Obama's 2016 Olympics Bid Was Inept Politics

but i know for sure they will fail miserablely even on the first round pick because u got bunch o idiot young black kid go around beat and shot people but get away with that sort of stuff, now u all also hear that on the news the citizen and state of Detroi and Michigan have 60-80 dead body at the corner unclaim be cause their love couldn't afford to take them back and those corpse is still there without state or chairity fund from church which out noway they are be able to solve it. Samething in LA before they spoke i think they should used their head b4 they make laughing stock for the world. If we try to look good but inside we over spend our budget just to look good on the outside but in the inside we are really poor and not make the people of our country feel happy first than i think that we really try too hard on something else but inside we are really ain't doing anything good for ourself and our people beisde just making us looking good on the news. Don't try to show off that ya rich but inside ya not ya just in a poor deep $hit broke @$$ condition just be trueful to yaself

nice try but it ain't working with the comite conference of CA 10:22PM October 03, 2009

As the above title says, the President needs to wake up. You, Mr. President, are listening too much to what your advisors are pumping in to you. The advisor(s) who told you to make this trip ought to be booted out of the White House. You, Mr. President, just got a wake-up call from the rest of the world. Just because you fly in on Air-Force One with the Chicago group and Opra Winfrey, with all of the pomp and circumstance that a head of state entails, does not necessarily mean you're going to get your way. I would dare say that all of you were totally shocked that you were not able to persuade the IOC to give Chicago the nod. What this tells me is that the President if, not careful, will become just a "bit" player in the world outside of the U.S. If I were Iran and or North Korea, I would not be in the least bit in awe of the President or the U.S. To me, that's the danger that the symbolism of this trip has exposed this country to. This is not good, not good at all.

J of SC 5:34PM October 03, 2009

Here is someone's(only one awake evidently) regarding this latest addition to Obama's highlight reel."If the President can't sell Chicago to the IOC -how can he convince Iran to cease it's development of nuclear weapons"?

Rod of MO 2:50PM October 03, 2009

The larger issue is the unsuccessful bid by Chicago for the Olympics, and by association, the unsuccessful bid of the United States and the country's sitting president who happened to lobby for Chicago.

The foreign policy of the United States presently seems to back off of it's original policy under the Bush Administration. Even so, this policy is more pragmatism than self abnegating constraint; the United States debt has reached 90percent of GDP and still growing, and a harsh winter has fallen on the economy, which seems to have no end in sight, even if the figures point to ebbing unemployment and ebbing economic decline; this decline has sent shock waves around the world and encouraged calls from major trading partners for a basket of international currencies to replace the dollar.

The Middle East seems unhappy and cautious with Washington at best. Iraq is in a state of civil war, the mission in Afghanistan is on the verge of failure, and Iran is touting nuclear weapons; albeit, for fear it might be the next victim of the U.S. war machine. A confrontation with a Nuclear Iran would be catastrophic for the United States given it's present domestic and foreign issues.

The United States, straddled with mounting debt, terrorism, two wars, and economic recession is an empire on the fringe of collapse, but I doubt the United States as a country will ever collapse. This seems likely to be the beginning of the end of the American Empire and the beginning of a multi-polar world.

h of NY 2:12PM October 03, 2009