1. james wrote:

good for rio. south america has never hosted an olympic event and basically outbid the competition. not sure why obama has egg on his face? oh, because critics are throwing eggs on his face. now i get it. critics somehow matter. that’s news to me. regardless, couldn’t be that much egg on his face. gallup pole still has his approval ratings above 50 percent.

2. Bitter Brother wrote:

…….Exactly what “quid pro quo” political back-scratching should’ve gotten him. I’m not gonna even substantiate my opinion, lest I go off on a lengthy tangent about how Obama’s politics are eerily similar to every other American President of this cryptocratic nation. *Random*

3. Shaun Landry wrote:

Rio got the Olympics for three reasons:

1) There has never been an Olympics in that region
2) Tanned Boobs
3) Tanned Boobs.

This has nothing to do with Barrack Obama, a slap in the face for him etc. It can barely be said that the Olympics Committe knows that the United States have had numerous Olympics in our region (the latest being Summer in Los Angeles and Winter in Salt Lake City)

Lets face it. Where would you like to spend your summer: Hanging out on Halsted Street listening to a heavy blues singer and go to Harold Chicken Shack after Olympic Ribbon Dancing..

Or see tanned tata’s precariously close to Olympic Volleyball on Cable Television.

Breasts will always win. Carnival will always win over Lake Michigan and Blues Fest. We have lost the Olympics before to more interesting exotic places. We will lose again until this country cleans up its beaches and lets ladies and men dance around naked in the streets.

With that? San Francisco 2016!

4. Tom Penn wrote:

President Obama is having a bad fall. Unemployment is up, the public option with health care is dead, and eight of our soldiers were killed in one day in Afghanistan. Oh, and I almost forgot,. Chicago didn’t get the Olympics

5. DCI74 wrote:

How is losing the Olympics a blow to President Obama? It’s not like Chicago was the only city in the running, the process was still in round 1 when Obama got there is it’s not like there’s ever any guarantee that because a city’s name is in the running that they are going to get the bid just ask NYC. Perhaps now people in Chicago can focus on getting the streets safe instead of looking for some Olympic windfall. I think the only people who see this an a failure by Obama are the ones who created unreal expectations for him in the fist place.

6. Corve DaCosta wrote:

Chicago could never have won the bid – have the video on my blog. It was a horrible presentation. As for Obama all the other Heads of States were there and it would have looked horrible if he didn’t made it.

One thing though…..the media was reporting it was a close race between Rio and Chicago. We guessed now.