Let's get one thing straight, here: although I lean heavily Democratic in my voting, I have never, never voted for Richie Daley for mayor in the open 50 percent-plus first round election we have in Chicago for mayor. The man has always smacked of the goonish machine politics of his late father, and his efforts to skirt ethics rulings (such as the Shakman Decrees) and engage in all sorts of budgetary hanky-panky (like the various TIF fiascos detailed by Ben Joravsky in the Chicago Reader) only proves that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. I wasn't a big Chicago 2016 supporter, either: for all of the promises that holding Ye Olde Olympics here would result in a huge economic boom, more evenhanded assessments say otherwise.
All that being said, the parade of obnoxious right-wing yahoos delighting in Chicago not getting the quadrennial bread and circuses act merely because Barack Obama lobbied for it only proves that the Birther/Deather/Tenther/Idioter crowd is just as vapid in their level of thinking as the Daley machine is. It's as if two sociopathic Siamese twins discovered the existence of each other for the very first time and decided to get into a fistfight.
Now, never mind that the Dumbster crowd seems completely wrong in their assessment that this will somehow doom Obama's presidency after a mere 8-plus months; it just shows that really, really desperate loudmouths will grab on to any reason to support their odd delusions, and the USOC whiffing on a Olympics bid was the one for this week.
To which I heartily respond, "who the hell cares?"
All that being said, the parade of obnoxious right-wing yahoos delighting in Chicago not getting the quadrennial bread and circuses act merely because Barack Obama lobbied for it only proves that the Birther/Deather/Tenther/Idioter crowd is just as vapid in their level of thinking as the Daley machine is. It's as if two sociopathic Siamese twins discovered the existence of each other for the very first time and decided to get into a fistfight.
Now, never mind that the Dumbster crowd seems completely wrong in their assessment that this will somehow doom Obama's presidency after a mere 8-plus months; it just shows that really, really desperate loudmouths will grab on to any reason to support their odd delusions, and the USOC whiffing on a Olympics bid was the one for this week.
To which I heartily respond, "who the hell cares?"