Chicago lost the 2016 Olympic bid in the first round of voting. I really didn't care if Chicago won the bid or not. I am not one of those folks hanging on the edge of my seat to see who gets the Olympics. I watch the Olympics for hockey, some of the sled-style races, baseball (when they have it), most of the track and field, and basketball. Otherwise, I am more entrenched in what is going on in Major League Baseball, or professional football during the years the Olympics dominates sporting news.
Despite my normal disinterest in where the Olympics eight years from now is going to be held, I got a kick out of the fact that Chicago did not win the bid for 2016 - despite Obama's efforts, and despite the mainstream media's claims that since Barry got involved Chicago was all but a shoe-in.
Even more amazing is that Chicago lost in the very first round of voting!
But I thought Obama is loved the world over. I thought he could talk anyone into anything! Barack went into these Olympic negotiations as a man of the world, with no pre-conditions, and they rejected his "charisma" and "superior ability to communicate" without as much as a sniffle and an apology.
The funniest part of it all is the reaction by the media. They are astounded. They are so infatuated with Obama that his failure in Copenhagen was hardly what these people expected. In fact, it is so astounding to them that Chicago would not win the bid, much less be voted out in the first round, after "The One" traveled all the way to Europe (on the taxpayer's dime, mind you), that some are suggesting "anti-Americanism" is in play (even to go so far that it is a residual effect on how much the rest of the world hated Bush!).
Others have suggested that Rio De Janeiro received sympathy votes, and that those votes added up to enough to eliminate other cities that may have been the better choice.
Theory after theory as to why Chicago lost is popping up, and in the end, all of those theories mean nothing. Chicago lost because the folks voting decided not to choose the American City.
I could almost hear Obama's ego slam into the ground.
I suppose you can't blame him. He is a legend in his own mind, and doesn't realize the rest of the world has caught on to his "all flash, no substance" characteristics. Obama is the kind of person that thinks he is the deciding vote, the voice of reason, and the apple of everyone's eye. And the Olympics in Chicago would have been a great gran finale, wouldn't it? After all, the Democrats have all but determined that it is fate he will serve two terms, and 2016 will be that final moment of his presidency where the world will be weeping because they will be losing the great Obama. The 2016 Olympics in Chicago could have been his grand farewell. Obama's chance to stand up on a massive world stage with his arms in the air under the five rings of Olympic brotherhood, granting a farewell to the new world he helped engineer. . . but in the end, it turns out that Obama is just another politician, and that the world really doesn't care what he has to say nearly as much as he thinks.
The press is devastated. How could it be that Obama was unable to sway the vote? How could it be that the great Obama was unable to get the IOC to eat out of his hand?
The video at the bottom of this article from WGN Television is a great example of the dismay exhibited by the biased Obama-press. The reaction to Chicago being voted out in the first round was accompanied by statements like:
- Pandemonium here in the broadcast center
- Difficult and Shocking
- Flies in the face of every prediction we heard
- Everyone believed it would come down to Chicago and Rio for the final vote
- You look as shocked as we are
- No one expected this
- Gasps were heard all around
- Chicago had long been one of the front runners
- With Obama in place, and more popular at this juncture
Also notice that these people go into 2002's New York City failure, and blame Bush for it. You know, all of that anti-American sentiment that Obama has magically reversed.
Finally, my favorite from the slobbering WGN reporters is this little tid bit:
- With this President, Barack Obama, who has an international flavor, international following, his parents from two different continents, [you would think] there would be a great deal of international appeal . . . that did not happen.
These people truly do not understand how not only Chicago could lose the bid, but why there isn't an international uproar. After all, doesn't everyone love Obama? Aside from those fringe right wing crazies, everyone thinks "The One" is the great savior of mankind, right? Isn't he?
Believe me when I say that in the end Barack Obama will just be another failed politician, and history will look down upon him as just another despised great failure. In fact, I believe after it is all over Barack Obama will be seen as a greater failure than Jimmy Carter was - and that's sayin' something.
The lingering question is, will this loss in Copenhagen be yet another nail in the coffin of Obama's already failing policies and proposals?
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Rio celebrates 2016 Olympic games bid victory - The Province, Paul Radfor and Stuart Grudgings, Reuters
Why Did Chicago Lose? - The Politico, Kenneth P. Vogel
Clang! With chance to Be Like Mike, President Obama comes up empty - Sports Illustrated, S.L. Price
Analysis: Chicago's loss is a blow to Obama, too - Yahoo News, JENNIFER LOVEN and JULIE PACE, Associated Press Writers
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