Olympics decision stuns Chicago crowd
CHICAGO, Fri Oct 02, 11:59 AM
Thousands of people are standing in stunned silence in downtown Chicago after watching the International Olympic Committee choose someone else for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
The vote in Copenhagen was carried on huge television screens in the Daley Center, set up to carry what many had hoped would be approval of Chicago to host the games.
Instead, Chicago was bounced in the first round of voting Friday, bringing an audible gasp heard from the crowd.
The city was eliminated so quickly that some of the would-be revelers weren't sure what had happened. Some started asking if they had heard what they thought they heard. "I've never really had a disappointment like this," said Ken Rudd, a 33-year-old salesman from Evergreen Park. "This is one of the saddest things I've ever seen." Many stood for a few minutes, staring at the screen, and at least one flung his hands into the air in a crude gesture toward the TV screen. Within seconds, people began filing out of the plaza.
Chicago was in a race with Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo and Madrid for the 2016 games.
Nice try Barry!!
11 comments:
I guess videos of youths getting beaten to death with a railroad tie does make a difference. who'd-a thunk. Is this the first election Obama lost?
I am SO happy that Chicago is out! If we had gotten the games Daley and his cronies would have enriched themselves to the tune of BILLIONS and left us taxpayers with the bill. The mafia never left Chicago, they just figured out that they could steal a LOT more money by buying their way in to "public" office and steering no-bid contracts to their friends and family at hugely inflated rates. Graft and corruption is the Chicago way!
LabRat
Bwahahahahahaha! What a nincompoop! He spends all his time lobbying for this to the detriment of, you know, the FUCKING WAR that we are fighting, and this is what he gets. I guess the unicorns flying out of his ass shitting skittles and farting rainbows still aren't working the way he thought. Must be frustrating to someone to have his dillusions brought into the light in front of everyone in the world.
I guess it never occurred to President Headupmyass, or Mrs Headupmyass, that they would be denied anything ever again. And in Europe of all places!
Oh the shame of it all. Maybe they didn't know he was black?
And to lose the bid after Michelle sacrificed for the trip. Click my name for that story if you haven't heard it.
Yeah, her trip, on our money! I wonder what it feels like to fall off a throne while the whole world is watching? Poor Mr and Mz Odumbo. Now he'll have to wait a few minutes for the MSM to reinflate his ego, which has already started. You can bet that all those White racist, gun-loving, conservative, terrorists will get the blame for this, his latest failure.
Thanks for wasting tax payer's money Mr. Maobama. Chicago was voted out FIRST as the WORST of the sites! I'm glad... what LabRat said!
As a matter of fact, Chicago's politicians were corrupt long before the Mafia got there.
Maybe it was God paying him back for his "Special" Olympics joke on Leno back in March.
Love the Drudge Headline:
"The Ego Has Landed"
but, but, but.....I gave a Speech!!!!
Mightga had a chance if da head ubangi woulda stayed home
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