Friday, October 2, 2009

Wrong, Wrong, WRONG

Excuse me if I indulge in a little schadenfreude for a moment...

Chicago, Tokyo eliminated in first rounds of Olympic voting
Chicago eliminated in the first round of voting for 2016 Olympics.

Oh, that's gonna leave a mark. Not to mention egg on a whole lot of faces. Seems like a lot of folks were counting on the sheer star power of The Annointed One to bring the Olympics home to Chi-Town. He could be forgiven for all but forgetting about climate talks - after all, this is the Olympics, and nothing greases palms like an international sporting event, right? I mean, we were told that failing to secure Chicago as the site of the 2016 Olympic Games would be a failure for (quasi) native son 0bama, right?

Looks like a bunch of places are going to have to back-pedal on the importance of the O and the Olympics:
Eliminated in the first round.

Looks like 0bama could have stuck around and perhaps commented on the violence in Chi-Town, like the melee that cost young Derrion Albert his life...

That is all.

10 comments:

Brad_in_MA said...

And the 2016 games have been awarded to Rio !!!!!!

That's gonna be one hell of a Carnivale celebration.

- Brad

Andrew said...

It's like the old Eddie Murphy bit, where he talks about the guy that comes in last in an Olympic race. "He trains all his life and then comes in last. He could have not trained at all and came in last!"

To go to Denmark and put the prestige of the presidency on the line and then get cut in the first round...

Priceless.

Jay G said...

I'm all verklempt here...

Mad Saint Jack said...

O...Limp... never mind...

RW said...

And on this one I was rooting for Obama....

Gee, aren't we all filled with confidence over those long awaited sit-downs with Iran?

RW said...

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/bhohno.png

TOTWTYTR said...

Head over to my place to see some great CNN footage of an incredulous anchor who can't believe that Chicago was eliminated first.

http://tinyurl.com/ydc7s8r

Apparently the Euroweenies don't love Obama as much as we were lead to believe.

I blame George Bush.

Old NFO said...

LOL- They picked one of the most crime ridden cities in the Southern Hemisphere over Chitown... Now what does THAT tell ya... :-)

Stretch said...

Major flaw in The One's plan. He's so use to "donations" coming in his direction he forgot to send some towards the IOC members.
Silly fellow forgot what end of the bribes he was on.

SCI-FI said...

This is what happens when The One faces a vote that ACORN doesn't control...