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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
Yeah, the democrats really showed leadership with their loving respect for Geo. Bush.
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Can you see the absurdity of the comparison? Bush pushed non-stop for all out war with a country that was a quagmire for the British, a country intractably wrought with ethnic hatreds. When wars go wrong, they bring down empires. Or short of that, leave a legacy of years of bitterness and recrimination, a la Vietnam. Bush showed disturbing signs of wanting to either out-do hid Daddy in Iraq or avenge his attempted assassination at Saddam's behest. That combined with his endless tough guy pose, acting as though restraint and contemplation were weaknesses was just a little maddening to those of us who were anticipating a $2 to $3 trillion dollar blunder.
By contrast, Obama was presumptuous enough to hope that his general popularity and status as Chicago native son (close enough) might win the Olympics for Chicago, and the US at large. The downside of Obama's failed attempt? Lost face? Oh buddies, I think O can withstand not being asked to dance first or second at the ball.
Bush was a spectator at the Beijing Olympics for
FOUR DAYS. This with two wars going on and economy heading toward skids. But B. Hussein O. squandered 16 hours on this idle folly and is roundly lambasted?!?!
The US is still the big guy in the world, even with B. Hussein Obama at the helm, and people still consider that maybe the US bulls its way into getting what it wants. Rio has the coolest harbor with hilltop statue in the world, and sounds like it would be more sexy than a trip to Chicago, quite frankly, and with a latitude closer to the equator than San Diego. Not sure how good the weather is there in Aug and Sept, Rio's last month of winter and first of spring.
I think BHO actually lucked out. Every possible burp in the smooth flow of an Olympics in Chicago in '16, every story that any former constituent of BHO might be profiting in the presenting of a Chicago Olympics would have been trumpeted and exploited to the hilt. Would have been "Obama's Olympics."