Did you even listen to that speech? And Michelle Obama’s tall tale of sitting in her father’s lap as a 20 year old to watch Carl Lewis?

“Duncan says Fenger is set to receive $500,000 in federal money to help it stabilize after the violence. The school can use the money for counselors and other programs.”

http://www.wgntv.com/news/wgntv-top-obama-aides-chicago-youth-violence-oct7,0,2440235.story

Just the beginning of a torrent of our money pouring into Chicago and other similarly afflicted urban areas.

It’s called American Exceptionalism. We don’t do what everyone else does…or at least we didn’t used to.

If we’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t, so be it. But I guarantee you that if Obama had chosen not to make the trip because he was too busy working with General McChrystal on salvaging Afghanistan, and if he was subsequently savaged by Chicago, the USOC and the International press for failing to make a “game-winning” appearance, RedState would be one of the first places hailing him for having his priorities straight.

President Obama has made it a point to tear down this country and its people during the last 10 months in front of the world. He went to the Copenhagen thinking he could charm the IOC just like he charmed (read: deceived) 52% of the electorate in the US. He failed. Miserably. And hence we celebrate his personal failure to win the Olympics.

For me, at least, it’s not real hard to figure out why it’s a bad idea to have the “leader of the free world” (he’s not) groveling in front of a multinational committee in an effort to bring billions of dollars to corrupt democrats in and around Chicago. All while the tax payers fund the inevitable budget overruns.

You assume that those in the middle are to stupid to draw the same conclusions. You surely are.

Sorry, it just does.

We have to persuade the people in the middle that we can once again be trusted with power. When we’re high-fiving for America to LOSE, how do you think that image comes across in most “middle of the road” households?

In fact, it even angered me, to see some of my conservative brethren, acting like kids who just won a pickup basketball game.

When we’re seen cheering and hooting because the USA lost, we’re no better than the leftists who cheer on the enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Let’s always remember that people are watching how we act. Our audience is much bigger than each other.

Chicago is still an AMERICAN city, in an AMERICAN state; Brazil is a dirt poor, socialist backwater.

Who could be happy about losing to Brazil? I don’t get it.

But I love the United States of America! And I spit in the eye of anyone, anywhere, no matter what their politics are, who cheers and celebrates when our country doesn’t win. And I make no apologies for it.

Our country, the USA, the greatest country in all of history by far, is always #1 in my book. And our country is a lot more than the guy in the White House—no matter who that guy is!

When the next Olympics roll around in 2012, I intend to be in front of my TV, rooting all the way for our American Team to kick the asses of the socialist “international” world!!! I don’t care that Obama will be president during those games. That means zero to me. Our team comes first! And our country comes first. Always!!!

This wasn’t rooting against America (although I must admit that Chicago has fallen quite far on my list of cities). This was rooting against an arrogant pack of a**holes.

Which is VERY American, in my view.