Posted by
VBushmills on Friday, October 02, 2009 4:39:04 PM
Portland, 2 Oct 2009
Chicago's failure to get the Olympics for Chicago in 2016 was a big rebuff of President Barack Obama on the world stage. The Obama media will try mightily to spin this defeat into a tie, and maybe even a win, but no matter. When Rush Limbaugh squeals with glee and MSNBC and CNN moan in dirge-like concert, it's a loss.
I'll leave the chatter on that loss to others.
But the other big loss was the bold and blatant manner Obama tried to Yankee Big Stick this victory for Chicago over an entire continent Obama has spent months telling the ways of Big Stick Yankee diplomacy with their Latin neighbors to the south is over. Hell, even LBJ had the good sense to try to sneak in the back door when doing a deal like this against Latin interests.
Make no bones about it...the Rio Olympics in 2016, the first ever in South America, is the South American Olympics. Every swinging Ricardo from Juarez to Terra del Fuego will gleam with pride when that flame is lit. As well they should. Well done. 'Bout time.
But since early in the week, when OB1 announced his decision to fly to Copenhagen, Latins began to ask themselves, "Who is this Black Gringo? Really?"
Bernard Chumm