World Gives Obama A Big F U
 

Not even putting Chicago in the final 2 when they were a prohibitive favorite to win should give Obama a sense of world view of America at this minute. Maybe he should've stayed in America this past week instead of hobnobbing with this bribe taking group.

Haha, didn't see the original thread. I'm sorry. Please just insert this one into the other.

I think this is far more a loss for the mayor than Obama who i don't think gives a crap about Chicago or Daley. This was Da Mayor's baby. Locally the people were just showing up for the victory party only to be told go home.

Dell, to not even be in the final 2 is a world wide slap at Obama. If he had simply lost to Rio, different story....The fact is I really think Obama is arrogant enough to go over there and think it will fall in his lap. I'm, tired of the news conferences and late night TV shows.

Exactly...Their final 45 minute presentation was a snooze fest and no one trusted that Daley could pull it off without bankrupting the city.

Randall..he had to go man...He didn't want to but was in a no win situation. If he didn't go and they lost it would have been unpatriotic, etc.

I heard more than once Daley wants to add another star to the city flag and this was his chance

Nonsense, you think Bush goes? He didn't have to do anything. Trotting out Oprah and reading from the prompter should be enough....The problems are here. We simply don't need the Olympics here. I'm happy for Rio. Now create some jobs and pull the troops out.

when London won 4 years ago Blair was there at the voting ceremony for the full 3 days, Obama was only there for 24 hours I believe..

They wouldn't have asked Bush because he was an idiot. But that's a different subject. It's not like he was the first World Leader to go to this

SO he was underexposed? If there is a country in worse shape economically than the US it is Britain. And I'm not sure the Olympics is a net gain to an economy at all....GB has by far a worse debt problem than the US. They'll implode before we do.....but we won't be far behind.

I think Obama was there like three hours.. WGN is calling Daley dead meat! Love it. Wow will he throw a tantrum when he gets back

Nobody cares about the British. You should understand that.

Not since Pricess Di at least

Well I'm biased because of my love for Ireland. :{>: :{>:

That is very cool...Maybe he'll resign?

nah..never

I just hope he does't tear up another airport in the middle of the night.

ah i shouldnt be posting politics stuff but over here they are suggesting that Obama didnt put enough effort in. that is all..carry on :)

Or maybe he didn't bribe enough people. Talk about corrupt. Who gives a **** about the Olympics. No one.

I was thinking the same thing...someone/something is going to pay for this. Maybe closing the International Terminal at O'Hare?

Thinking Wrigleyville may have some sewer and garbage problems this fall and snow removal problems in the winter. The mayor will then say, "Well that's the north! Everyone knows it snows more in the north. The sewers might be do to some stinky people living and hanging out there." Chuckle Chuckle

:)

Daley should be forced to have sex with Oprah ...








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Obama and his wife should have to watch

That's priceless!

Why arent all those people at work ??????? WTF?

ACORN offices shut down here.

Lake Geneva?

Northern suburbs.

should have said down 'there.' BTW the orange uni's gave them away

If only Abe Froman went.

Yeah, the IOC = the world. :rolleyes:

This is, of course, pure nonsense.

But my guess is you and everyone else who will try to score that point already know that.

If it's a slap at anything, it's at the way the country has been arrogantly handled since 2000. I'm not sure that the IOC not giving the U.S. the Olympics was predicated on the last 8 months, or Obama.

Something tells me that it's not the last eight months of American leadership that made Chicago lose. To be perfectly intellectually honest (something you may want to try sometime in situations like this), something tells me it has nothing at all to do with the last President either, even if that is an infinitely more likely scenario if we're inclined to place blame on that office.

The fact that it was going to be a gigantic clusterf*ck of massive proportions from a logistical perspective is probably the "prohibitive" frontrunner for real reason why Chicago didn't get it.

But why worry about things like that when a pathetic attempt at scoring cheap political points is just so much fun?! I understand the impulse, I really do.

Agreed. I couldn't imagine how the city and surrounding suburbs for 50 miles wouldn't be completely shut down due to gridlock, trying to hold an Olympics on the lakefront. The affordable hotel rooms needed alone are mind-boggling.

Love my home town, but not the place for a summer Olympics. Rather glad they didn't get it.

Brian,
Score political points? **** political points. Businesses are in the fetal position and I have to hear about Cash for Clunkers and green shoots... Sure Bush sucked and ruinined America's image. I don't think people were voting for the same policies when Obama took over. He has been awful. And I voted for Nader, so I'm no righty.

That's great that I now know your positions on the economy....and that has what to do with the Olympics, and in what way in any universe correlates to the world giving Obama an F U because YOU and REPUBLICANS don't like Obama?

Oh wait, nothing.

If your response to everything I typed was only what you just typed back, I guess for lack of a nicer way of putting it, what's your f*cking point?

I guess my point would be that right now, our president shouldn't be hobnobbing in Denmark or on Letterman's couch or making another ESPN commercial. That's my point.

Yeah. Like Bush attending birthday parties instead of attending to Hurricane Katrina ;)

Well, I'm a youngster, so I only know recent times and can only use that as a way to guide my opinion, but his percentage of working days so far seems pretty high up there if my short memory serves me well...I don't have much of a problem with it.

But that would have been another thread. Your point above is valid enough, I suppose, if that's your point....so why try to paint it as, how did you put it, "world gives Obama a big F U?"

You've yet to do anything to back that point up at all....your personal criticism of his policy actually has nothing to do with what you alleged at the beginning.

I get to hear about green shoots and less bad and.....http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=ajY2EJWqg3ZE


U.S. Unemployment Now Lasts Longer Than Benefits: Chart of Day
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By Michael McKee and Alex Tanzi

Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- For the first time, the average amount of time it takes fired employees to find a new job exceeds the length of their standard unemployment benefits.

The CHART OF THE DAY shows the average duration of unemployment is now 26.2 weeks, longer than the 26 weeks of state benefits normally provided to workers who lose their jobs. It’s the first time that has occurred since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping records in 1948.

The jobless rate rose to 9.8 percent in September, while payrolls fell by 263,000, a Labor Department report showed today in Washington.

Congress has extended unemployment benefits twice -- first in July 2008 and then as part of the stimulus bill signed in February. Currently, the unemployed are eligible for a total of 46 weeks of benefits, and those in states where the unemployment rate is more than 6 percent are eligible for 59 weeks.

Those additional benefits expire at the end of the year, and about 1.3 million people will exhaust them by then, according to the National Employment Law Project. An extension of benefits, which was passed by the House of Representatives, is being held up in the Senate by lawmakers who object because their states would be excluded from the plan.

The purple line on the chart shows 5.4 million people have now been out of work for at least 27 weeks, representing 35.6 percent of the total number of unemployed, the most since the agency began keeping statistics in 1948.

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