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Washington Prowler
Obama’s Olympic Spirit
He doesn’t have time to deal with Afghanistan. But he has plenty of time for his Chicago gang and its Olympics hustle.
It would seem the Obama administration, which hasn’t had time to hold conversations with senior military officials involved in such a critical national security issue as the war in Afghanistan, has been spending far more time assisting President Barack Obama’s adopted hometown, Chicago, than the White House has previously divulged, using the President’s and White House senior staff’s presence at global policy meetings to lobby foreign ministers, diplomats and members of the International Olympic Committee.
This morning’s Wall Street Journal reported on some of the heretofore unknown efforts undertaken by the Obama White House to lobby “unaligned” nations involved in the International Olympic Committee’s selection of the site for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
The money quote: “The Chicago backers have pinned their hopes in part on winning the support of about a dozen African nations, a bloc of traditionally unaligned votes at the IOC. The administration has tried to make its case in conversations on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, at the Group of 20 Summit, during a Capitol reception with African diplomats and in a video of Mr. Obama personally pitching African IOC members.”
“I think it’s safe to say that this administration has been far more involved in lobbying and efforting this bid than officials here have led folks to believe,” says a staffer assigned to the White House Counsel’s Office, who says that amount of time being spent on strategizing and assisting Chicago2016, the entity that was formed several years ago to begin the bidding process, and which will ultimately be responsible for overseeing the Olympics in Chicago should the city receive the bid , was an issue that had counsel staff attempting to determine whether it was appropriate for White House resources to be used to assist in the Chicago bid. “It was made clear to us that this was something the President and First Lady were very committed to,” says the source.
According to the White House source, both the State Department and the National Security Council were asked for assistance in preparing briefing materials for use during the UN, G-20, and overseas trips to Europe and Africa in meetings with foreign officials, particularly in the ”unaligned” African countries.
It isn’t just the Obamas — and their ties to the most senior members of Chicago 2016 are far more extensive than the mainstream media has bothered to uncover.
For example, as it stands, Obama senior adviser David Axelrod’s firm, AKPD Message and Media, which employs his son, and which owes Axelrod money, is one of the contractors on the Chicago Olympics bid. Senior presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett has been deeply involved in the strategizing for the Olympics bid since before the 2008 election, and until accepting her job in the White House she was a deputy chairwoman of the Chicago Olympics Host Committee. Both have close ties to a number of Chicago 2016 committee members.
Crain’s Chicago Business reported Monday that Jarrett and Chicago 2016 committee president (and recent chief of staff to Mayor Richard Daley) Lori Healey met with officials of the Department of Housing and Urban Development to discuss financing options for construction of the Olympic Village. According the HUD sources, the Obama Administration will seek to use low-income housing grant funding options to help the city build the Olympic Village, and when the Olympics are over, some portions of the village will be used for low-income rental and purchased residences.
Healey and Jarrett’s relationship goes back years to Healey’s times as a senior staffer on the city’s planning and development department in the 1990s, around the same time that Jarrett would have been running one of the city’s largest low-income housing projects. Healey was also vice chair of the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) Board of Commissioners, which would have overseen Jarrett’s company’s projects.
Another member of the Chicago committee is Martin Nesbitt, who the New York Times last December identified as one of President Obama’s “closest friends,” and whose wife is a close friend to Michelle Obama. Nesbitt, the godfather to one of the Obamas’ daughters, was also the Obama presidential campaign’s treasurer, and is credited with introducing Obama to Penny Pritzker, one of the most influential fundraisers for Democrats in the United States. His ties to Pritzker go back to a time when he worked for Pritzker’s real estate companies, and she later invested in Nesbitt’s airport off-site parking business, the Parking Spot, a company that stands to make millions from the Olympics bid. The Pritzker family, which holds a number of real estate properties in Chicago, also stands to reap tens of millions from a successful Olympics bid. Nesbitt is also the chairman of the board of commissioners of the Chicago Housing Authority.
Nesbitt did not join the board of Chicago 2016 until March 2009, when he replaced … Valerie Jarrett, who resigned from the board to accept her post in the White House.
Cpm| 9.29.09 @ 12:09PM
Like all civic projects in Chicago an Olympic bid will afford the syphoning off tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money which will simply disappear into the pockets of politicians, labor unions, fatcats, and crooked contractors. It will also be Obama's only foreign policy success.
Alan Brooks| 9.30.09 @ 3:31PM
right on target.
but if you keep electing Bushes and voting for Doles and McCains, then you...
Get what you paid for. And you Republicans wont learn, you'll run another loser in '12.
So enjoy Obama; enjoy Chicago politics.
Democracy (lower case 'd') means everyoner gets what they deserve.
Alan Brooks| 9.30.09 @ 3:35PM
Just you watch, three years from now, August of '12, Jeb Bush will get the nomination. Thickheaded Midwestern Repuglicans, like in Chicago, will want him nominated.
They'll think it is 'continuit'y-- when it is the opposite.
Margie| 9.30.09 @ 5:41PM
Last time I looked, this was a Constitutional Republic. You say "You Republicans". Which party do you belong to, and what would your suggestions be, Mr. Brooks?
Alan Brooks| 9.30.09 @ 10:46PM
Party? I voted for Gore and Kerry. In '08 I didn't vote. Next time I'll vote for Obama, unless the GOP runs another Reagan.
Suggestion? run first rate, instead of third rate, candidates.
A. Brooks| 9.30.09 @ 10:51PM
Marge,
here's your error:
we don't "belong" to parties-- they (should) belong to us.
BTW, commenting on the piece, for once, maybe the reason Obama doesn't confer with Defense brass on Afghanistan is because he knows it is a lost cause. Iraq might not be, though-- be thankful not only for small favors, but for any favors.
Margie| 10.1.09 @ 12:51AM
A. Brooks,
My error. Sure. So, you reason that it is better to vote for Obama than for a Lib Republican? I cannot agree with that. In fact I think it's weird. And Afghanistan will be a lost cause if Obama allows our fighting men and women to languish without troop reinforcement. I don't think your in your right mind, quite frankly!
Alan Brooks| 10.1.09 @ 1:09AM
There is no Afghanistan, it's merely tribes and clans.
Margie| 10.1.09 @ 1:24AM
I'm certainly no expert. You are well informed, obviously. But.. do you truly believe that cutting and running is the answer. it seems a terrible thing to do. Honestly.
Margie| 10.1.09 @ 1:26AM
I'm certainly no expert. You are well informed, obviously. But.. do you truly believe that cutting and running is the answer. it seems a terrible thing to do. Honestly.
Margie| 10.1.09 @ 1:26AM
I'm certainly no expert. You are well informed, obviously. But.. do you truly believe that cutting and running is the answer. it seems a terrible thing to do. Honestly.
Nobama| 10.1.09 @ 12:02AM
Obama's a fourth-rate candidate; why in hell would you vote for the Marxist moron?
Alan Brooks| 10.1.09 @ 12:41AM
Why is Obama worse than Clinton? And not only was Clinton re-elected, but now his wife is SecState.
Alan Brooks| 10.1.09 @ 12:43AM
I only dislike Carters and LBJs
Margie| 10.1.09 @ 12:52AM
If you dislike Carters and LBJ's, why would you vote for AlGore?
Alan Brooks| 10.1.09 @ 1:03AM
Gore is not comparable to Carter or LBJ.
Alan Brooks| 10.1.09 @ 1:12AM
Anyway, at least Carter and Gore are decent men. LBJ was an indecent swine.
Margie| 10.1.09 @ 1:20AM
Carter/Gore, not LBJ. I know why. It's a personality thing. Am I right?
Summer| 10.1.09 @ 2:37AM
Gore is NOT a decent man--he has made tens of millions of dollars off the "Global Warming" con game. He also was involved in corruption when he was VP--taking millions of dollars in illicit campaign contributions from the Chinese. The man is real dirty.
Don't even get me started with Toothy Carter the human disaster. Puleeze.
Margie| 10.1.09 @ 1:00AM
"Democracy (lower case 'd') means everyoner gets what they deserve."
~You say this, and of course we get what we deserve, IF we vote for them, but then you throw your vote to the whack jobs.. or you just plain throw it away all together by not voting. How does that make sense? How can you possibly criticize us for "getting what we deserve" when you do this? I honestly cannot understand that logic. It's because you are so fed up, isn't it? I understand that. so are most of us. BUT... aren't you giving up and giving in, then?
Alan Brooks| 10.1.09 @ 1:07AM
Margie,
you're right. And BTW I would have voted for Obama-- I like him-- but was losing all progressivist conviction.
But if a solid conservative (and NOT any sort of libertarian) runs in '12, then I'll vote again.
Margie| 10.1.09 @ 1:15AM
That is very interesting! Well of course I will say that I am glad you were losing (and hope still are) any progressivist conviction. (you have created yet another new word for that end of the spectrum, I think).. so you liked Reagan? I see what you are like now. I totally understand (if indeed you are not now pulling my leg, that is). You can appreciate the real thing, but are adamant against voting for anything but. Well, I think you ought to perhaps be a little kinder to the rest of us because you see we are all in the same boat. But most of us will take the rascally Republican that is the nominee because we can't stand the thought of voting for a Socialist. "Ya know?"
Margie| 10.1.09 @ 1:18AM
As to Obama, you like him because he can talk, don't you? (Well, with the teleprompter, anyway).
Alan Brooks| 10.1.09 @ 1:01AM
This has got to be reposted:
"Russkies caused 9/11? Um, did you know that the Reagan Administration - along with Bin Ladin - funded the start up of Al Quaeda?"
Wally,
of course Reagan funded Al Qaeda, how else to drive the Commies back to the Soviet Union-- with slingshots? It's not only who fights a war, it's also who starts it by invasion. Stalin was worse than Hitler; but Germany and its allies invaded Russia in 1941, so we backed Stalin.
and Brezhnev's Red Army invaded Afghanistan 1978- '79.
Jake Ryan | 10.5.09 @ 12:25AM
The tool which the Chicago Outfit and the Cook County Regular Democratice Organization use to keep friend and foe in line is FEAR. The one thing they themselves fear the most is to appear IMPOTENT. That is exactly what happened to them on Friday, October 2, 2009 at 11a Central when the Chicago Olympic Bid was thrown out in the first round. They are stunned. So seize the moment and start coming at them from every approach. Tell them NO, NO, NO to anything they request. Their end is near.
Blog Goliard| 9.29.09 @ 12:36PM
Actually, what most bothers me here is that White House staffers seem to think "efforting" is a word.
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Twitter Trackbacks for The American Spectator : Obama's Olympic Spirit [spectator.or links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Alan Brooks| 9.29.09 @ 1:35PM
the Soviet Union has been dissolved for 18 years; but can't Toddard admit that the surviving Russians involved are culpable for the war in Afghanistan?
John OB| 9.29.09 @ 3:36PM
Chicago 2016, the "Pay Go" Olympiad!
Susan Tenofsky| 9.29.09 @ 6:07PM
Right on! Hope Obama mob has not enough to make the bid. We shall see!
Anthony| 9.29.09 @ 3:54PM
Obama has learned somethings well from Clinton, when he's not busy transforming America into the worker's paradise. It's easy to deal with the small stuff rather than the serious problems that presidents are elected to handle. War is serious business and polemics about Bush just don't cut it anymore, so Obama punts and dances with his hard left base, while good men and woman fight on the battlefield.
The Olympics are Obama's midnight basketball, but brave Americans are waiting for Obama to act like a commander-in -chief, not a Chicago ward politician. May God look after our brave troops, while Obama is distracted with more pressing issues.
Tim| 9.29.09 @ 3:59PM
The Prez is just watering the grassroots. The construction graft alone from an Olympiad will keep Chicago pols in luxury well into the 2020's.
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Protest Tuesday: Majority of Chicagoans Do Not Want 2016 Olympic Games & Huge Bill T links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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Olympics & Chicago: Chi-Town Residents Don’t Trust Politicians, Suspicious They Will links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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The Dying Mainstream Media = “Fringe Media” (political cartoons, video) « Frugal Caf links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
J.C.Eaton| 9.29.09 @ 5:36PM
When Mr. Lincoln was Commander-in-chiefing his prosecution of the Civil War, he frequently bunked at the telegraph office of the War Department. He wanted to be available to know asap whatever his commanders were doing, particularly at critical junctures such as Gettysburg. I fully realize that times have changed and Mr. Obama can enjoy instant communications from his generals IF he wished. That's not the point. What is the point is that he evidences total indifference to his war-time responsibilities and obsession with the comparative silliness of Chicago games. It's instructive what interests this goof.
Alice Moore| 9.29.09 @ 6:56PM
Some say the 2016 games are a done deal with BO on the scenc. However, there have been 3 Olympics in English speaking countries since 1996. I think it would be amusing if the Olympics went to Rio or Tokyo. BO could lose a lot of political capital for a trivial matter.
Margie| 9.30.09 @ 5:51PM
"What is the point is that he evidences total indifference to his war-time responsibilities.."
~War-time responsibilities? That is a joke to the America Hater in Chief. In today's news: Obama will NOT be sending the additional troops needed to Afghanistan as requested by General McChrystal.
WR Jonas| 9.29.09 @ 6:21PM
The thought of the President squandering millions more to fly to Europe and to personally pimp for the City of Chicago before the Olympic selection committee is as revolting as it gets.
How are the interests of millions of us who don't worship the Democrats served by this self indulgent exercise?
One can only imagine the snarling ,drooling press coverage if George W. Bush had lobbied for Dallas or Houston to receive the Olympic blessing.
Appleby| 9.30.09 @ 7:19AM
I lived in Atlanta during their Olympics and was satisfied to see almost everyone who had a finger in that pie, right up to the Mayor, end up in prison.
I look forward to the Obama Thugocracy joining them there.
Kristi S.| 9.29.09 @ 7:23PM
Dear President wants the Olympics in Chicago 2016 to be a celebration of his last year in office, a party of All Things Obama.
The solution is to make 2012 his last year as President. Please.
Birth of a Word Apparently| 9.29.09 @ 7:38PM
What is "efforting?"
Wally| 9.29.09 @ 10:44PM
So the money quote is that the President of the U.S. is trying to convince delegates from some African nations to support the U.S.'s bid to host the Olympic Games. OUTRAGEOUS! How dare someone try to convince delegates to vote for a proposal that will bring $100s of millions in profits to the U.S. This is fascism! Or communism. Or the holocaust... Or something like that.
Wally| 9.29.09 @ 10:50PM
Brooks. Russkies caused 9/11? Um, did you know that the Reagan Administration - along with Bin Ladin - funded the start up of Al Quaeda? Did you know that until about 4 years ago, U.S. money went through Pakistan Intelligence services to the Taliban?
Did you know that the Bush administration negotiated with the Taliban to let U.S. oil companies build a pipeline through Afghanistan?
I didn't think so.
S.L. Toddard| 9.30.09 @ 12:56AM
Wally, did you know that Clinton ordered Jamie Gorelick to build a 'wall' between the FBI and the CIA to protect his corrupt sorry butt from Justice Dept. investigations? Did you also know that Clinton's 'wall' precluded the FBI from investigating the laptop computer (which held 9/11 plans and details) of one of the hi-jackers years before we were attacked on September 11??
What about the fact that Clinton was offered Bin Laden several times during his 8 years as president--and rejected the offer every time? Huh?
Before 9/11:
Clinton -- 8 YEARS in office
George W. Bush -- 8 MONTHS in office
How awful that Clinton was too busy whoring around with interns to protect our country. The man's a disgrace. Shut your pie-hole, moron.
The Trush At Last| 9.30.09 @ 1:35AM
Before 9/11:
Clinton -- 8 YEARS in office
George W. Bush -- 8 MONTHS in office
You are a sadly mistaken poor, old, and fool. It was one, A GORE, who ordered the 9/11 attacks. He was jealous, you see????? But the ass ass ins missed the targets. They were supposed to hit America where it hurts. The Heartland. The Bible Belt. The South. But the freaking muslims were morons and hit the wrong targets. It would have been clear, a shining star of freedom, and the South would have rose up and overthrown the North. Goddamn those muslins. Goddamn A GORE. Goddamn Obama, no negro would have been president if this plan had worked. I almost have to hand it to A GORE. Except he was just going for revenge against the SOUTH. But we would have emerged from that tragedy with enough votes to reinstate slavery. Except it hit New York which no cares about but Jews and Blacks.
Summer| 9.30.09 @ 2:46PM
Daphne, you're even crazier than usual--someone should put you out of your misery. I'll volunteer.
Alan Brooks| 10.1.09 @ 12:53AM
Daphne must be suffering from terminal syphilis.
Summer| 10.1.09 @ 2:26AM
Ew, gross, Alan--but you made me laugh.
Alan Brooks| 10.1.09 @ 12:50AM
Wally,
of course Reagan funded Al Qaeda, how else to drive the Commies back to the Soviet Union-- with slingshots?
Liberal Reader| 9.30.09 @ 1:14AM
Oh come on.
He's going to get on an aircraft that has plenty of facilities for him to do any kind of work he could do at the White House. He's going to fly for nine hours, give a 45 minute presentation, and fly home. He'll be able to do the people's business just fine.
If you can't EVER give the guy a single break, what fair minded person is going to be persuaded by you?
You're just preaching to a choir of irrational, suspicious, paranoid losers.
JimE| 9.30.09 @ 1:36AM
Liberal reader,
Your stupidity and ignorance continues to entertain. Do you belong to "rimmer's" club?
S.L. Toddard| 9.30.09 @ 2:42PM
JimE, not sure about the 'rimmers club', but I hear Liberal Reader is president of the 'tossed salads' club.
Paul| 9.30.09 @ 1:59PM
And after all that carbon he burns on that round trip, he'll come back and lecture us some more about all the energy we waste in our SUVs?
Mmm Mmm Mmm...BARACK HYPOCRITE OBAMA!
Norma Jean Reynolds| 9.30.09 @ 1:26AM
I will never trust an internet commentator who is too much of a coward to actually use his/her real name.
I mean, seriously, wtf. I thought this was a serious website. Go back to your comics.
Leo| 9.30.09 @ 2:33PM
Yeah, sure, 'Norma Jean'. Moron.
The Prowler| 9.30.09 @ 1:56AM
Dont hate me because I am gay... :(
The Prowler| 9.30.09 @ 1:57AM
The PROWLER!
The Prowler| 9.30.09 @ 1:57AM
I am the MOTHER SHOVING PROWLER! I AM BADASS!
The Prowler| 9.30.09 @ 1:59AM
I prowl the streets of Washington so you dont have to, and because I love cock. Why all the hate?
Watch me prowl, mthrfckrs!@
Chuck Grassley| 9.30.09 @ 2:01AM
Can I come to yur skool and speek to yur pruwlers?
The Prowler| 9.30.09 @ 2:02AM
Who is a badass? Some called the PROWLER, that's who.
The Prowler| 9.30.09 @ 2:03AM
I AM THE MOTHER LOVING PROWLER! BOW TO ME!
The Prowler| 9.30.09 @ 2:06AM
Course in Being A Badass
Call yourself by a mysterious name, like the Trespasser, the Cat Burgler, the Sneak Thief, OR The Prowler! *cat scream*
People will take you serious then. The Prowler is the kind of name that gets you instant respect. Libruls run and hide. Men love you. You get all sorts of gay sex. This name rules.
Marcell| 9.30.09 @ 2:31PM
Liberalism on display: Assorted perverts, sickos and freaks. There are not enough insane asylums on earth to hold all of these lunatics.
The Prowler| 9.30.09 @ 2:22AM
It's good to be... THE PROWLER!
Nick| 9.30.09 @ 2:23AM
I see a crack party just broke up.
Poor little crack-heads. They shouldn't be allowed to operate machinery or computers.
The Prowler| 9.30.09 @ 2:25AM
The Prowler is so badass I can take on Jesus hisself and rip a good chunk out of his neck before he beats me down.
The Prowler could beat Jesus down on any good day.
The Prowler| 9.30.09 @ 2:26AM
THE PROWLER!
Nick| 9.30.09 @ 2:27AM
Disregard that, I suck cocks.
The Prowler| 9.30.09 @ 2:29AM
Call me... The Prowler!
The Crack-Head| 9.30.09 @ 2:31AM
Forgive me, all.
I project homo-ness on others because I was molested by George Soros last night.
The Crack-Head| 9.30.09 @ 2:43AM
Forgive me, again.
It wasn't George Soros who raped me last night, that was last week.
No, last night I was raped by Roman Polanski. But not RAPED-raped. Just regular, run-of-the-mill rape.
This made up for being RAPED-raped by Ted Kennedy last year. Who is the real reason I project homo-ness on everyone.
Deborah D | 9.30.09 @ 6:51AM
This absurdity of the Olympics vs. Afghanistan is basically the 21st Century version of Nero fiddling as Rome burns. Only this time Nero is fiddling with a lit bow.
Tim| 9.30.09 @ 3:57PM
Which makes me wonder, will Afghanistan field an olympic team or will we pay Americans compete for them?
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#2016OpeningCeremonies: Parade of Parking Meters | Chicago Daily Observer links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Melvin| 9.30.09 @ 7:41AM
Ya can take the Community Organizer out of Chicago, but ya can't take Chicago out of the Community Organizer.
Sir Richard Daley is wringing his fleshy corrupt fingers in glee of all the billions of dollars that will be siphoned off into untraceable private and union bank accounts.
Who knows for entertainment maybe Richard Daley and the President could host the thug and gang event where they can get the the gold for seeing who can beat someone to death with a wooden 2 x 4 the quickest.
Robert Rosencrans | 9.30.09 @ 8:01AM
It looks like the White House efforting staff is monitoring The Prowler.
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Who Profits from the Chicago Olympics - Obama’s family, friends and campaign contribu links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Martin Owens| 9.30.09 @ 10:01AM
Is there an Olympic event called the
Freestyle Beat-down? If so,
Chicago's just the place to have it....
ccc| 9.30.09 @ 10:53AM
Rather than wasting time trying to bring the games to the US, he should be doing something of national importance like hacking brush in Texas.
Summer| 9.30.09 @ 2:28PM
At least President Bush took the time to speak personally to his commanding generals. Assclown Obama has spoken ONCE to his hand picked general in Afghanistan in 70 DAYS!! If we lose this war it's Obama's and all you loser libs' fault.
You idiot liberals don't know what you're doing and you don't give a damn about our fellow Americans fighting overseas, either; you're too busy defending that nasty pervert, Polanski.
You're absolutely worthless.
Liberal Reader| 9.30.09 @ 4:51PM
And you know this ... how?
Summer --
Gen. McChrystal said in an interview about a month ago that he spoke to Obama on a daily basis. This summer I heard the commander in Iraq (forget his name) say he thought Obama was giving more time to discussing Iraq and Afghanistan than any other single issue.
Just curious:
Do you KNOW you're a fucking moron? Or, do you go around thinking you're clever and informed?
Do you KNOW you're just spreading lies, or do you think you're passing on accurate information you heard on Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck or some other bullshit radio program?
Summer| 9.30.09 @ 5:40PM
Dumbshit, General McChrystal himself stated in an interview on 60 MINUTES he'd only spoken to Obama ONCE in the last 70 days!! You know, 60 Minutes, the bastion of Conservative thought on CBS? If you'd get your worthless head out of your worthless ass for just a minute, you'd have already known that.
You're slipping A-Hole.
Dennis Duggan| 9.30.09 @ 11:56AM
Why worry? Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton are on it. Feel better now?
Grzmlyk| 9.30.09 @ 1:04PM
Hey, liberal reader:
Doesn't your back hurt from bending over backwards to defend obvious criminality/incompetence/ideological naivete/pettiness/narcissism? Don't you get cramps?
Or are you the type who bends over forward?
Also, I wouldn't drive with those blinders on. Despite your puerile opinions to the contrary, peripheral vision comes in handy.
Heck, just seeing the nose in front of your face might be a start.
Ah, but hope springs eternal for the ever-dishonest liberal. That's the problem with lobotomies. If they don't go all the way, you end up with a Liberal Reader instead of a Rosemary Kennedy, who sat in a room and never bothered anyone for decades.
Prowler: Right on, dude! We could use a little wit around here. Most sagacious use of the English language. For an end table, you impress.
Oh: And anyone who uses "effort" as a verb should be drawn and quartered on sight.
Liberal Reader| 9.30.09 @ 2:09PM
Grzmlyk --
Reread your post. Tell me: are you capable of making a single reasonable point? Do you have any examples of Obama's "criminality" or "incompetence"?
I suppose incompetence is a matter of opinion, but do you have any evidence that he is a criminal?
The rest of your post is just more name-calling.
Don't you take yourself seriously enough to engage in actual debate?
My point, above, was simple, and I'll reiterate it here, in case you'd like to respond in a reasonable way:
Obama is traveling to Europe on an air-craft outfitted with communications technology -- to say nothing of his staff -- that would permit him to run the executive branch for months. He can get just as much done in the air over the Atlantic as he can in the White House.
His mission is to secure the honor of hosting Olympic games in the United States of America. This honor would be good for this country, culturally and economically. It would also be good for us diplomatically. Why do you think the leaders of all the other countries vying for this honor are going to be attending?
Now -- if you want to make some kind of argument like an adult, do so. If not, why bother to respond at all?
Margie| 9.30.09 @ 4:58PM
There is no "debating" a Communist sympathizer. Or any of the Communist sympathizers in here. ("My name is Legion, for we are many." Mark 5:9).
Liberal Reader| 9.30.09 @ 11:51PM
Your sanctimonious biblical quotation: put it in your ass, Margie.
Johnno| 10.1.09 @ 12:07AM
Liberal Reader already has 'it' up his ass--he knows what he's talking about, Margie.
I hope it's not an IED like those Muslim terrorists
Margie| 10.1.09 @ 12:36AM
Sanctimonious is Liberal Reader's Communist vision for America, and how we all are stupid for not "understanding" how it is so wonderful.
Communists despise the Truth.
Margie| 10.1.09 @ 1:37AM
I don't appreciate the filthy language, no matter which side it's on. But I do appreciate your support, Johnno.
Curtis Rasmussen| 10.1.09 @ 12:28AM
Genuflect before your dear leader, Obama. I suggest you do it under the presidential desk, Monica Lewinsky style.
Ubiquitous troll, you are good for nothing else. At least it would give you something to do rather than spending all day, every day trolling this site, harassing people that can never agree with your supercilious rants. Begone, Toadturd, lib troll! Get a job, find a hobby, get a date, Anything!
Killarney| 9.30.09 @ 3:04PM
Grzmlyk, I'm betting big money on the 'bends over' type. Liberals are big-time ankle grabbers.
Deborah D | 9.30.09 @ 2:10PM
Bush never put "hacking brush in Texas" ahead of the troops...ever.
I'm sure the American people will be stuck with the bill of the Chicago Olympics, as Obama sticks us with the bill for every other ridiculous thing he thinks is important.
Liberal Reader| 9.30.09 @ 2:12PM
I have to say the person posting as The Prowler is a jackass, but honestly he's just an extreme version of what too often goes on around here.
IF you are a homosexual but fear coming out of the closet, get spiritual advice or therapy or both.
Don't come to the American Spectator and seethe with homophobic ranting. It's boring and embarrassing.
Charlie Mac| 9.30.09 @ 2:59PM
Come now, Liberal Reader; the moron posting as Prowler is just another example of YOUR fellow 'finless trout' liberals spewing the sewage of leftist thought--an 'extreme version' of YOU.
Human excrement personified.
Grzmlyk| 9.30.09 @ 2:27PM
Liberal reader, I apologize. You are operating under a misconception: You don't think I read your posts anymore, do you?
Silly.
I catch a word here or there and that's a surfeit of phlegm for me.
Your postings are so predictable.
And no, I don't debate losers who are in a charlatan-induced hypnotic state. What's that phrase about arguing with a fool?
Ever try to pry someone out of a cult? I say let 'em rot there.
But keep those cards and letters coming. I'm sure someone out there thinks you're not an idiot.
Al Adab| 9.30.09 @ 2:38PM
Typical of the left. Simply a payback to supporters based on the belief that it is entirely appropriate to micro-manage every aspect of American life from the top.
Liberal Reader| 9.30.09 @ 3:58PM
You people are bunch of idiots.
Do you know that?
Do you know how foolish you are?
It's a silly question. But Jesus, Christ. You're a league of complete idiots.
Your posts are shallow, obnoxious, uninformed, boorish, boring, and ridiculous.
You are the new know-nothings.
Margie| 9.30.09 @ 5:03PM
"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed."
~Clare Luce Booth
Margie| 9.30.09 @ 5:06PM
“Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.”
~Clare Boothe Luce
Margie| 9.30.09 @ 5:10PM
"You are the new know-nothings." You use many words to display that, in deed, you know nothing.
Grzmlyk| 9.30.09 @ 4:07PM
Baby wants a bottle.
But at least Baby invested in a thesaurus.
Summer| 9.30.09 @ 4:23PM
Liberal Reader, Obama 'rimmer' extraordinaire, has left in a huff. Bet he's goose-stepping around his stepmom's basement right now.
Sieg Heil, Jeremiah!!
cuban pete| 9.30.09 @ 4:12PM
Chicago is going to get the Olympics.That is why BHO is going. Daley gave him the word and now he can go so it will appear that his influence made it happen.
Deep in his little heart BHO doesn't care about the Olympics because it is collection of contests where there are winners and losers. The concept of victory is abhorrent to liberals because if someone wins it means someone lost. Losing(in sports anyway ) is bad for a person's self esteem. That's why liberals promote all those youth activities where no score is kept.
This is for Richie Daley so he can spread the wealth to his political cronies and create work for his union buddies. By the time the games roll around I'll be eligible for state insured end of life health options so I won't get to see the games anyway.
Grzmlyk you are my man.
Grzmlyk| 9.30.09 @ 4:29PM
Right back atcha, Cuban Pete. You rock.
Of course, liberals only detest winners and losers when the contest is out in the open and based on the merits.
But behind closed doors, they're rigging every game so that they always come out winners and taxpayers come out losers. Legalized shakedowns. Is this a great country or what?
That's is why Obama wants Chicago to have the Olympics. Because they might make a billion or they might lose a billion, but either way, one thing is sure: Obama's cronies' pockets will be lined with newly-minted taxpayer lucre.
The apotheosis of Chicago-style thuggery has arrived. I'm just waiting for Obama to drop all pretense of being a president and start behaving like the fifth-rate capo he is.
You know what really sucks? Fools like Liberal Reader will get fleeced along with the rest of us (or worse, if health care is rammed down our throats), but they will never even realize it. For those liberals who aren't corrupt, the remaining credulous fools are perfect marks: They keep coming back for more.
And that's fine for Liberal Reader. He can live in the fantasyland of utopia - even as the real world around him devolves into a Lord-of-the-Flies nightmare - all he wants. The problem comes when people like you and me get dragged against our will behind the facade of "social justice" and are mugged by goons like Obama, ACORN, SEIU, the Congress of the US and of course Valerie Jarrett and her merry band of felons. Then execrable morons like Liberal Reader have much to answer for.
If a fool never awakens to what his idiocy hath wrought, is he still a fool?
YES.
Pearls Before Swine| 9.30.09 @ 4:55PM
Maybe Chicago will be the first city to introduce the newest Olympic sport, "Gang style murder and mayhem against innocents" to the world. Maybe Liberal Reader will volunteer to be the first victim, er, participant.
Liberal Reader| 9.30.09 @ 6:20PM
I love how you reactionaries are constantly protesting accusations of racism.
Your movement has one thing at its rotten core: hatred of black people.
Margie| 9.30.09 @ 6:52PM
LOL LibReader,
You actually have to resort to the race card!
What happened to all of your intellectualizing? A little outnumbered today, are we?
Tsk, tsk.
You are so blind. Don't you see just a little bit that YOU are the reactionary? Have you absolutely no ability at all to see how wrong headed you are? You do a conversion. What will it take?
Margie| 9.30.09 @ 6:53PM
*s/b you do need a conversion, LibRead.
Al Adab| 9.30.09 @ 6:52PM
Lib reader,
We had a couple of good discussion a while back. Now though, if accusations of racism are the best canard the left has, I am concerned. Actually I find it offensive for a number of reasons and hope we can debate issues rather than sling unfounded accusations. I don't know about reactionaries, but I do understand the Conservative movement and it is anything hbut race based. Just get off it and lets talk policy.
Summer| 9.30.09 @ 7:32PM
Our "MOVEMENT" fought the Civil War to liberate black slaves from the oppression of YOU and your fellow DEMOCRATS, moron. You people never met a white sheet you didn't like.
Race baiting is the last refuge of liberal scoundrels like you. It won't work anymore, Jeremiah.
Liberal Reader| 9.30.09 @ 7:34PM
Did any of you READ the post to which I was responding?
You are willfully blind. You are armor-clad against the prompts of reason. You are absolute, vicious fools.
Daisy| 9.30.09 @ 9:01PM
It is YOU who are willfully blind, Liberal fool: Your moronic, family destroying, liberal social policies have devastated the inner cities of our country. Liberal true-believers like YOU are absolutely responsible for that young boy's murder.
We've been fighting "The War on Poverty" for fifty years and look at the absolute ruination of our democrat-run big cities today--they are worse off than ever. Liberals cannot govern and socialism ALWAYS leads to poverty.
Now that's vicious!
Grzmlyk| 9.30.09 @ 6:55PM
Once again, we have an ideologue who chooses to ignore reality. It is historically the Democrat party that has striven to keep blacks on the plantation.
The minute they don't play their role as victim and grateful recipient of the white man's noblesse oblige, they are persona non grata: Thomas Sowell. Walter Williams. Clarence Thomas. Selwyn Duke. Shelby Steele. Ward Connerly. Alan Keyes. Micheal Steele. Condoleeza Rice. Herman Cain. Deroy Murdock. Janice Rogers Brown. Roy Innis. J.C. Watts. Armstrong Williams.
The list goes on and on of people for whom Democrats have only contempt because they have the temerity to believe they are something more than empty vessels into which white guilt can be poured.
Yup, wanting to treat people based on the content of their character and not their skin color sure is racist.
And, just to complete Liberal Reader's moral landscape, "up" is "down," "good" is "bad," "in" is "out," "hot" is "cold," "big government" is "benevolent," "coerced taxes" are "altruism" and "corruption" is "purity."
Oh. And "the public option" will "save money." And "cover 47 million additional people." And "improve health care."
Wanna bet?
Your typical liberal: Always a bigshot with other people's money, always magnanimous with the blood and sweat of somebody else's toil.
And no matter how replete history's rag-tag trail is with the misery and heartbreak of liberal policies, somehow, some way, the sun will shine on leftism tomorrow. As long as you ignore the corruption. And the thuggery. And the graft. And the waste. And the lethargy. And the bloated bureaucracy. And the thought police.
Liberal Reader| 9.30.09 @ 8:28PM
This post and this thread does more to undercut conservative criticisms of Obama than any other publication or thread I've seen.
It is patently silly and petty and shallow.
The president is joining world leaders whose countries are competing for the Olympics.
Only a complete jackass would complain about this, and, in fact, only people who don't even understand their own proclaimed philosophical positions would complain about this.
Conservatism once offered powerful criticisms of liberalism with intellectual clarity, vigor, and integrity.
This, above, is just bullshit, and it is very typical of the reactionary white nationalistic populism that has afflicted the Republican party in the last year.
Achtung, baby.
Daisy| 9.30.09 @ 9:02PM
Goose-step your way to hell, Jeremiah.
Margie| 9.30.09 @ 10:15PM
This, above, is just bullshit, and it is very typical of the reactionary white nationalistic populism that has afflicted the Republican party in the last year."
~Spoken like a true Racist. Hypocrite!
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This, above, is just b@!#%^*t, and it is very typical of the reactionary white nationalistic populism that has afflicted the Republican party in the last year. By Liberal Reader
Nothing quite like the mating call of a Jackass in heat is there.
Typical liberal scum. Go try on your mommies underwear and leave the debate to the grown-ups ya floozie!
When did you get the ability to discern skin tone from a computer you moron.
Lord have mercy
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