Obama Makes Personal Pitch to IOC for Chicago’s 2016 Olympic Bid

The IOC will be afraid to not choose Chicago for fear of being called racist.

Chicago? Surely you jest. The place is a festering sore of corruption. Surely even the IOC has some standards. Kenya would be less likley to subject the Committee to bribery and threats.

Would be great to have the Olympics in the U.S. Would definitely help the economy of the city/state where held. However, I would think the Olympic committee would pick a less violent location, such as Fallujah :)

I think that the possibility of the Olympics being held in the US again is great. It is a respectable and honorable tradition that would bring some pride back to our country.

You conservative extremists are a pathetic lot! When Dictator Bush was making a laughing stock of the US of A I didn't hear you complain one bit.

Now you are complaining that Obama isn't quick enough in cleaning up the mess that GW left. Wow, you people really are a bunch of whiny losers.

The right-wingers at the CBO have some terrible things to say about what is happening on Mr. Obama's watch:

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. budget deficit almost hit $1 trillion during the first six months of this fiscal year which began on October 1, according to estimates released on Monday by the Congressional Budget Office.

"The government likely recorded $953 billion in red ink from October through March including $290 billion for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, which was to provide much-needed cash to struggling financial institutions, the CBO said.

"Receipts during the six-month period dropped about $160 billion, or 14 percent, over the same period in fiscal 2008. Nearly half of the drop, $73 billion, came from a fall in corporate income tax receipts.

"The CBO, the nonpartisan budget analyst for Congress, said the drop in corporate receipts was the largest in more than three decades.

"In comparison, the federal deficit for the first six months of fiscal 2008 was $313 billion, roughly a third of the estimated current total."

Jake Michael Jordon just got elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame can you ask Gibbs if all 5 inductees will be invited to the WH?

Monet, you just might be on to something. ACORN can make up the ballots and then fill 'em out for us. That way they don't lose valuable time intimading us. We might have to help the ones who can't read or write though. Hey what kinds of presents do you think our fearless leader's going to redistribute today....Hold on, I got to go sing kum by ya.

More on Obama and Independents:

"As I wrote in the Obama half-time report, Obama's approval rating is dropping. According to Schoen [a self-described Democrat but no doubt a right-winger] and Rasmussen, Obama's approval rating is below where President George W. Bush was in an analogous period in 2001:

"Overall, Rasmussen Reports shows a 56%-43% approval, with a third strongly disapproving of the president's performance. This is a substantial degree of polarization so early in the administration. Mr. Obama has lost virtually all of his Republican support and a good part of his Independent support, and the trend is decidedly negative."

Congratulations Jake for the good review you received in NRO.

There are only a few journalist that show any kind of integrity and you are one of them.

Let's see what the Pew Research Center (right-wingers all, of course) have to say about how Mr. Obama is faring with independents:

"Since February, views of the new president have become much more partisan...while more than twice as many independents approve (57%) as disapprove (27%) of his job performance. However, the balance of opinion among independents was much more positive in February (63% approve, 14% disapprove)."

Looks to me like his approval among that group dropped six points in a single month. And he's just getting started...

"He's doing well with independents..."

That's simply false: his approval among independents has dropped sharply.

"In the new National Public Radio poll conducted by the Democratic polling company Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and its Republican counterpart, Public Opinion Strategies, 42 percent of the 800 likely voters surveyed March 10 to 14 said that if the next congressional election were held today they would vote for the Republican candidate; an identical percentage of respondents said they would vote for the Democratic one. For several years, Democrats held a substantial lead on this question...

"Many Democratic congressional leaders shake their heads with disdain or in disbelief over what they see as the Obama White House's preoccupation or even obsession with pleasing independent voters by promoting bipartisanship, but reaching across party lines is critical to Obama's success. Independent voters do not like partisanship, whether it is practiced by Democrats or Republicans. If Republicans really have pulled even or slightly ahead among independent voters, that is a very ominous sign for Democrats, an indication that Obama's talking the talk of bipartisanship isn't sufficient and that he and the Democratic majorities on Capitol Hill have to walk the walk."

Obama is focused on the Olympics, and giving the Queen of England an I-pod featuring his speeches, while Americans increasingly suffer on his watch:

"The Labor Department’s April 3 report that the economy shed an additional 663,000 jobs last month, while the unemployment rate rose to 8.5 percent, will be followed by months more of bad-news headlines, economists say. The recession, now in its 17th month, has already cost 5.1 million Americans their jobs, the worst drop in the postwar era; unemployment may hit 9.4 percent this year, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey, and may top out above 10 percent in 2010.

"The risk is that the jobs picture turns even more bleak than forecast or the drumbeat of bad news still to come causes consumers, whose spending has firmed up in recent months, to hunker down again."

That's Mr. Obama's Labor Department talking, not Rush Limbaugh. Few, if any, really think this poor, overmatched man knows what he is doing. Man Americans will suffer horribly for his ineptitude. I just thank God that I'm not one of them.

WHOA...Ryan C...I am a registered Californian Independent..Socially liberal and economically conservative...And always favorable on our military with friends who are members of the ACLU....NO NO NO not every independent nor democrat approves of Obama and his policy decisions..Respect the Office, absolutely without question..the man??? Let's just say Obama is looking more and more like a one term President...Betting the next TRUE MODERATE will take 2012...

author of national review piece on jake says:

"Tapper may be content where he is, but for now, Robert Gibbs and the rest of the Obama administration would probably be a lot happier if he were anywhere other than the White House Briefing Room."

ha! excellent!

jake, nice article on you in the national review...

they admire your integrity: you are one of the few who didn't become a media mouthpiece for the one....

outstanding!

rustard: we could let ACORN do a census while the Olympic participants are here..and let each one of them vote.
Sound like an idea?? It just might get more democratic votes and get the republican districts changed to democrat.

Let the ACORN allegations go,
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There are more than 17 indictments, recent guilty pleas and congressional hearings, that unless dems pressure it away, a congressional investigation has been recommended to investigate the coordinated illegal activities of ACORN. The recommendation is coming from the congressional black caucus, not some republican. John Conyers is the one.
Acorn did not pop up in the last election. They have been around for years and Obama trained recruits, and helped stage "intimidation events" at Chicago banks where these ACORN thugs, coordinated by Obama would enter a meeting of local bankers and surround them being intentionally intimidating, their words not mine, to force them to make more of these toxic mortgages.
I know you will need to look it up to believe it, or you will follow the usual deny, deny, deny of the denocrat mantra.,

And this is the group that has been hired to help with the Census to determine congressional districts.
I would love to get over it but they are insidious, corrupt, closely linked to Obama (read the congressional testimony) and illegal campaign contributions. All in addition to the voter fraud.

I have no doubt dems would like us to not look at the ACORN group. You dems can then continue to funnel money to them for illegal activities to steal elections and money in any way they can.

maybe we can have ACORN run the Olympics. they have done such a great job for our country in the past. Instead of awarding medals for winning a competition, we can just give everyone that shows up medals because we gots to give the medals to all participants. We can't have winners and losers can we? Big Guy would not like that.

I don't think we should have the event in any arrogant American city.