Showing posts with label 2016 olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2016 olympics. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Liz Cheney Critiques Obama on Afghanistan

In her own unique way, Liz Cheney, nearly as bad as dad, criticizes Obama on Afghanistan. She says Obama's going against his own strategy. No. Obama is rethinking strategy given new information. Cheney can't even keep up with her own argument.
Then she says the loss of the Olympics led to the loss of "American prestige." America lost the world's respect under her father's leadership. Liz Cheney lives in a bubble.
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Monday, October 05, 2009

Republican Swan Dive Into the Deep End

Rush Limbaugh is out of his mind. What's with the little baby noises he makes? How do people listen to that and not feel corroded? Republicans cheer Chicago's loss:
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Sunday, October 04, 2009

Susan Rice on Meet the Press Oct. 4

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Why is Olympic Loss All About US?

Americans sure are egotistical. Chicago got knocked out of in first round and surely it has to be about nasty politics? It has to be that Obama failed? Obama surely had to have gotten bad advice to go and make a personal appeal for the Olympics?
Why can't it be that Rio just had a better pitch and that the IOC decided that Rio was the best place to hold the Olympics? This will be the first Olympics in South America. That's pretty special.
Sometimes it isn't about the U.S.
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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Michelle Obama Heading to Copenhagen to Push for U.S. Olympic Bid

Update 9-28: Obama will be going too.
First lady and Windy City native Michelle Obama will lead a delegation to Denmark next month in a final push for Chicago's Olympic bid. But her husband, immersed in the battle for health care reform, remains noncommittal on making the trip.

"It is with great pride that I will go to Copenhagen to make the case for the United States to host the 2016 Olympics," Michelle Obama said in a statement Friday. "There is no doubt in my mind that Chicago would offer the world a fantastic setting for these historic games, and I hope that the Olympic torch will have the chance to burn brightly in my hometown." Read more at Lynn Sweet
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