Awwww…. The Great One failed to deliver for his Chicago cronies

[Jimmy_Joe_Meager]

OK. Now. Snowboarder Bo SIT!! QUIT HUMPING MY LEG!! Good boy. SIT!! Don’t make me smack you across the nose. Good boy.

Now SIT!! I am not going away for the next several hours, or maybe days. I realize that after about two minutes you’ll think I’ve been gone forever and think I’ll never be back, but that’s no SIT!! that’s not the case. I’ll be back to give you SIT!! more cheezy poofs soon.

Oh, no, wait a sec. I confused the “pigeon” meme with the “dog” meme. Oh well, both work for you. Be a good boy, or bird, or whatever, while I’m gone.

[Aji_de_Gallina]

@Der_Trihs

It’s simple; they aren’t loyal to America, but only to the Right. It’s been that way for a long time; the Right doesn’t care about America, only about its agendas and about profit. If they think that plunging America into another Great Depression lets them push **Guns, Gaybashing and Greed **then they’ll try to do just that.

I though it was death metal group Grimy Gore’s last album

[Diogenes_the_Cynic]

Honestly, Rio is probably more deserving anyway, especially since South America has never hosted an Olympics. So Obama spent a few hours of his day trying to bring a few bucks to the US during a recession. Why that’s supposed to be a bad thing is a mystery to me, but at least it allows to see how utterly phony right wing patriotism really is.

Guess what, Jimmy Joe – Barack Obama is still going to be a two term President. Suck it.

[Frank]

@Diogenes_the_Cynic

Honestly, Rio is probably more deserving anyway, especially since South America has never hosted an Olympics.

Do I have to read the whole thread to agree with this?

Possibly I’ll read it all tomorrow, but the title sure gives me the impression, that “Gosh, a U.S. President has never involved himself in the Olympics!”

I’ll add that St. Louis is very disappointed, as the bigwigs were (for whatever reason) expecting some events to be held here. That’s possibly related to 1904, when St. Louis successfully stole the whole circus after it had been awarded to Chicago. Hope springs eternal, I guess.

[Stephe96]

@Aji_de_Gallina

I though it was death metal group Grimy Gore’s last album

I liked their earlier, edgier stuff better…

[FoieGrasIsEvil]

@Diogenes_the_Cynic

Honestly, Rio is probably more deserving anyway, especially since South America has never hosted an Olympics. So Obama spent a few hours of his day trying to bring a few bucks to the US during a recession. Why that’s supposed to be a bad thing is a mystery to me, but at least it allows to see how utterly phony right wing patriotism really is.

Guess what, Jimmy Joe – Barack Obama is still going to be a two term President. Suck it.

I agree and honestly, I don’t really even care. Boo-hoo, we don’t get the Olympics. Whatever. It’s not like we’ll never host them ever again, nor while doing so will anything be done about the corruption of the IEOC (which had nothing to do with the choice, btw).

And for the record, I think the Olympics importance is and has been slowly eroded over time. I don’t think we’ll ever see another USA v USSR in hockey that actually mattered.

Quite honestly, to me, the Olympics are pretty boring. I pay half a bit of attention, root for the USA atheletes to do well when I can, but at the end of the day…I JUST DON’T CARE VERY MUCH.

There are too many events, too many participants…what is this shit, college football?

[mhendo]

@FoieGrasIsEvil

And for the record, I think the Olympics importance is and has been slowly eroded over time. I don’t think we’ll ever see another USA v USSR in hockey that actually mattered.

I don’t really care that much about the Olympics either, but i find your attitude here a bit puzzling.

Are you saying that the Olympics only “matter” when they serve as a proxy for Cold War penis-measuring, or some other serious international dispute? Because that’s what your reference to the USA-USSR hockey game suggests.

If that’s the criteria, i’m happy enough to have a situation where the Olympics don’t really “matter.”

[Frank]

@mhendo

Are you saying that the Olympics only “matter” when they serve as a proxy for Cold War penis-measuring, or some other serious international dispute? Because that’s what your reference to the USA-USSR hockey game suggests.

As a sports fan, the USA victory over the USSR was a tremendous upset. To sports fans, it mattered.

I do not know if that is the perspective from which FoieGrasIsEvil approached his comment.

[elucidator]

You know, I’m wondering how much other people might be leery of traveling to America considering the extent of our terrornoia?

[waterj2]

@FoieGrasIsEvil

There are too many events, too many participants…what is this shit, college football?

Say what you will about the Olympics, they don’t involve anything as screwed up as the BCS.

[mhendo]

@Frank

As a sports fan, the USA victory over the USSR was a tremendous upset. To sports fans, it mattered.

Nah, it mattered because it was the Soviets.

Are you seriously suggesting that a US upset of some friendly country like Canada would have garnered the same level of hysteria, and the same significance in the American mind, as the “Miracle on Ice”?

Americans don’t, for the most part, give a flying fuck about hockey. I could barely find an American to discuss hockey with me during the last winter Olympics. The 1980 game was all about the Cold War, not about sports.

[Una_Persson]

@ghardester

Very politely understated.

Perhaps - I think Chicago could rise to the occasion, so to speak, especially with a Chicago-booster in the White House. However, I think Detroit might be a city which would benefit more from an outrageous uplift in the local economy from the preparation and games of the Olympics.

[Frostillicus]

@ghardester

A more honest reason to not have the Olympics in Chicago is that Chicago is just a huge shit hole, nestled in the armpit of the American midwest.

As a lifelong Chicagoan, here is a hearty “fuck you”.

[Der_Trihs]

@Jimmy_Joe_Meager

@Der Trihs

No, but most of your list is of positions that are if anything left wing, not right wing. A right winger would oppose most or all of that list except for the part about a strong military.

This statement alone illuminates your utterly stupid, narrow-minded approach to the world.

Ah; because saying that a political classification involves political opinions qualifies as being “utterly stupid, narrow-minded”.

The fact is that the Right Wing has made it quite clear that they DO oppose just about everything on that list.

[dropzone]

@Duke

Yo Jimmy Joe, Imma let you finish, but Stephe96 had the stupidest comment of all time. Of ALL TIME. Since 1983, yo.

Not from around these parts, eh? This is one of Steph96’s few hits, if you substitute “Richie Daley” for “Obama.”

Una, I’d be all over a Detroit bid, and it’s not just because its traffic would not affect mine. Chicago is a going concern (didn’t know until I took Accounting that I knew that was a Real Term); Motown could use the investment.

[stolichnaya]

@Stephe96

crime-ridden stomping grounds.

Hoo, yeah. No kidding. I have also seen movies about Chicago.

[Snowboarder_Bo]

@Una_Persson

Perhaps - I think Chicago could rise to the occasion, so to speak, especially with a Chicago-booster in the White House. However, I think Detroit might be a city which would benefit more from an outrageous uplift in the local economy from the preparation and games of the Olympics.

Detroit doesn’t have the infrastructure, the hotel space, or the support services necessary tho. It’s damn near a dead town.

[manila]

@MeanOldLady

Fox News is running a headline, “Obamas Fail in Personal Pitch to Bring 2016 Olympics to Chicago”

Hilarious subtitle:
“President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama risked their political capital and the prestige of the presidency on an enormous Olympic campaign that resulted in an early exit for Chicago and the top prize going to Rio de Janeiro.”

The prestige of the presidency has been ruined!

[Radio announcer:] “Do you really think Iranian terrorists
Would have taken Americans hostage
If Ronald Reagan were president?
Do you really think the Russians
Would have invaded Afghanistan
If Ronald Reagan were president?
Do you really think third-rate military
Dictators would laugh at America
And burn our flag in contempt
If Ronald Reagan were president?”
Do you really think that the IOC would have turned round and slapped Chicago in the face.
If Ronald Reagan were president?"

Thanks and apologies to Roger Waters
[Concerned Citizen:] “Well, it might work!”

[PlainJain]

@Czarcasm

Umm…that’s not “grin” all over your face, but it should come off with lots of hot water and a handful of baby wipes.

Thanks for that, HA!

[Terraplane]

@Jimmy_Joe_Meager

Now… **Chefguy **and **Snowboarder Bo **and all you other pigeons, I want you to wait right here, glued to the screen, this thread open and nothing else, because I am not, not, going away now. I am not going to stop participating in this thread because I am not leaving the place where I have access to a computer-machine, and I am not going to begin enjoying the weekend. m’kay?

How many times are you going to promise to leave and then fucking renege? You keep getting people’s hopes up and then you come back anyway. Go play with your blocks or your Little Tikes or what the fuck ever toddler things catch your eye you goddamn idiot. With some more practice you might muster up the coordination required to dump your shit into the hole it belongs instead of smearing it all over the walls here.