Rush Limbaugh: “The EGO has Landed”

Mrs. Obama has a “Selma–Kennedy–Obama” Moment

     Rememebr during the campaign when Barack Obama said his parents met during the civil rights march in Selma, forgetting it occurred 4 years AFTER his birth, or how his father came here after hearing Kennedy’s inauguration speech ( Obama Sr. was already in Hawaii at that point).

     It seems that his flare for the dramatic historical literary lies extends to his beloved Michelle:

Tall tale of the day: The First Lady’s weird Olympic memory

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 2, 2009 11:03 PM

From Michelle Obama’s failed pitch to the International Olympic Committee:

“Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad’s lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis, and others for their brilliance and perfection.”

Um. Ew. Oof.

Mrs. Obama was 20 years old when Lewis first competed in the Olympics in 1984.

Senior White House adviser and Chicago slumlord overseer Valerie Jarrett promised earlier this week that “there wouldn’t be a dry eye in the room” after FLOTUS spoke.

She probably wasn’t expecting tears of…laughter.

Mrs. O is looking more and more like Mrs. Clinton every day.

Can we say “eeewewww”!

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/02/quote-of-the-day-the-first-ladys-tall-olympic-tale/

Chicago Grieves over the Olympics

A husband leaned over to his wife because he wasn’t sure he had heard correctly the giant TV screens set up to bring the news to the crowd of thousands.

“Did he really just say Chicago?” the man asked.

Yes, International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge really did say “Chicago,” when announcing the first city eliminated as a potential host for the 2016 Olympics.

And when Rogge did, mouths dropped all over Daley Plaza. Heads shook.

Fifteen satellite trucks were parked on Clark Street to bring the world this?

There are awkward moments, and then there was Friday morning standing next to the Picasso sculpture next to 2016 supporters dressed in orange T-shirts.

How does one react when its city gets kicked in the groin?

Sweet ’16, this wasn’t.

One Cubs fan in the middle of the crowd of thousands tore his blue “W” sign in half and tossed the pieces of cardboard into the air like he had probably done so many times before.A mother hugged her son, whom she had taken out of school to witness a historic party that quickly felt like a civic funeral.

All the while, one politician after another looked into cameras and vowed Chicago would bounce back from this to bid again. One even compared the spirit Chicago would exhibit in recovering from this Olympic defeat to the way it rebuilt itself after the Great Fire in 1871.

The Chicago Tribune article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-03-haugh-oct03,0,2037215.column

Rio Starts to Party as Pele defeats Obama

Despite His Apology Tour, the Foreign Press Is already Defining Obama by his Failures

     Barack Obama seems that he is invincible, even on the world stage. He has gone on a massive apology tour to “revive” the image of America abroad, and it was upon that foundation that Obama knew that Chicago had the 2012 Olympics sewn up. But when you listen to the presentation speeches by Michelle Obama and Barack Obama, their tone was so narcissistic that anyone who was going to vote for the US opted to change their vote: their speeches were all about….Them!

From the foreign presses:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1217595/Rio-Janeiro-awarded-2016-Olympics.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6859031.ece

 You can “Blame it on Rio,”, but Sen. Burris blames George W. Bush….. go figure!

Olympics 2016: It is the $$$ Gain of Obama Cronies, not the People of Chicago

All the president’s Olympic cronies
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009

When government officials play the Olympic lottery, taxpayers lose. That has been the disastrous experience of host cities around the world (Forbes magazine even dubbed the post-Olympic financial burden the “Host City Curse”). So, why are President Obama and his White House entourage headed to Copenhagen, Denmark this week to push a fiscally doomed Chicago 2016 bid? Political payback.

Bringing the games to the Windy City is Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s “vision.” The entrenched Democratic power-broker – in office since 1989 – would like to cap off his graft-tainted career with a glorious, $4 billion bread and circuses production. The influential Daley machine backed Barack Obama for the presidential primary. Obama lavished praise on Daley’s stewardship of the city. Longtime Daley cronies helped pave Obama’s path to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Now, they’re returning the favor for their hometown boss.

Senior White House adviser and Obama consigliere Valerie Jarrett is a Daley loyalist who worked as his deputy chief of staff, deputy corporation counsel, and planning commissioner. She hired the future First Lady of the United States, then-Michelle Robinson, as a mayoral assistant. Jarrett went on to serve as president and CEO of The Habitat Company, a real estate firm with a massive stake in federally-funded Chicago public housing projects.

For full rundown of Obama cronie ties to the Olympics:

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/30/an-illustrated-guide-all-the-presidents-olympic-cronies/