What no olympics thread?

[Sea Demon]

Originally Posted by AngusJS

Why are conservatives so happy that America doesn't get to host the Olympics? Rush and Beck could barely contain their joy. They just want to see Obama fail no matter what?

That is really, really petty.

Well, I'm not happy about where the Olympics will be happening. I couldn't care less about any of that. Personally, I'm laughing about the whole matter because Obama's presidency (according to liberals last fall) was supposed to "restore" respect and admiration to the USA. And I knew that was utter BS. Obama apparently believed that BS as well as he carted off to Europe thinking his presence there would seal the deal, and he would return triumphantly with his Olympics trophy in hand for Chicago. And ouch.....he flopped hard. As such, it's so apparent that his presidency garners no respect or admiration for the USA as believed.

In fact, the way this plays out, it absolutely shows that the USA is garnering less respect now with a weak, naive, and tragically inexperienced president like Obama in the White House. This is not cause for celebration at all. But it does make Obama, and his water carriers in general look like fools for believing what was an utter fallacy to begin with. That is what I enjoy watching. The Olympics are not the issue here for me at all. It's their arrogance I enjoy seeing cut down to size. We were hated under Bush, but we were at least respected. Now we're hated and made a mockery of. Great...what a combo.

I would like to see Obama succeed in the war in Afghanistan. But that remains in doubt as he's bumbling that effort totally with no strategy or vision. And no real committment as his generals seem to hint at. I'd like to see him successful in economic policy, but he is a statist, big government leftist who has no apparent knowledge of business incentive or growth. And the numbers aren't lying right now. Obama's failing us hard economically.

The real thing I see that's petty, is while we have troops in Afghanistan, and we have an economy in recession, the President is over in Europe, wasting taxpayer dollars lobbying for the Olympics in Chicago. Obviously he's greasing the palms of political friends from his "hometown". In addition, petty is Democrats in Congress voting for war in Iraq, then immediately doing everything in their power to stifle the effort because the sitting President was a Republican. Up to and including comparing our soldiers to Nazi's and other such nonsense.

I'm hoping some of you liberals see this situation here for what it is. Although my hopes in that are very slim. This failure further erodes the influence of the Office of the POTUS. And liberals voted believing the results would be the opposite. Goes to show, even when you guys win...you lose. Unfortunately you drag us down with you.