I wish I could say I'm surprised that the angry right is so gleeful about the United States losing the Olympic games.  The Right isn't NEARLY as angry as the Left, and I find this shocking, especially after last November.

You would think that promoting one of the country's biggest cities,  Huh?  CHICAGO?  All of a sudden, the city which was for many years, well over a century in fact, was America's "second city" suddenly needs promotion???  As if no one outside the United States is familiar with the city of Chicago!!!

creating potentially tens of thousands of jobs,  Right.  San Antonio hosted HemisFair '68 and the streets there aren't exactly paved with gold as a result.  It provided some temporary work for some for awhile, altered the skyline of the city...and did what else? 

Ask Montreal about how its Olympics turned out.  I'd argue the city that got the most mileage out of the Olympics in my lifetime was Seoul, because that was basically an event which raised South Korea's profile. 

and boosting the stature of the leader of the United States in the rest of the world would be a good thing.   Not you or your God, His Majesty The Shahinshah.  He spent a day last week at the UN proclaiming how embarrassed and ashamed He was to be an American.  And that wasn't surprising considering how embarrassed and ashamed Leftists are of being American citizens (unless it becomes a whiny, babying Nanny State).

When did the angry right become so anti-American?   When did the hate-filled, angry, contemptuous Left all of a sudden start backing the United States?  Where ws their love for America when New York competed for the 2012 Games?  By the way, as big an Olympic nationalist as I am, I wanted to see a American city get the Games on its merits.  Sorta like, oh, I don't know, how Los Angeles got Games without Presidential help - twice.  Or how St. Louis got the Games.  Or how Atlanta got them, by some miracle, without Bush the Elder's intervention.  Or how Lake Placid got the Winter Games - twice.  Or how Denver got the Winter Games and promptly threw them away to Innsbruck.  Or how Squaw Valley got the Games.  (Yes, I am leaving off SLC; it was good to see them get the Games, just not the way they got them.)

Oh, and I figured that, with the perpetually pissed-off Left being so embarrassed and ashamed of the United States, that they would actually be quite happy for Rio.  What's the deal?  (If it were Madrid I would have been bent as Europe has hosted enough times and Spain had the Games in 1992; and Tokyo has hosted an Olympics in 1964.  For that matter, I am less than thrilled that London is hosting its third Olympics in 2012 - the only city to do so.) 

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

"Using the letter I doesn't make the sentence he's speaking about him. With that claim, anytime an NB member uses I in a post, it automatically makes that post about him or her?"

Pretty much, yes. 

You know I love ya.

Using the letter I doesn't make the sentence he's speaking about him.

"my family moved around a lot. I was born in Hawaii. I lived in Indonesia for a time. I never really had roots in any one place or culture or ethnic group. And then I came to Chicago. And on those Chicago streets, I worked alongside men and women who were black and white; Latino and Asian; people of every class and nationality and religion. I
came to discover that Chicago is that most American of American cities,
but one where citizens from more than 130 nations inhabit a rich
tapestry of distinctive neighborhoods.

And I ran for President because I believed deeply..

there is nothing I would like more than to step just a few
blocks from my family's home, with Michelle and our two girls, and
welcome the world back into our neighborhood."

That speaks for itself, so I'll save my witticisms for the next post..

Actually, I thought that was one of the better lines in a generally pedestrian address.

Jer

 Eh, go be crabby somewhere else.  Is this an attempt to bark orders at me?  If so, this is a prety ineffective one.  If you or your paramour, Jer, don't like me responding to your posts, I suggest you stop posting on NB.  Anyone can respond to my posts.  I never gripe.  Why?  The same thing...if I never wanted anyone to respond to my posts again, for being "crabby" or otherwise, I simply would stop posting here.  Anyone can respond to my posts.

What exactly do you base this on?  Stop whining. You are the one with a screen name which proclaims your love for one who wanted to baby, baby, baby, and baby people.  What else am I supposed to conclude? Government, to you, is here to totally baby people. That Ted Kennedy wanted it done to keep those icky masses away from his precious compound at Hyannisport doesn't register with you in the slightest.    What do you know about my employer dumping my insurance for a public option?  The CBO estimated that 88 million people will be dumped for the public "option" once enacted.  Before you ask me that question again, I suggest you read HR 3200 and other proposed legislation.  Your precious union and employer is EAGER to dump the cost of your health care plan on ME, and other taxpayers, so that they can utilize that money elsewhere. 

Of course, I am compelled to ask, once again, why can't I be left the f*** alone to buy my health insurance from whoever in the country I damn well please on my own, and then set up an MSA for sniffles, paper cuts, and twisted ankles?  Why does your union, your employer, or the government owe you a doctor?  What, do you go crying to them for them to buy your groceries? 

Don't get me started on unions and how parasitic and worthless they are. 

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)