I get the sense that the Obama administration has no idea how to do anything, and no longer even bothers to try to address issues facing the country. Rather, they spend the entirety of every meeting trying to figure out how they can blame the increasing failures plaguing the administration (and in turn, the nation) on one George W. Bush.
Bush is to Obama what Emmanuel Goldstein was to Big Brother. Bush Is The One Who Is To Receive All Blame.
You’d think Obama wouldn’t want to exhaust this well (there’s going to be a LOT more bad economic news, after all, to go with the increasingly bad news in Afghanistan and Iran). But, nope. He’s gonna to keep running to Bush derangement like a baby runs to mama every single time.
Did anti-American resentments play role in Chicago’s bid losing?
BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Political Reporter
Some Chicago officials say anti-American resentments likely played a role in Chicago’s Olympic bid dying in the first round today.
President Obama could not undo in one year the resentment against America that President Bush and others built up for decades before, they said.
“There must be” resentment against America, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said, near the stage where he had hoped to give a victory speech in Daley Plaza. “The way we [refused to sign] the Kyoto Treaty, we mislead the world into Iraq. The world had a very bad taste in its mouth about us. But there was such a turnaround after last November. The world now feels better about America and about Americans. That’s why I thought the president’s going was the deal-maker.”
State Rep. Susana Mendoza (D-Chicago) said she saw first hand the resentment against America five years ago when she was in Rio de Janeiro to speak as a surrogate for then-presidential candidate John Kerry.
“This vote today was without a doubt ridiculously political and mean-spirited,” Mendoza said. “I travel a lot. I was literally nearly killed in Rio three years ago when I was there representing the U.S. Government. I thought we had really turned a corner with the election of President Obama. People are so much more welcoming of Americans now. But this isn’t the people of those countries. This is the leaders still living with an outdated impression of Americans.”
Just gag me with a spoon so I can hurl already.
As HotAir put it, “Copenhagen just a little too far away to have dead people cast a few votes for Chicago…” And too far away for ACORN shenanigans to bail them out, too.
There were only four contestants, and Obama couldn’t even win the Bronze? The Olympic Committee heard Obama’s spiel, and awarded him with Last Place. Or as presidential historian Stephen Hess put it, “I think to be eliminated in the first round is very embarrassing, to put it mildly.”
Unless you can blame Emmanuel Goldstein for it, it sure is.
The article goes on to later quote Robert Gibbs:
Presidential press secretary Robert Gibbs rejected the notion that the vote was influenced by the United States’ standing around the world.
And, of course, Gibbs doesn’t HAVE to go out and show the White House’s sour grapes. He – along with Obama – have a ton of leftists and lackeys to do the White House’s bidding for them.
It’s funny that the same media that was quite literally stupefied that The One couldn’t win the Olympic games (youtube) -
- was able to recover so immediately as to point out that Obama never really had a chance given that the world still hates that devil Bush. The New York Daily News wrote:
Chicago was never going to get the Olympics. We know that now, and probably should have known it a week ago. Maybe the world doesn’t hate us as much as it did one year ago, but the International Olympic Committee certainly does.
And if that line doesn’t work, they still have the “a racist world wants Obama to fail” angle to pursue.
George Bush wasn’t going to get any excuses from the mainstream media unless his people went out and MADE the excuse. And when they did offer an a justifying narrative, it usually got instantaneously dismissed by a media that couldn’t wait to poke every hole they could find in the Bush account. When it comes to Obama, though every failure immediately has as many media narratives as will be necessary to explain away that failure. Their very favorite one can be summed up in two words: blame Bush.
We find that – even with identical unemployment situations – the media treated Ronald Reagan and their beloved Barack Obama very differently. Reagan received 91% coverage, and a steady diet of blame for the high unemployment figures, whereas Obama The Beloved has received only 7% negative coverage for the same figures. This whopping disparity is due to two phenomena:
1) The mainstream media is every bit as biased toward the left as Pravda used to be biased toward the Communist Party.
2) Reagan didn’t spend all of his time bitching and whining about how he had inherited every possible scintilla of negative developments on his disastrous predecessor Jimmy Carter. Rather, he manned-up and solved the problems facing the country.
I don’t think that Obama has so much as a molecule of that “spirit of manning-up” in him. Rather, he is a demagogue, from the alpha to the omega. He’s the kind of man who demonized George Bush or Hillary Clinton for pursuing the very same policies that he himself is now pursuing; and he’s the kind of man who said he wouldn’t raise our taxes, and then weaseled around by pretending that his health care tax wasn’t in fact a tax.
Harry Truman had his famous sign that said, “The buck stops here.” Like the bust of great WWII leader Winston Churchill, Obama threw that notion out. Obama has a very different mindset from either of those great leaders. As far as Obama is concerned, the buck stops at Bush — and it won’t stop anywhere else, until something happens that makes him look good.
Let’s face facts: Obama’s decision to go to Denmark to pitch for his profiteering and slum-owning Chicago pals was stupid. He made the Olympics all about himself just by going, and then made incredibly narcissistic pitches to the Olympic committee. And if the speeches hadn’t already filled the nearest barf buckets, Michele wailed that their luxury travel to luxury accommodations in Denmark was just “such a sacrifice.” The Drudge Report probably expressed it best: “The Ego Has Landed.”
G.O.P. leader Michael Steele said Obama should stay home and take care of pressing business such as health care, high unemployment, and Afghanistan rather than run off to Europe to pitch Chicago. The Obama White House responded by demagoguing Steele, and accusing him of rooting for Brazil instead of America. Well, not it’s time to get a demagoguery pay back: not only did Obama abandon American troops in Afghanistan and unemployed workers in America to run off to Europe to beg for the games so he could “wrap up his second term as president by opening the 2016 Olympic Games in Chicago.” Because the whole damn planet revolves around him, doesn’t it? And then The Most Popular President In The History Of The World couldn’t even get that rather lame job done.
Hey, Gibbs, maybe Steele was actually rooting for American’s rather than Obama’s future prestige. You might tell your boss to do the same.
Barack Obama argued that the Olympics could help America repair its image – because he himself is so profoundly un-American that he believes it ever needed to be “repaired” in the first place.
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