Congratulations to Rio!

I would like to congratulate the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for being the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics. As you know, Rio beat out Chicago, Madrid, and Tokyo to get the games. But it is sad to see Chicagoans and other liberals getting so sore about not getting the bid. Politicians even blamed the image left behind by former President George W. Bush for the snub. I'm surprised White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel didn't send the International Olympic Committee a dead fish. All the heads of state of the countries in the finals made a personal pitch for their home teams, including President Barack Obama. What was funny was that the entire media thought this was in the bag for Chicago. But not only did Chicago not get the gold, it couldn't even get the bronze.

In a way, I'm glad Chicago didn't get the games. It would've been a logistical and financial night-
mare for the city. If you've ever been there, you'd know that traffic is really bad, and not just during rush hour. The city government is saturated with corruption and cronyism. Yet here is President Obama doing something against his own instinct in order to convince the IOC to host the games in Chicago; he had to say something nice about America. During the first eight months of his Presidency, he has apologized for America's past sins and has insisted that his own country
is responsible for all the ills of the world. Whether it's pollution, imperialism, or aggogance, Obama claims that America can't do a darn thing right. He has never given credit to America's
role in making the world a richer, freer, more prosperous place to be. And now that his buddies were on the verge of making huge bucks off the Olympics, Obama did a one-eighty to try to sell America as a great country.

And while America is on the verge of an economic collapse, Obama wasted an entire day to board Air Force One and waste tons of fuel, time, energy, and money to speak favorably on behalf of America for once. But the trip wasn't a complete waste of time. He did speak to General Stanley
McChrystal, the commander of American forces in Afghanistan, about the war in that region of the world. But this came only after we learned that he had talked to McChrystal once in 70 days about the situation. McChrystal warned the President that we need 40,000 more troops or else
the war will be lost. Obama already lost the Olympics, the economy, the country, and faith in Americans. Why would we expect anything different out of him with our national security? But let's keep one thing in mind. Regardless of how much the Democrats mess everything up, it'll always be Bush's fault.

I was rooting for Rio to get the Olympics from the beginning. This is the first Olympics, summer or winter, to be held anywhere in South America. America has held many Olympiads in the past. Give a new country a shot. The Olympics is about the world, not just America. By the way, the announcement of the Rio de Janiero games came last Friday, which just happened to be my birthday. I do look a little old for 21 (give or take 20 years), but I do the best I can.

G.J. LaRouche, 7 October 2009