i would really like to go to brazil... however the last place i would want to go is where they are having the olympics.. olympics are bad news for many in the local community.. here in b.c. where they are having the 2010 olympics i am not going to bore you with some of the huge turnoffs, but the kinds of politics that play out are a real turn off for me personally... brazil any time except during or near the time of the olympics is where i am at with this....

It won't say much for Obama's clout if it's Brazil - there's a good reason Presidents don't lay their prestige on the line for Olympics...but perhaps Obama wants to distract attention from the September unemployment numbers, which don't look good.

I hope it's Brazil, too.

I don't know where the Olympics will end up, but I'm pleased that that Obama is willing to put some political capital on the line for his home town and an American city, and that he still remembers where he came from.

Nadine,

Don't so easily blame Obama for the economic train wreck. #43 was asleep at the wheel, or pretending to be, while he and his Dick spent billions on a war based on lies.

How many conservative Repubs went along with the uncontrolled #43 spending? The phony House conservative in my district voted for every #43 spending bill -- every bill! Throw in the Patriot Act and the Repubs have a boat load of dunderheads who don't know/follow the Constitution or understand economics 101.

#43 put Wall Street in charge of the bailout and I suppose you'll conveniently forget that too.

If you're smart, you won't count out Chicago as the choice. . .let's just see who's correct on the Olympics. We already know the score on #43.

See Theorypedia's take on why it's a forgone
conclusion that Chicago will win the battle to host
the Olympics:
http://theorypedia.com/2016_Olympics_Of_Course_Chica
go_Gets_Them_ta01d7c7d.html

another katrina in the making and obama flys to the olympics, typical

GO RIO

Steve, on Russia, they've got the 2014 Winter Olyimpics.

I'd be surprised if Chicago beat out Rio, but I hope it does. It would mean Wisconsin gets some cool cycling road races between Madison and Mt. Horeb, plus easy access to the sailing events from Milwaukee. And Illinois would get stuck with all the bills for new buildings. Woo-hoo!

So, Obama is giving payback to his friends in Chicago who have bought up sections of property smack dab in the middle of "Olympics territory".

Meanwhile, these pieces of shit that tortured, spied, lied us into Iraq, and fed us a fairy tale about 9/11 collect huge speaking fees, and go to work lobbying for the corporations and countries they sold us out to.

Anyone still buying this "change" mantra is a fuckin' idiot. Obama's trip to Geneva is a personal mission to line the pockets of his cohorts in Chicago, and we are footing the bill for this junket.

There is more than an odds on chance this power hungry empty suit is gonna step on his own dick in record time. Hopefully, he won't bring down the entire country when he does so. But I'm not optimistic.

Well, Chicago has already been eliminated on the first round of voting.

I wonder of the recent beating death of 16 year old Derrion Albert had something to do with it. The last time we had an Olympics in the US, there was a bombing in the central Olympic square, which killed two people. Now just before this decision, Chicago saw one of its children brutally beaten to death on the way to school.

Many people in other parts of the world consider American cities to be unsafe destinations. Chicago's murder rate, at 18 per 100,000, is nine times that of Madrid and 18 times that of Tokyo.

Rio's is even worse than Chicago's, at 33 per 100,000.

"The Marvelous City" or "The Windy City" It was a no brainer.

Now its final america will not hosting 2016 olympics

Rio has the most charismatic logo...like a little envitonmental Valetine for the world..."Have a heart...pick me"..just what we all need....