And now bye-bye Tokyo.

Madrid v. Rio

Hard to believe that our news all together spent maybe 30 total minutes on this when obama's met oprah's, and now they're looking like they'll spend days on the rejection and feel like a hurt puppy.

Really annoying to have to flip to Foxnews to see some news other than crying over spilled milk.

ugh, what athlete wants to go to mexico and drink that water?

I'm glad Chicago lost.

Obama failed to tell you Chicago was recently voted the #1 most stressful city in America:

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/am...ties-2009.html

Forbes rated it the third most miserable city in the country in their list of most miserable cities, declaring: "Lousy weather, long commutes, rising unemployment and the highest sales tax rate in the country are to blame for the Windy City being near the top of our list. High rates of corruption by public officials didn't help either:"

http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/06/mos...le_cities.html

It has the "highest taxes of any major US city:"

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2...s-protest.html

It has a looooong history of organized crime which continues into the present:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_crime_in_Chicago

And it has had a very recent uptick of shocking violent crime:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/...ics/index.html

Everybody I know who lives in Chicago wants to move out.

Chicago is a freakin' hellhole and one of the last places I'd ever consider living, although Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis, Stockton, Killadelphia, and Newark, NJ just barely edge it out from very bottom of the barrel. Chicago is not high on my list of places to visit either.

Between the corrupt government, the corrupt President pushing it, the high taxes, the high crime, the pollution, the cronyism, the gangsters, and the gangs... it is a good thing Chicago lost.

My vote is for Rio.

Boohoo. Obama's buddies in Congress gave us the overspending which caused the current economic mess, and Obama tripled the deficit since. Obama and his buddies are the cause --not the victims.

This announcement is so drawn out and long, I feel like the hobbits are boarding the ships at the grey havens.

http://www.maplandia.com/spain/madrid/madrid/madrid/

http://www.maplandia.com/brazil/rio-de-janeiro/

I see, so in your mind our president and the democraticly controlled house and senate did all of this in the last nine months in office?


Let's not forget what Obama walked into on Jan 20th.... Let's not confuse facts and reality :)

cool thanks! bookmarked so i can get around mexico if i ever go.

definitely, Rio rocks

chicago is in the usa...who wants to go there? no one
oprah should have stayed home

Research this: Barney Frank and Chris Dodd and Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter and the Community Reinvestment Act and Fannie Mae. It started years ago.

Of course it did man, we know that when a democrat is the president, all problems stem from democrats.

Chicago? The U.S. Murders Capital?

I know the community reinvestment act quite well.... I belive it was enacted in good faith but with anything errors can happen...

You can only quote democratic leaders - what about Regan and his former treasury sec. from Merril Lynch.

Remember most recessions are cyclical (sp) but in this case we were so close to another depression it isn't even funny.....

See I can always argue / put down dems if they screw up - even know I am a loyal dem, can you do the same??

not true.

detroit is #1

baltimore #2

I hope the rio games are complete disater. Well I don't hope I know they will be. WTF? Like I said investigation needed. You don't go from front runner to last place without something illegal going on. let's see Chicago games in 2016 when Obama wil be in the last months of his 2nd term opening the game in his home town. Perfect scenario. No they want to host the games in the land of AIDS infected trannies.

It's not Mexico!

correct, they are cities. mexico is a country.

everybody knows that!

Chicago was never reported as the front runner here. Rio was always getting tipped for the top with Chicago being the one that might have a chance to beat them.

Have to say, you confuse me perhaps more than most posters here. I think you are actually probably a nice and fairly intelligent guy. However, I swear I have never seen a 'virtual' smile from you in anything you have typed over the years.

Look at it as a positive..now the States don't have the debt involved with the games once again.

The ego has landed :)

More FAIL for Obama.

http://alabamalawblog.files.wordpres...bama-fail1.jpg

I blame our loss on Obamma

lol

Very surprising