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This whole Obama pitching Chicago for the Olympics thing just FROSTS me. His worshipers can spin this however they wish, saying he was doing this for the country,think of all the jobs it would have created, blah blah. Swooning over Michelle Obama and Oprah , calling them 'Belles of the Ball,talking about how 'stunning' they looked. oh aren't they just WONDERFUL. Fact of it all is, it was a waste of time, and MAJOR bucks, that accomplished NOTHING other than give Barrack and Michelles adoring fans something to fawn over. Sure Oprah and Michelle got to go on a taxpayer funded shopping trip for massively expensive clothes, got a nice plane ride, replete with military escort and Secret Service protection, the full blown visiting dignitary treatment, Barrack got to play with AF1 and use it as a private means of personal conveyance, and tried to justify it with a 25 minute meeting with a general, all on OUR dime.. Pardon me if I am less than enthused by seeing my tax dollars being spent to pump up B&M's already hyperinflated egos, sense of entitlement, and delusions of royalty. In 30 years of hard work, I have not made the amount of money Obama spent just for his wifes and her buddy's plane ride, and wardrobe upgrade for this ONE few hours long joy ride. This was disgusting and insulting to the American people. The only thing Rush and Hannity were 'celebrating' about this was Obamas ego getting deflated. It slays me how ANYONE could still be willing to spin this as a positive move by the pres. Some people are so totally snowed by the guy...wow.
Like I said,...the playing field was level and USA lost fair and square. The presumption that the Obama duo would make a difference didn't succeed. If his handlers had a clue, Obama could have stayed home and saved the country a few million.
Whatever. I could give a flying flip about the Olympics anyway. Don't watch them.
I never said it wasn't, not once, in this whole thread!
Here is another interesting story about the Olympic bid:
Chicago loss means hard times ahead for USOC : NPR (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113471065 - broken link)
And -- this will be trickier -- the software should delete the most egregious cliches sprinkled around by the tin-eared employees in the White House speechwriting shop. The president told the Olympic committee that: "At this defining moment," a moment "when the fate of each nation is inextricably linked to the fate of all nations" in "this ever-shrinking world," he aspires to "forge new partnerships with the nations and the peoples of the world."
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Becoming solemn in Copenhagen, Obama said: "No one expects the games to solve all our collective problems." That's right, no one does. So why say that?
This is a habit of his oratory. Saying crap we already know, as if he's the first to ever utter the words.
His speeches are filled with cliches and platitudes, but not much else.
We really couldn't afford the Olympics, NOT that it mattered to obama, daly, the Mrs and the rest of the crooks hoping to garner some new building contracts and sell property for big gains, like jarrett.
Illinois State Comptroller Dan Hynes Says State Finances A Mounting Crisis, Things Getting Worse - cbs2chicago.com (http://cbs2chicago.com/politics/comptroller.state.finances.2.1232001.html - broken link)
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The comptroller reported corporate income tax receipts down $77 million for July through September; sales tax receipts, down $244 million; personal income tax receipts, down $251 million.
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