No Olympic torch for Chicago

Oh, gee, darn... Obama, I guess they're just not all that into you...

(screenshot taken at the Drudge Report)

As Mike says, "IOC: Obama's Not 'All that Jazz.'"

YankeePhil supposes that Michelle Obama is now disappointed with the world *snerk*

And DJ is wondering if Jimmy Carter will condemn the IOC as "racist."

Reuters says, "Obama's Olympian Gamble Collapses."

Obama and his wife, Michelle, had taken their star power to the Danish capital to make Chicago's case, ignoring the carping from Republican opponents who charged it was a bad time to go with foreign policy challenges in Iran and Afghanistan and the U.S. Congress bogged down in a domestic healthcare debate.

"I'm asking you to choose Chicago. I'm asking you to choose America," Michelle Obama told committee members.

Her husband said, "If you do, if we walk this path together, then I promise you this: The city of Chicago and the United States of America will make the world proud."

All that was for naught as Chicago was eliminated in the first round of voting, a decision that brought gasps from the Chicago contingent at the Copenhagen meeting.

Aw, darn... Cry me a river.

UPDATES:

Rick Sincere stops by in my comments - and I totally agree with him!

Chicago is the winner on this. It won't go into debt for millions of dollars...

And my dear blog-brother, Mike, let me know about Michelle Malkin's lovely mention of the Brazilians' response to the news that Rio will be hosting in 2016:

  

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

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Comments

[Rick Sincere]

1.

Chicago is the winner on this. It won't go into debt for millions of dollars, and won't build facilities that will go unused for decades after the Olympic Games.

I feel sorry for the taxpayers of Rio de Janeiro, however.

[Brent E.White]

2.

Comment deleted. I do not allow ad hominem attacks on my blog. --- Kat

[Nilton]

3.

I couldn’t manage to log in to Miss Malkin’s blog, so I’ll comment here: the guy in the “photo of the day” is Antonio Carlos, aka “Mussum”, a deceased famous brazilian comedian. The last word in the sentence, “créu”, is a slang, sort of onomatopoeia meaning… well… let me be be totally euphemistic, meaning the sound of a man making love to a woman (the soung of penetration would be more to the point, but I’m too shy to say that :)

[Nilton]

4.

... meaning something like "Yes, we screw you"

[Kat]

5.

THAT ... is very interesting, Nilton. I had thought it was simply a Brazilian version of "Yes we can" with a very in your face, "neener-neener" attitude.

Which, I suppose, *IS* what it says...I just hadn't put quite that *ahem* emphasis on it ;-)

[Buckley]

6.

Looks like conservatives were right on the money about Obama. He just doesn't have the experience necessary to lead our nation. He's like a fish out of water, flopping around and getting nowhere. I don't think he even realizes that once outside of liberal circles he isn't very popular.