic incompetence. Not saying that Rio is much better, but, frankly, South America should get rewarded.

Well, they had a good point in saying that Rio's downside is that Brazil has never hosted a truly international competition; couple that with the fact that security kinda sucks and there's enough reason not to do it there. They were saying that maybe it's be a good idea to see how well they deal with the World Cup and then make another run for it... but I think u r right, it will prob go to Rio. They have the resources and enough support to get it done... I am a Rio native, so I know first-hand, it'd be sick!

RIO!!!

As much as I would love to watch the games in the US. Rio/ South America finally gets the honor of this most prestigious event in all of sports. Their story is compelling, their country is in need, and this award was well deserved...

CONGRATS RIO! I'll see be there in 2016!

Sagarin wrote:

Probably Rio, with the emergence of the BRIC economic community.

Frankly, I'm glad Chicago didn't get it. It would likely end up COSTING more than the revenue it would generate, and while this will be inappropriately painted by the Rush Limbaughs of the world as an international snub, awarding it to Chicago would've wreaked of non-neutrality and some political "leverage." The last city in the world that deserved it was CHICAGO, with their corruption and economic incompetence. Not saying that Rio is much better, but, frankly, South America should get rewarded.

But, but, but... the world was gonna love U.S. if we just elected Barack Insane Obama (mmmm, mmmm, mmm).

Kevin52, do you really think him to be insane? And even tongue-in-cheek, is it a constructive comment? The reality is that while you and I may think some of his policies to be poor and unproductive in the fullness of time, he is a bright man. It's his sphere of influence from the far left that may prove his undoing.