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The boundaries of Brand Obama 00:19am on 04 Oct 2009 To all of you europeans, blinded at the anti-american voting, remember the Eurovision song contest, when GB won the last place? Remember, how you went and changed the rules because as you put it, "bias votes"? Well its the same thing here, so dont tell Americans that we're being spoiled and suck it up when we cry "foul"!
The boundaries of Brand Obama 11:37pm on 03 Oct 2009 #138 "Like I say most people do not want another olympics where boycots and off field racism are likely to be an issue.
A county that has spent the last 8 years making sure no one wants to visit them by introducing biometric data for passport holders wishing to enter.
Many of the Fans could not get to the USA legally."

What off field racism? Obama, Oprah, Michael Jordan, and Bernie Mac all made the fortune in Chicago.

Biometric data for passport is the biggest requirement Eastern EUropeans face to travel to Europe. Just ask Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia etc etc Thats a security issue that all countries are moving toward to.

And its not about sportsmanship! Seriously, how many teams dispute totally biased decisions? Its not about sucking it up, how can you suck it up when you were bluntly treated unfair.
The boundaries of Brand Obama 6:13pm on 03 Oct 2009 #106 "The city doesn't have that great a transportation network. and Rio will greatly benefit from putting transport in a city so populous."

Chicago has a great transportation network, its actually so advanced that within one hour you can go from the most southern point of the city to the northern suburbs (Subway red line). Metra system connects all the suburbs with two downtown central train stations. Public transit (bus) is every 10min on every street of the city. At least chicago HAS a transportation network.

I keep telling you, that its annoying that it was the first one to be eliminated because there was no case against it. It was pure anti-americanism on the european vote which make up more than 50% of the voting committee.

Don't tell me that US would have had a strong security checkpoint, lest we talk about beijing that had secret service at the torch in Paris, and london.

I would have not had a problem if it was head to head Rio and Chicago and Rio wins. What bothers me was that europeans wanted to embarras us. So Brazil can celebrate their win of political correctness and anti-americanism hatred.
The boundaries of Brand Obama 3:29pm on 03 Oct 2009 Obama won cool points for going there. Americans realize that we did our best but in the end anti-americanism is deeply embedded on the envious europeans. So I dont think Obama will be greatly affected by this at all. If the Republicans will choose to poke him on that, they will do so at their own peril.
The boundaries of Brand Obama 3:25pm on 03 Oct 2009 #87 Why would you want to have in Chicago anyway? It's the murder capital
of the midwest.

Probably, but it is also the biggest metropolis of midwest, so it kinda makes sense. However, Gary Indiana has had the title for quite a long time, but what would u know?

#89 Fluffy, the whole point is how clear and blunt the IOC booted off Chicago first, when it had the most credentials, the venues already built, and the means to deliver. Like I said, Chicago didnt want it but to slap them in the face by eliminating them first, just because of european voters hating US is just vile.
The boundaries of Brand Obama 07:31am on 03 Oct 2009 To #68 I was condemning the Olympic Committee and their voting bias, and IOC gets 60% revenues directly from American sponsors. NY lost because there wasnt much government support unlike this year.

Lets not be naive there was so much bias in voting. I'm only annoyed at the arrogance of the international voters who eliminated chicago first, not that America didnt win. Actually I'm glad we didnt, only 30% of Chicagoans wanted to win the olympics anyway, and rightly so...
The boundaries of Brand Obama 05:28am on 03 Oct 2009 ... Chicago is home to 107 corporate headquarters (second only to New York), two of the top ten universities of the world, stunning architecture, and city's GDP of $460 billion. Chicago is a winner without olympics, so please enough of talking nonsense! No city is immune to corruption and crime.
The boundaries of Brand Obama 05:01am on 03 Oct 2009 Over40Crowd, dont you find anything suspicious that chicago was the last one after being the most qualified city with proven funding and infrastructure, that you have to patronize us with "Chicago came in last. Deal with it"? It's absurd not to recognize the anti-americanism and politics playing in. Thats why we shouldnt let it go, how about Americans stop funding this farce of an event, or not to have the europeans vote at all since they cant make good unbiased judgements.
Damaged Special Relationship? 02:55am on 15 Sep 2009 As an american i'd say that if Bush was still here, Brown and the GB would have thought twice about doing something like this
Rudd unlikely to do as Romans do on Rio 11:11pm on 11 Jul 2009 Well, if anything it is embarrasing for China... to act like a spoiled child when something doesnt go their way. They're being too transparent! As an outsider I'd say that Australia showed more maturity than China. The business community will judge how to deal with China in light of this.

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