Well its official, I've obviously not kept up on my 30 days straight of blogging. Oh well, I figure I can do it whenever I feel like it rather than forcing myself to put up something everyday. In theory that should prevent my "content" from diluting....right? Right.
I've stated before that I want to keep this blog a politics free area, and I've done that so far...pretty much. Though today's blog might seem to be a political rant, I don't actually think it is. I think its more of a WTF is wrong with these people type post...but obviously that's for you to decide.
Recently President Obama visited Stockholm, Sweden to persuade the International Olympic Committee to bring the 2016 Summer Olympics to Chicago, his hometown. The committee had narrowed the choices down to the final four cities: Chicago, Tokyo, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro. President Obama had spoken a few different times about how bringing the Olympics to the US would be a great stimulus to the local economy of the host city. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people would flock to Chicago from all over the world and spend money. In turn, Chicago would build and/or renovate stadiums to host the various events in, which creates jobs, etc. All in all, pretty simply put, it would be a terrific boon to the economy.
Well during President Obama's return trip from Stockholm it was announced that Chicago was to be eliminated from hosting contention. Naturally everyone should be at least somewhat disappointed in this. I mean after all it is something that would most definitely help both the economy and the image of America. As it would turn out, that very day there was a gathering of the conservative think tank Americans for Prosperity had their annual meeting in Virginia that morning. As you would imagine, being a conservative republican organization they must have been broken up about the IOC's decision to not take Chicago.
I've stated before that I want to keep this blog a politics free area, and I've done that so far...pretty much. Though today's blog might seem to be a political rant, I don't actually think it is. I think its more of a WTF is wrong with these people type post...but obviously that's for you to decide.
Recently President Obama visited Stockholm, Sweden to persuade the International Olympic Committee to bring the 2016 Summer Olympics to Chicago, his hometown. The committee had narrowed the choices down to the final four cities: Chicago, Tokyo, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro. President Obama had spoken a few different times about how bringing the Olympics to the US would be a great stimulus to the local economy of the host city. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people would flock to Chicago from all over the world and spend money. In turn, Chicago would build and/or renovate stadiums to host the various events in, which creates jobs, etc. All in all, pretty simply put, it would be a terrific boon to the economy.
Well during President Obama's return trip from Stockholm it was announced that Chicago was to be eliminated from hosting contention. Naturally everyone should be at least somewhat disappointed in this. I mean after all it is something that would most definitely help both the economy and the image of America. As it would turn out, that very day there was a gathering of the conservative think tank Americans for Prosperity had their annual meeting in Virginia that morning. As you would imagine, being a conservative republican organization they must have been broken up about the IOC's decision to not take Chicago.
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ReplyDeleteWhere's the guest post? DISAPPOINTED!
ReplyDeleteyeah im going to blog about how guest bloggers are unreliable
ReplyDeleteWell you should blog something. I expected 1 a day and now I'm getting nothing
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