Conservatives Revel In America's Olympic Defeat

Wow! Just--wow!

I guess it is time for Chicagoans to take names and roll up the welcome mat appropriately to make those taking joy in Chicago's loss as host to the 2016 Olympic Games feel unwelcome there.

sad--wingnuts root against America just because Obama supports our Olympic bid.

I guess the world rejected Bush when NYC lost the Olympics as well. Of course, they had rejected him long before anyway.

At first I wonder how so many on the right can so openly take glee in the failure of their fellow Americans, at the jobs lost if nothing else. But reading comments elsewhere it quickly becomes clear many don't consider Chicago worth caring about. Like New York and San Francisco.

They really are separatists. They're just too dumb to know it.

Has anyone seen FoxNews's homepage over the past couple of hours (I'd upload the pic but I'm at work and most image uploading stuff is blocked). Anyway, the page has the Obamas hugging juxtaposed with letdown people in Chicago with the tagline on the pic: "'O', What a Letdown". A bit earlier, it said "'O' What a Failure" instead. I'm guessing they got complaints or (gasp) someone there realized they went too far.

Seriously? Why is the right so happy about a defeat? Why do conservatives hate America?

Well given that the entire wingnutosphere has been throwing a perpetual temper tantrum since last November, I suppose they can get all worked up over this if they want.

It just goes to show how stupid and hyper partisan they really are. Their hatred for Obama knows no bounds at all, and this wasn't a personal rebuke against Obama, but they are trying to make it out like it is.

Oh well, little children need to crow every now and then.

Here in Indiana the stories were about how Chicago getting the Olympics would help bring money into our state as well since we pretty much border Chicago. I'm sure the same could be said for parts of Michigan. So, the Republicans are cheering that businesses in 3 states are going to lose out on millions of dollars of sales. Sounds like it would have been a pretty good economic stimulus to me. Republicans, once again, prove they are against anything that would help out the economy.

A good measure of the sorry state of the Right these days is the small "victories" that they celebrate. Cheering the fact that the Olympics will not take place in Chicago makes them look anti-American and very, very small. Worse, they thought that Rep. Joe Wilson did a heroic thing when he stood up during Obama's address to Congress and blurted out an insult. Their horizons are set pretty low.

I really keep waiting for the moment that their antics will stop shocking me. I read this article with my mouth completely agape. Rooting against America?!? Really? That's what you're going to go with? I have never been sure about Olympic bids...they frequently don't work out well for the host city. But that's not the argument they are making. They are just happy Obama didn't get what he wanted regardless of the potential good consequences.

So, Republicans are rejoicing that all of the thousands of jobs that the Olympics bring will now be unavailable to the unemployed in Chicago (particularly ironic since that's what Newt is harping on) and all of the tourist and projects $$$ for the local economy will flow to leftist Rio. Why do the Republicans hate America?

Clearly the right is off the wall, and we can ourselves revel in their idiotic reveling.

But to be honest, as one of tens of thousands who have been fighting for real health care reform, it's clear to me that the President's priorities were massively confused in going abroad to fight for this while the public option was left to fend for itself.

While he was there, there was a Senate Fin Comm vote, as we all know. And as we all know, a little pressure from the White House might have swayed a few more senators.

I'm sorry guys, but this onus is on our guy.

The fact that the right is idiotic doesn't change the fact that Obama had larger responsibilities which he has largely abandoned. It doesn't mean I don't want to piss on the right (I do) but I'd rather not have to... I'd rather a President who fights for the things he initially proposes. Let's not forget he was once smartly for single payer, and abandoned that, too, perhaps wisely, for the public option. But at this point to have let a strong public option to fade is inexcusable.

I'll say it: Republicans hate America. And I hate Republicans.

I am stunned - honestly stunned that these guys simply have no idea how this looks to the rest of the country. I get that they hate Obama. I get that they hate Obama more than they love America. I just can't beleive they could possibly be so completely oblivious not to realize how the public is going to react to them rooting against the United States!

Why do they hate America?

Simply breathtaking!

I really wish the IOC would say the reason America was not picked is becasue of the danger presented by the domestic terrorists who try to make poltical statments by setting off bombs in the Olympic village. Eric Rudolph was a right winger who tried to embarass his country becasue of Roe vs Wade. Congrats Eric, I am sure your ilk played no role in this decision. It was becasue Obama is so hated around the world. Right wingers are fukcing jokes.

Is it possible this will hurt the Republicans in next year's Illinois Senate race? Supposedly they have a shot at Obama's former seat, but perhaps this will make trouble for whoever the GOP candidate is.

What a Rorschach test for the right this was. Actively rooting against an American city. I shouldn't be surprised though. They didn't root for New Orleans either.

The right's reaction is typical. But as a citizen of Chicago, I can say that most of us did not want the Olympics, which were being rammed down our throat by Daley and is big business pals. And it's a myth that it would have been some huge bonanza. Chicago would have been on the hook for billions and billions.

I bet Obama is secretly very relieved. That would just be one more headache for him to deal with.