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Well then, let’s talk about the crowing of the Republicans who cared more that Obama made a bid and didn’t get it. how childish and sad that they had to try to mae it a slap in Obama’s face. One wonders what they would have said if chicago had gotten it? In the overall scheme of things, we all have more to worry about than the Olympics. The republicans are getting a real rep for being the party of No, can’t do, won’t, and hate.
“I don’t get the sense there’s much excitement in the UK for London’s Olympics in 2012.
Posted by: etson at October 5, 2009 1:35 PM”
I can’t recall the last time I talked to anybody here about the Olympics. Granted it’s still over 2 years away but there does seem to be an enormous amount of apathy.
“I think Rio was pretty close to a lock. I think the Obamas tried a hail mary play, knowing the bid was probably going down, but they didn’t look great doing it. ”
Slopefarm;
If it was close to a lock, then it makes the whole thing even more disgraceful for the POTUS to put the prestige of his office into the thing, especially at a time when the war in Afghanistan is unravelling, the economy is in toilet and his own party is in disarray on his signature piece of legislature (health care: 5 DEMOCRATS voted against it on the Senate Finance Committee).
Moreover, he should learn a piece os wisdom from a previous president: the President of the United States calls on NO ONE.
The Iranians, Russians and North Koreans learned a valuable lesson on this one.
blessing that we lost the olympic bid. this country too broke to host it and it’s more than likely we would be hugely cashflow negative hosting it.
^^^^^^^^
“watching” Al Lewis play Grandpa…
Maybe Michelle Obama was confused and meant to say she recalls sitting on her dad’s lap Al Lewis as Grandpa on The Munsters in 1964?
slopey, I agree with you. I think Rio was a lock this year. Hard to believe that the Olympics have never been in South America (or Africa for that matter).
Feels like the US and Europe get the Olympics a disproportionate amount of the time anyway. Glad it went somewhere else.
I don’t get the sense there’s much excitement in the UK for London’s Olympics in 2012.
Funny, Benson. I’m not going to get into an ideological dogfight over the olympic bid. You are right about salesmanship, and accuracy does help with credibility. Not sure anything could have been done to win the bid — I think Rio was pretty close to a lock. I think the Obamas tried a hail mary play, knowing the bid was probably going down, but they didn’t look great doing it.
Actually, the olympics she would have been on her dad’s knee for would have been ’68. Imagine the blogosphere and radio talk if she had fondly remembered watching John Carlos and Tommy Smith (I give it 72 hours before Rush or Beck says that is in fact what she said).