SOME say, "Bush and Romney used global pull to undermine Chicago bid after Obama's election."

[blm]

Some say this and I believe it is quite likely true.

The fascists saw this as a way to construct a storyline against Obama the corporate media and its dumbed down audiences could hang their hats on for the next few years.

Some say.....

[tekisui]

1. It really isn't that big of a deal for Obama.

This story will go as quick as it came on. The next big thing is already on its way.

[blm]

11. It ISN'T a big deal, at all...but, GOP and their corpmedia shills certainly are MAKING it into

a big deal.

The fact that this turned into a POLITICAL story against Obama should have been clue ONE for the Dems.

Corpmedia is the GOPs most dependable tool to push THEIR narrative on ANY story.

[cali]

2. Some say lots of things. personally I think this is silly

and aside from you, who are the some and exactly what are they saying?

[blm]

12. OY......you either GET it or you don't, cali.

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[NYC_SKP]

3. The Olympics, and the city of choice, it is all hogswaller and crap. I'm glad we didn't get it.

And the meme of millions of high quality construction jobs and boon for the economy is cuh-rap, too.

I enjoy watching some of the events, but the big drama and pomp and circumstance of them is excessive and boring.

We have bigger fish to fry...

[Skidmore]

4. Why do Dems insist on perpetuating this in the news?

Don't feed the monster. I swear. This whole Olympic thing is like the $25 you take to the casino to play the slots with. You win a bit and then the law of averages takes it away from you. It was money that was gone. Enough already.

[LTR]

5. Romney supported Obama's appearance before the IOC

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=8102339

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[muriel_volestrangler]

20. Chicago wouldn't have stood any chance at all without Obama's support

The IOC expects full support from a host country, not "oh, that's just up to the state administration". And with one of the main concerns about the US as host being the difficulty of getting visas to the US, it was vital that the federal government made it clear it was fully behind the bid and would make sure entry into the country for athletes, officials, journalists and spectators wouldn't be a problem.

Plus, of course, internationally, no-one's heard of anyone who runs Chicago or Illinois. You couldn't expect Oprah to be the only famous supporter of the bid. And the Obamas are two of the most popular people in the world, and Barack is one of the best speechmakers in English in the world.

If he hadn't gone, Chicago would have lost, and everyone would have said "it never stood a chance - all that money on the bid, and Obama never tried to help, when all he had to do was make one speech".

[blm]

10. Sure he did.....and Lucy said she'd hold the ball.

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[Overseas]

6. Yeah, our years of torture and war on false pretenses have been over for 8 months already.

I mean hey, those seven years of war crimes are over already. Geez. President Obama has been in there for eight months already, we should be good to go. Must be those tough GOP guys undermining our president again.

Just because international news may have already exposed more of the truth about corporate financing behind the stirring up of racist, anti-government right wing sentiment in vulnerable, desperate populations in the USA than we were able to see on our major news broadcasts, that doesn't necessarily mean the right wingers would send the disturbed fringe out to protest athletes from "nazi socialist commie" countries and wave racist signs at them.

Why on earth wouldn't the Olympics want to come to a country that just calmly reported on right wing tea bag rallying as "genuine grass roots sentiment," with no strong condemnations of the dangerously racist sentiments among the crowd from the leaders of the Republican Party? And no exposure of the extensive right wing funding behind those rallies except on a few token liberal shows like Rachel Maddow and the recent exposé in Rolling Stone?

Why on earth wouldn't the Olympics want to come to a country that blithely allows 45,000,000+ of its citizens to remain uninsured and millions to go bankrupt paying medical bills? And has an opposition politician disrupt an address of its president because he is frantic that the USA might give medical treatment to an ALIEN in need? And then has the so-called Democratic party add in a clause to firm up the already-in-there clause that by gum we are definitely not going to provide medical care to those ILLEGALS?

Why wouldn't the Olympics want to come to a country that has professional bullying working hard every day to de-legitimize its new president? Why wouldn't they want to come to a country that televises right wing anti-government diatribes by the same people who supported the Bush Cheney gang as they committed lots of war crimes and engaged in flagrant war profiteering?

Gee willikers. Must be an Obama problem. Or those super-powerful GOP guys undermining him. :sarcasm:

I do, however, see how the GOP and our conservative-dominated broadcast media trumpeted the "President is going to make a pitch" idea so they could also wallow in the thrill of "President fails" statements. That is quite clear. I can imagine Romney knowing Rio was in the lead because South America hadn't had an Olympics yet and sharing his inside knowledge with the RNC PR teams so they could do the Build-Up then Let-Down sequence.

[NYCGirl]

8. Bush and Romney have global pull???? NT

[blm]

19. Yes.

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[NYCGirl]

22. Bush still has? Romney ever had? I don't believe that. NT

[blm]

23. Do you think GHWBush stopped playing with his fascist cronies after he left WH in 1993?

.

[NYCGirl]

24. He wasn't as universally reviled as W. NT

[blm]

25. The powerful elite cronies don't make their palling around public and don't care what 'people' think

anyway.

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[blm]

13. Yeah. It blew UP into a political story, accidently, no...coincidentally. Yeah...that's the ticket

coincidentally works....right?

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[blm]

17. No doubt it was a bad decision by him, but, there's also no doubt that he was baited into it by

some bad info. Not just bad, but, deliberately misinformed. This has been a standard for the BushInc crowd for decades - who thinks they decided to stop using this tactic?

Obama took some BAD advice and he needs to quietly nail those who helped set this up.

[Stevenmarc]

14. SOME say, there's an elite class of reptilian aliens ruling the world.

I'm not buying it to that one either.

[blm]

18. There's never been evidence of reptilian lords, but, plenty of times BushInc put bad info into

the mix to create and/or control a political story.

Pretty silly to believe YOUR conclusion.

Guess you didn't NOTICE that a nonpolitical story like an Olympic bid turned INTO a blameObamaforeveryaspectofthestory fest for the RW and their mediawhores?

[stevedeshazer]

15. I agree with you n/t.

[TexasObserver]

21. By now you should know the right makes up most of their talking points.

And they are crafted to fit whatever facts are being reported.

Obama wanted Chicago to get it. Chicago didn't. So they invent a storyline that makes Bush and Romney the "heroes" for the right who did it. Just the story itself means it was likely started in the Romney camp. His whole life is one big, neverending lie, based upon other lies. They threw in the Bush part to make it appeal to more of the GOP crazies.

This is likely a story invented by that lying sack of shit Mittens Romney.