Olympic-Sized Corruption
The theme of the day, ladies and gentlemen, is using political office not to improve the lives of ordinary (and legal) citizens, but instead to dole out taxpayer monies to all your buds.
Well, that’s the theme of the entire site, but it’s been thrown into stark relief today via Al Gore’s cronyism (below) and Barry’s attempts to “win” the Olympic Games for Chicago in 2016 (which increasingly looks like a done deal).
Barry is doing this, of course, to divert oodles of cash into the pockets of his friends and supporters, among them slum-landlords, terrorists, racists and criminals.
The Beijing Olympics were a wonderful spectacle – but, then again, when are the Games not? – although I could never shake one train of thought while watching it: that the Chinese were manipulating the world, that they barely allowed their own people access, that they cheated in every possible way to try to win more medals than the US (as nothing is more important to communists than successful propaganda) and that this smiley-face did not in any way correspond to the reality of a country that imprisons opponents, forcibly removes organs from dissenters and murders pro-democracy activists.
I don’t even think that developed countries should bid for the Games. London’s budget version of the Olympics next year is going to be an embarrassment. London barely functions as it is, so the counter-intuitive argument that construction for the Olympics will somehow improve the situation is about as mindless as you’d expect. Let developing countries who have to modernize/build their cities anyway have the Games.
As with the ChiComs, Barry sees this extravaganza as a PR victory. By the time 2016 comes around, Barry will have been discredited as an even more useless leader/person than Jimmy Carter. Without any tangible (positive) legacy after all those wasted years in office, Barry will point pathetically to the Chicago Olympics and proclaim, I did that.
And we will then point out everything else that he’s done, too.
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September 29th, 2009 at 15:24
C’mon…you just KNEW that Obie was gonna go Crony-Crazy to get the Olympics back on his home turf. I’m disgusted. The Olympics are a freakin’ money-pit for the host city, and it ain’t like we’ve got so much extra money laying about that we can verily wipe our collective arses with it…after the Games, most of the facilities go unused and fall into ruination. China was able to put their spectacles on via slave labor.
Yes, let’s bring the world to the biggest den of corruption in the 21st Century. Chicago…where guns are outlawed yet gun murders are through the roof. Chicago…rife and riddled with corrupt politicians and graft and payola. Chicago, where you can buy a Senate seat on Craig’s List. Chicago, home of such great Americans as Al Capone, Rod Blagojevich, and the Daley Clan. Chicago, where you can get beaten to death by a teen mob on YouTube….
America gets the Olympics about every other Games. If it’s a world event, why not give the games to Rio instead, since the Games have NEVER been held in South America? Give the Games to an African country, as the Games have NEVER been held on the African Continent. Hey, give it to Kenya, Obama’s OTHER home….
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September 29th, 2009 at 15:35
Although I don’t like it, I don’t completely object to him trying to get the games for Chicago. It’s just not the job of a President. What I do object to is the taxpayer money that will be given to Chicago should this deal go through. I know I am not alone in saying that rewarding crooks and racists is something I do not believe the American taxpayers should be supporting.
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