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Olympics loss forces Chicago to rethink plans

Chicago sounds more and more like the strangest place in America. With all the corruption and the entitlements and the Unions and the Social Engineering and the Obamas. Strange, strange, strange...

So it goes with dishonest government and using politics to interfere with the real meaning of being an athlete. The US and all its states look at the Olympics for monetary gain and a costly expense to the tax payers and citizens of a state. It is a system of gouging visitors and citizens alike whenever a city hosts the Olympics. In Utah we are still reeling from the excessive cost of hosting the games and cost of living sky rocketed and has stayed there.

With their tail between their legs they must now face their public and the millions or billions spent in preparation of a dream that didn't happen.

Some years back, during the height of the Beirut, Lebanan fighting some media pundit coined the phrase "....Chicago is the Beirut of the western world".

That about sums it up. Don't get me wrong, Chicago is a great city: art, culture, museums, sports, location, friendly people, but it's past history of mobsters, murder, prohibition, politics, payoffs, scandals, etc., right up to the present, is there for all to see.

...not really that much different from a number of large cities in the U.S.

I don't know why they are sounding so concerned about money. President Obama has proven he will spend any amount he wants for his home city.

Chicago won out against New York and San Francisco. Obama had no control of Chicago being picked to bid for our nation. You want to believe there was no gaming to get the last bid in Salt Lake City. We read the embarrassing details of the Salt Lake incident.

In spite of the scandalous behavior in Utah, the nation supported the 2002 Winter games, even giving Utah 3.2 in Olympic welfare funds.

The world watch as an organized group of American rejoiced in our nation loosing. If that didn't show the world moral decay in America. Talk about showing American weakness, conservatives out did themselves.

Eight-four percent of American's supported the Chicago bid. They put their nation ahead of petty politics. Once, more conservatives hatred betrays American greatest.

Conservative came out looking real stupid once more. Milton Friedman, the father of free market economics and the father of neoconservatism Leo Strauss both came out of the University of Chicago.

Chicago highly influenced the Reagan Administration. Any in his White House where students of Leo Strauss.

What's conservative's next attack on America?

It's Obama that came out looking real stupid,

and showing his priorities are all messed up.


And your feeble attempt at blaming and attacking conservatives,

again,
and your inability to distinghuish between conservatives and neo-conservatives,


shows you can NOT think straight or see straight.