Sen. Burris: Bush Cost Us The Olympics
by PubliusBig Government Contributor Dana Loesch has this gem from Sen. Roland Burris (D-Blagojevich):
Senator Rowland Burris of Illinois, the Senator who was appointed to fill President Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat, blames George Bush for Chicago not getting the Olympics in 2016. Burris stated in an interview, shortly after the announcement, that the image of the U. S. has been so tarnished in the last 8 years that, even Barack Obama making an unprecedented pitch for the games could not overcome the hatred the world has for us as a result of George Bush.
Of course, it should be noted that Chicago was selected as a finalist in June, 2008. You know, when the guy the whole world is supposed to hate was President. Oh, those crafty foreigners. Consider this an Open Thread.
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just KNEW it would take minutes before some slimbag would blame Bush for O's loss.
So its no longer because he's black?
Michelle stubbed her toe on a Denmark street yesterday, alert Secret Service agents shoot the curb repeatedly, and Gibb's issued the following statement. "This is obviously the work of the previous administration. We inherited this stubbed toe so, your going to need to be patient while this administration works hard to heal this deep wound."
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Didn't take long did it?
Rowland Burris is another blowhard. What a waste of human flesh.
They are going to have the police in Mass, force their Children to take the H1N1 vaccine
http://mywhitehouse.org/2009/10/03/forced-quarant...
Typical black man – blame whitey for their supposed ancestors' slavery and any other woes and use as an excuse to commit crimes and abandon their children. Are there no black Americans out there denouncing this type of rhetoric? I know there are many black Americans who have made it – thanks to hard work and accountability. Speak up!
I knew it!!!! I said in another posting the other day that some Lefty would blame Bush for Chicago losing the Olympics. Can't these stupid Liberals take the blame for anything? The "It's all Bush's fault" strategy is really getting old.
George W. Bush’s fault. Right….
And speaking of trying to blame George bush for everything:
http://motorcitytimes.com/mct/scary-graph-compari...
let me be clear here … YOU people in Chicago DO NOT deserver the Olympics … Period
If this CLOWN the best you have to represent you in Congress then you to have “Failed”.
What a freaking RETARD… I would be ashamed to say I’m from Chicago…
On a side note, we here in Memphis, TN keep putting the most ignorant people too into office also…. (I think we have no less then 4 or 5 in prision as we speak) and one was re-elected after he got OUT !!!!
Roland Burris is a RACIST!
Fuuny thing is if some of them (Africian Americians) would actually do a little research then they would realize that the Deomcratic party is the one that put them in this mess and is keeping them down…
yes it is that simple….
It’s almost impossible to parody these idiots. Bush has driven these airheads clinically insane.
Off topic…..
Here in Los Angeles the head of the DWP resigned because we’ve had 35 water mains break in the last couple of months causing some massive floods. Apparently this DWP dolt is a environmentalist kook that restricted repair work of the infrastructure and forced excessive conservation which affected the pressure in the pipes causing the breaks.
Now this failure has been hired to work for the Clinton Climate Initiative. If your ideas have failed on every level you’re assured a key position in some leftwing organization. You can’t make this stuff up. The democrats are nothing short of a crime syndicate.
Revolution 2010: Vote out every democrat; restore American Exceptionalism.
Rowland Burris
Al Sharpton
Jessee Jackson
Waxine Waters
Shelia Jackson-Lee
John Conyers
Charlie Rangle
Barrack Obama?
It is about time "you people" suck it up and own it. You aren't going to play the race card anyomre. We won't let you.
It is your Administration, your Recession, your Economy, your Unemployment.
These are now your failures, not those of George Bush. Suck it up, or get the hell out…………..
Would that be like a man marrying his ex-wife, for the third time?
Anyone think that AXE ad on the right is a little too much? I mean is the guy wearing pants or what? Can I also sue AXE if I don't get "L@1D" after using it?
I *cheered* that BHO's image to the world cost US the Olympics. Kudo's to Rio! and of course, they need to blame someone, cant have any more discord falling upon BHO because of his actions
The world is NOT buying what he is selling, when is the rest of the USofA gonna wake up?
Rolland Burris – my Senator. How proud am I today? Time to e-mail him another congratulatory screed.
That's hilarious. Seriously now, someone please insist that the ability to accept personal responsibility is a good trait to these guys.
ah – my next store neighbor was shot by his wife and they are still together
Here's your sign ….
Man I cannot wait until 2010. It is time for so many of these whiners, dirt bags, and outright thugs to be booted…and I mean BOOTED from office.
Message to Burris: Bush is gone, and has been for 9 months. It's time for all of you to get a pair and take responsibility for your own failures.
What took him so long? The blame game is usually the first sentence out of the gate.
The world is laughing at Barry………
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fe009f4e-af88-11de-ba1c...
[...] This has got to be the funniest thing I have ever read: Senator Rowland Burris of Illinois, the Senator [...]
She probably didn't want to kil him; just slow him down……..
There are a lot of people afflicted with the "I hate you, don't leave me disease."
oh on the guy that GOT OUT and re-elected – he is back in prison again for corruption .. not sure if I mentioned that ….. In Memphis, if your losing the election just pull the race card and you win everytime ….
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/nov/14/...
On the other hand, forget sucking it up. Just get the hell out.
She wanted a disability check..lol
We didn't elect Burris; Blagojevich foisted him upon us.
Rise up, Illinois. Throw Daley, Quinn, Burris, Madigan, and Stroger out in 2010!
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Thanks for listening!
The more I think about the statement that Roland Burris made about George Bush, the madder I get.
Frankly, that sorry sumbitch Burris needs to formally apologize to George Bush.
I recall this week Congressman Grayson of Florida referred to Republicans as "knuckle dragging Neanderthals". Would it be considered racist if I applied the same terminology to that little troll thug Burris?
I can just imagine the leftwing war-room trying to figure out how to spin obama's failure. They only had two options: call the IOC racists or blame Bush. Either way the end result is the same: they look like fools and obama got slapped in the face.
After all the problems with ACORN, I thought
getting denutted in Denmark was objective.
The Left will do anything to cushion the blow to the Annointed One. Does anyone in this administration realize what a tool the rest of the world thinks our President is? The only thing apologizing and groveling before the world will get you is disdain for your own weakness in the face of opposition. Man up, Obama. This loss is yours.
and don't forget retarded.
of course, it's what gives him his sense of identity.
Never mind Bush… Blame It On Rio!
My goodness… I wish that only I could come up with something so crazy. President Obama and Chicago lost. Rio is a great place. They have Jesus on top of a mountain. Pretty neat.
Yes, don't away mad, just go away!
Yes, don't go away mad, just go away!
Rule of thumb for liberals.
If it's good, Obama did it.
If it's bad, Bush did it.
They avoid all blame yet claim credit at every opportunity. Massive stupidity.
This is just tooooo funny! I knew one of the usless wastes' of skin (of ANY color) dems' would spout off about Bush being the one to blame. I was kind of expecting Pelosi to stick her foot in her mouth, while displaying crockodile tears for the world to see, but it's just as funny with Burris.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
The most confusing (well, more frustrating part) is how they claim ownership.
DOW goes up (some see it as a way to measure the economy), Obama claims credit.
Unemployment (main measure of economy), BOOOOOOSH'S fault.
They want to have their cake and eat it too. They'll claim the good parts of the economy yet denounce the bad parts. Selective ownership.
Seriously… I have to wonder how they can claim success for the DOW meanwhile blaming the economic state on Bush. It's mind boggling.
Rev. Wright
There was an old country song titled, "If I would have shot you when I wanted, I'd be out by now."
They racked their brains to find the words to spin Obama's loss. I could feel the aching painful stress as they dug deeper and deeper to find the true lever that would persuade the American people.
Their binary minds came up with "racism" or "Bush." Alas, they could not call the IOC racists, although they are thinking it. So, Bush it was.
You gotta admire their critical thinking.
So, George Bush is the reason why the Olympics aren't coming to Chicago? Thank you, President Bush!
I worked in Burris' office for a short time. He is as dumb as a box of rocks. He's obviously spitting out talking points because he doesn't have enough going for him upstairs to come up with intelligent thoughts on his own. Another product of Affirmative Action. All he ever did was go back and forth between Chicago and Springfield, and had other people do his work for him.
So, yeah, he's a joke.
Bush, do you miss me yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vplf4kziQc&fe...
Tell us more!
Yes, tell US more. Be a certified whistleblower………..
BO is making enough of a mess that pretty soon they won't be able to blame Bush for anything. Oh well, I can hope. Did it occur to these people that the committee couldn't imagine Chicago as an Olympics setting! (Sorry, good people in Chicago.)
Here is a real good article on what The Chicago Sun Times opines:
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/1804013,CST-NWS-ri...
Perhaps someone could s-l-o-w-l-y read it to Roland Burris, as I am sure he is too stupid to read it on his own.
Borat is going to make Jimmah Carter look like Eienstien with balls.
Gee he makes us so proud. You would never guess he was appointed by Blago.
When are you chicken shits going to man up and start being responsible for your actions?
Never. That's cause you are ALL a bunch of snakes in the grass and flat out CROOKS. If I stole money like you all do from innocent people (taxpayers) I would be LOCKED UP!
No prob for Obama and his crew tho~
Actually, I like Quinn. I don't like his idea about raising taxes here, but at least he's more or less fiscally responsible. If that's the worst problem we had with Democrats, life would be a lot better.
Oh, you mean like the promotion I was offered to a patronage job where I did nothing? Young blonde white chicks were popular with his buddies, all I had to do was "party" with them. I quit.
You don't need an ideologue like Rush Limbaugh lambast Obama as an idiot everybody knows that now.
No one has the time it would take to explain it to him.
It goes too show you that this administration does not have any kind of original thought among all of them–Its either Bush's fault or we are raciest-but after playing the race card and that didn't work, they have no other place to go but back to Bush's fault. I guess the next 4 years will be this volley and you know what GOOD. People are going to get fed-up fast. This really hit them in the ba!!s. ahhhh Life is Good!!
Chicago already has Da Bears, giving them the Olympics would leave
the world a cold, barren place, looking to Illinois for all heat and light.
In short, the Universe can't handle a Chicago with any more awesomeness.
(please note I've never been to Chicago, but I AM a shameless panderer)
Blame it on the Nights of Broadway…
Proposed Response: "You must be a racist." Answer: "No, but you're clearly stupid."
There is little that I admire more than someone standing up and saying "I screwed up. I am sorry." It takes a courageous person to admit to their mistakes, yet something so simple can diffuse almost ANY situation, and lead to many positice outcomes.
This is something that was not taught to me, just learned from my own experiences. It is something MANY people instictively know.
They did have a pair. Bush stole them last night. (hee hee. No, seriously, I agree.)
When Roland Burris takes a crap and it inflames his hemorrhoid, is that also Bush's fault…?
(Gross I know, but probably TRUE)
Actually, I was thinking that Burris IS the crap that Blago took on the rest of the country! Just saying…
Ella. You should not be so shy.. Speak your mind ! (grin)
BD,
What an [CENSORED BY TRANSPARENCY CZAR] post! I really [CENSORED BY TRANSPARENCY CZAR] it. BD, you are the [CENSORED BY TRANSPARENCY CZAR].
Hey Burris! Could it be that maybe – just maybe the other threen cities had MORE to offer? Maybe they were MORE qualified for hosting the Olympics? You've got to ratchet down your 'we are automatically entitled to win'' rosey glasses view. We had our current president apologize to the world for almost everything except the hearbreak of psorisisis over the past nine months – think bashing ourselves had something to do with this?
Maybe just maybe you and all of the other Obama supporters need to take a page from another Democrat President and grow a pair. Harry Truman said the buck stops here! He didn't blame anyone else for the problems with the country under his guidance. Mr. Obama needs to start sucking it up and stop the blame game. Oh, maybe just maybe he's following the wrong Democratic president's post-term model. That would be Jimmy Carter. Jimmy's been trying to blame America for all of the other nation's ills. See where that got him? No Mr. Burris – this isn't George Bush's fault – this is the US losing a popularity contest with the Olympic Comittee and that problem belongs to our USOC.
Is that racist, or racist,racist?
Man, I can't keep up anymore…
Tax raisers are bad ideas, no matter how likable!
Find a way within the means, or OUT!
Nobody is racing to increase your take home pay…so why give more of it to some tax sucker?
A few Random Thoughts:
Most of us gew up with mothers and fathers who taught us that we can't lie with straight faces and get away with it.
We hear lots of lies coming from people with straight faces these days.
If you know its a lie, and you know the guy who's telling you the lie knows it…get rid of him next year.
It is Congress' job to respond to the wishes of the Wise American People. If they don't,…what good are they?
It's time to be tired of "SPIN"!
But I thought the world was supposed to loooooove us now that we have finally elected such a great man President? Maybe, just maybe, the realize that Chicago is the center of corruption in America… and/or they are realizing that Obama is not so great. Maybe they watch Fox News…
Love BoneDaddy's comment! It was really [CENSORED BY TRANSPARENCY CZAR]!
"Free at last, free at last; good Gawd A'mighty We's free at last………..!"
Yeah, right.
That lasted about fifteen minutes. About the time Martin Luther King got all stiff legged in the grave, and his minions took over and hi-jacked his movement. It sure makes one wonder what this country would have been like, if Martin Luther had lived, and if that rifle was pointed six inches to the other direction. Martin Luther King might have helped work to build a Great Society. Instead, King died; Jessee Jackson lived, and has worked the past forty years to tear our country apart with his race baiting propoganda.
……..You mention LBS's Great Society. Do you recalL the quote LBJ made when commenting on signing the Civil Rights Act…………….?
I suspect that the Olympic Committee might have traveled to Chicago over the past couple of years. They HAD to have driven on the Eisenhour and the Kennedy expressways. THAT ALONE would make them vote AGAINST Chicago.
For those of you not famailiar with the Chicago Department of Transportation….. These highways have been UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR OVER 30 YEARS ! And it's a 24 mile stretch ! Corruption ? Nawwwwww !
I suspect that the Olympic Committee might have traveled to Chicago over the past couple of years. They HAD to have driven on the Eisenhour and the Kennedy expressways. THAT ALONE would make them vote AGAINST Chicago.
For those of you not familiar with the Chicago Department of Transportation….. These highways have been UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR OVER 30 YEARS ! And it's a 24 mile stretch ! Corruption ? Nawwwwww !
The Messiah has spent the better part of his first term as president touring the world, bashing America at every opportunity, apologizing for all our "misdeeds," arrogance and self-centeredness. Now he expects the world to want to come to, of all places, CHICAGO, so that he can walk out of his home with his family to the Olympics and because Michelle Obama's father has MS.
The IOC (i.e., read "the world") gave Barack the finger and said loudly and clearly, "it's not about YOU Barack…"
The faces on those Obama-loving statists gathered in Chicago were priceless. Even better was the reaction of the state run media…utter disbelief and incredulity. They had declared Chicago "in the bag" and that it was "Chicago's to lose…" then, SLAP!…reality check. Roland Burris needs to keep his appointed-mouth shut and stick to doing what he apparently does best – supporting the cause of child-prostitution which he so dearly loves and hanging out with child molestors like his good buddy Mel Reynolds.
http://jacksonianlawyer.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/...
Hell, you should have Breitbart get you on Fox News so you can talk about it.
The question is always asked when does the Iraq and Afganistan wars become Obama's wars.When does the economy become Obama's.I'll tell you when.Jan 20,2009 the day he got sworn in.This guy ran for president for two years was a supposed senator for those two years and acts like everything is a suprise to him.Since everything he's done to date is a failure I guess it must of been.No I don't think so.
Obama's a snake in the grass and his handlers are idiots.Obama and his Blago generated idiot minions blame Bush for everything because they don't have a clue what to do.The economy is in the crapper and it's going to stay in the crapper because of Ben"braindead"Bernanke and Timothy"tax cheat"Geitner.
These guys were kept in their jobs because they're supposed to be the best this country has to offer.That's BS.Bernanke was the fed chair for four years before the crash.Geitner was the NY fed chair for three of those years.Where was all this brain power for those years?We all know where the money went.Wall St.,Unions,Fiat and foreign Banks.Nothing for the working folks.
What does this have to do with the Olympics?Who Cares?
Refresh my memory, please…..
OBAMA WENT AROUND THE WORLD ON HIS APOLOGY TOUR AND BLAME AMERICA FIRST CRAP
IT WAS OBAMA 'S TRASH TALK OF AMERICA THAT LOST CHICAGO'S BID FOR THE OLYMPIC'S
THE WORLD IS NOT THAT FOND OF OBAMA LIKE THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS HERE…..AND IT IS FOR THE BEST,NOW THE CHICAGO TAX PAYERS WONT HAVE TO PICK UP THE BILL FOR THE EVENT……BUT THE BEST THINGS IS,…OBAMA'S CRONIES WONT MAKE MILLIONS!!!
By the way, Chicago was being considered for the 2016 Olympics back in 2006 – with Bush still in Office. So, not only is Burris' statement absurd but….Sen. Burris –
YOU LIE!
http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=25306...
Burris, like other leftists, has no sense of humour and will never understand that the “three envelopes” joke is over. The president is mixing a bit more of the second latter these days after milking the advise in the first one to the point where it wasn’t effective. Burris just isn’t bright enough to listen to the waves crashing around him; but politicians mired in “Chicago style” politics don’t think they need to listen to the detritus, i.e., the voters when the mone comes from elsewhere.
The fact is, the IOC probably looked fairly askance on the political pressure of these heavyweights, suspicious of what political agenda would bring them out of their lair. I certainly would, as there wasn’t a dependable voice to be trusted in the bunch.
IT WAS FUNNY,THEY KICKED OBAMA OUT FIRST BEFORE THE OTHERS……JUST GOES TO SHOW YA, OBAMA CAN'T WIN NOTHING WITHOUT ACORNS MILLIONS OF FRAUDUNLENT VOTES…..
OBAMA HAS TRASHED TALKED AMERICA FOR SO LONG,WHY WOULD HE THINK HE COULD BRING THE GAMES HERE?…YOU ARE CORRECT….THE LOONEY-LEFT ARE DONG THE ONLY THING THEY KNOW HOW….BBF(BLAME BUSH FIRST)
WHAT'S AWESOME IS…..THINK OF ALL THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OBAMA'S CRONIES LOST OUT ON…WITHOUT THE OLYMPIC'S…HEHEHAHA
How long must these morons blame Bush for everything?! When in the hell are they going to start taking responsibility for their own damn mistakes, shortfalls and inadaquecies? It makes my stomach turn!
And Burris wasnt even freaking elected! He was appointed by Liar, scumbag extrordinaire Blago….who has ZERO credibility! What in the hell he’s doing in the US Senate i have no freaking idea.
And besides, the reason why Obama was pushing for it so hard was because it was a political favor for one of his cronies.
Obama—–> FAIL!!!!! Burris——> FAIL!!!!!
George H W Bush was awarded the Atlanta games.1996 His son would have gotten these games but would have avoided chicago to do so. It is proven Obama caused the defeat.
I'm beginning to wonder if the only words this administration knows is "the last administration," "racism," and "teabaggers." Does this man or his admin have no morals whatsoever? Do they realize they have been in the whitehouse since January? Do they have a clue? So far they've proven they know nothing of politics or how to run a county. It's revolution time people.
Weak.If anything good should come from this administration (NOT) it will be their credit.They would mentioned the success (probably a failure they just all call a success) daily.Anytime in the next 3 years anything bad happens it will be Bush's fault.We knew this would be the second card played after the race card on everything.
Burris is as corrupt and stupid as they come.Seriously.He got his job because of social justice like many.
Y'know, this whole thing just ticks me off. The arrogance of him going to Denmark…I mean, COME ON. We just hosted the Olympics in 2002. Why was there this entitlement attitude? There are numerous other countries quite capable of holding them. I think it's awesome that Rio won since South America has never hosted the Olympics!
But what really irritates me is him taking time out for this when we've got a war going on in Afghanistan AND Iraq, healthcare is a mess, and unemployment is staggeringly high. And he jets across the world for this…this sense of entitlement? GAH. It infuriates me right down to my core.
This guy is a genius! He should be a Senator or something.
Oh, wait…
All I have to say is……YAY RIO!!
They more deserved it anyway, the first Olympics ever in South America.
Obama’s Chicago cronies would have tainted it anyway
Burris got it only 1/4 right. Bush made the whole world hate Tokyo and Madrid too, and he made the whole world love Rio! How could he have missed these important points?
Typical liberal this Burris. Having everyone else doing the work for them.
This just in….It was Bush who made Eve eat the apple!…………;>)
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