Today’s news of the Rio de Janeiro winning the bid for the 2016 Olympic games doesn’t require one of my thousand-and-a-half-word essays. Just a few points for posterity tonight: first, it’s not un-American to have rooted against the games being held in Chicago. Its residents don’t want the games there. The residents of Illinois outside the Mayor Daley’s political complex resent the effort. Second, the Games would have produced a net financial loss for the state (and the federal government). Chicago is a corrupt slum, and putting that much opportunity in the hands of the kleptocrats would be a disservice to so many.
Rio will now be faced with the issues that come with hosting such an event, including the infrastructure, the graft, the bribery, the influx of foreign money… But they also get the chance to rise above these issues. They can prove that they can keep the Olympic infrastructure a national treasure for generations to come, and not a blighted area like some other host cities’.
We know Chicago can’t do that. It can’t because it’s the city that has elected Daley repeatedly. It’s the city that in one weekend had more murders than Iraq. It’s the city that despite so much going into it, so little has gone out. Other US cities could have done better, but they didn’t ask for it. Chicago, with its long-standing culture of mismanagement and machine politics, never deserved it.
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Even aside from Chicago being in shambles from political mismanagement, I can’t say that either of the Obama’s speeches increased its chances. Both of which could be summarized in a roughly six second clip of a tenor singer warming up their vocals “Me, me, me, ME, MEEEEE”
I found a pretty good game that highlights the narcissism that both the Obama’s are afflicted with. 2011: Obama’s Coup Fails, it’s a satire that centrals around the idea that Obama after talking it over with some international figure heads has used his infinite wisdom to discern that the U.S. Constitution is outdated and he attempts to replace it through a coup with a new broad reaching government of the whole western hemisphere. The news snippets are hilarious, you can find it by googling “usofearth”
Comment by Daman — Oct 7, 2009 @ 5:07 pm