Axelrod: 'Politics' sank Obama's Olympics effort

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Oct 2, 2009

I'm sure politics were involved, like gee how many times has the U.S.A. hosted winter and summer games. Maybe it's time some other countries get a chance to lose many at it! It's good to see that Obama's arrogance out shined his charisma.

Oct 2, 2009

I thought "racism" was the motivation behind every rejection of all things Obama. Wow, the IOC is racist. I knew it !!!!

Oct 2, 2009

Politics is the excuse Obama gives whenever he doesn't get his way. These guys are so entitled it is ridiculous.

Oct 2, 2009

what a doofus. Played politics to start with (Pres. going to the voting/campaign) and THEN complaining about politics? His trip was ALL about politics.

Oct 2, 2009

For once Axelrod is right. It was all about politics: paying back the fat cats in Chicago who got Obama elected. It was an incredible waste of time and taxpayer money to fly Obama and his wife to Copenhagen to make the case for a bunch of his slum lord friends to profit from having the Olympics in Chicago. The citizens of Chicago dodged a bullet.

Oct 2, 2009

Axlerod's full of sheep-dip ... as usual !

Oct 2, 2009

Maybe the good members of the IOC just had an overdose of arrogance and self-interest. Chicago style corruption looks a lot like a rusted-out Model T against the sleek, gleaming Bugatti version of preferences that is far better known in Europe. Or, perhaps, it is simply a case of style losing to substance.

Oct 2, 2009

Dude! It wasn't even close!! Chicago, Obama, Michelle, & Oprah were trounced immediately - no ifs, ands, or buts.

Oct 2, 2009

President Prompter can't tell you the frakin time of day without a teleprompter. If it were not for the left stream media the guy would not have gotten anywhere near the White House. He and his far left radical administration is a clear and present danger to our country/Constitution.

Oct 2, 2009

I would say the IOC saw through the corruption and lack of true Olympic spirit in the Little "O", the Big "O" the "I'm Sacrificing O" and the little Chicago Mob Boss Daley. The IOC is not as dumb as the voters in this country.

Oct 2, 2009

Owhampy loses another ONE! In God We Trust!

Oct 2, 2009

We don't have a President we have a man with a suit and words. Nothing else.

Oct 2, 2009

There is a God.

Oct 2, 2009

Right. It was politics. BUT, it was a clear REJECTION of Chicago politics! Obama refuses to own it but clearly the IOC and sees through him. Build it some place else! The United States of America already has a horrendous debt thanks to President Thug.

Oct 2, 2009

Politics? Dang, that's not fair, did they TELL the Obies that "politics" might be involved in this thing? What is Axelrod's alleged field of expertise again? Lame-o! Amateur hour doesn't begin to address the infantile purtrescence parading itself through our highest offices. What a disgrace. Even I am not laughing now. Pathetic. Nauseating. I'm puking.

Oct 2, 2009

Politics ? Like paying back all your cronies in Chicago, land of the dead voting and 47 Daley admin. people in jail ? How much did this jaunt coast America ? 263K more jobless, thanks Barry.

Oct 2, 2009

OMG David Axelrod GROW UP PLEASE! Of course politics played a role. That is what you and your team of disgusting cronies are all about. I am just glad the city will be spared the expense and we taxpayers will not have to be on the hook for all the thug payback. By the way David how did you stand to profit from the Olympics had they come to Chicago? Someone should really do an investigation......too bad the dinosaur media is too busy crying in their beers right now.

Oct 2, 2009

IOC members were not swayed by President TelePrompter and his trophy wife? Thank God for common sense!

Can American taxpayers now get reimbursed the $1M expenses for this latest photo-op gone bust? We need it to pay the interest on all the debt accumulated over the past nine months by this failed Administration.

Oct 2, 2009

Clearly the IOC is racist.

Too bad ACORN couldn't rig this election for Obeyme like they did the general election here in the US.

I thought all Obama had to do was tell our enemies how much we liked them, tell our allies we are done with them, then the world would love us? Oh well, I'm sure Obeyme is already riding his pegasus back to Olympus, I mean DC.

Oct 2, 2009

It's George Bush's fault.

Oct 2, 2009

How long til some black "leader" calls the IOC racist?

Oct 2, 2009

It must be politics, the USA has never held them before, politics is always blocking them from being held here !

Oct 2, 2009

The IOC had a chance to give it to a third world Country, but gave to Rio instead. Go Figure.

Maybe Chicago can reduce their murder rate for a 2020 bid or have ACORN infiltrate the IOC.

Oct 2, 2009

David Axelrod did everything in his power to convince all parties concerned that sending "The President" in to pitch for Chicago would be a bad move. But Mayor Daley is on the ropes and the Second City Machine Boyz don't take "No" for an answer when their meal tickets are on the line. So now Mr. Axelrod gets to twist in the wind while Mr. Obama smiles, waves, and remains incognizant of the political tsunami that is building, building, building--a wave of human outrage that will sweep many more than Axelrod, Emanuel, Daley, and Obama out into the Sea of Political Oblivion.

Oct 2, 2009

I agree politics did play a part. It was the crooked politicians in and from Chicago involved in this efford!

Oct 2, 2009

Never was there a chance after those two pitiful, totally personal and quite pathetic presentations. Even the teleprompters were embarrassed. I'd like to know how many of the other presenters had to use teleprompters even when telling personal stories!!!

Oct 2, 2009

HE LOST....
Som how does it feel to not have a victory.
Just as we were told that VICTORY in Afghanistan was not important...
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE SUCH A LOSER.
Obama and his administration are going down...after all the appologies he made us swallow, after all the bowing and scaping he did all over Europe....HE DESERVES THIS...BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA....mmmmm...mmmm....mmmm...

Oct 2, 2009

I guess Obama will have to get a few more bodyguards now that he couldn't fulfill his indebtedness to his Chicago Mob buddies.

Oct 2, 2009

It couldn't happen to a better town.I have been it that slum a few times, and I wouldn't want the people from all over the world to see what a slum we have in our midst.

Oct 2, 2009

Ah yes... the same "out of touch" Axelrod who declared that the legions of concerns Americans that marched on the Capital on 9/12 were, "Wrong".

These folks are stunningly deaf to the voices of "We the People".

They need to close theirs mouths and open their ears.

I never thought we'd see a time when there was a worse administration than Carter, but God help us, that time has come.

Oct 2, 2009

Obama the great salesman, Not... Obama could not sell sex on a troop train..

Oct 2, 2009

...and I wonder how many times Mr. and Mrs. marvelous said "I" or "me"? They personify "ugly American". This was only a personal forum - had little to do with Chicago or the US getting the Olympics. Gosh... the world stage again. Somebody should have thrown a shoe at them.

Oct 2, 2009

..."trophy wife"? She be nasty.

Oct 2, 2009

How long before the RACE card is played because of the rejection of the OBAMA's? Many of the folks in RIO are darker than the OBAMA's. Maybe the IOC watched the Glenn Beck Show for facts about the corruption in Chicago and the folks associated with the President.

Oct 2, 2009

This is the 1st time I have ever read an entire page of "comments" where I agreed with 100% of the comments! ! !

Oct 2, 2009

It is nice to see that the IOC wasn't going to up staged by the President and his disgruntled wife. After all, she 's not proud of America. The IOC sent a message that the people of Chicago can't seem to understand...Your city is a hell hole. Kids can't even walk home from school without be killed. How would they have provided security for the world athletes. The IOC didn't forget about the Israel athletes.

Oct 2, 2009

When will the administration learn to suck it up and not yell "racism" at the drop of a hat? It demeans the president to assume that he can't win or lose based on merit.

Oct 2, 2009

Too many factors at work to blame it simply on politics. The IOC may still be aflame from all the corruption of the Salt Lake City games, and one look at Chicago makes SLC seem like the church choir. And the corruption involved in the entire Obama gang selling their slum property to the IOC for gazillions surely figured into the decision. Finally, Obama gets his wish in that America is no longer seen as a power, able to throw its weight around and influence other nations to accede to its wishes. The irony is delicious.

Oct 2, 2009

It is a shame that a U.S. city could not get their act together and win an Olympic bid, but who could blame the IOC for seeing all the potential problems that Chicago will face in the next decade, at the least, and want to avoid them like the plague. What is so amazing about this whole thing is that the first time the POTUS goes to beg for the games, we get shot down in the first round. That is what is embarassing about this whole thing.

Oct 2, 2009

LAUGHABLE. Chicago politicians got punked by Chicago style politics. Axlrod is a whiner. All the cronyism in this administration and he complains that.... "As with any process like this, there are all kinds of crosscurrents in the room, there are relationships,"

what a loser.

Oct 2, 2009

And what exactly was Obama doing there? Politics! It seems No one is impressed anymore.... No One!

Oct 2, 2009

"The whole world is watching".

You know, Axie... you're half way there. All you needed to say to compete the voyage is: "And had we won the bid, Chicago politics would have played the larger part in that victory". And what is the politics that could have won it for Chicago? Did Bernardine threaten to place a bomb at the IOC? Was ACORN to have been given scalper's rights at all the events, with kickbacks galore to the IOC?

And the SACRIFICE. Oh, that's rich. But then there are good things to find in sacrifice if one looks, like Paris shopping trips. Michele will probably turn that into a tax writeoff by trying to find a designer/manufacturer to copy and market the abominable snowman's suit she wore at the Inaugural ball... the one that looked like she wore it to a cotton ball shootout beforehand.

Oct 2, 2009

How the he-l does nearly 2-million in American transportation dollars, and a quickly tanked objective make this quickie shopping vacation across the globe make the trip ... "well worth the effort?"

SPLAIN IT TO ME, LUCY!

I could have got more satisfaction from 4 minutes in the bathroom and a jar of K-Y and less than a buck-fifty at the checkstand.

Well worth the effort? Gimmie a freekin' break you idiot!

Oct 2, 2009

"The Ego has landed."
Rush Limbaugh

Oct 2, 2009

Denmark is full of ....White People!YAY!If I were them I'd make sure every Dane has a house-kick out anyone who is not a Dane. And just be Happy you are not America

Oct 2, 2009

I read some post calling Chicago "Daley World" and that it should be incorporated into the F.B.I.'s urban tactics training ground instead of being considered as an Olympic site.LOL

Oct 2, 2009

You can't spend a couple of years trashing your country and then have much credibility selling it to anyone. That's almost as foolish as telling people that you will reduce spending on a health care program while maintaining the same level of services....oh, wait.

Oct 2, 2009

How long until they start blaming George Bush?

Oct 2, 2009

It did not take the WH a half a day to put the blame on politics. If politics are to blame than it is because of the WH and their political views. The choice was made for Rio because South America has never been picked to host. I think this was a very selfish remark on Axelro's part. The truth is they where counting on this bid to be able to pay back and line all the pockets of their rich peeps in Chicago that bundled millions of dollars into Obama's election coffer. Oops! What's you going to do with the Mob comes for you! I LOVE IT!

Oct 2, 2009

I guess Obama couldn't Rahm it through.

He should have pardoned Polanski on the way over there. That and a ham sandwich would have cinched it for Chicago.

Oct 2, 2009

You mean to say that there's been bamboozling? Axelrod would be the one to know.

Oct 2, 2009

of course it was politics, but ultimately it shows a diminishing of respect that the US once commanded on a global level. ..it's true what one of the other comments mentioned; his ignorance has outshined his arrogance. way to go, Obama!

Oct 2, 2009

You mean to say that we're now making a big deal over losing the bid to the 2016 Games to Rio? WHO CARES? This is such a nothing story.

Oct 2, 2009

Is it not part of the Chicago mythology that its politicians know how to count the votes? Apparently O did not learn this during his short apprentice ship.

This is another instance of his not delivering the goods (stimulus, GM/Chrysler bailout {soon to be liquidated in a town near you...} unemployment, etc.)

He has the gravitas of goose down.

Oct 2, 2009

The IOC flushed the stinking corrupt democrat turds. Now if we can have an honest election the machine turds will be in the Chicago sewer where they belong.

Oct 2, 2009

Who knew the IOC were such racists.

Oct 2, 2009

to Rosie, getting or not getting the Olympics is NOT A BIG DEAL. The President of the USA going to pitch for it is what created all the attention.
An unprecedented act of ego thinking that if he, Michelle and Oprah show up, it would seal the deal so to speak.

Oct 2, 2009

Yes, politics were involved.

As an operating chief executive, he can no longer be all things to all people and keep his substantive agenda cloaked in rhetoric.

Now that he is showing his true colors, Obama is proving to be singularly bad at politics, at home and (perhaps particularly) abroad.

His tomfoolery and embarrassing missteps on the world stage helped make the international community's rejection of Obama's bid for the Olympics inevitable.

Oct 2, 2009

It seems that nothing is his fault. I'm surprised they didn't try to blame Bush or the right wingers as they usually do. The issue here is how Obama misplaces his Presidential Priorities. He should be in the nations WH dealing with bigger issues than running off for an Olympic event scheduled years from now. It was just a Junket tour by Oprah, and the Obama's at the taxpayers expense, to benifit his Chicago Politicians who got him in office. Great job so far Obama. I can't wait for re-election time.

Oct 2, 2009

This was the first contest Obama has been involved in where he couldn't disqualify the opponents, get their sealed court records made public, or engage the services of ACORN and SEIU. The results speak for themselves.

Oct 2, 2009

Obama has let it be known all around the world in every speech he gives that the USA is to blame for all the ills of the world. Then Michelle tells a personal story about her father. What the heck does her personal life have to do with the Olympics? With the Obamas it is always Me, Me, Me, I, I, I, My, My, My. Well the rest of the world hasn't drank the Obama Koolaid like many in the USA have. The Committee was not impressed with Barack Hussein Obama umm umm ummm or his wife. So now all of Obama's buddies in Chicago who owned the slums where the construction of the venues and Olympic Village were to be built won't be collecting those millions of dollars they had planned on collecting when they sold the land! Chicago you dodged a huge bullet, be thankful!

Oct 2, 2009

I think a lot of people are unfairly capitalizing on this to take more potshots at the President. Also we are looking like a bunch of sore losers in the process. We lost, and no it does not reflect poorly on the president. I didn't know Obama was the sole engineer and administrator of the Olympic bid. This country is reaching scary heights with the partisan politics. Maybe this presidency will finally open the path for a third party to emerge. Maybe...

Oct 2, 2009

Barack and Michelle Obama: Affirmative Action in Action! What's next, blind airline pilots?

Oct 2, 2009

Well, obviously this is George Bush's fault. I just don't know how yet...

The IOC is very political--always has been. No news there. I wonder if officials lead Obama to believe Chicago had it in the bag. I don't think he would have gone if they thought there was a chance of losing in the very first round. Good on Rio, though. I was pulling for them.

Oct 2, 2009

Imagine apologizing and bashing the USA to the IOC..outrageous behavior for a sitting president! Quit running America down Obama I'm amazed..no wonder we were passed over.

Oct 2, 2009

So, Obama's 'power of persuasion' does not extend as far as some thought. Go figure. Rather then look for weak excuses and play the blame game, why not just accept that Chicago, well, sucks?

Oct 3, 2009

Why didn't Obama blame it on George W. Bush as he does everything else?

Oct 4, 2009

NANANANANANA NONONONONO IIIIIIIIIIIIII come on you stuttering moron, without your brain/promter speaking you sound like an idiot. That along with your coke addict wife and the glorious Oprah you thought you could pull the wool over whiteys eyes once again. Then Daley has the balls to talk about 2 black runners and how blacks were looked down on so when Obama came to talk if you did not choose him you would be a racist like Hitler! They saw right thru the God Obama and slapped him back to Chicago. Go smoke more crack, blame Bush and call me a racist. I only hate his WHITE half.

Oct 4, 2009

I always like to read Byron York's articles. This time I had the added pleasure of reading some great comments. The American citizens are alive and fiesty as ever!

Dec 22, 2009

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