Rio.
But can anyone afford to diss B Hussein Obama? "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Well, looking at what he has done since January, I would say the saying:"Er kocht auch nur mit Wasser", would apply to him. :-)
"I just think, wouldn't it be great if that kind of spirit was happening right down the street in our community? Just think of that. Kids and communities across the city, in Austin, kids who grew up in Cabrini, kids who live so far from the city. Now just imagine if all of that was happening right in their own backyard. That's what I think about." "It does something to a kid when they can feel that energy and power up close and personal. And for some kids in our communities and our city, around the nation, around the world, they can never dream of being that close to such power and opportunity. So that's what excites me most about bringing the Games to Chicago."
"It does something to a kid when they can feel that energy and power up close and personal. And for some kids in our communities and our city, around the nation, around the world, they can never dream of being that close to such power and opportunity. So that's what excites me most about bringing the Games to Chicago."
Mr Thayer sez:
Facing sullen opposition to the games - highlighted when many school principals revolted against a school board edict to have the schools fly flags supporting the bid - Mayor Daley pledged that the Games would not cost the taxpayers a dime. The reality is that if Chicago gets these games, and even if there is no massive fraud and sweetheart contracts (a truly ridiculous "if" in this city and state!), City taxpayers will pay for them - the 84 per cent opposed to such funding be damned. First to be tapped will be the hidden sources - the TIFF funds which have siphoned off property tax revenue for years. Originally set up supposedly to help impoverished areas of the City be redeveloped, for years the TIFF districts have deprived the city's schools, libraries and other social services of money by putting huge amounts of city revenue into slush funds which the mayor and his allies have in turn doled out to large private businesses owned and controlled by mayoral allies - Boeing, United Airlines and Borders Bookstore, to name a few.... A crucial factor ignored by most of the popular press accounts of the Chicago bid is that its wildly optimistic financial projections were written up before the depths of the current recession became apparent. So the Chicago boosters are projecting record ticket revenue from the Games - surpassing all previous ones. They are projecting record donations by charitable organizations. Record corporate donations for naming rights. Seamless sale of the Olympic village facility by the private market following the Games, and no problem raising private capital for the construction.
First to be tapped will be the hidden sources - the TIFF funds which have siphoned off property tax revenue for years. Originally set up supposedly to help impoverished areas of the City be redeveloped, for years the TIFF districts have deprived the city's schools, libraries and other social services of money by putting huge amounts of city revenue into slush funds which the mayor and his allies have in turn doled out to large private businesses owned and controlled by mayoral allies - Boeing, United Airlines and Borders Bookstore, to name a few....
A crucial factor ignored by most of the popular press accounts of the Chicago bid is that its wildly optimistic financial projections were written up before the depths of the current recession became apparent. So the Chicago boosters are projecting record ticket revenue from the Games - surpassing all previous ones. They are projecting record donations by charitable organizations. Record corporate donations for naming rights. Seamless sale of the Olympic village facility by the private market following the Games, and no problem raising private capital for the construction.
Ms Jarrett sez:
Jarrett said an apt comparison to Chicago's IOC campaign would be the Iowa caucus. Obama's 2008 Iowa caucus win paved the way for his election as president. The Iowa caucus required intense, personal campaigning--much like the final sprint to lobby the IOC members. Said Jarrett, "The Iowa caucus, where you can have more than one round and every single vote counts and it is very retail and you have to earn the trust and confidence of every single person you can and that's where our effort will be....it is very germane in the home stretch."
Said Jarrett, "The Iowa caucus, where you can have more than one round and every single vote counts and it is very retail and you have to earn the trust and confidence of every single person you can and that's where our effort will be....it is very germane in the home stretch."
And "she never met with HUD officials about Olympic housing issues" such as public-private partnership redevlopment financing, or HOPE IV dregs. So there. More important:
[T]his new ambassadorial mission suggests the Obama White House is happy to milk the global community's overwhelming sense of goodwill toward Michelle. During her summer trip to France, Germany, England and Ghana, the focus was on fashion.
stand for the anthem, ugh, these pieces of music make me want to hurl... pomp and fripper moozak... get on with it...
here we go...deep breath...yay!1!!!!! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Over at the orange place they actually have a piece up about this being "anti-Americanism" and another about Obama not being socialist enough for the IOC. Hell the last on is probably true, he ain't socialist enough for me, either.
Howdy all. "I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson
We only really watch football, anyway, so why be so upset? Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/2/788978/-Obama-Not-Socialist-Enough-For-IOC "I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson
Strikes me as pretty ridiculous to pretend that I'm saying this is the only thing being talked about at all. But I do think the fuss is amazing, maybe you don't. Seems like you have a little burr under your saddle, which would be odd for you, but whatever. Just don't say you went and looked and what I said was there, wasn't there. If you'd really gone and looked you would have seen the diaries since they were still in the queue when I went back and linked them. "I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson
Blatant anti-Americanism, except that Rio is in America, isn't it. south America. Heh, the fuss over here is amazing. don't you guys get it, we are ready to lead you again. we are ready and have a shiny new president who really is smart this time.
...which, taken with the comment on dKos, suggested to me that you're were portraying that as the general theme of the reaction.
If not, then okay, I misread you. I did go and look, and I didn't see it. I didn't say it wasn't there. How you took that to mean me saying, "ZOMGLIAR," I don't know.
I assure you I'm not the one with the burr under my saddle. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Remember what Sarge said "Let's be careful out there" keep to the Fen Causeway
Anyway, like I said above I thought it was unlike you to get your panties in a bunch and start parsing words but.... "I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson
"So when did wingnuts start cheering against America? Their unbridled joy at losing out to Brazil is a bit unseemly, isn't it? "America, fuck yeah!" has become "Fuck America, Yeah!"
While Chicago likely lost mostly because the country has hosted plenty of Olympics and South America never has, and because of lingering anti-American sentiment, this certainly didn't help:" "I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson
The second, yeah, I'm mostly with you on. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Wonder how they are dealing with their disappointment?
Oh wait, 17 years ago? ZOMG! Time flies... Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
Well - it is. But not like Madrid is.
And don't they speak Spanish in Rio? Or Portugese? Or Brazilian? Or something?
Seriously - I'm glad Rio won. Rio will turn the Olympics into a carnival, which could be a very fun thing.
Chicago would have been dutifully pomped-up in a ya gotta compete kind of a way, but it would have been about the bennies, not the fun, and that would have been a shame.
José María Aznar, I command you to leave TBG's body!
Seriously, one of the most hair-raising things I heard about Madrid's olympic bid, from the mouth of some PPer or other, was "it's about time we had a Spanish olympics". It gave me nightmares of opening and closing ceremonies full of Jurassic dandruff, Carpetovetonic parodies, fanfare and tambourines, people dancing on a tile, and flamenco. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
However things have been complicated this year by whichever cheap airline flies to the north of Spain moving its flight day from Sunday to Tuesday, and so to fit things in Much rail and Flights via Madrid will be part of the trip. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
I think this is the way to organize the Olympics. It could become a kind of Eurovision Song Contest. We could have voting scandals on the Jurassic dandruff etc. The Eastern bloc would get up to its usual tricks, and no one would ever vote for America, which would cause high melodrama. Great.
