Comments on: Who’s Counting? Obama’s Olympic Failure Has Meaning for Copenhagen and Climate Change

By: Trip to 2010: Worst-Kept Secrets Will Kill Climate Bill : Red, Green, and Blue

Trip to 2010: Worst-Kept Secrets Will Kill Climate Bill : Red, Green, and Blue — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:39:43 +0000

[...] Copenhagen last December. Instead, American negotiators went to the United Nations conference with only the promise of continued domestic effort on greenhouse gas reduction, and observers felt that the Copenhagen [...]

By: Joe Walsh

Joe Walsh — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:27:50 +0000

Meet The Press addressed this question on NBC. Obviously, I am with Mike Murphy, who I think makes a good nono-partisan point about what he refers to as "political professionalism." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/33163503#...

By: Joe Walsh

Joe Walsh — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:49:05 +0000

Sorry, the link to NYT story is http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/sports/04usoc.h...

By: Joe Walsh

Joe Walsh — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:47:53 +0000

Interesting side note: in today's NYT, the Chicago "bid leader" cites "regional bloc voting" and not USOC infighting as the reason for Chitown's last-place finish.

Still does not absolve the political sin: either you knew the voting blocs before Obama came and did not factor it in; or, you didn't know. Either one is an inexcusable strategic blunder when it comes to the question of making POTUS look like cannon fodder.

By: mike

mike — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:10:10 +0000

IOC just gave Obama the perfect out to stay home from Copenhagen. Absolutely no need to go back there now that we have the world's proxy on the post-Bush US and it a RESOUNDING thumbs down. Time to tell the EU to work with Brazil on climate change as Obama now has more important things to do at home.

It's time to throw a hard pitch at heads of all the EU countries that doomed Chicago and apparently have also made the informed decision they no longer want the US media and corporations to fund the tarnished Olympic ideal.

Turnabout is fair play and it's time for Obama to narrow his focus to more pressing homefront issues only. Maybe the US can turn up at the next climate change conference.

By: MD

MD — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:55:21 +0000

…besides, Rio has better looking fans !

By: Reaganite Republican

Reaganite Republican — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:25:55 +0000

What a shame the racketeering scum of the Chicago Machine won’t have this windfall to milk.

And aren’t things going great since Valerie Jarret has been running the country?