Reaction: Obama's Olympic pitch

[sexeman76]

Congratulations to the city of RIO and to the people of Brazil!!! WINNER of the 2016 Olympics!!!! Greetings from Honolulu, HAWAII, USA!!!!

[materialclassified]

I wonder what in the world Mayor Daley has on Obama that he'd drop all and head over there.

Daley must have the goods on both of 'em.

That's the REAL chicago politics we know little of, but if your in that click, you know what i mean.

[barthunt1]

Complete waste of taxpayers money..

[irishsean2]

I f Bush had done htis there would have  been and outcry of stupidity ,, fuck this niogger! and his ugly ape like wife!!

[idiotwithaAK47]

You're right.. everyone would have gone ballistic if he went....

[spookey34]

'96 Atlanta bombing,

'02 SLC bribery scandal

'16 Chicago ?????

Not a very good track record for the U.S.

The Great Supreme Leader Mullah Obama won't be able to contract out logistical and personel services to ACORN. Shit-cago shouldn't have even been considered. Go Rio!!!!

[RandallParr]

The cost for Obama's trip to lock in Chicago's bid for the Olympics was $50 million plus. This guy and his advisors actually thought that Obama's amazing "world-respect" would assure the games coming here. Woops. The Olympic Committee nixed Chicago on the first round. Another very expensive misjudgment by the Great One.

[DD826]

I guess, the Olympic commitee told Obama where he can shove it.

Maybe he should have keep his nose a little lower. lol

[bobbollu]

Isn't it interesting that almost all the comments

are positive on TV yet the comments below are mostly negative. Could it be the reporter was selective with which comments were added and which deleted? Am I the only one who noticed?

[barthunt1]

I noticed that myself.. More than likely they edited out the negative comments.. That's why the video is only 2 minutes long..

[roscoe85cj]

Yeah ! .. Obama's ass kicked on the 2016 olympics too ! ... maybe Michelle got a nice handbag out of her trip .. after all, we gotta have something to show for the MILLION dollars we taxpayers coughed up to get those two (and Oprah's fat ass) over there on separate jets ...

[CircusMaximus09]

Oh yah! Gotta love it....now what the hell is BHO gooing to ptich? Took him out of the healthSCARE limelight for a while

[DD826]

Michelle probably went for the food.

Her and Oprah could go meal shopping.

[thebabemagnet]

I'm glad President Obama has time in his hands to go fly around the globe like nothing bad is really happening in the United States! I'm glad he sends other representatives on other less concerning issues like the drug war we have here in the El Paso border with Juarez Chihuahua. President Obama flies to Denmark to talk on this more serious issue than the surplus of drugs here in El Paso and the crime rate going up in the border regions! Wow. That Obama is really some President...

[Armyscout1979]

Im glad Oprah could go with the Obamas to try to get his corrupt friends in Chicago paid. I wonder how much tax money it took to fly her fat ass over there

[lmercado9999]

here we are in the middle of the worst recession and in the middle of a war.. and all barack HUSSAIN obama is worried about is getting the Olympics to his GHETTO city.. I HOPE they dont get it.. OBAMA SUCKS...

[ed2kou1]

Look all of BHO'S cronies stand to make millions off the Olympics. I was such a fool to vote for this guy! BHO is good at apologizing for AMERICA. I'd like to APOLOGIZE TO AMERICA FOR VOTING FOR HIM

[vcovreson]

ed, it's too fucking rare to see anyone who voted for obama regret their decision. i'm kind of split between telling you 'kudos for seeing the error of your ways' and 'i could have told you so, the writing has always been on the wall'.

[ed2kou1]

I voted him for the right reasons. Damn near everything I voted for he LIED! I'm conservitive, but I could never vote for Juan Mccain.  I voted for W twice, and I'm proud of it.

[idiotwithaAK47]

I sadly voted for McCain.....not because I liked him, but I thought he wouldn't ruin this country as much as Obama would. I also liked Palin as well....(c'mon haters, I'm ready!) =)

[TheDrunkLady]

That just means that there is hope for you, not the hopey changey kind. Maybe you should think about voting them all out starting in 2010.

[poortaiwanese]

lol stfu you republicunt

[idiotwithaAK47]

Haahhahaa nice guess, but I'm not a Republican =)

[poortaiwanese]

then your an atheist swing voter?

[nflcollector1]

W is / was a puppet too.

[vcovreson]

ed, i understand what you're saying. i voted for 'W' twice too. i'm just saying that if you were that opposed to mccain, you could have abstained or voted for ron paul. my biggest gripes about obama are that his background was dubious at best, he had accomplished absolutely nothing (except graduating from 'havad'), and his platform was based on nothing but 'change'. talk about your 'smoke and mirrors'.

[VanGoghsEar1890]

I wonder what the ones who disagree with Obama spending 18 hours to get the Olympics in Chicago, think of Bush, who took four days off to visit the China Olympics?

[ed2kou1]

Cause W wasen't playing politics like BHO is. He's sitting on a report from the commander in Afganistan, saying he needs more troops. BHO dosen't want to make the decision until after his socialist health care bill is voted on.

[m7md7atem]

What's that got to do with the Olympic pitch? He can't focus on one thing all the time.

And BTW, I'm Iraqi. So you might wanna consider asking the Iraqi people what they think before getting the troops out. Before the war we didn't have Al Qaida here. They came from neighboring countries because of the chaos after the war. There were no car bombings. NONE.

You can't just invade a country, fuck it up, and then just leave when you feel like it.

We're in this with you. Get Al Qaida OUT.

[Armyscout1979]

70 schoolkids murdered in 3 years, hundreds shot, and one beaten to death while his friends watched. Chicago is a shithole. Lets show the world!

[tracer740]

A1979- "Chicago is a shithole"...??? Either you are mentally unstable, with severely debilitated assessive capabilities, or... you're just jealous that your own 'hometown' can't compare to the World Class status to which the amazing and beautiful City of Chicago achieves.

[vcovreson]

tracer, you're not from chicago by any chance are you?  (one of the most politcally corrupt cities in the country. probably only 2nd to D.C.).

[CircusMaximus09]

Look who is running both cities...coincidence? I don't think so

[m7md7atem]

He's going for less than 24 hours. Geez.

Also, why does every other country in the world want to host? To lose money? why soend all that money for the bid to begin with?

The revenues will exceed the costs immediately after the Olympics. The last two games in Athens and Beijing brought millions of dollars in surplus.

Let alone the remaining venues which then could still be used for other games.

Get your facts straight.

[VenusBlue4u]

You apparently don't have anyone that you care about in the military. WE NEED TO GET THE TROOPS HOME. 24 hours is like 24 days to them!

[Nightrunner529]

Chi town is a crime infested cess pool. No one wants to have an Oly in that rat hole. Go Brazil!

[tracer740]

Nightrunner- "crime infested cesspool"??? I suggest you check the crime stats on Rio de Janeiro, before you embarrass yourself more completely. You need to get out more often and try an education...

[vcovreson]

tracer, just because rio de janeiro's crime stats are off the charts, does not mean chicago is not a 'crime infested cesspool'. it is. you probably delude yourself that next year will be the cubs' 'year' too. they can't win. even with the great coaching and great talent they have. ever heard this one? cubs suck! so do you.

[Nightrunner529]

Tell that to the blacks in Afriica who sold other blacks to the Spanish slavers. What high school did you drop out of?

[Armyscout1979]

im a republican, the KKK was founded by democrats

[Armyscout1979]

how is that racist? its true

[bs2137]

Web poll: Who will benefit most if Chicago wins the 2016 Olympics?

A: Mayor Daleys close, personal friends in the concrete business.

B: Mayor Daleys close, personal friends in the steel business.

C: Mayor Daleys close, personal friends in the waste disposal business.

D: Mayor Daleys close personal friends in the development business.

E: Mayor Daleys close personal friends in the trucking business.

F: Mayor Daleys close, personal friends in the real estate business.

[Armyscout1979]

you have gangs of wild blacks that rove the streets and beat people to death with boards.

[bs2137]

not sure who you are referring to but I rely on no one

[bs2137]

Like what, building a bunch of places in an Olympic village that will go to waste after the games are over which screws the taxpayers. Do the research on previous cities that have held the games and see how they feel about it. Besides, this country is not in need of more exposure.

[tonyzchuang]

the villages build will be converted into housings after the game, actually the city says the plan will move on regardless of whether the game is held. READ THE NEWS before you make un-informed comments.

[bs2137]

show me proof

[RumbleHD]

a vacation isn't that bad when the next night you have to focus on the troops in Afgan

[bs2137]

waste of time and money, this is a leisure trip