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Old 10-03-2009, 06:19 PM
 
Location: MIA
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Originally Posted by BRAZILIAN View Post
You say 3rd world but.... remember:
-We have not serial killers;
-We don't live under terrorist attack fear;
-We are not beligerents;
-Brazil has not enemy;
-We make not war;
-We have not hurricanes or earthquakes;
-We have a nice people;
-We are not neurotic with foreingns;
-and we are elected "Most Happy city of World";
Mr. Brazil - I am on your side!

The 2016 Olympics will be much better in Rio than Chicago because you get a lot more for your money there. Hefty union fees and New York-style prices in Chicago would produce an inferior show to one in a bustling tropical city like Rio. Chicago is a graying union city that is a humble shadow of its former self. Rio is exploding with capitalism. Plus, Daley doesn't deserve the Olympics; there are serious problems here that he hasn't resolved and with the olympics would get swept under the rug.

Congratulations
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Old 10-03-2009, 08:20 PM
 
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To the anti Daley folks, seriously, do you not remember the city before Daley became Mayor? Think back. Don't have such short lived memories and for God's sake stop pretending there are honest good willed politicians out there who would do a better job. The Daley machine has made Chicago what it is today. I own a two flat in Bucktown. An area that pre-Daley was completely unsafe and now is all families and crazy expensive. You may not like his methods but he has done the job he has been elected to do. Chicago has a history of crooked politics. Do some research.

Chicago would have thrown a top notch Olympics. No doubt about that. It's the Chicago way. Seriously have the people of Rio ever had to survive - 20 temps? I think not. I'm proud of Chicago and have traveled extensively and still believe it to be the greatest city in the world.
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Old 10-03-2009, 08:34 PM
 
Location: Chicagoland
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Obama couldn't even court the favor of the Euro-centric IOC board. In fact, all indications point to them totally rejecting him. It had nothing to do with the 'past years'...whatever you mean by that.

I think the Obama's thought that they were 'entitled'-(common theme among many in Chicago) to the Olympics just because they were born...
Past years as in previous years. You know, everything that happened in the past? Please stop acting as if you know what you're talking about.
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Old 10-03-2009, 09:16 PM
 
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And you think Rio is? Please.
Compared to Chicago, yes Rio is ready for it. They wanted it more than any of the other candidates. The IOC made the right decision.
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Old 10-03-2009, 09:34 PM
 
Location: MIA
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Past years as in previous years. You know, everything that happened in the past? Please stop acting as if you know what you're talking about.
The 'past years' shouldn't matter, right? Everyone knows that God was elected in 2008!

Bottom line, this was good for Chicago... Daley will have to start addressing our problems from now on or it will be harder for his machine to operate!
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Old 10-03-2009, 09:43 PM
 
Location: Glencoe, IL
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I agree. People may not want Chicago to have the Olympics, but crime should not be listed as one of the reasons. Rio's crime far exceeds Chi-City. I imagine it will be like Beijing's Olympics; the tourist and Olympic areas will be walled off and cleaned up. The rest of the city will get spot treatment.
Rio's murder rate is 17 times China's (with 1% of the population, it has 1/6 of the number of murders). Its kidnapping rate is much higher than that. You can't really compare the two. China is an orderly but poor country. Rio is a poor, chaotic, violent mess. People attending the Olympics will be in far more danger in Rio.
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Old 10-03-2009, 09:54 PM
 
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You Cicagoans should be furious. Chicago was the first city eliminated in its quest to host the olympics because of Obama's antiAmerican rants on his apology tours. I mean think about it....why would the Olympic Committee want to award the winning city to the US when its own President consistently says how bad America is and how corrupt it is and so on? Instead of Rio winning, its more like Obama blowing it for Chicago. Obama's mouth and ego got the best of him this time. And we were told by the crazy, Obama crazed media that he would unite the world and that the world would love him and love us. WRONG!! They rejected him. The media lies and so does Obama.
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Old 10-03-2009, 10:15 PM
 
Location: MIA
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Instead of Rio winning, its more like Obama blowing it for Chicago.
He shouldn't have allowed Michelle to go on her personal sob story diatribe. That's how Chicago politics work on the South Side, they 'guilt' you into giving them what they want. Before you know it, the money stream is locked in place and you can't do anything about it. The South Side would have been a horrible place to host the Olympic games anyways.
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Old 10-03-2009, 10:37 PM
 
Location: River North, Chicago, Illinois
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You say 3rd world but.... remember:
-We have not serial killers;
-We don't live under terrorist attack fear;
-We are not beligerents;
-Brazil has not enemy;
-We make not war;
-We have not hurricanes or earthquakes;
-We have a nice people;
-We are not neurotic with foreingns;
-and we are elected "Most Happy city of World";
No serial killers? What are you smoking? Not all of these are in Rio, but for Brazil just a few from the past decade:
Francisco das Chagas
A seventeen year-old girl
A sixteen year-old boy
Abraao Jose Bueno (http://www.opovo.com.br/opovo/brasil/535386.html - broken link)
Pedro Rodrigues Filho

No earthquakes?
Earthquake rocks Brazil (a couple hundred miles due north of Rio)
Strong earthquake startles Brazilians

Hurricanes are unusual in Brazil but they have happened - and will probably happen more often if the earth is indeed getting warmer.

While it obviously isn't an international terrorist threat, many people consider kidnapping to be terrorism - after all, the point of a kidnapping is to make people scared or terrorized so that they pay money to the kidnappers. Just because it's domestic and not international doesn't mean it isn't something people fear.

I'll grant that Brazil isn't a war-going nation and that the people are friendly. But don't just make up stuff - Brazil will never fix it's problems if it denies there are any.
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Old 10-03-2009, 11:08 PM
 
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As a Chicagoan I wanted the games just because it seemed cool to have and I was hoping to get some infrastructure projects. But then I really thought about how badly our government has mismanaged things and I kind of became ambivalent about the whole thing. I read that they were proposing another el line but from the Loop to the McCormick area? What a freaking waste. There are so many transporation bottlenecks and problems in this city it isn't even funny. And here their proposal was a line hardly anyone would need. That's when I woke up and decided I was ambivalent about the whole thing. When Chicago was voted out in the first round I was surprisingly happy. For some reason I was hesitant for us to win because I knew Daley would be 100% focused on these games the next several years, and making that area beautiful and adding el lines to it, and what not, when there are so many more pressing issues in this city that need focus, in other areas. I'm glad this is all behind us now to be honest.
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