Joe Scarborough thanks Obama for attempting to land Olympics

[LTR]

Count me as one conservative who is disappointed that President Obama's hometown will not be hosting the 2012 Olympic Games.

Chicago is a beautiful city that would have made a perfect backdrop for the Olympics. The President was right to fly to Copenhagen to try to land the games, not for the sake of his city, but for the good of his country. The fact President Obama failed makes me respect him more for taking the chance, and the fact many right-wing figures opposed the President's mission shows just how narrow-minded partisanship makes us all.


Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-scarborough/thank-you-mr-president_b_308022.html

Now if only other right-wingers would act with as much class and pride.

[gateley]

1. What a nice statement -- thanks Joe! And i think we all agree. nt

[BlooInBloo]

2. I rarely agree with him, but this is one of those times.

[CTyankee]

3. Joe is positioning himself as the next Republican presidential candidate.

This is all PR. He is portraying himself as the "reasonable" candidate. That is all.

[alsame]

4. Exactly right, this is all stagecraft. He's a wingnut through and through. nt

[Barack_America]

5. Yes, he is. A "moderate" Republican who would appeal to independents.

That's what he's trying to craft himself as.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

6. Agreed. nt

[babylonsister]

9. Exactly. He sounds super resaonable next to the real r/w crazies. nt

[Mike Daniels]

11. Give me a break....Who exactly is Joe's base?

The Freeper element of the right wing hates him just for speaking out against the birthers and Palin.

The left is never going to vote for him.

Most of the middle probably doesn't even know who he is and probably would find him a little too conservative for their tastes.


Scarborough would never make it past the first round of primaries and I'm sure he realizes that fact. So, who exactly would Joe hope to bring to his side in enough numbers to make him even remotely competetive?

[scheming daemons]

7. Dammit Joe! Quit trying to make me like you!

It's starting to work...

[Barack_America]

10. Until you think of his policy positions...

...and the direction he would take this country.

[izzybeans]

8. He had to go. The rest of the presentation was horrible outside of Michelle's speech.

I watched it live because I was up feeding our newborn. I was shocked at how bad the entire presentation was.

Barrack and Michelle were about the only things positive about the whole presentation. My guess is the last minute decision to go was made after they saw that Mayor Daley was about to lay a turd.

that said, I'm glad it's not going to be in Chicago. Daley sold us out for this thing.

[TexasObserver]

12. Joe is a GOP scumbag, but he's got more sense than most of them.

That's what makes him dangerous. He has enough sense to know which issues to put in play, and which to back off. He knows that any American president wants the country to have the Olympics here as often as possible. It's worth a ton of money to a huge city, and to many industries in the area. It's a big plum, and Joe understands that coming out against it would color him anti American, not Anti Obama.

Too many of these GOPers have completely lost their minds. If Obama announced his Mom and Apple Pie Resolution, they'd oppose it simply because he's behind it. They've lost touch with how their actions are perceived outside their own tight core of voters.

[goclark]

13. MJ has changed his tone ~ bet he is going to run for office

I don't recall any of this kind of logical talk during the elections or after it.

Since the teabaggers, he is playing middle of the road.

I'm OK with that as long as he is in this mode.

[WeDidIt]

14. I disagree with Joe Scarborough on, well, most things

but durnit, he's been about the most reasonable conservative in the past two years.

[butterfly77]

15. Fuck You Scarborough!!!

First of all games are to be hosted in 2016 not 2012. Who in the hell do you thin you're fooling.

Which parts or the political sphere are you trying to win with this bullshit.

We know that you are yipping it up with your rightwing buddies at fox and friends,WSJ,or the weekly standard.

Did you call your friends at the Heritage Foundation to tell them how happy you were that we didn't get it. Is that because you and your rightwing nuts hate America?

[BooBluePotion]

17. Right On

If any American identifies with the right after these past months they're MORANS. Especially people who's job it is to follow the news.

[Skidmore]

16. Joe is trying to cast himself as saviour of the Rparty and position himself to run for something.

My guess is that he'd like top billing.

[ecstatic]

18. I think the underwear guy said something similar (I forgot his name)

[AspenRose]

19. Broken clock, twice a day, etc. etc.

I'm telling you, this screeching from the far right is going to backfire, big time. Because I think the average American feels the same way Joe does.

[Joe Chi Minh]

20. I hate it when politicians go for cheap publicity from sports and sportsmen and

women. Fortunately, Obama has a lot more on the credit side of his CV, nevertheless.

NuLab(c)'s finest and Salmon, the ScotNat PM are terrors for such photo-ops, grinning vacuously next to a sportsman or at a game. It's as if they're broadcasting, "Whenever you get a buzz of adrenaline watching your favourite sport, just think of ME! I'm on your team!"

And as for footballers having to shake hands with fascist dictators in South America! It must have taken years off Maradona's life.

And you know fersure, they'll never be "regular guys", as long as their *rse point to the ground, as the Aussies used to say, way back in the sixties (.... never did work that one out). As a matter of fact, most football fans who are regular guys lose their last vestige of sanity at football matches. But they'll never get to be as batsh*t crazy as even the "sanest" Prime Minister.

Somebody said it would help restore America's good name in the world, but I doubt it. Superpowers are very prone to awarding a whole slew of home-town decisions, if my memory of the last Olympics held in the US and China are any guide. Bliar actually cheated to get the next Olympics here! And what a costly white elephant it's going to be.

The French were furious that Blair had broken the rules, and their country is far better-placed to host them. Their public transport system in Paris and throughout France is apparently as sensational as ours is disgraceful.

[mwb970]

21. The joyful reaction from the right wing at our loss was truly shocking.

It reminds me of the Palestinians who whooped and danced with joy when 9/11 happened. You see, they hate America too.

[ljm2002]

22. Well knock me over with a feather...

...good for Joe.

Still don't have much use for him though... :-)

[butterfly77]

25. Joe is full of shit!

[JamesA1102]

23. I'm not buying it.

I'm a New Yorker and have heard his radio show on WABC where he gleefully joins in with Rush, Sean and Beck in blaming the President for everything including a rainy day. Earlier this year he slammed the President over the lack of bipartisanship in the stimulus bill but never said a word about the GOP leadership issuing a directive to oppose the President when he came to meet them on the hill. On his TV show he trashed Nancy Pelosi over funding for the Salt Marsh Mouse. Yet the next day after it had been proven to be an untrue talking point he didn't retract or apologize for his statements.

And if he really believe what he said here will he denounce Rush for his unpatriotic statements today? I don't think Joe will. Rush broadcasts on WABC too and I think the money Joe makes from his radio show means more to him than standing up to Rush.

Finally as always he is master of the false equivalency. In 1992, Bill Clinton was the undisputed winner of the election yet Bob Dole said at the time that because he didn't recieve 50% of the vote that the GOP didn't have to give him the same respect that opposition parties had given past Presidents. The GOP then spent the next 7 years trying to find a reason to impeach Clinton until finally trumping up charges over a personal matter. And Joe endorsed that travesty by voting for the articles of impeachment in 1998. Yet when George W. Bush became President after a disputed election where the Supreme Court stopped the legal counting of votes, no major Democrat made such a statement and tried to work with the new President. It was only after the Bush administration launch a war based on lies and started programs that ignored treaties and the constitution that the Democrats started to stand against him.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

24. Scarborough has been downright decent lately.

I assume he's trying to distance himself from the fringe or planning to run for office again.

[butterfly77]

26. Its not working...

Scar is Bush 2 the sequel..

[Baikonour]

27. He's still a grade-A asshat.

Excuse me if I refrain from licking his boots.

[KoKo]

28. Joe Scar is Filth...if you think his comment is a good one...then you've been snookered

beyond anything anyone could say to you.