From: Paul Waszak
Date: October 2, 2009 1:12:53 PM EDT
To: “contact@redstate.com”
Subject: Hey RetardsShould you a**holes really be cheering that WE lost the bid for the Olympics? The would bring in well needed jobs, ya know. Since this country is in a recession and all.
Keep moving on your march towards irrelevance!
Paul
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Haven't you heard Paul? The recession is over.
Vegas_Rick (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 1:52PM EST (link)So spake the One and his minions.
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Yeah. Recession is over. Depression is here to stay. nt
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Saturday, October 3rd at 8:45AM EST (link)5!
The_Gadfly (Diary) Saturday, October 3rd at 9:21AM EST (link)Pass the kool-aid, please. Let’s all enjoy the Hope and Change and a little old fashioned music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqsT4xnKZPg
Buy the man a calendar
streiff (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 1:57PM EST (link)this is 2009. The Olympics Chicago didn’t get are 2016.
“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”
He's just being real.
NightTwister (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 2:01PM EST (link)With Obama’s economic policies, unemployment is going to still be an issue in 2016!
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5. nt
Crowe (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 3:31PM EST (link)“We sleep soundly in our beds only because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harmDear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”Epic 5!
Darin_H (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 4:47PM EST (link)I’m LOL on that one.
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Obama should push for a year-round GM-Olympics so that
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 4:53PM EST (link)the employees we are going to subsidize have something to do when they aren’t building cars no one wants, thru 2016.
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
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That would be a good idea, except
The_Gadfly (Diary) Saturday, October 3rd at 12:12AM EST (link)I understand Jerry has a standing yearly event with an outfit that needs him more and actually deserves some help.
At least Big Berta and Oprah
jeannieology (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 1:58PM EST (link)brought home some Delft China and some butter cookies…– so we’re not going to have the “Rail-Tie Swinging Event” in 2016 — what do you want everything?
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Rod_Patrick (Diary) Saturday, October 3rd at 8:36AM EST (link)These are the same people...
D.T. Dickinson (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 1:59PM EST (link)…who think that massive government spending also creates and/or saves jobs. What else would you expect?
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Union jobs...
Texas Tom Friday, October 2nd at 1:59PM EST (link)in 2016 are the new rally point for the maroon left to bash the American conservative movement? Hmmmmm.
Ok. I’ll bite. The punch line to your life is…?
Union jobs...
Texas Tom Friday, October 2nd at 1:59PM EST (link)in 2016 are the new rally point for the maroon left to bash the American conservative movement? Hmmmmm.
Ok. I’ll bite. The punch line to your life is…?
I ain't no Xerox!
Texas Tom Friday, October 2nd at 2:01PM EST (link)Stop copying me! Stop copying me! Stop copying me! Stop copying me!
I ain't no Xerox!
Texas Tom Friday, October 2nd at 2:01PM EST (link)Stop copying me! Stop copying me! Stop copying me! Stop copying me!
Being a citizen of the world,
Justin_Case (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 2:01PM EST (link)I’m happy that Rio de Janeiro will benefit from having the Olympics. After all, the Olympics haven’t ever been held in South America.
A couple points
Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 2:09PM EST (link)The IOC is a corrupt, anti-American body. I’m glad their filth won’t be giving us trouble again like we had in SLC before Mitt Romney fixed it.
The Olympics creates economic activity in the same way breaking a window creates it. It’s a dislocation, not an actual growth of the economy.
Plus a failure for Obama and his radical left-wing agenda is a victory for American prosperity. The more he is weakened, the better.
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“I rejoice that America has resisted.” – William Pitt, the Elder
And where was he when his ilk were rooting for failure in Iraq?
bannedtroll Friday, October 2nd at 3:08PM EST (link)We root for Obama’s failure so that Obama may prosper (and yes, the Olympics would be nothing but an expensive headache). They root for high death tolls to win elections.
I’m a banned Democrat who came here to promote the idea that Republicans are racists for disliking Barack Obama.
Well put Neil!
throwback59 Friday, October 2nd at 4:19PM EST (link)I was going to say the same thing. Your first point also describes the UN (w/o the Romney part). I’m sure most Americans wouldn’t miss either organization if they never again were on American soil.
Paul is right on our march to irrelevance though. We haven’t been able to keep Obama from getting Cap &Trade, Health Care Reform, Immigration reform & closing Gitmo in his first 8 months. Yup, he got them all right away without any trouble.
Irrelevance, Indeed!
Devil's Advocate...
Jackal4444 (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 2:12PM EST (link)I take no joy in the sense of defeat felt by half the normal, every-day Chicago residents who wanted the Games to come to their city, even while I’m certain it was in their best interests.
Many of us Chicagoans
illinoisconservative (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 4:45PM EST (link)would have liked to have the Olympics here, but not at the expense it would likely have escalated to. Every major project in Chicago projects comes in for at least double the original estimate..We have some of the highest sales and other taxes in the country and we just don’t need more to fund this (all while lining the pockets of Daley’s friends).
I take no joy either.. but I do say.. “phew!”.
They might as well have awarded the games to Detroit by giving it to Rio
BlackConservative (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 4:46PM EST (link)For all of everyone’s talk about the crime and problems in Chicago, giving it to Rio is the equivalent of saying no to Chicago because of problems and then giving it to Detroit. Chicago has its problems, but it is a beautiful American city. Rio is nothing if not more than a cesspool for crime. Chicago would have done well.
Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven.-Jesus Christ
Have you ever been to Rio?
Flagstaff (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 10:48PM EST (link)It isn’t anything like Detroit. Or Chicago.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
Check the crime rate there Flag
BlackConservative (Diary) Saturday, October 3rd at 12:33PM EST (link)Kidnapping, murder-its all there. And in fact, I’ll even link you. Rio is known for its high crime rate, especially crimes against…wait for it…tourists! Say what you want about Chicago, but as someone who lived in Chicago, it is a very safe city. There is horrific crimes that happen in almost every major city. Chicago is not a only a beautiful and clean city, tourists are more than free to walk down our beautful streets with no fears of crime. Rio is South America’s New Orleans, criminals, looters and kidnappers.
http://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=63544
Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven.-Jesus Christ
Yes. Crime is a problem.
Flagstaff (Diary) Sunday, October 4th at 12:39AM EST (link)But life is about more than crime. And safety demands more than just observing crime statistics. I imagine that Munich in 1972 was considered a pretty safe city to be in for the Olympics. As for Detroit and Chicago v. Rio, I bet they are both safer than the Brazilian city, and I bet Detroit’s crime statistics are better than Chicago’s.
Pilgrim’s picture shows another reason Rio will have problems with the games, though–it is mostly hemmed in by the ocean and the mountains. Not high mountains, but inconvenient ones when it comes to building more stadia.
I understand they fell through on their promises to build more hotels for the Pan American Games, too. Don’t know when that was.
But here are the real considerations. First, Rio wasn’t chosen instead of Chicago. Chicago was eliminated for whatever reasons, and Rio was later picked to host the games.
Second, most of what would be built to accommodate the games in Chicago would be a waste of money. The buildings, etc., would not be cost effective relative to future needs. How can I say that? Because if they were, they’d be built without the Olympics. In other words, we would be diverting money from whatever else it would be used for to build Olympic structures that would serve no preferred future purpose.
Third, we don’t have any money to waste on bread and circuses. Every dollar we would spend on the Olympics would be borrowed from the future earnings of our children and grandchildren and their grandchildren. In effect, we’d be taking money that should be used for their benefit (it’s their money, after all), and spending it on a movie and popcorn. Not my idea of responsible government, or responsible parenting.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
about those inconvenient hills...
pilgrim (Diary) Sunday, October 4th at 11:56AM EST (link)You may notice in the photo on my previous comment some housing on left side up in the hills. This makes for a convenient break between the olympic village area that probably will be set up on the beach and the criminals living in the favelos in the hills. I agree with you that Rio is not safer than Chicago and Detroit. It just looks a lot different, and has a more beautiful picturesque harbor.
I have visited Rio and Chicago
pilgrim (Diary) Saturday, October 3rd at 1:30PM EST (link)Compare the two harbors.


Rio certainly does not look like Chicago or Detroit. They have slums in the outskirt hills called favelos. They will have a problem to solve with the criminals up in those hills, but I believe they can manage this problem.
Chicago harbor
pilgrim (Diary) Saturday, October 3rd at 1:33PM EST (link)I wish I could preview comments.
I guess they're more alike than I thought. (^;^)
Flagstaff (Diary) Sunday, October 4th at 12:12AM EST (link)You have my thoughts, anyway.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
Here's my point and another more recent link from Drudge
BlackConservative (Diary) Sunday, October 4th at 12:18AM EST (link)http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aw5.4nzd_66s
2069 murders to Chicago’s 510. Now please tell me how Rio is safer, especially considering 1 out of those 5 murders is committed by the extremely corrupt police department.
Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven.-Jesus Christ
You'll note that I didn't claim that Rio is safer.
Flagstaff (Diary) Sunday, October 4th at 12:41AM EST (link)Just different.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
This guy must have forgot that Barak Hussein Obama (M-M-M) wanted
grayhoundm20 (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 2:13PM EST (link)us to be citizens of the world. We’re just happy for Rio since their economy is worse than ours.
My appologies...
grayhoundm20 (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 2:18PM EST (link)to Justin_Case for not reading his post first before posting.
Brazil is doing just fine . . .
Christopher_Brazil Friday, October 2nd at 2:26PM EST (link)World Cup in 2010 plus the Olympics in 2016 . . . and no toxic debt.
Christopher Brazil
Give Obama time...
AceInTX (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 3:20PM EST (link)He’s only been in office for a year after all…
Brazil's Economy
CAJason80 Friday, October 2nd at 7:25PM EST (link)One of the last to Enter the Recession (Entered recession in October 2008)
One of the first to Exit (1.9% GDP growth in 2Q 2009)
I’d hardly characterize their economy as ‘worse than ours’.
In fact, it’s positively robust compared to the rest of the world. I’ve done business down there regularly over the past three years and you would be amazed at the economic development that Silva’s been able to push down there – primarily by moving towards the center.
Chicago and America cant afford it
thinktank Friday, October 2nd at 2:13PM EST (link)The Olympics are not free. We are 2-3 trillion in debt due to the “Porkulus”. Chicago does not have any money really to fund their city government, Chicago is a violent city due to the school riots that killed an innocent bystander, Chicago is a high tax city.
obama joker fail picture
lewincolorado Friday, October 2nd at 2:16PM EST (link)http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2447/3975106092_5c571aa2fd_m.jpg
I guess Paul hasn't taken a look at the polls
WarEagle01 (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 2:20PM EST (link)In about the last nine months. He also must not be paying attention to the NJ and VA governors races.
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no-bama
lewincolorado Friday, October 2nd at 2:21PM EST (link)Re: "Hey Retards"
Erick Brockway (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 2:22PM EST (link)This from the enlightened, caring left.
If anybody is short-bus material, I’d say it’d be a guy named “Paul” who thinks the Olympics coming to Chi-town wouldn’t be anything but a cesspool of corruption and waste.
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Justin Spagnolo (standardcandle) (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 5:07PM EST (link)Maybe he was addressing the special olympics, kinda like Obama…
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The "typo from hell" -nt
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“Don’t be afraid to see what you see.” -Ronald Reagan
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I think I've missed my calling
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 2:26PM EST (link)I should be trolling over at the left-tard sites (DK, DU, myDD, Puff-Ho, Politico, AOL, etc, etc.
Every time we on the right gets our butts handed to us in a political sense, I should be over there writing letters to their contact forms telling them that a vote against us is a vote against America, so they should quit cheering and be real sad instead.
It seems so effective, and all……..
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What's the problem?
Hera Friday, October 2nd at 2:32PM EST (link)According to Biden the “Recovery Act” has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. With 1 million jobs either saved or created.With the tremendous success of the Obama administration who needs the Olympics.
mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm Barack Hussein Obama
The 'march toward irrelevance'
Return to Revolution (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 2:52PM EST (link)Is the part I like best. I keep thinking (re: poll numbers), its too early- the left has too much time to regroup and abate the massive undercurrent that currently exists. Folks like Paul provide the evidence that they are in such a deep state of denial that they will charge full speed ahead right into the iceberg of 2010.
Out of hand Constitutional fetishist
Here's why Obama's / Chicago's failure doesn't bother me
Jack_Savage (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 3:11PM EST (link)First, I feel sure that due to the total financial catastrophe that the corrupt Chicago Olympics would have been, the American people would have been called on to bail them out. It is the new American tradition – massive transfers of wealth to Blue Cities. As American taxpayers, we have to look at this as dodging a big bullet.
Second, I hate bullies. Hate them. Chicago has certainly produced or given shelter to quite a few of them, from Capone to Daly to the Jacksons to Wright to Ayers to Farrakhan to Emmanuel to Obama, not even counting the run-of-the-mill mob and union thugs. I am glad to see them get a collective crack across the bridge of the nose with a baseball bat, because it is only them that would have benefitted – not the good people of Chicago. I hope this is but one of many in the near future, not only there but in other cities run on fraud and corruption.
It is sad that the normally hapless Europeans felt that they had be the ones to deliever the whack. Maybe they are more able to recognize corrupt frauds and tyrants than we are, since they have seen more than their fair share.
I wasted all my indignation on the other one,so
Steph C (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 3:13PM EST (link)yes, I’m going to cheer because you blow hards looking for the government to get you a job are what helped make the recession that TheWon claims is over.
You, the people, have made Chicago what it is. You fix it.
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Hey Paul...since when does the United States have to beg the IOC to create Jobs in America?
AceInTX (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 3:16PM EST (link)Ohh…that’s right…Since Obama became president….never mind!
Top Five Excuses Obama Failed
texas214 (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 3:20PM EST (link)5) Biden tolded him it was a “done deal”.
4) Oprah didn’t invite the IOC to be on her show.
3) They’re all racist.
2) ACORN didn’t get to count the votes.
1) IT’S BUSH’S FAULT.
You forgot one...HALIBURTON! nt
AceInTX (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 3:26PM EST (link)You also forgot...
Andy W. Friday, October 2nd at 3:33PM EST (link)Corporate bonuses and off shore tax havens for the wealthy.
Keep up the good work Sam Graves (R, MO-6)
Don't forget
Jack_Savage (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 3:34PM EST (link)Insurance monopolies and greedy doctors…
Oh...and Cheney is sooo scarey!! nt
AceInTX (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 4:01PM EST (link)How about, the IOC was afraid
Warrior (Diary) Saturday, October 3rd at 2:42PM EST (link)of angry mobs displaying manufactured anger?
“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma
I heard reason number one advocated
Flagstaff (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 10:53PM EST (link)this afternoon by Roland Burriss. I think he’s hoping for a Presidential appointment after he leaves the Senate.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
"Retards" = "A**holes" to the "compassionate" left, apparently.
Crowe (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 3:40PM EST (link)I mean, considering he very clearly used both terms to refer to the same persons, he clearly thinks a) we’re retards, and b) we’re a**holes, which leads to the conclusion c) that all retards are a**holes.
Well with the terms of endearment out of the way, I guess I gotta accept the rest of what he says…
Staying irrelevant.
“We sleep soundly in our beds only because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harmDear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”Olympics in Chicago=Redistribution of Wealth
JHancock (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 4:11PM EST (link)If you look at the majority of cities who host Olympic games and World Fairs, they rarely ever break even on the investment. So…who wins then?? The answer is LABOR. The building of an Olympic village and the temporary influx of visitors for a region may not generate enough tax revenue for a state to justify it, but lots of blue collar workers get government money that comes from the pockets of their countrymen. So essentially Olympics in Chicago=government redistribution of tax funds to construction in Chicago at our expense. For the country, it’s break even at best in terms of overhead costs vs Olympic income. But for labor its lots of new jobs and construction–so basically the Olympics would have been a bailout of Chicago construction companies.
Ask any company that exhibits at Chicago's McCormick Place about corruption.
Common_Cents (Diary) Saturday, October 3rd at 1:56PM EST (link)Standard trade show budget for any company is a few hundred dollar stack of fresh $20 dollar bills. That is the only way you get anything done by the union guys there. They ride around in golf carts 2 to a cart. They’ve lost some major trade shows to Orlando and Vegas because of the complaints.
Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from,
behind, the Back Nine.Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.
Dear Mr. Waszak:
Third Street (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 4:13PM EST (link)It might behoove you to consider what Chicago’s chances might have been had not the full force of Obama’s singular arrogance come raining down upon Europe.
Alienating our traditional allies, you could say, Mr. Waszak.
It is no accident that not only did Chicago not win in the face of an unprecedented lobbying effort from the President of the United States, the sausage-shaped First Lady of the United States, and a liberal talk-show host the size of Iowa; it came in dead last.
Just who lost the Olympics, Mr. Waszak? Who screwed the pooch on this great job-creating opportunity and prestige-builder for Chicago and the U.S.? Granted, none of it would actually have happened for another seven years, but it could still have been a benefit, because the way your President is going it’s not unreasonable to expect this recession could still be going on in 2016, is it, Mr. Waszak? How’s all of this Hope working out for you?
You see, Mr. Waszak: less than nine months in, your President is the most colossal and immediate failure in the history of the office. Every day, he makes a greater ass of himself, and every day more people in America and around the world are opening their eyes to who this man really is and the truth of the crippling, narcissistic evil that he represents. Every day, more people are rejecting him, you, and everything you stand for. Every day is another rip in the tattered, garish circus poster of Hope and Change; every day another ray of sunlight breaks through The Magic Of The Man and falls upon the core of the dark, filthy, hateful lie that is Barack Hussein Obama.
How’s that working out for you, Mr. Waszak? It wasn’t supposed to be happening this way, was it?
I know how it’s working out for me: I’m grinning from ear to ear. Because you and your kind will know irrelevance, sir; for most of the rest of your lives, you will be more familiar with it than any of us could ever possibly imagine. The pain that our country has to endure in the short term will make us stronger in the long term, and the long-term prospects of those of you who thought you could tarnish and destroy everything this country ever represented are very, very poor indeed.
Your children will live under conservatism, Mr. Waszak. We…. will bury you.
Regards,
-America
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” –Wilkins Micawber, “David Copperfield”
Sausage-shaped?
Flagstaff (Diary) Sunday, October 4th at 12:47AM EST (link)A young Aunt Esther.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
Please...
Third Street (Diary) Sunday, October 4th at 2:00AM EST (link)…don’t insult Aunt Esther like that.
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” –Wilkins Micawber, “David Copperfield”
If we're irrelevant...
spim Friday, October 2nd at 5:42PM EST (link)then why does Mr. Waszak even care?
hmm
something doesn’t add up
5 (nt)
Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 5:46PM EST (link)RS contributing editor, technical administrator, and “a hardy variety of crabgrass.”
Read the RedState Posting Rules
Unlikely Voter: Poll Analysis, Election Projection.
“I rejoice that America has resisted.” – William Pitt, the Elder
Better off!
anastas (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 6:01PM EST (link)So, let me get this straight: Obama creates the worst environment for business since the great depression and the olympics is going to save us in 2016? LOL
Personally, I’m glad he lost the bid because when Obama loses in 2012, by 2016, they won’t bring up Obamas name, giving him credit for bringing the games to Chicago while Sarah Palin is President. LOL Can you imagine Bob Costas mentioning that ever other sentence?
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
– Benjamin Franklin
LOL @ this whole thread! nt
clowngirl (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 8:09PM EST (link)Cheers? Hey, Warzack! You deserve the big words "Id**t" and "D*mb**s". WE ARE ANGRY! $2MILLION of taxpayers were sacrificed. POTUS Office was disgraced.
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Saturday, October 3rd at 12:57AM EST (link)WE ARE NOT CHEERING! WE ARE ANGRY OF THE INCOMPETENCE OF OBAMA AND HIS MINIONS!
We are shouting over the roof! First things first!
CLEAN CHICAGO OF CORRUPT LEFTIST GOVERNMENT! Start with Daley!
REMOVE ALL THUGS IN CHICAGO!
CLEAN CHICAGO OF EVIL GANGSTERS AND THUGS!
These are the sure ways of Winnning an Olympic game! Tell them to your Victorious (for nothing) Obama!
Next time, don’t bring Michelle. She and her own set of minions are train wreck in spending.
Olympic Jobs
mjpjr (Diary) Saturday, October 3rd at 6:29AM EST (link)are union jobs! The OIympics don’t boost the economy, they put money in to the pockets of union workers. Then, like locusts, the whole thing moves to the next unfortunate field.
Americans Idle.
Dear parroting progressive drone,
jjrakman Saturday, October 3rd at 1:52PM EST (link)Marching towards irrelevance:
Republicans gets big bump of donors; Outraise Dems
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-09-24-party-money_N.htm
Generic House Polling Suggests the Republicans Could Regain the House in 2010
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/09/generic-house-polling-suggests.html
Democrats running away from Obama
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204488304574431080139159704.html?mod=rss_opinion_main
Democrats Are Jarred by Drop In Fundraising
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/24/AR2009092404906.html?wprss=rss_politics
NYT/CBS poll shows Obama losing ground on health care, Afghanistan
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/25/nytcbs-poll-shows-obama-losing-ground-on-health-care-afghanistan/
How does that make you feel, Paul?
http://www.cafepress.com/PalinReagan
Hey Paul Waszak
Warrior (Diary) Saturday, October 3rd at 2:21PM EST (link)“WE” didn’t lose the bid for the Olympics – Chicago did. Don’t you remember, your Prez has been going around the world apologizing for what a sorry country we are – why would anybody want to hold the Olympics here?
In any event, no doubt most of the money generated would have gone to Chi Town mobsters, er, politicians, for furthering the careers of NAMBLA sycophants like Kevin Jennings or neo-communists like Van Jones. No thanks.
And this,
“The [sic] would bring in well needed jobs, ya know. Since this country is in a recession and all.”
You know genius, if you and Prez Obeyme were really interested in jobs, you would end the capital gains tax, end the death tax, cut marginal tax rates, cut 50% of the non-sensical red tape on small businesses, repeal Davis-Bacon, cut special treatment for unions out of ALL govt contracts, restore the pre-JFK ban on public employee unions (especially the NEA and AFT), return to the dream of Martin Luther King by eliminating minority based set-asides and quotas, reform all labor tort laws of the last fifty years, etc, etc, etc, or any ONE of the above.
But you aren’t really interested in jobs, are you? Just self-aggrandizment and self-righteous proclamations about “justice”. What a bunch of creeps…
“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma
Should read "labor torts/laws" nt
Warrior (Diary) Saturday, October 3rd at 2:51PM EST (link)“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma
Hey Paul!
TNJim (Diary) Saturday, October 3rd at 2:43PM EST (link)Since the IOC is comprised mostly of Europeans and since Obama’s been dissing our European allies (I hope their still allies to us, the American people, if not Obama) while cozying up to dictators as well as telling the world how rotten we are why wouldn’t they vote Chicago into last place?
I’m not cheering so much for the USA losing an Olmpic bid, I’m cheering for President Arrogance getting his hat handed to him for once.
Karma sucks, don’t it Mr. Pesident?
TNJim Amen
Warrior (Diary) Saturday, October 3rd at 3:04PM EST (link)In addition, Poland is part of Europe (can anyone in the Obammie admin read a map?) The mostly European members of the IOC are acutely aware (having suffered in similar fashion themselves for many years) of the death and destruction brought about by socialist dictators and Chicago style bully boys like Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Krucschev.They are in complete sympathy with the Poles and their continuing struggle against Soviet aggression.
So, Prez Obeyme, your recent snub of Poland on the 70th Anniversary of the Russian invasion has now come back to haunt you. Let’s see, how did your former “pastor” put it, “The chickens have come home to roost.”
Karma does indeed suck…
“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma
We Are Not Cheering The Loss Of The Olympics...
rcov092 (Diary) Sunday, October 4th at 5:15PM EST (link)we are happy that a huge deficit will not be created in Illinois (or in DC for that matter) to build the venues from which we will all have to watch the steroid pumped hermaphrodites run their races.
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