"Ross Cassell -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
news:19029$MATZDOBRE{at}JamNNTPd:

 RS>> The *POINT* here is right wingers are openly cheering, yes
 RC>   CHEERING, RS> that Chicago lost out, ONLY because Obama wanted it.

 RC> Wonder what the other side of the coin would look like if the POTUS
 RC> was Bush, and he was helping the city of Houston Texas or other large
 RC> Texas city vie for the games and then failed to get them?

If Bush had been, he would have been trying to get it for Texas.
I wouldn't be cheering though if Texas lost out.

 RC> You dont get it do you?

I get it. *YOU* don't.

 RC> You are allowed to be partisan, but others are not?

When it comes to the Olympics, I have my gripes, most commonly the
sponsorship corruption still going on.

But partisan politics is not what I'm griping about.

 RC> Quite frankly, the USA has had the privilege of hosting several summer
 RC> and winter games, it is high time the IOC, extend that privilege to
 RC> other countries and regions of the world whom have not ever hosted,
 RC> especially those places that are not hostile places.

Of course, I do like the girls on the Rio beaches... 

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